Andreas Möckel

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Johannes Andreas Möckel (born January 30, 1927 in Großpold , Kingdom of Romania ; † December 11, 2019 in Würzburg ) was a German special education teacher. He was one of the first to hold a chair for special education in the Federal Republic of Germany and worked primarily on reading and writing difficulties and the history of special education as well as the history of the Transylvanian Saxons .

Life

Möckel was the youngest son of the pastor Konrad Möckel and grandson of the Romanian German pastor and politician Adolf Schullerus (1864-1928). He attended elementary school and the Honterus grammar school in Kronstadt . In January 1945 he was deported as a member of the German minority of the Transylvanian Saxons in Romania in the course of the deportation of Romanian Germans to the Soviet Union . After being released into the Soviet zone of occupation in 1947 , Möckel came to live with relatives in the American zone of occupation and attended the Evangelical Church Home School in Michelbach an der Bilz until 1949 .

From 1949 to 1951 Möckel completed training as a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute in Stuttgart . After teaching at elementary schools for two years , he studied pedagogy, philosophy and history in Tübingen , West Berlin and Munich from 1953 to 1958 . In 1958 he passed the higher examination for public school service. From 1959 to 1962 he worked as an assistant at the state seminar for the training of auxiliary school teachers in Stuttgart / Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1961 on "School Policy and Uniform School Thought in the German Teachers' Association 1900-1920" .

Möckel taught from 1963 as a lecturer for history and history didactics and later for general education at the Reutlingen University of Education . In 1969 he took over a professorship and at the same time headed the Institute for Special Education (later the “Special Education” department) at the PH Reutlingen in conjunction with the University of Tübingen . In 1976 he switched to the newly established chair for special needs education (learning disabled education) at the University of Würzburg . In 1992 he retired.

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From the 1970s Möckel dealt primarily with the problem of learning to read under difficult conditions and appropriate support programs. In 1998 he published the book Reading and Writing Weaknesses as a Didactic Problem and from 1999 was one of the developers of a course to become a qualified pedagogue with a focus on dyslexia and the "Interdisciplinary Course LRS" (Reading and Spelling Weaknesses). The accompanying book was written in 2004 . Prevent, recognize, help . Möckel also worked on the history of special education. In 1976 he published The Special Elementary and Secondary School. From the auxiliary school to the cooperative school center and in 1988 a history of curative education . In 1987 he was one of the initiators of the Heilpädagogische Vereinigung e. V. , which campaigned for “Montessori training for teachers and educators” and organized “Special Education Days”. He served as first chairman until 1999 and then as honorary chairman.

In 2011, the University of Würzburg awarded Möckel the “Bene Merenti” gold medal and recognized Möckel's work as a professor for special education as “pioneering achievements”. He established and profiled the new subject and anchored special education in Würzburg alongside conventional teacher training.

Möckel has been involved in the "Working Group of Young Transylvanian Saxons" since the 1950s. In 1962 he was one of the founders of the Working Group for Transylvanian Regional Studies , the successor organization of the Association for Transylvanian Regional Studies , and was active on the board until 1972. He published articles on historiography and the self-image of the Transylvanian Saxons as well as on the relationship between church and school. In 2011 he put under the title Contested People's Church. Life and work of the Evangelical Saxon pastor Konrad Möckel (1892-1965) presented a biography of his father.

Fonts

  • and Ernst Begemann (Ed.): Religious instruction as a way of life for learning and mentally handicapped children and young people. Crüwell, Dortmund 1971.
  • and Ernst Begemann (ed.): Special school in change. Pedagogy, psychology, didactics; Festschrift for Wilhelm Hofmann. Schindele, Neuburgweier 1971.
  • The special primary and secondary school. From the auxiliary school to the cooperative school center. Schindele, Rheinstetten 1976, ISBN 3880701040 .
  • with Gerhard Klein and Werner Laupheimer: Intensive training in reading technology. Maier, Ravensburg 1977, ISBN 3473580031 .
  • History of curative education. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3608933689 .
    • History of curative education or the power and impotence of education. 2nd Edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 9783608944891 .
  • What Hänschen (does not) learn ... : The mouth-hand system according to Schubeck-Hofmann. Ed. Bentheim, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3925265635 .
  • Reading and writing difficulties as a didactic problem. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1997, ISBN 378150915X .
  • (Ed.): Sources for the education of children and young people with intellectual disabilities. Ed. Bentheim, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3925265252 .
  • The sanatorium and nursing home in Mariaberg in the 19th century between medicine and education (p. 13–46), in Karl Rudolf Eder (ed.): 150 years of Mariaberg homes - contributions to the history of mentally disabled people . Gammertingen, Mariaberger Heime 1997.
  • and Herwig Baier (ed.): Success - decline - new beginning. 100 years of the Association of German Special Schools - professional association for disabled education. E. Reinhardt, Munich 1998, ISBN 3497014370 .
  • and Martin Bolkart (ed.): Reading and writing weakness. Prevent, recognize, help. Ed. Bentheim, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 9783934471467 .
  • Contested national church. Life and work of the Evangelical Saxon pastor Konrad Möckel (1892 - 1965). Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 9783412206628 .
  • The paradigm of curative education. Ed. Bentheim, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 9783946899075 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Mainpost . December 14, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Armin Müller: On the history of the Heilpädagogischen Vereinigung e. V. (pdf, 53 kB) In: montessori-deutschland.de. January 3, 2007, archived from the original on September 15, 2018 ; accessed on December 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Winner of the "Bene Merenti" medal. University of Würzburg, archived from the original on July 25, 2014 ; accessed on December 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Möckel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German special educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Großpold
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2019
Place of death Wurzburg