Lisa Pfahl

Alumna/Alumnus
LIFE Berlin

LIFE Fellow from 2003 to 2006, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. phil.

Dissertation completed in October 2009

(Advisors: Heike Solga & Michael Corsten)
Techniken der Behinderung. Der Lernbehinderungsdiskurs, die deutsche Sonderschule und ihre Auswirkungen auf Bildungs- und Berufsbiographien [Technologies of the disabled self: The discourse of learning disability, German special schools, and their consequences for educational and occupational biographies]


Selected Publications

Biermann, J., & Pfahl, L. (2020). A global monitoring practice in the making: Disability measurement for United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 on inclusive education. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 31(3), 192–213. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2020-31-3-11

Pfahl, L., & Powell, J. J. W. (2014). Subversive status: Disability studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(2). Full text

Pfahl, L., & Powell, J. J. W. (2011). Legitimating school segregation: The special education profession and the discourse of learning disability in Germany, 1908–2008. Disability & Society, 26, 449–462. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2011.567796

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