Ludwig Duncker

Ludwig Duncker studied teacher education and educational science in Heidelberg, Reutlingen and Tübingen. He subsequently worked as a teacher and publishing editor. He received his doctorate in social sciences from the University of Tübingen in 1987 and completed his habilitation at the University of Augsburg in 1992. From 1992 to 1996, he was a founding professor and head of the Institute of Primary Education at Leipzig University. In 1996, he took up a professorship in educational science, specializing in pedagogy for primary and secondary education, at Justus Liebig University Giessen. His research areas included educational and school theory, general didactics, aesthetic education, and the anthropology of childhood and adolescence. In the winter semester of 2013–14, he was a visiting professor at the University of Teacher Education Northwestern Switzerland.