Bernhard Moritz Klingner

Bernhard Moritz Klingner (born April 18, 1943 in Lichtenwaldau ( Bunzlau district )) is a German special educator.

Life

Klingner grew up in Münchberg / Upper Franconia after his family fled from Silesia .

After an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at the precision engineering school in Schwenningen / Neckar (158–1961), Klingner worked as a mechanic for various companies in the Black Forest and as a company electrician in Paar / South Africa (1961/1962). He broke off studying at the engineering school in Furtwangen / Black Forest (1964–66). After training as a nurse in the armed forces, Klingner studied to become a teacher for elementary and secondary schools at the PH Weingarten (1968–1971) as well as a postgraduate course in special education with a focus on speech therapy at the PH Reutlingen (1971–1973). Between 1973 and 2003 he worked at the Clinic School of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Tübingen .

Klingner is a grandson of the Tibetologist August Herrmann Francke and a nephew of the classical philologist Friedrich Klingner .

Create

Castle made from Klingner's cork building blocks

Klingner is shaped by the youth psychiatric approaches of Reinhart Lempps and the neuropsychological work of his colleague Johannes Graichen. Klingner's pedagogy relies on a 'school on offer' in which the pupils independently select tasks from a large collection of materials that go beyond subject boundaries and which are particularly relevant to their individual learning and problem-solving deficits. The teacher gives students individual attention and sincere appreciation. Sitting at the same table, like his classmates, he constantly provides a role model for dealing with a topic of his own choosing, for solving problems and optimizing one's own abilities.

Klingner's influence unfolded less theoretically than in the lived practice of the clinic school. It had an effect on a large number of prospective special school teachers through school internships, internships and further training events (since 1991 also in the Saxon teacher training).

In 1977 Klingner discovered the cork building block as an educational play material with which the child's constructive abilities are trained while avoiding all the disadvantages of traditional wooden building blocks (slipping due to the smooth surface, weight, sharp edges). The "Klingner's cork building blocks" (edge ​​dimensions 12 × 6 × 3 cm or 6 × 6 × 3 cm) that he sells have proven themselves in constructive play well beyond kindergarten age and have been copied several times since then.

Works

• From the work of the clinic school. Using the example of teaching in children with hyperkinetic syndrome. In: Reinmar Du Bois (Ed.): Practice and environment of child and adolescent psychiatry. The dialogue with paediatrics, justice, social and behavioral sciences, Bern 1989, pp. 68–76.

• I am a little wild bird and nobody can force me! School work in the clinical youth home in Tübingen. In: Christoph Ertle, Wolfgang Neidhardt (Hrsg.): Lessons with children in need. Bad Heilbrunn 1994, pp. 31-54.

• Playing and working with cork building blocks in school and kindergarten. 4th edition. Jettenburg 1998.

literature

• Gabriele Dörr: Project lessons with primary school children at the school of a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic. In: Christoph Ertle (Hrsg.): School for sick children and adolescents. Paths to teaching and school organization in clinics and special classes. Bad Heilbrunn 1997, pp. 147-160.

Web links

• Information about "Klingner's cork building blocks" (private website)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gabriele Dörr: Project lessons with elementary school children . 1997, p. 149 .