Peter Rieker

Peter Rieker, Prof. Dr.

Professor für Ausserschulische Bildung und Erziehung / Professor of Extracurricular Education
Programmdirektor Erziehungswissenschaft / Program Director Educational Science

Phone: +41 44 634 45 61
Address: Freiestrasse 36, 8032 Zürich
Room number: FRE-H-05

Research Focus and Interests

Childhood and youth research, deviant behavior and desistance, political extremism and participation, migration and interethnic relations, methods of empirical social research.

Academic Biography

2005           Habilitation at Hildesheim University with publications on the topic “Abweichung und Aushandlung. Kindliche Auffälligkeit im Kontext ihrer familialen Bearbeitung” (“Deviation and Negotiation. Childlike Conspicuousness within the Context of Its Familial Treatment” – venia legendi in sociology
1996           Dissertation at Hildesheim University on the topic “Ethnozentrismus. Qualitative Analysen ethnozentrischer Orientierungen und Bedingungen ihrer Sozialisation bei jungen Männern” (“Ethnocentricity. Qualitative Analyses of Ethnocentric Orientations and Conditions of Their Socialization for Young Men”)
1989–1991       Postgraduate program “Qualitative Methoden in den Sozialwissenschaften” (“Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences”) at the Freie Universität Berlin
1983–1987       Certified pedagogue degree from the Freie Universität Berlin

Academic Activity

2009–           Professor for Extracurricular Education at the University of Zurich’s Institute of Education
2008 and 2009   Visiting professor for Extracurricular Education at the former Pedagogical Institute of the University of Zurich
2007–2009       Project group leader at the German Youth Institute, branch Leipzig/Halle
2006–2009       Private lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences at Hildesheim University
1998–2007       Researcher at the German Youth Institute, branch Leipzig/Halle
1995–1997       Researcher at the department Social Services at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
1994–1995       Doctoral scholarship at Hildesheim University
1991–1993       Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at Hildesheim University; Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin
1990–2006       Lecturer at various universities and universities of applied sciences