Dieter Nittel

Dieter Nittel (* 1954 in Kirchbauna ) is a German educator.

His work focuses on the theory and practice of adult education , lifelong learning , qualitative educational research , in particular biography research , professional and organizational research and consulting research.

Life and career

Nittel was born in Kirchbauna in 1954 as the son of a refugee family from the Sudetenland . He obtained his Abitur in Kassel. In 1971 he founded a youth center and a Juso group and worked in Protestant youth work. Nittel studied education, psychology and sociology in Marburg and graduated in 1980 as a qualified pedagogue.

He was involved in youth work, trade union youth education and was active in adult education. From 1981 Nittel worked in the research context of Fritz Schütze at the University of Kassel and was head of a research workshop. In 1985 he became a research assistant in the ASG (Working Group for Social Gerontology) at the University of Kassel. He received his doctorate with the work "Life history and school experience. The conversion of organizational and professional action plans, routines and strategies of everyday school life into the biographical stratification of experience" under Fritz Schütze and Jürgen Zinnecker . From 1988 he was a research assistant in the pedagogical department of the German Adult Education Association in Frankfurt am Main. Substitute professorships in Frankfurt am Main and Dortmund followed. In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bremen .

In 1999 he followed a call to the University of Frankfurt am Main . Since 2000 he has been a professor of educational science with a focus on further education / adult education.

Nittel is married and has two daughters.

Publications (selection)

• The lifeworld basics of the biographical method - with special consideration of andragogical aspects. A workshop report. Pedagogical office of the DVV, Frankfurt / M. 1983.
• Report: Aging Research. Pedagogical office of the DVV, Frankfurt / M. 1989.
• Report: Biography Research. Pedagogical office of the DVV, Frankfurt / M. 1991.
• High school school career and identity development. A biographical analytical study. Weinheim 1992.
• Biographical learning strategies. A case study of educators in the private sector. Baltmannsweiler 1996.
• Introduction to adult education / continuing education. With Jochen Kade and Wolfgang Seitter. Stuttgart 1999.
• From mission to profession? Status and perspectives of professionalization in adult education. Bielefeld 2000.
• Knowledge society jugglers. The professional field of adult education: portraits and facts. Edited with Reinhard Völzke. Neuwied and Kriftel 2002.
• The education of the adult. Educational, social science approaches. Festschrift for Jochen Kade. (Editing of the volume with Wolfgang Seitter). Bielefeld 2003.
• Personal memory and cultural memory. Insights into the biographical archive of Hessian adult education. (With Cornelia Maier). Opladen 2006.
• E-learning in universities and further education. Opportunities and experiences. With Roland Holten. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 2009.
• Illness: Learning in a State of Emergency? Breast cancer and myocardial infarction from an interdisciplinary perspective. Springer, Heidelberg 2013 (together with Astrid Seltrecht).
• Pedagogical work in the system of lifelong learning. Results of comparative occupational group research. Weinheim and Basel 2014 (together with Rudi Tippelt and Julia Schütz).

chosen projects

• The Resonance of Lifelong Learning in Educational Organizations. An empirical study of the institutional anchoring of an educational policy formula and its inherent professional-political communalization potential (financed by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation)
• Lifelong learning in the context of life-threatening diseases. The application of the biographical analytical perspective to heart attack and breast cancer patients (funded by the German Research Foundation)

He is editor and member of editorial offices as well as reviewer.

• Co-editor of the adult education and lifelong learning series (Bertelsmann Verlag)
• Member of the editorial team The educational view. Journal for Science and Practice in Pedagogical Professions (Beltz Verlag)
• Member of the editorial team of the Hessian papers for popular education (Bertelsmann Verlag)
• Member of the advisory board of further education Hessen
• Liaison professor of the Hans Böckler Foundation

Private

Nittel is married and has two daughters.

supporting documents

• Dieter Nittel profile on the website of the University of Frankfurt

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Nittel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dieter Nittel - The educational view