Hans Schachl
Position
Ph.D., Professor, Rector emeritus of the Private University College of Education, Linz, Austria
About the editor
Social skills and competences:Former Chairperson of the Association of Principals of the Teacher Training Colleges of Austria (in this capacity also a member of the Austrian Bologna-Follow-up-Group and of the European Universities Association) and former Speaker of the Private University Colleges of Education of Austria.In this context intensive work in the development process of transforming Austrian teacher training colleges to academic institutions since the beginning of the “universities debate” in 1990 (member of the initial working group of the Ministry of Education) and fulfilment of official duties towards Federal State Education Authority and Ministry of Education.
International Experience:Development and management of Socrates projects since 1993:
Currently contracts and activities with 65 partner universities, extensive student and teacher mobility and exchange (the university college was the sole Austrian teacher training college to receive the European Seal of Quality for 2005).Participation in and coordination of projects; initiation of new contacts.Developmental work (throughout Austria) on behalf of the Office of European Educational Co-operation, Vienna.
Guest lectures(“The Learning Brain“, “What do we have in our head? Principles of brain-based teaching and learning”, and others) at the universities of Tallinn, Coimbra, Faro, Riga, Minsk, Cadiz, Cebu/Philipinnes, Nitra /Slovakia, Almaty/Kasachstan, Hongkong, Chuncheon/Südkorea, Bangkok, Enugu/Nigeria.
Honorary Member of the Senate of Academy of Teacher Training and Management, Riga, Latvia.
Advisor for Doctoral Studies and PhD-Studies at the University of Nitra (Slovakia) and Pedagogical University Almaty (Kasachstan).
Teaching experience for many years: Lower secondary schools (Maths, Physics/Chemistry, PE and other non-QTS subjects). AtTeacher training institutions (Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Learning, Neurophysiology, teaching practice supervisor).Initiator in developing a new Master course (Neuroscience and Education) and lecturer in this Course at the Private University College of Education Linz.Since 1990 until now: Lecturer in a Master course for the teaching staff of health professionals.
Awards & Publications
Member of Editorial Boards in Riga, Latvia, Almaty, KasachstanandBratislava, Slovakia.