Eva Maria Waibel

Eva Maria Waibel (née König; born 1 November 1953, Dornbirn, Austria) is an Austrian high school teacher and former politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Waibel was, from May 1995 to October 2000, the regional minister of the provincial government of Vorarlberg.

Eva Maria Waibel was born 1 November 1953, the daughter of Gebhard and Senta König in Dornbirn. She attended elementary school and the federal gymnasium in Dornbirn, where she passed her matura in 1972. She then graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of Vorarlberg in Feldkirch and her Lehramt training in Vienna for primary and secondary schools in the subjects of German and history. She then worked as a primary and secondary school teacher as well as teaching assignments at a polytechnic university.

From 1985 to 1989, she studied part-time at the University of Innsbruck in pedagogy and psychology and graduated in 1989 with a Master philosophiæ (Mag. Phil.). From 1990 to 1995, Waibel took up a teaching position at the Pedagogical Academy in Feldkirch and graduated after which she had psychotherapy training at the Society for logotherapy in Vienna. In 1993, Waibel earned another doctorate philosophiæ (Dr. phil.) at the University of Innsbruck.

In 1995, a change took place in the national policy, and Waibel left the apprenticeship for the time being. After her retirement from politics in 2000, she returned to teaching and worked as a visiting professor at the Trinity Western University in Canada. In November 2001, Waibel was supported by the government of the Swiss canton of Lucerne and was appointed head of the local services in teacher training. She started this position in early 2002 and governed it until 2006.

From 2006 to 2014, Waibel began to work as a lecturer at the College of Education of Central Switzerland, where she taught pedagogy, educational psychology and general didactic method. At the same time she was, from 2008 to 2012, also at the Pedagogical University of Tyrol, where she was jointly responsible for teaching at the Centre for human sciences. Since 2012, Waibel has been working at the Pedagogical University of Carinthia (Viktor Frankl University). She teaches social and sociological disciplines.

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