Barbara Fornefeld

Fornefeld at a guest lecture at the University of Würzburg

Barbara Fornefeld (* 1954 ) has been Professor of Education for People with Mental Disabilities at the Curative Education Faculty of the University of Cologne since 1996 . Before that, she worked as a special education teacher and professor at the universities of education in Ludwigsburg / Reutlingen and Heidelberg . She is also a board member of the Special Research Group: Profound Intellectual Multiple Disabilities (PIMD) within the International Association for the Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) and a member of the German Interdisciplinary Society for the Promotion of Research for People with Mental Disabilities (DIFGB) .

Teaching and research

Barbara Fornefeld deals with basic research in special needs education , the quality of life and participation of people with intellectual disabilities as well as school, teaching and migration research in the context of intellectual disabilities. To this end, it maintains international research collaborations.

Works (selection)

Monographs

• Elementary relationship and self-realization of the severely disabled in social integration - reflections in the run-up to body-oriented pedagogy (dissertation). Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz: Aachen, 1989. ISBN 3-925714-45-6
• The severely disabled child and its upbringing. Winter: Heidelberg, 1995. ISBN 3-8253-8233-8
• People with complex disabilities. Tasks and challenges in education for the disabled. Ernst Reinhardt: Munich, 2008. ISBN 978-3-497-01984-7
• Basic knowledge of education for the mentally handicapped. Ernst Reinhardt: Munich, 2009. ISBN 3-8252-2160-1
• more meaning - stories - telling - experiencing - understanding. Concept tape. Publishing a self-determined life. Dusseldorf

Editing

• Fornefeld, B. / Dederich, M. (Ed.): Learning to see people with intellectual disabilities anew. Asia and Europe in dialogue on education, integration and communication. Self-determined life: Düsseldorf, 2000. ISBN 3-910095-46-1
• Seifert, M. / Fornefeld, B. / König, P: Target perspective quality of life - A study on the living situation of people with severe disabilities in the home. Bethel: Bielefeld, 2001. ISBN 3-935972-01-6
• Multi-sensory storytelling. An idea prevails. Multi-sensory storytelling. An Idea Gets Through. Munster / London

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Fornefeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Appearance on the website of the University of Cologne
• Full texts available online at bidok.at