Doris Weathercock

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Doris Wetterhahn (born June 27, 1921 in Gießen ; † May 22, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German educator.

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Doris Wetterhahn grew up in a middle-class Jewish family and attended the Bettinaschule in Frankfurt am Main . She would have liked to become a kindergarten teacher, especially since she volunteered in a Jewish kindergarten, but was not allowed to attend a corresponding training center because of her Jewish descent. She emigrated to England on a Kindertransport. There the young girl initially worked as a domestic servant in Halfway, Systoni and Leicester. From 1943 to 1946 Doris Wetterhahn completed a kindergarten teacher training course in England and then returned to Germany, to the Soviet-occupied zone. She soon became a member of the SED , the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany , the Free German Trade Union Federation and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . She worked u. a. as a kindergarten assistant in the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus , as a kindergarten director in Berlin-Weißensee and aspirant at the Humboldt University . As a so-called Western emigrant, she belonged to the group of people who, according to the decision of the SED (1951), were not allowed to occupy a leading position.

From 1951 to 1961 Doris Wetterhahn was an editor at Volk und Wissen Verlag . This was followed by a degree in pedagogy, which she completed with a diploma. Her diploma thesis The education for independent and responsible behavior of children in the transition times was published in 1967 under the title Washing and changing clothes - minor matter? Some ways of raising children to behave independently and responsibly when washing and changing clothes in kindergarten have been published. With her scientific investigation, Doris Wetterhahn tried to examine some possibilities of raising the older preschool children to independent and responsible behavior when washing and changing clothes ... The attempt is being made to prove that such supposed 'little things' in the educational process, such as washing and changing clothes in the collective of the children's group, have an impact on the formation of the child's personality, on the development of his relationships and his behavior and therefore can and must be consciously shaped by the educator .

Afterwards she was editor-in-chief at Volk und Wissen publishing house for four years. As such, she was also responsible for the magazine Neue Erziehungs im Kindergarten , for which she wrote several specialist articles. She then worked for a number of years as the main consultant in the Ministry of National Education and from 1971 to 1974 head of the department for education and training in the federal board of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany , after which she was a research assistant in the teacher's house in Berlin .

Doris Wetterhahn remained unmarried and had two adopted children. She was buried anonymously in the Baumschulenweg cemetery in Berlin.

Awards

Works

  • On the question of kindergarten teacher training , in: Die Kindergärtnerin 1950 / H. 7, 3-6
  • How can we prepare for polytechnical education and upbringing , in: New education in kindergarten 1959 / H. 6, pp. 4-9
  • Washing and changing rooms - minor matters? , Berlin, 1967

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wetterhahn 1967, p. 7
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1981, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Weathercock, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1983
Place of death Berlin