Prof. Dr. Detlef Garz

Research Interests
Qualitative und Reconstructive Research Methods, Biographical Research, Migration und Transmigration from Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Academic Background
Since 2002, Detlef Garz has been Professor of General Education Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Until 2002 he was Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg. He was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as well as at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst. He was Guest Professor at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland as well as at Kangnam University in Yongin, South Korea.
Besides that he was Visiting Scholar at Stanford and Harvard University, and Research Assistant at the Centre for Human Development and Education at Harvard University. In 1988 he received his ””Habilitation”” at the University of Osnabrück, in 1982 he obtained his PhD at the University of Hamburg. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Qualitative Social Research Journal, of ‘Sozialer Sinn’ and the Journal of Adult Development. He is also a member of the Research Training Group ”Transnationale Soziale Unterstützung” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Publications (Top 5)

2014

‚Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben‘ – Über biographische Pfade und Pfadabhängigkeiten. In: D. Garz and B. Zizek (eds.): Wie wir zu dem werden, was wir sind. Sozialisations-, biographie- und bildungstheoretische Entwicklungsansätze. Wiesbaden: im Druck.

2012

(with David Kettler, eds.:) Nach dem Krieg! Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters. München.

2011

The Outlook for a Korean Society dealing with Immigration and Migration Issues: Reflecting the case of Germany. “We asked for workers, and human beings came”. In: Journal of Korean Social Welfare 17. P. 97-118.

2008

Sozialpsychologische Entwicklungstheorien. Von Baldwin über Kohlberg bis zur Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

2000

Kritik, Hermeneutik, Rekonstruktion. Über den Stellenwert der Methode bei Jürgen Habermas. In: St. Müller-Doohm (ed.): Das Interesse der Vernunft. Rückblicke auf das Werk von Jürgen Habermas seit ‚Erkenntnis und Interesse‘. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. P. 201-217.