Astrid Albrecht-Heide

Astrid Albrecht-Heide (born November 1938 in Pinneberg , Holstein) is a German socialization researcher , peace researcher and freelance author.

Life

Astrid Albrecht-Heide initially worked as a typist in Hamburg and as a maid in London before she made up for university entrance qualification at the Braunschweig College in 1961 . In Hamburg and Berlin she studied German, English, philosophy, educational science, sociology and psychology, among other things. She then worked from 1969 to 1971 as a research assistant in setting up the interdisciplinary collaborative research center “Latin America” at the University of Hamburg. After her doctorate on the second educational path in the border area between educational science and sociology at the University of Hamburg in 1972 Albrecht-Heide worked until 1977 as a research assistant for "Sociology of Education" at the Department of Education at the Free University of Berlin. She then worked until 2004 as a professor for socialization research at the Technical University of Berlin.

Services

Astrid Albrecht-Heide is co-founder of the “Women's Network of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA)” (1976). From 1978 she wrote the German contribution to “Critical Evaluation of European Studies on the Cultural and Human Aspects of Migration”, funded by the European Science Foundation , and during this time worked on the study “The Social and Political Commitment of Foreigners” for the Planning control center of the Senate Chancellery of the Governing Mayor of Berlin (West).

Albrecht-Heide helped shape the two international symposia of the “Women's Network of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA)” in the Netherlands (1978) and Finland (1981). Her research project "Role and Function of Women in the Military" (1978–80) was funded by the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research (DGFK). On behalf of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs (MAG) of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, she worked between 1979 and 1981 on the pilot project for women's research “Between School and Work”. In addition, from 1979 to 1982 Astrid Albrecht-Heide was a member of the “State Advisory Board for Family Issues” at the Senator for Family, Youth and Sport, Berlin (West) and, in 1980, a member of the “Professional Integration of Foreign Young People” committee in the State Committee for Vocational Training, Berlin (West) .

The federal-state model project "Analysis of the living environment of Turkish and Kurdish women in two Berlin districts and the possibility of education and training opportunities with them", of which she was the scientific director, set up two education and advice shops in Neukölln and Spandau Target. Albrecht-Heide was just as active as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine “RADIUS” (1982–1990) and as a liaison lecturer for the Hans Böckler Foundation (1986–2006). She was a member of the advisory board for the “Integration Research and Foreigner Education ” division at the German Youth Institute in Munich (1984–86), the scientific advisory board at the “Institute for Technology and Social Science eV Berlin (tesof eV)” (1986–2004) and the “ Advisory Board for Scientific Advice for Comprehensive Schools “at the Senator for Schools, Vocational Training and Sport, Berlin (West) (1988–90). 1989–91 she worked on the research project “Women and the Military. Social-psychological and political-psychological implications of a creeping integration of women into the Bundeswehr ”, funded by the“ Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research ”.

In 1990 she was the first woman in the history of this scientific community to become the first chairwoman of the “ Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK)”. Albrecht-Heide worked from 1990 on the project “Scientific contributions to the development of the European peace process” at the Fern-Universität Hagen and since 1991 has been a reviewer in the DFG priority program “FABER (Consequences of Labor Migration for Education)”.

In Austria she was active as a member of the Corps Faculty of the “ European Peace University ” in Schlaining from 1991 to 1994 and took part in the 1993 hearing of the Austrian Federal Minister for Women's Affairs on the campaign “Violence against WOMEN against violence”. From 1995-2004 she was a member of the "Arbeitsstelle Sozial-, Kultur- und Educational Women's and Gender Research" at the Technical University of Berlin, founded in 1980, and from 1998-2003 she provided informal scientific advice to the "Society for the Support of Tortured and Persecuted People" in Hamburg inside. On the occasion of the EXPO in Hanover, Albrecht-Heide became Dean of the Project Area “Migration” of the “International Women's University> Technology and Culture <(ifu)” in 1999. She was a member of the international expert group for the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport in Vienna, for the tender "Universities research for society: 'Safeguarding peace and avoiding violence'" (2000) and as an expert for Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation (2001).

Works (selection)

Books (sole author)

• Educational advancement through deformation. Secondary education students from the Braunschweig-Kolleg . Foundation Publishing House Dr. Sasse & Co., Hamburg 1972
• Alienation instead of emancipation. Socialization conditions of the second educational path . Athenaeum, Frankfurt / M. 1974

Books (shared with others)

• Inequality of educational opportunities as a factor of discrimination against girls and women with special consideration of the secondary education system (= education and society, volume 3). Technical University, Berlin 1978
• Between school and work. Educational situation of girls and women in North Rhine-Westphalia . MAGS, Düsseldorf 1981
• Military service for women? . Campus, Frankfurt / M. / New York 1982
• Analysis of the world of Turkish and Kurdish women in two Berlin districts . Senate for Health, Family and Social Affairs, Berlin 1984
• Women - war - military. Images and fantasies . Association for Peace Education, Tübingen 1991

Articles in books (sole author)

• Basic features of migrant child research in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Riitta Yletyinen: Problems of bilingualism among migrant children (= Education and Society, Volume 2). Technical University, Berlin 1978, pp. 99-129
• The role of women in the military . In: Study Group on Military Policy (ed.): Arming to disarm? . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, pp. 239-249
• The Peaceful Sex . In: Wendy Chapkis (Ed.): Loaded Questions. Women in the Military . Transnational Institute, Amsterdam / Washington DC 1981, pp. 83-87
• The relationship of girls and women to violence . In: Christiane Rajewsky (Ed.): Armament and War. For the mediation of peace research . Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt 1983, pp. 261-273
• Woman power (makes?) Military . In: Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel (Ed.): Women and Power. The everyday contribution of women to the politics of patriarchy . res publica, Berlin 1984, pp. 293-318
• Male heroes - female tears. About the internal colonization of girls in the patriarchy . In: Christian Büttner (Ed.): Die Rebellion der Mädchen (= Childhood Yearbook, Volume 3). Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1986, pp. 51–64
• Militarization of Women - Current Trends: Federal Republic of Germany . In: Eva Isaksson (Ed.): Women and the Military System . Harvester. Wheatsheaf, New York 1988, pp. 334-342
• Women and War: Victims and Collaborators . In: Eva Isaksson (Ed.): Women and the Military System . Harvester. Wheatscheaf, New York 1988, pp. 114-129
• Education for 'femininity' through the military and militarism . In: Friedhelm Zubke (ed.): Political pedagogy. Contributions to the humanization of society . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1990, pp. 345-357
• Second educational path - Institutionalized opportunity for emancipatory educational processes for adults ? In: Norbert Kluge et al. (Ed.) From apprentice to academic. New ways of university entrance for professionally experienced adults . bis, Oldenburg 1990, pp. 183-204
• Military and patriarchy . In: Wilfried Karl et al. (Ed.): The future of the military in industrial societies . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991, pp. 109-131
• Patriarchy, Military Culture and European Nation States . In: Karl Birnbaum et al. (Eds.): Towards a Future European Peace Order? . Macmillan Academic and Professional, Hampshire / London 1991, pp. 161-181
• Women and violence at the interface between women, peace and conflict research . In: Günther Bächler (ed.): Peace and conflict research in times of upheaval. Peace and Conflict Research in Times of Radical Change . Rüegger, Zurich 1992, pp. 87-99
• About the inability of the "white", disciplined, bourgeois subject of rulership to achieve peace . In: Peter Krasemann (ed.): The war - a cultural phenomenon? . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1992, pp. 201-231
• Peace cannot rule, or: 16 sentences on the subject . In: Violence against WOMEN against violence . BfF, Vienna 1992/93, Vol. 2, pp. 239-251
• Order and discipline from a viewpoint critical of patriarchy . In: Klaus-Dieter Wolf (ed.): Order between the production of violence and peace-building . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1993, pp. 185-200
• Subject of rule and culture of dominance - On the construction of the modern dichotomous gender hierarchy as an element of the culture of dominance . In: Annette Bertrams (Ed.): Dichotomy, Dominance and Difference . Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1995, pp. 191-204
• Everyday violence - culture of dominance - conflict management: an outline critical of domination . In: Wolfgang R. Vogt (Ed.): Violence and conflict management . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, pp. 141-150
• Ways out of violence in the dominance culture . In: Wolfgang R. Vogt (Ed.): Culture of Peace: Paths to a world without war . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, sheet 40–43
• Race, Class and Gender in the Bundeswehr after the fall of the Berlin Wall . In: Gerhard Kümmel et al. (Ed.): Military Sociology. The Richness of a Discipline . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, pp. 418-439
• The Bundeswehr in the field of tension between sexism, racism and classicism . In: Ulrich Cremer et al. (Ed.): The Bundeswehr in the new world order . VSA, Hamburg 2000, pp. 153-173
• Whiteness and education . In: Maureen Maisha Eggers et al. (Ed.): Myths, masks and subjects. Critical whiteness research in Germany . Unrast, Münster 2005, pp. 444–459
• University as a (neoliberal) crime scene . In: Jens Sambale et al. (Ed.): The misery of the universities. Neoliberalization of German university policy . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2008, pp. 173–190
• Attempt to elucidate the motivations of researchers within historically established hierarchies of perpetrator-victim constructions . In: Adriane Feustel et al. (Ed.): The displacement of the social .et + k, Munich 2009, pp. 200–215
• The pacifist Charlotte Leonhard (1892–1987) . In: Hiltrud Häntzschel et al. (Ed.): Politics - Party work - Pacifism in emigration. Women act . et + k, Munich 2010, pp. 190–205

Contributions in books (together with others)

• Women in the Bundeswehr? To answer an externally determined question . In: Christa Randzio-Plath (Ed.): What does war concern us women? . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, pp. 25-44
• Language and armor. A feminist-critical exercise . In: Thomas Dominikowski et al. (Ed.) Committed to humanism. On the topicality of pacifist engagement . agenda, Münster 1994, pp. 77-83
• Lifestyles and sexuality - diversity across from patriarchal models . In: Jutta Hartmann (Ed.): Life forms and sexuality. Analyzes critical of power and educational perspectives . Kleine, Bielefeld 1998, pp. 20-28

Articles in magazines

• The relationship of women to violence and the military . In: Anstoß , H. 4/1985, pp. 149–157
• Women, the military and the future of the armies . In: DIALOG, Contributions to Peace Research , Vol. 19, H. 3–4 / 1990, pp. 36–53
• Patriarchy, the military and the modern nation state . In: ami , 20. Jg. (1990), H. 6, pp. 21-36
• Peace Research on the Way to Pinstripe Science? In: ami , 22nd vol. (1992), H. 6, pp. 41-45
• Praise to incomplete reason . In: Journal for Political Psychology . Issue 1 + 2/1995, pp. 196-200
• Is research into the causes of war possible without a diverse change of perspective, perhaps even without unrestrained eclecticism? In: Ethik und Sozialwissenschaft , H. 3/1997, pp. 159–161
• The Bundeswehr after the “fall” in the field of tension between sexism, racism and classicism . In: hypathia , H. 10/1998, pp. 24-34
• Below the level of awareness or: The loss of compassion . In: Forum Kritische Psychologie , No. 41/1999, pp. 168–176
• Thoughts on childhood as an investment phase . In: Aesthetics & Communication , Volume 39 (2008) H. 142, pp. 43–48 ( online )
• Patronizing Global Learning. A plea for dealing critically with whiteness . In: iz3w , No. 329, March / April 2012, D.14f

Web links

• Literature by and about Astrid Albrecht-Heide in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Astrid Albrecht-Heide (retired) on the website of the Institute for Educational Science at TU Berlin
• Publisher information on Unrast-Verlag.de