Jürgen Schriewer is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at Humboldt University, Berlin, where he headed the Comparative Education Centre from 1991 to 2010. He was President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe and has repeatedly been invited as a Visiting Professor to universities in Paris (Paris V-René Descartes), Stockholm (Stockholm University), Tokyo (Waseda University, Hitotsubashi University), Mexico-City (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and Buenos Aires (Universidad de San Andrés). Since 1995, has continuously been a member and co-coordinator of major research networks on cross-cultural studies in history and the social sciences established at Humboldt University under grants by the German Research Agency (DFG).
Schriewer`s particular research interests include the comparative social history of education; world society theories and context-specific structural elaboration processes; as well as the history and methodology of comparative enquiry in education and the social sciences. In consideration of his research work Schriewer was given the Japanese Research Award conferred by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science as well as the Xth Swedish Research Award conferred by the Tercentenary Foundation of the Bank of Sweden.
Selected Publications
Books
· The Global Reception of John Dewey’s Thought. Multiple Refractions Through Time and Space, co‐ edited with Rosa Bruno‐Jofré (New York & London: Routledge, 2012).
· Re‐Conceptualising the Global/ Local Nexus: Meaning Constellations in the World Society, ed. (= Comparative Education, special issue no. 45, November 2012) (London etc.: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis, 2012).
· Discourse Formation in Comparative Education, ed. (Komparatistische Bibliothek/ Comparative Studies Series, vol. 10) (Frankfurt a.M. etc.: Peter Lang, 2000; 4th revised edition 2012); Chinese translation (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2011).
· Selbstbilder und Fremdbilder. Repräsentation sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel, co‐edited with Jörg Baberowski & Hartmut Kaelble. (Eigene und Fremde Welten, Bd. 1) (Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus, 2008).
· Weltkultur und kulturelle Bedeutungswelten. Zur Globalisierung von Bildungsdiskursen, ed. (Eigene und fremde Welten, Bd. 2) (Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus, 2007).
· Comparative Methodologies in the Social Sciences ‐ Cross‐Disciplinary Inspirations, ed. (= Comparative Education, special issue no. 32, August 2006) (London etc.: Routledge 2006‐ 2007).
· Nationalerziehung und Universalmethode ‐ frühe Formen schulorganisatorischer Globalisierung, co‐ edited with Marcelo Caruso (= Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung, Bd. 15: 1, 2005) (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2005).
Journal articles and chapters in books
· “Neither orthodoxy nor randomness: differings logics of conducting comparative and international studies in education”, in: Comparative Education 50(2014), 1, pp. 84‐101.
· “Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft als Forschungsfeld”, in: Kulturvergleich in der qualitativen Forschung. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Perspektiven und Analysen, ed. Merle Hummrich & Sandra Rademacher (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2013), pp. 15‐41.
· "Reference Societies and Model Constructions: Questioning International Policy Studies", in: The Public Sector in Transition. East Asia and the European Union Compared, ed. Joachim‐Jens Hesse, Jan‐Erik Lane & Yoichi Nishikawa (Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 2007), pp. 85‐102.
· "Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft", in: Beltz‐Lexikon Pädagogik, ed. Heinz‐Elmar Tenorth & Rudolf Tippelt (Weinheim & Basel: Beltz, 2007), pp. 748‐749.
· "Comparative social science: characteristic problems and changing problem solutions", in: Comparative Methodologies in the Social Sciences ‐ Cross‐Disciplinary Inspirations, ed. Jürgen Schriewer (= Comparative Education, special issue no. 32, August 2006) (London etc.: Routledge 2006‐2007), pp. 299‐336.
· "Problemdimensionen sozialwissenschaftlicher Komparatistik", in: Vergleich und Transfer. Komparatistik in den Geschichts‐, Sozial‐ und Kulturwissenschaften, co‐edited with H. Kaelble (Frankfurt a.M. & New York: Campus, 2003), pp.11‐54.
· "Stichwort: Internationaler Vergleich in der Erziehungswissenschaft", in: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 3(2000), 4, pp. 495‐515.
· "Comparative Education Methodology in Transition: Towards a Science of Complexity?" in: Discourse Formation in Comparative Education, ed. Jürgen Schriewer (Frankfurt a.M. etc.: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 3‐52.
· "World System and Interrelationship Networks: The Internationalization of Education and the Role of Comparative Inquiry", in: Educational Knowledge. Changing Relationships between the State, Civil Society, and the Educational Community, ed. Thomas S. Popkewitz (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), pp. 305‐343.