Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Mitter

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 1972 at DIPF
• 1972-1998 Head of the Department of General and Comparative Education
• 1978-1981 and 1987-1995 Director of DIPF
• Teaching responsibilities at the University of Hamburg 1965-72 and at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 1974-2007
• 1981-1985 President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE)
• 1991-1995 President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES)
• 1997-2000 President of the World Association of Educational Research (WAER)
• Since 1971 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Bildung und Erziehung” (1981-1996 Acting Editor)
• Member of the Academia Europaea and the Russian Academy of Education
• Honorary Member of the Pedagogical Faculty of the Charles University Prague, of the CESE, the Mediterranean Comparative Education Society (MCES), the German Commission for UNESCO and the German Society of Education (DGfE)
• Award of the Order “Chevalier de Léopold II” (Belgium) 1985, the Goethe Plaque of the Land Hessen (Germany) 1992, the Medal “650 years of Charles University Prague” 1998 and the "Nummus memorialis argenteus" (Commemorative Silver Medal) of the Charles University 2010
  

Current/Key activities and fields of research

• Comparative Education
• Education Policy
• Cross-cultural Education