Douglas Yacek is a Senior Lecturer of Ethics and Multiculturalism at the University of Applied Sciences for Policing and Public Administration in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His research focuses on issues in the philosophy of education and moral education, with a particular focus on transformative teaching and learning. At the heart of his research and teaching is the question: How can teachers make education transformative? How can we awaken students' fascination for the subject matter and inspire a love of learning? What methods work, and don't work in K-12 and college classrooms? Yacek has published widely in both scholarly and public outlets in the English and German language. He is author of On the Edge of Their Seats: What the Best Teachers Do to Engage and Inspire Their Students (Post & Lintel, 2024) Begeisterung wecken [Awakening Student Engagement] (Reclam, 2023), The Transformative Classroom (Routledge, 2020) and Nietzsche's Philosophy of Education (Routledge, 2018, with Mark Jonas). In addition, he is the editor of Moral Education in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In 2021 he received the TU Dortmund prize for excellence in teaching.

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