Profile

Stefan Aufenanger is professor of Pedagogy and Media Education at the University of Mainz, Germany.At the University of Mainz Dr Aufenanger is coordinator of several projects, eg. ’Children and brands’, ‘Media competence and Gender’, and his workgroup is developing multimedia programs for primary schools and for higher education. Dr Aufenanger was a member of the board of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK) (Bielefeld), and speaker of the division Media Education of the German Association of Educational Science (DGfE). Dr Aufenanger is co-editor of Computer + Unterricht and member of the advisory board of medien + erziehung (media + education), as well as consultant on several research projects. He is a teacher in further education programmes for kindergarden, elementary and primary school teachers. His main research topics are: electronic media and the family, television and children, children and advertising, multimedia in education, moral education, qualitative research methods.

stefan@aufenanger.de

Relevant Publications

Media childhood - brand childhood (Medienkindheit - Markenkindheit). München 2004 (co-author: Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Uwe Hasebrink and Klaus Neumann-Braun)

Handbook media: starting up early with media education (Handbuch Medien: Medienerziehung früh beginnen) Bonn 2001 (co-author: Ulrike Six)

Concepts of media education to foster the understanding of commercials in the Kindergarten (Medienpädagogische Ansätze zur Vermittlung von 

Werbekompetenz im Kindergarten) Kiel 1999 (co-author: Norbert Neuss)

Commercials and Children (Fernsehwerbung und Kinder) 2 Volumes., Opladen 1995 (co-authors: Michael Charlton, Klaus Neumann-Braun and Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem)

The Role of children in Television - Families watching TV (Kinder im Fernsehen - Familien beim Fernsehen) Munich 1993

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