Gonzalo Jover Olmeda

Gonzalo Jover Olmeda studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where in 1987 he obtained his PhD in Pedagogy with the thesis La especificidad de la relación educativa dentro del ámbito de las relaciones humanas, directed by José A. Ibáñez-Martín, and with which he was awarded the Premio Extraordianrio. In 2002 he obtained the Chair of Theory of Education in the Faculty of Education at the UCM, where he has held various positions and is currently Dean. He has also been Advisor to the Ministry of Education in the General Secretariat of Universities. Long-term visiting researcher at Columbia University, Queen's University (Canada) and Boston University, and for shorter periods at numerous European and Latin American universities.

President of the Spanish Society of Pedagogy (SEP) and member of the Boards of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and the World Educational Research Association (WERA). He is a member of the scientific committees of several national and international journals. He is Deputy Director of the Revista Española de Pedagogía and Honorary Co-founding Editor of the international journal Encounters in Theory and History of Education, published in Canada.

Author of several books and more than a hundred papers published in national and international journals. Among his latest books are: Bruno-Jofré, R., Johnston, S. J., Jover, G. y Trohler, D. (2010) Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions: The readings of John Dewey's understanding of democracy and education (Queen’s University Press); Martínez, M., Esteban, F., Jover, G. y Payà, M. (2016), La educación, en teoría (Síntesis); Jover, G., Gozálvez, V. y Prieto, M. (2017), Una Filosofía de la Educación del siglo XXI (Síntesis).