Edgar Drefenstedt

Edgar Drefenstedt (born February 12, 1921 in Gardelegen ; † June 3, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German didactician at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR .

Drefenstedt started as a worker in 1939. After the Second World War he taught from 1946 to 1950 as a new teacher in Gardelegen. In 1950 he became a school councilor until he was editor-in-chief for the magazine ?? from 1952 to 1956. Pedagogy ?? in Berlin. From 1956 to 1958 he was an aspirant at the Central Pedagogical Institute . From 1960 to 1970 he worked as section leader for teaching methodology and curriculum , as well as Deputy Director at the DPZI and professor of Systematic education .

From 1970 he was director of the Institute for Didactics and represented educational theory. He retired in 1984 ??. He worked closely with the didactician Hans-Jörg König .

Drefenstedt published the standard work of GDR pedagogy - pedagogical activity, essence, aim and content , which was strongly related to the Soviet pedagogue Boris Lichatschow ( theory of communist education , Moscow 1974). But Drefenstedt already in the 1980s called for a stronger individualization of the educational approach instead of a collective education, with which he attacked the requirements of the Ministry for Popular Education .

He received several awards, such as the GDR Medal of Merit .

Fonts

• (Ed.): To increase the intellectual activity of students in the classroom process , Berlin 1976
• Socialist teaching theory. Developments in the GDR from 1945 to 1965 , Berlin 1977
• (Ed. And Exercise) Boris Lichatschow, educational activity, essence, aim and content , Berlin 1978
• Questions of curriculum theory , Berlin 1979
• Individual features - individual support , Berlin 1981
• Didactic writings , contributions to pedagogy, Vol. 33, Berlin 1985
• Questions of Theory Development in Pedagogy , Berlin 1988
• Reform or revisionism. An analysis of the 1956 volume of the magazine “Pädagogik”. In: W. Steinhöfel: Traces of the GDR Pedagogy , Weinheim 1993, pp. 68-102.

literature

• Ulrich Wiegmann: General education theory instead of general pedagogy. On the relationship between educational-political-doctrinal self-disciplining and socio-political instrumentalization of educational sciences in the Soviet Zone and GDR , in: Heinz-Elmar Tenorth [Ed.]: Childhood, Youth and Educational Work in Transition. Results of transformation research . Weinheim u. a. : Beltz 1997, pp. 433-454. - ( Journal for Pedagogy , Supplement 37) URN [1]