Mag.^a Stefanie Jäger, BEd, BA, PhD

Vita

Curriculum vitae/vita

• Since 08/2024 Research associate at the Department of Educational Science/University of Innsbruck in the project "Lost Children. (Trans-)national out-of-area placement of South Tyrolean children in Italy and Austria (1945-1970). A regional study on the historical background of the inclusive care and education system in Italy" WEBSITE

• Since 05/2024 Research assistant at the Department of Educational Science/TU Dresden in the DFG project "Education and Vulnerability - Punishment in the Educational Dispositif of the 19th Century" WEBSITE

• 08/2023 - 02/2024: Lecturer at the University of Freiburg/Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)

• 08/2019 - 07/2024: University assistant at the Department of Educational Science/University of Innsbruck

Education:

• Doctoral studies in Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck, dissertation project: "Kinder- und Jugendleistungssport aus allgemeinpädagogischer Perspektive. Attempt at a theoretical foundation" (completed)
• Master's programme in Comparative Literature, University of Innsbruck (ongoing)
• Bachelor's programme in Comparative Literature, University of Innsbruck (completed)
• Teacher training programme for NMS, German and Physical Education, KPH Edith Stein Stams (completed)
• Diploma programme in Pedagogy (completed)

Publications

Editorship/collective volume:

Brötz, D.; Gödl, A.; Hagleitner, N.; Hairer, L.; Hönlinger, J. M.; Jäger, S.; Nail, A.-M.; Oberkircher, S.; Onay, F.; Pietropolli, R.; Plieseis, R.; Poingt, D. H. M.; Strimmer, D.; Vasylezhenko, O. (2023): Human machines / machine people in literature. Golems, robots, androids and cyborgs as the third gender. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press (IUP). ISBN 978-3-99106-087-1.
LINK to the anthology

Journal article:

Jäger, Stefanie (2021): Tolstoy and Beethoven. Music-theoretical considerations and intermedial references in Крейцерова соната (Kreutzersonate).
In: Comparative Literature Online. comparative internet journal, No. 217. LINK to the article

Anthology essays:

Jäger, Stefanie/Jensen, Andreas/Lohwasser, Diana (2025): "It's in the game"? On the experience and psychoanalytical-pedagogical potential of sports games. In: Link, Pierre-Carl/Fonagy, Peter/Nolte, Tobias/Langnickel, Robert/Kreuzer, Tillmann F. (eds.). Having Teachers in Mind - Can school and teacher education be Freud-less? Psychodynamic perspectives on the school field and its border areas. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 381-393. open access: https://shop.budrich.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9783847432838.pdf

Jäger, Stefanie (2024): Between appearance and reality. Children and young people in virtual sports worlds. In: Heinze, Carsten; Masmanidis Konstantinos; Zirfas, Jörg (eds.): Anthropology of virtuality. Pedagogies of possibility, design and imagination. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 56-70.

Jäger, Stefanie (2024): The body in children's and youth competitive sport. (Impacts) of digitalisation and mechanisation using the example of video analysis. In: Baumgärtner, Jana; Kreinbucher-Bekerle Christoph; Ruin Sebastian; Sandbichler Bianca (eds.): Is the body (still) the same? A sport pedagogical anchor point in dynamic change. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 191-204.

Jäger, Stefanie; Lohwasser, Diana (2023): From Lionel Messi to Serena Willimas - top athletes as role models in social media. In: Schütte, André; Nielsen-Sikora, Jürgen (eds.): Who to follow? On the meaning, change and relevance of role models. Berlin: J. B. Metzler, pp. 97-108.

Jäger, Stefanie (2023): Body (education). In: Döll, Marion; Huber, Matthias (eds.): Bildungswissenschaft in Begriffen, Theorien und Diskursen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, ISBN 978-3-658-37857-8.

Jäger, Stefanie (2023): Von Verworfenen und Cyborgs - Machtdiskurse und Zukunftsvision in Gustav Meyrink's Der Golem.
In: Brötz, Dunja; Gödl, Anja; Hagleitner, N.; Hairer, L.; Hönlinger, J. M.; Jäger, Stefanie; Nail, Alicia-Mercedes; Oberkircher, Serena; Onay, F.; Pietropolli, R.; Plieseis, R.; Poingt, D. H. M.; Strimmer, D.; Vasylezhenko, O. (eds.): Menschmaschinen / Maschinenmenschen in der Literatur. Golems, robots, androids and cyborgs as the third gender. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press (IUP), ISBN 978-3-99106-087-1, pp. 59 - 79.
LINK to the article

Jäger, Stefanie; Lohwasser, Diana (2023): Children in high-performance sport. Between self-determination and heteronomy. In: Peskoller, Helga; Zirfas, Jörg (eds.): The art of enthusiasm. Anthropological insights and pedagogical practices. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, ISBN 978-3-7799-7467-3, pp. 211-223. LINK to the article

Article in proceedings volume:

Büchner, Felix/Jäger, Stefanie/Neuhaus, Till, Kähler, Samuel/Shalutkevic, Natascha (2023): 'I got 99 books (but I'm rich for some)' - Die Operationalisierung von 'sozialer Ungleichheit' als Kontext für die Erhebung von computer- und informationsbezogenen Kompetenzen im Rahmen der internationalen vergleichenden Schulleistungsstudie ICILS 2018. STS-hub.de 2023 Circulations. Towards encounters among STS scholars in Germany, Aachen. https://sts-hub.de/STShubDe2023Programme.pdf

Jäger, Stefanie (2022): The body in children's and youth competitive sport - (re)effects of digitalisation and optimisation.
In: Baumgärtner, Jana; Kreinbucher-Bekerle, Christoph; Ruin, Sebastian; Sandbichler, Bianca: Is the body (still) the same? A sport pedagogical anchor point in dynamic change. Abstract volume of the annual conference 2022 of the Commission for Sport Pedagogy of the German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE) in cooperation with the Section for Sport Pedagogy of the Austrian Sport Science Society (ÖSG). 25-26 November 2022, University of Graz. Graz: Karl-Franzens-University Graz, p. 35 - 36.

Lectures

Jäger, Stefanie/Jensen, Andreas/Lohwasser, Diana (2025): "Dealing with loss and vulnerability. Grief work in Japan from a psychoanalytic-pedagogical perspective". Autumn conference of the Commission on Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in the DGfE: "The unconscious in multi-professional collaboration. Psychoanalytical-pedagogical work with caregivers and professionals". Freiburg, 10/10/2025-11/10/2025.

Leitner, Ulrich/Jäger, Stefanie (2025): "Lost Children. The role of the special kindergarten in the (trans-)national external placement of South Tyrolean children in Italy and Austria (1945-1970)". 4th Innsbruck Conference on Elementary Education: "Learning in Elementary Education: Conditions - Expectations - Challenges". Innsbruck, 26/09/2025-27/09/2025.

Jäger, Stefanie/Heinze, Carsten (2025): "Punitive criticism as 'activism'? Heinrich Stephanis Konzept der 'Schulzucht' im Strafdiskurs der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts". Annual Conference of the Commission for Historical Educational Research of the DGfE: Activism as a Subject of Historical Educational Research. Landau, 08/09/2025-10/09/2025.

Jäger, Stefanie/Heinze, Carsten (2025): "Punishment practice and professional behaviour. Ambivalent qualification requirements for teachers in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century". ISCHE (International Standing Conference for the History of Education): Teachers and Teaching. History on the move. Lille (France), 08/07/2025-11/07/2025.

Cont, Franziska/Jäger, Stefanie (2025): "Lost Children - The special function of teachers in the (trans-)national out-of-area placement of South Tyrolean children in Italy and Austria (1945-1970)". ISCHE (International Standing Conference for the History of Education): Teachers and Teaching. History on the move. Lille (France), 08/07/2025-11/07/2025.

Piberger, Jirko/Jäger, Stefanie (2025): "Das Ideal der Bildsamkeit als chancenreiche Möglichkeitsbedingung des Subjekts und des Sozialen". Conference of the Section for General Educational Sciences ÖFEB (Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education): "Pedagogical-anthropological demarcations: Images of man in educational science". Innsbruck, 11/07/2025-12/07/2025.

Jäger, Stefanie (2025): "Il pedagogo Lev N. Tolstoj. Tentativi di alfabetizzazione e di educazione popolare". CIRSE XVII congresso nazionale: Leggere, apprendere, capire il mondo. Analfabetismi e alfabetizzazioni nella storia dell'educazione. Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. 1.02.2025.

Jäger, Stefanie/Lohwasser Diana (2024): "Selbst- und Welterfahrung durch die Sprache der Literatur oder wie der Mensch sich erzählen lässt oder erzählt". Annual conference of the Commission for Pedagogical Anthropology (DGfE), Pedagogical Anthropology of Language and Speech. TU Dortmund, 2 October 2024.

Jäger, Stefanie/Jensen, Andreas/Lohwasser, Diana (2024): "It's in the game"? On the experience and psychoanalytical potential of sports games. Autumn conference of the Commission for Psychoanalytical Pedagogy (DGfE), "Having Teachers in Mind" - Can school and teacher education be 'joyless'? Psychoanalytic pedagogy inside and outside school. HfH Zurich, 14.09.2024.

Jäger, Stefanie (2023): Lew N. Tolstoi - Ein Pädagoge zwischen Visionen und (reform-)pädagogischer Praxis. ISCHE 44, Histories of Education and Reform: Traditions, Tensions and Transitions, Budapest, 25 July 2023.

Büchner, Felix/Jäger, Stefanie/Neuhaus, Till, Kähler, Samuel/Shalutkevic, Natascha (2023): 'I got 99 books (but I'm rich for some)' - Die Operationalisierung von 'sozialer Ungleichheit' als Kontext für die Erhebung von computer- und informationsbezogenen Kompetenzen im Rahmen der internationalen vergleichenden Schulleistungsstudie ICILS 2018. STS-hub.de 2023 Circulations. Towards encounters among STS scholars in Germany, C.A.R.L, RWTH Aaachen, 16.03.2023 (https://sts-hub.de/STShubDe2023Programme.pdf)

Jäger, Stefanie: Between appearance and reality. Children and adolescents in (virtual) sports worlds.
Annual conference of the Commission for Educational Anthropology in the German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE): Virtuality, Dresden, 22/09/2022.

Jäger, Stefanie: Von Verworfenen und Cyborgs - Machtdiskurse und Zukunftsszenarien in Gustav Meyrink's Der Golem.
12th Student Congress of Comparative Literature (SKK 2022), Wuppertal, 27 May 2022.

Jäger, Stefanie; Lohwasser, Diana: Children in high-performance sport. Between maturity and heteronomy.
Annual conference of the Commission for Educational Anthropology 2021 - "Enthusiasm", Obergurgl, 05.10.2021

Jäger, Stefanie: The pedagogy of Lev N. Tolstoy and the special influence of Berthold Auerbach.
11th SKK 2021: Literature & Europe, Bern, online, 06.03.2021

Jäger, Stefanie: The pedagogy of Lev N. Tolstoy and the special influence of Berthold Auerbach.
13th Forum of Young Historians of Education: Emerging Researchers' Conference for the History of Education, Münster, 24/09/2020.

Poster presentations:

Jäger, Stefanie/Perlinger, Julia (2025):"Homo Sportivus. Educational Sciences perspectives on normative ideas in youth competitive sport". Conference of the Section for General Educational Sciences ÖFEB (Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education): "Pedagogical-anthropological demarcations: Images of man in educational science". Innsbruck, 11/07/2025-12/07/2025.

Jäger, Stefanie (2022): "Der Körper im Kinder- und Jugendleistungssport - (Aus-)Wirkungen von Digitalisierung und Optimierung".
Annual conference of the DGfE and ÖSG Sports Education Commission, Graz, 26/11/2022.

Jäger, Stefanie (2022): "Experiences of reality in children's and youth competitive sports".
6th International Symposium on Phenomenological Research in Education, Berlin, 15.09.2022.

Discussion leader/moderator:

Jäger, Stefanie: Moderator Panel 8 "Peers and Crisis Management". Austrian Youth Research Conference "Youth in times of crisis", Innsbruck, 26/06/2023

Jäger, Stefanie: Moderator and panellist.
1st conference of the network "Context Analysis": Meaning and possibilities of context (analysis). A marginalised moment in Educational Sciences research? Online, 28.04.2022

Organisation of conferences and events

• Krause, Sabine; Lohwasser, Diana; Jäger, Stefanie: Conference organisation, Annual Conference of the Commission on Philosophy of Education 2023 - "Zukunft - zwischen Öffnungen und Schließungen. On the current problems of pedagogical concepts of the future", Innsbruck, Austria, 21.09.2023-23.09.20023.
• Jäger, Stefanie; Büchner, Felix; Neuhaus, Till; Kähler, Samuel; Shalutkevich, Natascha: Organisers, 1st conference of the network "Kontextanalyse": Bedeutung und Möglichkeiten von Kontext(analyse). A marginalised moment of Educational Sciences research?, Online, Austria, 28.04.2022 - 29.04.2022.
• Peskoller, Helga; Lohwasser, Diana; Jäger, Stefanie; Schubert, Sophie: Conference organisation, Annual Conference of the Commission for Educational Anthropology 2021 - "Enthusiasm", Obergurgl, Austria, 03.10.2021-06.10.2021.

Memberships and work as a reviewer

• • Member of the DGfE:
    • Section 1: General Educational Sciences: Commission on Educational Anthropology
    • Section 2: Pedagogical leisure research and sports pedagogy: Commission on sports pedagogy
  • Network of Educational Anthropology
  • DGfE network "Context Analysis" (winner of the DGfE 2021 network funding programme; together with Felix Büchner, Samuel Kähler, Till Neuhaus and Natascha Shalutkevic)
  • AK ETB (Working Group Epistemology, Theory and Conceptual Work); https://www.ak-etb.org/
  • "German Society for General and Comparative Literature (DGAVL)
  • "International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

Functions:

• Head (together with Christoph Tauber) of the target agreement project "Dealing with AI in research and teaching"
• Delegate of the Faculty of Educational Sciences for the Digital Community UIBK (2025 - 2027).
• Jäger, Stefanie: Co-opted member of the selection procedure for the career position "Educational Sciences with a focus on Anthropology" - acc. 99 (5) UG 2002 - "tenure-track model", 2023-2025.
• Jäger, Stefanie: Member of the appointment committee "Educational Sciences with a focus on Historical-Pedagogical Anthropology" (substitute member).
  Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck - Department of Educational Science, Innsbruck, 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022.
• Jäger, Stefanie: Curriculum Commission (substitute member).
  Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck - Department of Educational Science, Innsbruck, since 01/09/2022.
• Jäger, Stefanie: Faculty Council (substitute member).
  Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck - Department of Educational Science, Innsbruck, since 1 November 2021.
• PhD-Buddy and member of the Buddy-Mentoring-Team at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck