Natalia Wächter
Performance pressure, digital lifeworlds, and new anxieties about the future: social pedagogue and youth researcher Natalia Wächter talks about how growing up has changed for young people, which experiences shape her research, and why adolescents today have to navigate more intensely between opportunities and pressures. Also in the podcast: media literacy as a key resource, new forms of political engagement, and the importance of family and school for successful phases of youth.
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Interview/Editing: Carmen Reif-Teubenbacher
More information about Natalia Wächter
Education: Sociology and political science at the University of Vienna, among other subjects; postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles; habilitation in social pedagogy at the University of Graz
Professional career: Among other positions, lecturer at the Institute for European Studies (IES), Vienna/Chicago; university professor of education and youth studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
Current: University professor of social pedagogy at the University of Graz