Eckard Koenig
Eckard König (born March 9, 1944 in Koenigsberg ) is one of the best-known representatives of the personal systems theory in the humanistic tradition of Gregory Bateson and Paul Watzlawick . He held a chair in the educational science department at the University of Paderborn with a focus on adult education / further training, organizational advice and the basics of social sciences and has many years of consulting experience. He is co-editor of the specialist journal Pädagogische Rundschau .
Life
After studying philosophy, educational science and psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , König received his doctorate in philosophy in 1970 and qualified as a professor in 1975 for pedagogy and its philosophy of science on fundamental problems in educational science. Since 1976 he has been Professor of General Pedagogy at the University of Paderborn and retired at the end of the 2008/2009 winter semester. In 1984 Gerda Volmer and Eckard König founded the "Scientific Institute for Consulting and Communication".
plant
His concept of the further development of "Personal System Theory", which he presented together with Gerda Volmer in their book "Introduction to Systemic Organizational Consulting", is today a basis for systemic organizational consulting and coaching . The characteristics of social systems are at the center of consideration of this theory, further developed by König and Volmer. While Niklas Luhmann defines social systems as communication systems in his sociological systems theory, König and Volmer relate their definition of social systems to the people in the respective social system, which is why the concept is called personal systems theory.
According to König and Volmer, the characteristics (or levels) of social systems are as follows:
- Who are the people in the social system?
- How do these people interpret their respective subjective view of things / their reality?
- Which social rules exist in the social system?
- Which control loops (communication patterns) are predominant in the social system?
- History (history) of the social system - every social system has a beginning, includes a development and is likely to have an end.
- Definition of the system boundaries and the influence of the system environment on the respective social system.
Fonts
- with P. Zedler: Theories of Educational Science . Weinheim 1995.
- with G. Volmer: Systemic Coaching . Weinheim 2002.
- with G. Volmer (Ed.): Practice of Systemic Organizational Consulting. 3. Edition. Weinheim / Basel 2003.
- with G. Volmer: Thinking and acting systemically . Weinheim 2005.
- with S. Meinen (ed.): Knowledge management in social systems . Weinheim 2006.
- with Gerda Volmer: Handbook of systemic organizational consulting. Weinheim / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-36467-8 .
swell
Web links
- Literature by and about Eckard König in the catalog of the German National Library
- Scientific institute for advice and communication
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Eckard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educationalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |