Florian Wenzel

florian.wenzel@cap-akademie.de

Florian Wenzel was born 1972 in Rosenheim, Southern Germany. After completing High School he left for Canada were he enrolled in an undergratuate program for Social Sciences and Political Theory at the Kings University College in Edmonton, Alberta. After completing his BA Florian joined a Masters Program in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, England. He completed his MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis. Returning to Germany, he continued his studies in Adult Pedagogics at the Hochschule fuer Philosophie SJ, Munich, obtaining a Diploma in 1999.

Currently Florian is working for the Bertelsmann Research Group on Politics at CAP in Munich. Since July 1999 he is a research fellow for the project ´Education for Democracy and Tolerance´. His work consists of the adaptation, development and implementation of educational programs in Germany. Main target groups are multipliers in school and out-of-school education, police and public administration in Germany as well as international groups and Youth Conferences. He has contributed to the project´s own educational program ´Achtung (+) Toleranz´ (Respect (+) Tolerance) as well as to the International Tolerance Network´s first publication ´The power of Language´. Currently the focus of his work is conceptualizing evaluation theory for political education and developing new methodologies in this field.

His research interests include the underlying theoretical basis of constructivism and systems theory for course concepts in political education as well as the growing need for aesthetic learning in managing processes in complex societies.