Speaker ◦ Scholar ◦ Teacher Educator

I help teachers and schools make their classrooms transformative.

I am a educational researcher at TU Dortmund University and a Senior Lecturer of Ethics and Multiculturalism at the HSPV NRW. My work focuses on student engagement, transformative teaching, moral and democratic education. I give keynote talks and workshops for educators around Europe and the US on central topics of educational practice. In 2021, I was awarded the TU Dortmund prize for excellence in teaching.

Whether you want to create inspiring lessons and course designs, increase the intrinsic motivation of your students, successfully grapple with politics and controversy in the classroom, develop the character and moral understanding of young people, or cultivate resilience by re-discovering personal meaning in teaching, I am here to help.

Upcoming Events.

  • How Teachers Change Lives

    Presentation at TEDxStuttgart 2024

  • Begeisterung wecken!

    Presentation at DLSK 2024, Düsseldorf

  • Teaching Controversial Issues

    Workshop for Teachers at HÖB Papenburg

In the Media.

Just Published.

  • Post & Lintel Books, 2024

  • Reclam, 2023

  • Cambridge UP, 2023

  • J.B. Metzler, 2022

  • Routledge, 2021

  • Cambridge UP, 2023

Yacek lays a striking new path forward for educators seeking to develop a classroom of transformation."

Hannah Morgan, high school English teacher in South Chicago, on The Transformative Classroom

Yacek inspires the reader to a vision of the transformative classroom . . . that ignites the imagination. . . . I am confident Yacek’s book will inspire educators to take ethically justified risks in their pursuit to become truly transformative teachers.

William Merrifield, Director of Education at IDEAS (ideasworld.org), on The Transformative Classroom

It is rare to see a volume on moral education that . . . relates moral education to issues in today’s world. I strongly recommend this new volume which . . . adds nuance and substance to salient moral topics.

Kristján Kristjánsson - University of Birmingham, UK, and Editor, Journal of Moral Education on Moral Education in the 21st Century

A true landmark, for many years to come.

Rainer Forst - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, on The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education

There is so much to appreciate in this boldly imaginative book.

Megan Laverty, Columbia University, USA on Moral Education in the 21st Century

Who I Work With.

Workshop Testimonials.

  • “What I liked most was [Mr. Yacek's] friendly demeanor and his excellent integration of video clips."

    Participant in Workshop “Controversy in the Classroom”

  • “Mr. Yacek has a passion for the topics he teaches and a strong commitment to student motivation.”

    Participant in Workshop “Awakening Student Engagement”

  • “I found [Mr. Yacek's] combination of educational research and teaching experience really interesting.”

    Participant in Workshop “Grappling with Intolerance in the Classroom”

  • “Really well prepared and executed! I thought the transitions between info and group work was great.”

    Participant in Workshop “Awakening Student Engagement”

Get in Touch.

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