CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Siebren Miedema Professor in Educational Foundations Faculty of Psychology and Education Department of Theory and Research in Education VU University Amsterdam
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Professor in Religious Education Faculty of Theology VU University Amsterdam
OFFICE ADDRESS VU University Amsterdam
Faculty of Psychology and Education Department of Theory and Research in Education & Faculty of Theology Department of Praxis c/o Van der Boechorststraat 1 1081 BT Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31-20-598 8873 # 8901 Fax: +31-20-598 8874 E-mail: [email protected]
Websites: http://www.psy.vu.nl/fpp.php/departments/theoryandresearchineducation/people/details.html? id=148 http://siebrenmiedema.com
HOME ADDRESS De Duinsloot 5 2211 DP Noordwijkerhout The Netherlands Phone: +31 252 376934 Cell phone: 00 31 (0)648070619 E-mail: [email protected]
PERSONAL DATA Date of birth: November 17, 1949 Place of birth: Weidum, Province of Friesland, the Netherlands (mother tongue: Frisian) Marital Status: Married with Detta Miedema-Leeffers (1951 - since 1974), 3 children Radboud (1979 – partner Eva Miedema-Pouw [1984], grandson Joep [2010]), Welmoed (1981 – partner Maarten van der Salm [1980]) & Narda (1984) Religion: Christian (Protestant), with charismatical flavor and interreligious openness Politics: active member (local and national level) of the Green Party (GroenLinks) Hobbies: making music (slide trombone, baritone sax, tuba, singing), sporting (tennis, racing bicycle, fitness, swimming), writing poems, sculpturing (stone)
HIGHER EDUCATION Doctoraat (PhD) in Social Sciences (Philosophy of Education) Leiden University, 1986 Doctoraal (=MA) with much distinction in Philosophy (Philosophy of the Social Sciences) University of Groningen, 1983 Extended minors for two years in the doctoral program of Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Ethics, 1977-1979, Faculty of Theology University of Groningen Doctoraal (=MA) cum laude (the highest distinction) in Education (Philosophy and History of Education) University of Groningen, 1979 Kandidaats (=BA) in Philosophy University of Groningen, 1976 Kandidaats (= BA) in Education (Philosophy and History of Education) University of Groningen, 1974
Other University of Cambridge, Certificate of Proficiency in English (1988)
RESEARCH He is the editor/author of 47 books (2 more books to be published in due course) and has published (got accepted for publication) 306 academic articles and chapters, next to 177 professional articles and 36 newspaper articles both nationally and internationally in Dutch, English, German, French, Turkish, Japanese and Swedish. He gave 279 lectures, presentations and addresses mostly on invitation. He gave dozens of interviews in newspapers, professional journals, and quite a few on radio and television.
In his publications he has dealt with/is dealing with pragmatism (Dewey, James, Mead and Peirce); the cultural historical approach (Vygotsky); critical pedagogy (both Continental – Klafki, Mollenhauer, Lempert - , Australian and North American versions) and critical theory (Habermas); hermeneutical (geisteswissenschafliche) pedagogy (Weniger, Litt, Langeveld, Bolnow); history of education (e.g. Jewish education); early childhood education from an attachment theoretical perspective (Bowlby-Ainsworth); developmental psychology (Erikson, Marcia); philosophy of the social sciences; methodology of research in the social sciences and in education (e.g. qualitative and quantitative research methods, validity and reliability); neo- pragmatistic, postmodern, and poststructuralist philosophy (Rorty, Lyotard, Derrida); and religious and world view education and development. His main research topics at the moment are: religious identity formation from an interfaith perspective; paradigmatic approaches in theory and research on moral and religious education from a critical-pragmatic perspective; the interrelated positioning of religious education in the public, the social and the private domain; and the concept of religious citizenship education within liberal-democratic societies.