Dr. Bernd Reef

2020

Habilitation in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel; topic of the habilitation thesis: "Konstruktivismus in der Didaktik der politischen Bildung. A Critique" (Opladen)

Since 2007

Research assistant in the Department of Social Sciences, subject area "Didactics of Civic Education"; main areas of work: Teaching on the topics of theories of economics, economic and social policy, and didactics of political and economic education; training of tutors and organization of tutorials in the Department of Social Sciences.

1995 - 2002

Completed studies in economics at the Open University of Hagen (final grade: 1.6)

1993

Doctorate (Dr. rer. Pol.) in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel; topic of the dissertation: "Regulation of Health Care and Health Promotion" (overall grade: good)

1986 - 1988

Completed advanced and supplementary studies in the Department of Social Work at the University of Kassel (subject: social policy; ungraded)

Since 1986

Initially technical-administrative employee at the University of Kassel, later research associate; work focus: collaboration in various research projects on workplace health promotion, workplace environmental policy and analysis of regional social and economic structures; teaching in the departments of social sciences, economics, social work, mechanical engineering at the University of Kassel on the topics of economic theory, economic, social and environmental policy

1980 - 1985

Completed studies in social sciences at the Gesamthochschule Kassel (final grade: 1.2)

1979 - 1980

Civilian service

1975 - 1978

Grammar school in Meerbusch

1966 - 1975

Primary and secondary school in Meerbusch

1960

Born in Meerbusch (NRW)

2020

Bade, Gesine; Henkel, Nicholas; Reef, Bernd (eds.): Political education: diverse - controversial - global. Festschrift for Bernd Overwien. Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau Verlag

2018

Reef, Bernd: Constructivism in the didactics of civic education. A critique. Opladen: Barabra Budrich Publishers

2013

Reef, Bernd: Basic economic knowledge for political and economic education. Immenhausen near Kassel: Prolog-Verlag.

2010

Reef, Bernd: Theoretical Foundations of Economic Policy, An Introduction. Marburg: Metropolis

1999

Reef, Bernd, Peter Strutynski: Workplace Health Promotion. Health report for the Kassel plant of Deutsche Bahn AG. Kassel: Kassel Comprehensive University

1995

Düe, Dietmar, Paul Laska, Bernd Reef, Karl Hermann Tjaden: Stoffmanagement im Kfz- und Holzhandwerk und weiteren Betrieben des Saale-Holzland-Kreis und der Stadt Jena. Kassel: Publishing house Jenior and Pressler

1993

Reef, Bernd: Regulation of health care and health promotion. Deficits, Options and Perspectives of a Regionalization in the Federal Republic of Germany. Kassel: Publishing House Jenior and Pressler (Dissertation)

1992

Reef, Bernd (ed.): Regionale Gesundheitspolitik, Tagungsband mit Beiträgn von Günter Conrad, Uwe Lehnhardt, Alfred Oppolzer, Horst Peter, Bernd Reef, Volker Wanek. Kassel: Publishing house Jenior and Pressler

2020

Reef, Bernd: Questions for critical political education; in: Bade, Gesine; Henkel, Nicholas; Reef, Bernd (eds.): Political education: diverse - controversial - global. Festschrift for Bernd Overwien. Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 265-289.

2018

Reef, Bernd: Economic problems in the EU: renationalization of economic policy as a solution? In: Eis, Andreas; Moulin-Doos, Claire (eds.): Critical political European education - Europe's multiple crisis as a collective learning opportunity? Immenhause near Kassel: Prolog-Verlag, pp. 41 - 51.

2011

Reef, Bernd: Tutorials and tutor training in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel; in: Wim Görts (ed.): tutor deployment and tutor training. Bielefeld: Universitätsverlag Webler, pp. 155-178.

2007

Reef, Bernd: Neoclassics versus Keynes, Controversial Economic Theories and Political Practice on the Case of Labor Market Policy; in: Gerd Steffens (ed.): Political and economic education in times of globalization. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 54-84.

2007

Reef, Bernd: Neoliberal social policy - A way out of the globalization trap?; in: Gerd Steffens (ed.): Political and economic education in times of globalization. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 168-194.

2004

Reef, Bernd: The neoliberal program and the dismantling of the welfare state; in: Ute Sperling, Margarete Tjaden-Steinhauer: Society from Tikal to Nowhere, European tyranny, social upheaval, inequality societies beside the track. Kassel: Winfried Jenior Publishers, pp. 260-285.

2003

Reef, Bernd: Limits to welfare gains through international division of labor for welfare states or: what makes national social policy fall into the globalization trap?; in: Journal of Social Reform 6/2003, pp. 906-926

1998

Reef, Bernd: Will private waste disposal companies be established in the sense of the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act (§§ 17, 18)? If so, what functions will they assume?; in: Entsorgungsverband Saar (ed.): Vollzug des Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes. Saarbrücken

1998

Reef, Bernd: All for nothing? Chambers and waste producers and owners show little interest in the formation of private disposal companies according to the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act §§ 17/18; in: The Better Waste Concept, 1/1998, pp. 4-7

1997

Reef, Bernd: Environmental Policy in Capitalism. What are pragmatic approaches capable of?; in: Johanna Klages, Peter Strutynski (eds.): Capitalism at the End of the Twentieth Century. Hamburg: VSA, pp. 123-138.

1995

Düe, Dietmar, Paul Laska, Bernd Reef, Karl Hermann Tjaden: Stoffmanagement in Betriebe des holzverarbeitenden und des KfZ-Reparatur-Handwerks im Saale-Holzland-Kreis und in der Stadt Jena; in: Büro für Umwelt-Pädagogik Media (ed.): Kreislaufwirtschaft zwischen Realität und Utopie. Sehnde, p. 203-184

1995

Düe, Dietmar, Bernd Reef et al: Area-wide avoidance and recycling of native-organic residues; in: Büro für Umwelt-Pädagogik Media (ed.): Waste Management in Transition. Sehnde 1995, pp. 193-273.

1994

Düe, Dietmar, Bernd Reef, Karl Hermann Tjaden: Planning prerequisites of an area-wide composting of native-organic municipal residues in rural areas of the new federal states using the example of Thuringia; in: Rheinisches Institut für Ökologie: Bioabfall-Management '94. Cologne 1994, pp. 222-237.

1994

Reef, Bernd: Aspects of regionalization in health care; in: Sozialer Fortschritt 9/1994, pp. 218-226.

1992

Reef, Bernd: Control in health care - An introduction to the current discussion; in: Reef, Bernd (ed.): Regionale Gesundheitspolitik, conference proceedings with contributions by Günter Conrad, Uwe Lehnhardt, Alfred Oppolzer, Horst Peter, Bernd Reef, Volker Wanek. Kassel: Verlag Jenior und Pressler, 1992, 35-51.