Address & Contact

Xylanderstraße 1
Building: Xy
Room: 2.10
76829 Landau

Contact details

+49634128036720

florian.kiuppis[at]rPTU.de

Office hours

during the lecture period:

by personal appointment by e-mail

Networks

  • International Journal of Disability, Development and Education (Associate Editor)
  • European Journal of Special Needs Education (Associate Editor)
  • Nordic Comparative and International Education Society (Immediate Past President)
  • European Educational Research Association
  • Associazione Baskin (Trainer, Coach & Local Baskin Development Pioneer)
  • Science Committee of Special Olympics Germany (Head)

Florian Kiuppis


About the person

Publications by Florian Kiuppis

 

Books and editorships

Kiuppis, F. (2024) (ed.) The Nordic experience of inclusive and special education. European Journal of Special Needs Education 39(6)

Köpfer, Andreas & Kiuppis, Florian (2024) (eds.) Body and space in the context of education. Journal for Inclusion 19(2)

Kiuppis, F. & Schwarz, D. (2023) (eds.) Special Olympics: Inclusion Debates and Equity in Sport. London: Routledge

Kiuppis, F. & Schwarz, D. (2022) (eds.) Special Olympics in Context of Inclusion Debates in Sport [Special Sections]. Sport in Society - Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 25(9)/25(10)

Kiuppis, F. & Stambulova, N. B. (2020) (eds.) Transitions in sport life [Special Issue]. Sport in Society - Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 23(4)

Kiuppis, F. (2018) (ed.) Sport and Disability: From Integration Continuum to Inclusion Spectrum. London: Routledge

Kiuppis, F. (2018) (ed.) Inclusion in Sport: Disability and Participation [edited special issue]. Sport in Society - Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 21(1 )

Kiuppis, F. & Hausstätter, R. S. (2014) (eds.) Inclusive Education 20 Years after Salamanca [Disability Studies series] (New York: Peter Lang)

Kiuppis, F. (2014) Heterogeneous Inclusivity, Inclusive Heterogeneity - Changing Meanings of Pedagogical Concepts in the Context of International Organizations. Münster/New York: Waxmann

Kiuppis, F. & Kurzke-Maasmeier, S. (2012) (eds.) Sport im Spiegel der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention - Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und politische Positionen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

Kiuppis, F. (2007) On the extension of the classification of health-related data to disability. Aachen: Shaker

 

Journal articles (peer reviewed)

Kiuppis, F. (2024) Nordic inclusive and special education [Editorial]. European Journal of Special Needs Education 39(6), 845-848

Wahl, V. & Kiuppis, F. (2023). Increasing participation of persons with intellectual disabilities with smart socio-technical arrangements. Social Inclusion, 11(3), 5-14

Asunta, P., Hasanen, E. Kiuppis, F., Rintala, P. & R. McConkey (2022) 'Life is team play': social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics, Sport in Society, DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2022.2037565

Mwansa, K. & Kiuppis, F. (2021) Mind the gaps: On the North/South Nexus in the 'Sport for Development and Peace' discourse. Nordic Journal of Comparative andInternational Education (NJCIE), 5(3), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.4464

Kiuppis, F. & Stambulova, N. B. (2020) Editorial: Transitions in sport life. Sport in Society - Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 23(4), 557-559

Kiuppis, F. & Hensel, P. (2019) Sport und Inklusion-Ein neues Verständnis von Wir im Team [Sport and Inclusion -A New Understanding of what 'Us' Means in a Team]. Quarterly Journal of Special Education and its Neighboring Fields 88(4), 264-277

Kiuppis, F. (2018) Inclusion in sport: disability and participation. Sport in Society - Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 21(1), 4-21

Reynolds, J. M., & Kiuppis, F. (2017). The Pathic Model of Disability: Identity, Moral Force and the Politics of Pain. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1-12

Meziani, M., Valet, A. & F. Kiuppis (2017) Care and Disability in Context of Physical Excellence: Towards a new ecology of sport. Society and Leisure 40(1), 7-24

Kiuppis, F. & Soorenian, A. (2017). Bridging Continents, Cultures, and Crip Theories: Teaching Comparative and International Disability Studies in Education and Sociology. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 19(2), 118-128

Kiuppis, F. (2016) From Special Needs Education to Inclusion: Continuity and Change in UNESCO's Agenda Setting. Journal of International Educational Research and Development Education (Waxmann) 3, 28-33

Kiuppis, F. (2016): Sport im Lichte der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention [Sports as Reflected in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]. Journal of Human Rights 2, 80-91

Giese, F., Kiuppis, F. & K. Baumert (2016) Adaptierter Sportunterricht - Plädoyer für einen terminologischen Anschluss an internationale Diskurse [Adapted Physical Education - Plea for a terminological connection with international discourses]. Journal for Inclusion 3.

Kiuppis, F. (2015) 'Friendly but demanding'? - On different meanings of inclusive edu-cation as an imagined concept in national reform planning. Opuscula Sociologica 1, 5-21

Kiuppis, F. (2014) Risk or danger, needs or requirements? [on the discursive simultaneity of contradictory ideas in the course of the development of educational projects in context of OECD] Swiss Journal of Educational Sciences 36(2), 243-264

Kiuppis, F. (2014) Why (not) associate the principle of inclusion with disability? Tracing connections from the start of the 'Salamanca Process'. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 18(7), 746-761

Kiuppis, F. (2014) Zusammenhänge zwischen der Bedeutungsrelativität der Beschreibung eines Einzelfalls im Kontext von Behinderung und der Bewertungsrelativität seiner Auslegung [on connection between descriptions and meanings in cases of disability]. Journal of Ethics 2(1)

Kiuppis, F. (2011) Mer enn én vei til framtiden: Om ulike tolkninger av inkluderende opplæring [More than one way to the future: On different meanings of Inclusive Education]. Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift. 95(2), 91-102

Kiuppis, F. (2007) On the significance of models and concepts of international organizations in higher education reforms: Implementierungvarianten der "Standardregeln" der UN und der "Klassifikation der Behinderung" der WHO [On the meaning of models and concepts of International Organizations in context of education reforms]. Law of Youth and Education, 4, 447-457

Giese, F., Kiuppis, F. & K. Baumert (2016) Adapted physical education - A plea for a terminological connection to international discourses. Journal for Inclusion 3

Kiuppis, F. (2015) 'Friendly but demanding'? - On different meanings of inclusive edu-cation as an imagined concept in national reform planning. Opuscula Sociologica 1, 5-21

Kiuppis, F. (2014) Why (not) associate the principle of inclusion with disability? Tracing connections from the start of the 'Salamanca Process'. International Journal of Inclusive Education 18(7), 746-761

Kiuppis, F. (2014) Connections between the meaning relativity of the description of an individual case in the context of disability and the evaluative relativity of its interpretation. Ethics Journal 2(1)

Kiuppis, F. (2011) Mer enn én vei til framtiden: Om ulike tolkninger av inkluderende opplæring [More than one way to the future: On different meanings of Inclusive Education]. Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift 95(2), 91-102

Kiuppis, F. (2007) On the significance of models and concepts of international organizations in higher education reforms: Implementation variants of the UN's 'Standard Rules' and the WHO's 'Classification of Disability'. Law of Youth and Education 4, 447-457

 

Book chapter

Kiuppis, F., Renner, G., Wahl, V., Löwe, L. D., Menschik, C. & M. Braun (2024) InstAgT - Individual socio-technical arrangements for the social participation of people with cognitive functional impairments. In Himmelsbach, I. & T. de Vries (eds.) Life Satisfaction and Wellbeing: Research at the interfaces of curative education, psychotherapy and health services research (Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag).

Mwansa, K. & Kiuppis, F. (2023) Refugees and Displacement - A Critical Look at Unaccompanied Refugee Minors' Experiences in Organized Sport and Recreation Activities in Norway. In Schulenkorf, N., Peachey, J.W., Spaaij, R. & H. Collison (eds.) Handbook of Sport and International Development (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)

Kiuppis, F. (2023) ENOBA - European Network of Baskin Academy. In Himmelsbach, I. & de Vries (eds.) Inclusion, Health and Digitalization in the Field of Social and Health Science Research (Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag)

Kiuppis, F. (2023) From diversity to superdiversity. In Greve, S., Süßenbach, J. & S. Schiemann (eds.) Diversity in the sports game (Hamburg: Feldhaus)

Kiuppis, F. (2022) Being there is not everything in adapted sports games. In Schwier, J. & M. Seyda (eds.) Bewegung, Spiel und Sport im Kindesalter - Neue Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen in derSportpädagogik (Bielefeld: transcript)

Kiuppis, F. (2022) Moving people. Theoretical considerations for the analysis of differentiation processes in inclusive sport. In Sobiech, G. & E. Gramespacher (eds.) We and the others. Constructions of difference in PE and school sport (Hamburg: Feldhaus)

Kiuppis, F., Wahl, V., Etges, T., Menschik, C. (2021) Teilhabe digital - ein partizipatives Forschungsprojekt zum Einsatz digitaler Technologien für die Förderung der Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft. In Jerosenko, A. & N. Maier-Michalitsch (eds.) Digitalization and people with complex disabilities (Düsseldorf: Verlag Selbstbestimmtes Leben)

Kiuppis, F. (2021) Disability inclusion in sport for all: 'Baskin' as a best practice model. In: E.C.K. Pike (ed.) Research Handbook on Sports and Society (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)

Kiuppis, F., Dimmer, S. & Schulz, D. (2020) Baskin - An inclusive sports game for all. In: Lang, A. & N. Maier-Michalitsch (eds.) SPIELEN bei Menschen mit Komplexer Behinderung (Düsseldorf: Verlag Selbstbestimmtes Leben)

Kiuppis, F. (2020) Pedagogical quality in the context of inclusive sports pedagogy - insights into a teaching research project. In Bohlen, S. & Adam, E. (eds.) Quality as a mission and incentive for a university of applied sciences (Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag)

Kiuppis, F. (2015) Inclusion and Education International: UNESCO [given title for invited contribution in German]. In: Hedderich, I., Biewer, G., Hollenweger, J., Markowetz, R. (eds.) Handbook "Inclusion and Special Education" (Bad Heilbrunn: Julius Klinkhardt)

Kiuppis, F. & Hausstätter, R. S. (2014) Inclusive Education for All, and Especially for Some? On Different Interpretations of Who and What the "Salamanca Process" Concerns. In: Kiuppis, F. & Hausstätter, R. S. (2014) (eds.) Inclusive Education 20 Years after Salamanca [Disability Studies series] (New York: Peter Lang)

Goodley, D. & Kiuppis, F. (2014) Mapping the "Individual": Invigorating Social Theories of Inclusive Education. In: Kiuppis, F. & Hausstätter, R. S. (2015) (eds.) Inclusive Education 20 Years after Salamanca [Disability Studies series] (New York: Peter Lang)

Kiuppis, F. & Peters, S. (2014) Inclusive Education for all as a Special Interest within the Comparative and International Education Research Community. In: Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2014, International Perspectives on Education and Society, Volume 25, 53

Kiuppis, F. (2013) "Pedagogikkens pentagon" revis(it)ed - Considerations about emancipation from a disability studies and inclusive education perspective. In: J. Steinnes & S. Dobson (eds.). Pedagogikkens Pentagon. Trondheim: Akademika

Kiuppis, F. & Kurzke-Maasmeier, S. (2012) "Sport im Spiegel der UN-Behindertenrechts-konvention - zum Thema des Bandes". In: Kiuppis, F. & Kurzke- Maasmeier, S. (2012) (eds.) Sport im Spiegel der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention - Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und politische Positionen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

Kiuppis, F., Pfahl, L. & Powell, J. W. (2010) On the influence of World Health Organization classifications on special educational professionalism in Germany and the USA. In: S. L. Ellger-Rüttgardt & G. Wachtel (eds.). Pedagogical Professionalism and Disability - Challenges from a Historical, National and International Perspective. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

Kiuppis, F., Kurzke-Maasmeier, S., Maas, T. & Ganten, C. (2010) Enabling Community. Impulses for policy and social practice. In: Evangelische Stiftung Alsterdorf & Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin (eds.). Enabling Community. Impulses for politics and social practice. Hamburg: Alsterdorf Verlag

Kiuppis, F. (2009) Zur Schönheit der Vielfalt - Neue Facetten des Diversity Management von Hochschulen. In: U. Strasser, J. Weisser, M. Wolters Kohler, M. Schmon & J. Blickenstorfer (eds.). Aestheticization of special education. Bad Heilbrunn: Julius Klinkhardt

Kiuppis, F. & Waldow, F. (2008) 'Institute University' meets Bologna Process: The German System of Higher Education in Transition. In: D. Palomba (ed.) The Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area. Rome: Aracne Editrice

 

Other written publications

Kiuppis, F. (2018) Intercultural opening and the repressed topic: children with disabilities and migrant backgrounds. In: German Diversity Day 2017 - Charta of Diversity, Finissage of the exhibition "Diversity - Gender Justice - Equality of Opportunity - Inclusion", https://tinyurl.com/yd8pzwc7

Kiuppis, F. (2010) Being there is not everything - on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in sport. ICEP arguments 6.

Kiuppis, F. & Kurzke-Maasmeier (2010) Sport and disability - redesigning sport in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Documentation of the Symposium on Sports & Disability

Kiuppis, F. & Kurzke-Maasmeier, S. (2009) Enabling Community - Empowering communities for inclusion: Eleven recommendations for innovative action in local politics, administration and social work. Position paper of the Evangelische Stiftung Alsterdorf and the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences Berlin. Hamburg and Berlin

Kiuppis, F. (2008). "Nothing about Us without Us". Empowerment als soziale Bewegung zwischen globalen Wünschen und lokalen Wirklichkeiten [Empowerment as a social movement between global wishes and local realities]. PLURALE 7

 

Educational background

1976born in Bremen
1997 -
2000
Training as a state-approved educator
2000 -
2007
Studied rehabilitation education (diploma) at the Humboldt University in Berlin
2008 -
2012
Scholarship from the Ev. Studienwerk Villigst (2014): Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in educational science at the Humboldt University of Berlin
2018 - 2020Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Street Pedagogy at the University of Heidelberg

Professional experience

2012 -
2016
Assistant/Associate Professor at Lillehammer University College (Norway)
2014Post-doc at the Sociology Department / Disability Studies Initiative at Emory University (USA), funded by the Research Council of Norway
2015 - 2016Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Fitness, at the Institute of Technology, Tralee (Ireland)
2016 - 2019Professor at the INN University (Norway) - 2017-2019: 20% position
2017 - 2024W2 professorship for Theory, Concepts and Methods of Curative Education / Inclusive Education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
since 2018Subject examiner for educational sciences at the Ev. Studienwerk Villigst
2021 - 2023President of the Nordic Comparative and International Education Society (NOCIES)
2022Visiting researcher at the Chair of Sport and Sport Didactics at the FHNW University of Teacher Education, Institute of Secondary Levels I and II, and at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Basel (Switzerland)
since 2022Professor of Education with a focus on Special Education / Inclusion at NLA University College, Bergen (Norway) - 20% position
since 2025W3 Professor of General, International and Comparative Special and Curative Education with a focus on inclusive educational processes at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (Germany)