Author and Scholar
Klaus Witz is a retired associate professor of mathematics. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, joined the Math Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and was promoted to associate professor of mathematics. Soon thereafter, he left mathematics for the College of Education and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UIUC to do research in consciousness and cognition, philosophy of science and philosophy of education (holistic education) and religion and spirituality.
Witz directed numerous dissertations featuring qualitative case studies of individual teachers, artists and students. This work has been the background for a series of papers, with his students, “Consciousness in the study of human life and experience I-VII” (Qualitative Inquiry, 2010-2015), focusing on higher values, spirituality and consciousness as aspects of the person as a whole in all cultures and religions.