Biografie

Main teaching and research areas

• Critical theory, critical educational theory, critical philosophy of education
• Critical social theory
• Critical pedagogy
• Sociology of education
• Sociological migration studies (with a focus on education)

Prof Dr Manfred Oberlechner-Duval, Professor of Sociology of Education and Migration Pedagogy. Completed academic studies: Sociology, political science, French language and culture, sociology of migration and ethnicity studies, migration and religious studies, German as a second/foreign language. Memberships, participation in scientific associations: Study group on “Critical Educational Research” at the Institute for Social Research (IfS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main;

European Academy of Sciences and Arts;

editorial board of the General Educational Studies Section (ÖFEB);

Council for Migration, Berlin;

German Educational Research Association;

Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education;

Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies Network (kritnet);

“Research Academy (Forschungskolleg) in Critical Theory” at Leuphana University Lüneburg;

European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction;

Advisory Board of “Einstieg – Einstieg ins Berufsleben” (Einstieg: Starting a Career). Work experience in international institutions: at the European Migration Committee of the Council of Europe, as well as the European Parliament. Fellowships, visiting scholar appointments: Visiting Scholar at the Centre de recherches politiques (CEVIPOF), Sciences PO /CNRS, Paris;

Research Associate at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin and the Buber-Rosenzweig Institute at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main;

Visiting Scholar at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin;

Visiting Scholar at the University of Strasbourg;

Visiting Research Fellow at the Jewish Museum Foundation Berlin and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main;

Fellow at the Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (IfS);

Visiting Research Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Research prizes, scholarships: inter alia, Dutch government scholarship;

research scholarships from the city and state of Salzburg;

Dr. Alois Mock Prize in support of research in the field of multiculturalism with a particular focus on questions of tolerance and humanism;

Innovative Teaching Prize of the Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg for teaching in the field of migration and integration;

European Academy of Sciences and Arts research prize. Former professional positions:  Contractual assistant at the Mozarteum University of Art Salzburg;

research director at the Salzburg-based labour market counselling agency VeBBAS on the integration of immigrants into the Austrian labour market;

integration and migration coordinator at the office of the Salzburg state government. Teaching positions:  inter alia, at the University of Lorraine, the University of Strasbourg, the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, the Mozarteum University of Art Salzburg, and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Expert opinions/advisor: for the Volkswagen Foundation, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Austrian Journal of Sociology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Swiss National Science Foundation.

Selected projects

• Anti-racist pedagogy in the migration society
• Banning images as ideology critique: Innovative perspectives for education

Selected publications

• Oberlechner-Duval, M. & Duval, P. (eds.) (in press). Humanismus bildet: Redefining Humanism for Schools of Tomorrow. Redéfinir l’humanisme pour l’école de demain. Wochenschau.
• Buchberger, W. & Oberlechner-Duval, M. (eds.). (2025). Gesellschaftliches Lernen: Perspektiven – Erfahrungen – Entwicklungslinien. Wochenschau.
• Oberlechner-Duval, M. (2021). Overcoming the Deficit View of the Migrant Other: Notes for a Humanist Pedagogy in a Migration Society. Budrich.
• Schneider-Reisinger, R. & Oberlechner, M. (eds.). (2020). Diversitätssensible PädagogInnenbildung in Forschung und Praxis: Utopien, Ansprüche und Herausforderungen. Budrich.
• Oberlechner, M., Heinisch, R. & Duval, P. (eds.). (2020). Nationalpopulismus bildet? Lehren für Unterricht und Bildung. The New European National Populism: Lessons for School Education. Le nouveau national-populisme européen: Quelles leçons pour l’école? Wochenschau.
• Oberlechner, M. & Schneider-Reisinger, R. (eds.). (2019). Fluidität bildet: „Pädagogisches Fluid“ – Fluidität in Bildungsprozessen. Nomos.