Frederik Wilhelmi

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Office: Feldkirchenstr. 21, Room: FG1/00.12, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: frederik.wilhelmi(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49(0)951/863-2367
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour

Field: Political Science

Research Interests: Normative Political Theory, Liberalism, Multiculturalism, Philosophy of Education
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// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Justifying Education in a Pluralist State

I’m developing a liberal perspective to the issue of justifying mandatory public education in the context of immigration. Mandatory public education penetrates in an aspect of life that many people consider sacrosanct: family life. Liberals are committed to respecting the private sphere of individuals. However, children occupy a peculiar place in this calculation. Whilst parents should be allowed to share their values and way of life with their children, they should not have complete control over their children´s fate. Children have their own interests and their own potential. Ideally, education should allow them to develop this potential and to find their own place in society. As education cannot be entirely neutral, liberals are confronted with people who might feel marginalised because their own culture does not play a role in the education of their children.
Changes (or the lack thereof) in the education system have to be justified both to the immigrants and to the non-immigrant majority. This begs the question of what kind of claim the immigrants have for accommodation and if the majority has a similar claim for keeping the status quo in education policy.

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

09/2008 – 02/2009
Erasmus-semester at University of Salford, England

10/2006 – 08/2013
Master of Arts in Political Science and History at Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz
Master thesis: Non-liberal parents in a liberal state. Who governs the children?

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// EXPERIENCE

Academic Experience

Since 04/2014
Research associate at Bamberg Graduate School of Social Science, University of Bamberg

Non-Academic Experience

05/2013 – 03/2014
Working at the study days against right-wing extremism, IngelheimWorkshop: Music and right-wing extremismHeaded group-discussions

04/2011 – 09/2013
Research assistant at the project European History Online (www.ieg-ego.de) at the Institute of European History, MainzEdited academic papersResearched and selected applicable visual and audio materialWorked with the content management system Plone

09/2011 – 10/2011
Internship at the press office of the Federal Statistical Office, WiesbadenEdited press releases of the Federal Statistical OfficeQuantitative and qualitative analysis of the media’s response to the Zensus 2011Prepared press conferences

02/2011 – 04/2011
Internship at tagesschau.de, HamburgWorked with CMS SophoraRecherched and selected applicable visual materialWrote different news items

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