Bernd Meier (technical didactic)

Bernd Meier

Bernd Meier (born December 28, 1951 in Elbingerode (Harz) ) is a German technology didactician and professor of technology and professional orientation.

Life

Bernd Meier was born as the son of the binder specialist Egon Meier and the saleswoman Lisa Meier in Elbingerode in the Harz region. In the neighboring Rübeland he attended the Polytechnische Oberschule (POS) and in Blankenburg / Harz the Extended Oberschule (EOS). At the same time as visiting EOS, he began training as a fitter. In 1970 he obtained his Abitur and at the same time passed the skilled worker examination.

From 1970 to 1974 he completed his studies at the Pedagogical University in Potsdam, graduating as a qualified teacher for polytechnics with a thesis on teacher training research. During his studies he received a Wilhelm Pieck scholarship for his outstanding academic achievements .

Meier then worked as a teacher for technology and technical drawing at the POS in Borne and in the Tarthun hydraulic company . For the academic year 1976 he returned to the Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam and took up an apprenticeship . In his dissertation , he initially dealt with the design of the learning activity in the process of acquiring technical facts. He was able to complete his doctoral process in 1979 with “magna cum laude”.

He has been married to the secretary and clerk Annette Meier since 1980 . The couple has a son who works as a freelance management consultant in Munich .

Teacher trainer and didactic specialist

After completing his doctorate, Meier worked for two years in the Ministry of National Education . Here he prepared the decision to revise the curricula for polytechnic lessons in lower and middle grades. In 1981 he returned to the "Karl Liebknecht" University of Education in Potsdam . Here he presented his habilitation thesis (dissertation B) in 1985 , which deals with curriculum development in the field of technical education.

In 1987 Meier was appointed university lecturer at the University of Education in Potsdam. In the same year he took up additional studies at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR in Moscow . Here, too, his research focused on the design of student activity, especially the development of their technical creativity.

After reunification , Meier was committed to the reorganization of teacher training at the newly founded University of Potsdam , worked as chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and, together with university teachers, developed position materials for the further development of teacher training for technology in general schools.

In 1997 Bernd Meier was the first guest lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Pedagogical University of Hanoi ( Vietnam ). He can now refer to more than 20 working visits to Vietnam. Meier and his first Vietnamese doctoral student were involved in projects there to further raise the profile of teacher training at all school levels.

In 1998 Meier was appointed associate professor for didactics of industrial studies at the Institute for Industrial Studies / Technology at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Potsdam. In 2003 he was appointed full professor for industrial studies, also at this faculty. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Technology and Professional Orientation at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam. His work area “ Economy - Work - Technology ” (WAT) is a teaching unit that focuses on teaching and research for teacher training. "WAT" is a compulsory subject in all school types in the state of Brandenburg and can also be taken as an elective subject in secondary schools and comprehensive schools.

Research focus and interdisciplinary cooperation

The research by Meier deal with questions of didactics of material culture and the curriculum development . In particular, it deals with the following areas:

• International trends in curriculum development,
• Design of motivating teaching and learning materials to trigger typical activities in the context of technical and economic action,
• Study and career orientation in the biographical concept.

Meier has also worked as an "educational advisor" in Vietnam , the People's Republic of China , Tajikistan , Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan in projects of the World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) .

Memberships and honors (selection)

• Wilhelm Pieck scholarship during studies
• In addition to the training of teachers in undergraduate courses, Bernd Meier devotes himself to the academic further education of teachers, especially within the framework of the affiliated institute of the University of Potsdam "Further qualification in the field of education" (WiB eV). Meier has been a member of the board of the WiB for many years and has been its chairman since 2010 . The institute's field of work includes on-the-job training, especially for those working in the field of education. Meier's work in the WiB focuses on the Berlin-Brandenburg region, but since 2005 has also extended to cooperations with other federal states (e.g. Thuringia ) and international partners (e.g. from Vietnam , Bangladesh , Mongolia ).
• 1991–1998 co-editor of the magazine "Arbeit und Technik im Studium"
• 1993–2006 member of the VDI division "Technology and Education"
• 1999–2009 co-editor of the magazine "Studium: Arbeit und Technik"
• 2001–2002 member of the Senate of the University of Potsdam
• 2003–2008 Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Potsdam
• 2009–2011 Deputy Chairman of the German Society for Technical Education
• 2010–2014 member of the board of directors of the Center for Teacher Education at the University of Potsdam
• Since 2015 Chairman of the Assembly of the Center for Teacher Training and Educational Research at the University of Potsdam
• Member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2010 , spokesman for the “Pedagogy Working Group”; Vice-President from 2016 to 2019.

Publications (selection)

Meier is the editor and co-author of more than 50 German school books and teacher manuals as well as textbooks for teacher training in Vietnamese , Russian , Polish and Tajik .

• Meier, Bernd: "Arbeitslehre" in the Land of Brandenburg. In: Schneidewind, Klaus (Ed.): Technology education - economic and industrial understanding. European Experts Conference 1991/92. Berlin: TU Berlin 1993, pp. 134-145.
• Meier, Bernd; Jakupec, Viktor; Nguyen Van Cuong: Educational standards and skills as a contribution to the development of quality in education. In: Wspolczesne problemy edukacji, pracy i zatrudnienia pracownikow. Zielona Góra 2005, pp. 43–56.
• Meier, Bernd; Jakupec, Viktor; Nguyen Van Cuong: International trends in building teaching curriculum and the relations to the upper secondary curriculum in Viet Nam. Tap chi ciao Duc. Hanoi 2006, pp. 45-47.
• Theuerkauf, Walter E .; Meschenmoser, Helmut; Meier, Bernd; Zöllner, Hermann (Hrsg.): Quality technical education - competence models and competence diagnostics. Machmit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-932598-19-7 .
• Meier, Bernd; Jakupec, Viktor: Curriculum. In: Meier, Rolf; Janßen, Axel (Ed.): Coach Training - A Strategic Curriculum. Sternenfels 2010.
• Meier, Bernd; NGUYỄN VĂN CƯỜNG: LÝ LUẬN DẠY HỌC KỸ THUẬT: Phương pháp và Quá trình dạy học / Specific didactics: methods and processes of learning and teaching. Berlin / Hanoi 2011.
• Meier, Bernd (Hrsg.): Work and technology in education - models of work-oriented technical education in an international context. Frankfurt a. M .; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Peter Lang 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62539-2 .
• Meier, Bernd: Learning to teach economics and technology. Didactics for the field of work, economics, technology. Munich: Oldenbourg 2013, ISBN 978-3-637-01722-1 .
• Banse, Gerhard ; Meier, Bernd (Ed.): Inclusion and integration - basic theoretical questions and questions of practical implementation in the education sector. Frankfurt a. M .: Peter Lang Edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64571-0 .
• Meier, Bernd; Manukow, Sergej; Karachev, Alexander: Спецдидактика техники: европейский взгляд - Technical Didactics of Technology from a European Perspective. Moscow 2013.
• Meier, Bernd; NGUYỄN VĂN CƯỜNG: LÝ LUẬN DẠY HỌC HIỆN ĐẠI NHÀ XUẤT BẢN ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM. Hanoi 2014.
• А. А. Карачев (Karachev), Б. /. Майер (Meyer), С. /. Мануков (Manukov): СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ МОДЕЛИ ТЕХНИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ШКОЛЬНИКОВ (MODERN MODELS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN 'TECHNICAL EDUCATION). In: Электронный журнал - Вестник Кузбасской государственной педагогической академии, 3 (28), 2014.
• Meier, Bernd (Ed.): Ready to go! - Secondary level I. Munich: Oldenbourg-Schulbuchverlag. Multi-part work, part technology (main volume) 2015, ISBN 978-3-637-02246-1 .
• Meier, Bernd; Banse, Gerhard (Ed.): General education and curriculum development. Challenges to the subject economy - work - technology. Frankfurt a. M .: Peter Lang-Edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66541-1 .
• Meier, Bernd: From specialist literature to cooperation in real life. In: Banse, Bärbel; Jähne, Armin (Ed.): Times and Traces. Ways. Encounters. Retrospectives. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2016, pp. 125–139 (Treatises by the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 43).
• Meier, Bernd: Sustainability as a basic concept in curriculum development? In: Banse, Gerhard ; Reher, Ernst-Otto : Technology and sustainable development. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 213–227 (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 130).
• Meier, Bernd: Bibliography. (As of June 2017). In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 221–244 (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• Lutz-Günther Fleischer , Bernd Meier (Ed.): Technology & Technology - techne cum episteme et commune bonum. Honorary colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Gerhard Banse . Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 131. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86464-154-1 .
• Meier, Bernd: Creativity in the context of the new task culture according to PISA. In: Gerhard Banse , Norbert Mertzsch (Hrsg.): From the idea to technology - creativity in focus. 8th symposium of the "General Technology" working group of the Leibniz Society, the Association of Brandenburg Engineers and Scientists e. V. (VBIW) and the Leibniz Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies e. V. (LIFIS) on November 9, 2018 in Berlin. With contributions by Gerhard Banse, Christian Kohlert, Rita Lange, Aloys Leyendecker, Bernd Meier, Norbert Mertzsch, Werner Regen, Dieter Seeliger, Klaus Stanke, Bernd Thomas. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 138. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86464-175-6 .
• Huebner, Peter; Meier, Bernd (Hrsg.): Intercultural coeducation in vocational training. Workshop of the "Pedagogy" working group of the Leibniz Sozietät in cooperation with the Brandenburg-Berlin Entrepreneur Association. V. and the Berlin Security Academy on June 6, 2019 in Schloss Biesdorf. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 141. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86464-177-0 .

literature

• Gerhard Banse : "The farewell, how distressed, how gloomy" ?? - Homage for Bernd Meier on the occasion of his retirement. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 13-23 (meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• Thi Viet Thang Duong: Professor Dr. Bernd Meier - a committed educator with a big heart for Vietnam. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 25-26 (meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• Quang Thu Dinh: Professor Bernd Meier as an Active Academic Scholar. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 27-28 (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• Van Cuong Nguyen: Bernd Meier - my doctoral supervisor and his influence on the educational reform in Vietnam. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 39–43 (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• Viktor Jacupec: A Friendship Across the Globe - Bernd Meier and his Influence in the Developing World. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 45–52 (meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• Peter Hübner: Bernd Meier - a textbook author with passion. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 53–61 (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).
• A life for general technical education. (Fictional) interview by Gerhard Banse (Leibniz Society of Sciences) with Professor Dr. paed. habil. Bernd Meier, University of Potsdam, on the occasion of his move into (un) retirement. In: Benjamin Apelojg; Gerhard Banse (Hrsg.): Technical education and professional orientation in transition - retrospectives, insights, outlooks -. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2017, pp. 199–220 (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences, Vol. 133/134, ISBN 978-3-86464-156-5 ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin