Diether Hopf

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Diether Hopf (born November 25, 1933 in Eisenach ) is professor emeritus for school education from the University of Potsdam .

Childhood and youth

After graduating from high school in Bad Hersfeld , he studied at the Philipps University in Marburg , at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of California in Berkeley . He did his doctorate in the field of education and also obtained his habilitation in this area .

Scientific work

Hopf initially worked as an educator. After that he was a primary school and high school teacher. In 1971 he began to teach at the University of Kassel . From 1971 to 1995 he worked as an educational researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Since 1995 he has been teaching in Potsdam . Hopf was visiting professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .

Hopf was concerned with questions about the school system. He was particularly interested in the question of how migrant children find their way around the German school system.

Important activities

Hopf pursued numerous socially relevant activities. These include:

  • Hopf works with the German Education Council. He recommended that there should be trials with comprehensive schools and thus ensured that there are comprehensive schools in Germany today.
  • Hopf advised Iceland when it came to reforming the school system there.
  • He was on the founding committee of the Education and Psychology Departments of the University of Cyprus.

literature

  • German Education Council: Recommendation of the German Education Council to set up school trials with comprehensive schools . 1969
  • Transitional selection and performance differentiation. A study using the example of the grammar and comprehensive schools in England . Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1970
  • School problems of the foreign children . In: Journal for Pedagogy . Volume 27, Issue 6, 1981, pp. 839-861
  • Foreign Worker's Children in Primary and Secondary Schools. In: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education: Between Elite and Mass Education. Education in the Federal Republic of Germany. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY 1983, pp. 156-162.
  • Lessons in classes with foreign students. A concept for individualization and differentiation in multi-ethnic classes . Beltz, Weinheim 1984
  • The Children of Migrant Workers in West German Schools: A Pool of Hidden Talents? US Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), ERIC Documents ED 272 331 . 1986
  • with C. Hatzichristou: Social Adjustment and Integration of Minority Students in Schools: A Study of Greek Remigrant Children . 1989, ED 311 114 / UD 027 007

Web links

https://web.archive.org/web//http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/putz/feb96/s26.htm

personal data
SURNAME Hopf, Diether
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach