Donata Elschenbroich

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Donata Elschenbroich (* 1944 in Dresden ) is a German educator , literature and music scholar and non-fiction author , engaged in numerous books such as the translated into several languages world knowledge of the Seven Years particular with issues of education of children busy.

Life

After attending school, Donata Elschenbroich studied literature and music of the Middle Ages at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of London . After graduating with a master's , she went in the late 1960s to Berlin , where they face less financial support from the District Office Reinickendorf a kindergarten in a parked trailer in the Märkisch neighborhood opened.

In the 1970s she became an employee of the German Youth Institute (DJI) in Munich , where she worked as a youth researcher with the situation approach developed by Jürgen Zimmer and carried out several years of studies in day-care centers in northern Hesse . In 1977 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Bremen with a dissertation on the subject of children are not born. Studies on the Origin of Childhood .

In addition, she conducted numerous studies on behalf of the DJI in Germany, but also in Japan , Sweden and Hungary , in which she dealt with the development and skills of children of preschool age. She presented the knowledge gained in this way in numerous specialist books and at the same time began to apply her experiences in the field of early childhood education by producing films for preschool children with Otto Schweitzer . The resulting film series Knowledge and Bonding resulted in films such as Instructions for Curiosity , Inventing the Wheel , The Child is Gifted , Things - at Home and The Other Education During Vacation . Another focus of her research was the educational situation of children from migrant and repatriate families .

The mid-1990s was Donata Elschenbroich employees in the management of the Federal Government issued Youth Report .

In her books she dealt with numerous other topics such as world knowledge and curiosity . Her best-known books include World Knowledge of the Seven-Year-Olds , which has been translated into several languages , Wonders of the World - Children as Naturalists and The Things - Expeditions on the objects of everyday life . In these books she demands what children should have experienced and learned - not first in school, but before.

Publications

  • Toys and what they are used for , Berlin 1975
  • Children are not born. Studies on the origins of childhood , dissertation University of Bremen, Frankfurt / Main 1977, ISBN 3-921450-39-X
  • Childhood and kindergarten. New pedagogical approaches and experiences , Wiesbaden 1979
  • The children of strangers. Foreign children in culture and Sprachkonflikt , Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-400-00486-3
  • The home of the neighbor. Countries of origin: Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey , Gelnhausen 1982, ISBN 3-7664-2033-X
  • Immigration, integration, ethnic ties , Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-87877-181-9
  • A nation of immigrants. Ethnic awareness and integration policy in the USA , Frankfurt / Main 1986, ISBN 3-593-33670-7
  • Immigration country USA - immigration country Federal Republic. Migration in international comparison , Hagen 1988
  • Since we crossed the border, we have been called Aussiedler , Stuttgart 1991
  • Distant Germans. Emigrant families in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • What children. Growing up in Germany. A manual , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-466-30344-3
  • Growing up and learning in Japan. An annotated bibliography of Anglo-American, Japanese and German literature , Munich 1994, ISBN 3-87966-353-X
  • Guide to curiosity. Basics of Japanese Education , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-11934-6
  • World knowledge of the seven-year-olds. How children can discover the world , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88897-265-5
  • World wonder. Kinder als Naturforscher , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88897-398-8
  • The things. Expeditions to the Objects of Daily Life , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88897-681-0

Background literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Mayer: Eia and Popeia is not enough. How Much Education Do We Owe Children? Is education even allowed in the first seven years? Donata Elschenbroich has rethought it From: Die Zeit (11/2001)
  2. ^ Youth researcher Donata Elschenbroich: "Children have to ask" . Interview, in: Der Spiegel from May 26, 2002
  3. ↑ Playmobil was yesterday . In: Deutschlandradio (book review on September 6, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Elschenbroich, Donata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden