Rita Casale
German professor
Rita Casale (born 3 April 1968 in Ostuni, Italy) is an Italian–German educationalist, philosopher, university lecturer, and vice president at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Her research and teaching focus on philosophy of education, history of science and knowledge, history of philosophy, and feminist theory.
Life and work
Rita Casale studied philosophy, history and educational science at Bari, Paris and Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1993 to 1996 she was a doctoral student at the Collegio di dottorato (Bari-Ferrara-Urbino). In 1997 she was awarded a PhD in "Filosofia moderna e contemporanea" by the University of Turin. With a scholarship from the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Casale undertook a research stay at the archive centre (H. Marcuse estate) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1997. In 2001 she was a research assistant in the Department of Educational Sciences at Goethe University, from 2002 to 2007 Scientific Assistant at the Chair of General Education of Jürgen Oelkers at the University of Zurich. For a visiting professorship she went to the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Vienna and in 2008 was a substitute professor for General Educational Science at the University of Fribourg. In 2009 she became Professor of General Educational Science and Theory of Education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. She gave her inaugural lecture On the Topicality of the Philosophy of Education.
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