Daniel Tröhler is Professor of Foundations of Education at the University of Vienna and Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo since 2018.
His research interests include the international and transnational developments of the last 250 years and relating the history of modern ideas to the history of institutions in the context of a broader cultural history by focusing on political and educational ideas and their materialization in school laws, curricula, and textbooks, comparing different national and regional developments and investigating their possible mutual influences. He received the American Education Research Association’s Outstanding Book of the Year Award in 2012 for Languages of Education: Protestant Legacies, National Identities, and Global Aspirations (Routledge, 2011). His recent publications include being volume editor of A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2020) and guest-editor of the special issue Education, “Doing Nation,” Nation Building and the Development of National Literacies (Croatian Journal of Education, 2020) and lead editor of the World Yearbook of Education: Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Nationalism (Routledge, 2020).
