Frankhabenhagen

Frankhabenhagen (born May 28, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German business educator and economist who researched and taught as a professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1971 to 2007 . His research focus was particularly in the area of educational research .

Life

Achthagen was born as the son of the banker Wilhelm and the teacher Käthe. His father died the same year he was born. From 1943 to 1946 he was evacuated to Köflach , where he started school from 1945. He continued his further education in Berlin and made his Abitur at the Evangelical High School in Berlin-Grunewald. Achthagen studied business education from 1958 at the Free University of Berlin . During this time he completed several months of internships in Finland and Spain. In 1963 he finished his studies with the diploma thesis The effects of the use of electronic data processing systems on the administrative centralization of industrial companies . This was followed immediately after his exams the clerkship . Two years later he passed his second state examination for the office of the student council at commercial schools. Here he wrote his work on cybernetic approaches for the optimal programming of homework in Spanish classes at commercial vocational schools . In 1965 he also married his first wife, a teacher who died in 1990 and with whom he has two daughters. He then worked for half a year as a lecturer at the business academy , then first became a research assistant at the Institute for Business Education at the Free University of Berlin and then received a teaching position for the winter semester of 1966/67. Achthagen received his doctorate in 1969 with the text Basics and Problems of Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching at Business Schools - Draft of a research program for Dr. rer. pole. Until 1971, when he became a full professor for business education at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, he was a research assistant and later an academic senior counselor at the educational seminar of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In September 2007 he retired . In his second marriage he is married to the professor and business educator Susanne Weber .

Research priorities

The didactic preparation of learning sequences and the development of models for the description of teaching-learning cycles are among the main research areas of Aachen. He was particularly interested in the empirical verifiability and the measurement of professional competence as well as the development of the basics of a professional PISA . In this regard, he coined the term “ multi-dimensional teaching-learning arrangements ”, which deserves a special role in the context of action-oriented teaching . He also researched business games and computer-aided simulations and thus made a reference to the model of complete action from vocational education . He also advocated the equivalence of general and vocational education .

Awards

In July 1991 ,achtenhagen was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics ( Dr. oec. Hc ) by the University of St. Gallen . A year later he received the Otto von Guericke plaque from the Technical University of Magdeburg and in 1995 the university medal from the University of Helsinki. In 2000, the University of Helsinki awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy (Dr. phil. Hc) from the Faculty of Philosophy. The Ernst Christian Trapp Prize was awarded for 2020 .

Memberships and activities

During his career he was able to call himself a member and chairman of numerous committees, expert groups and commissions in the field of “vocational training” and “vocational education” in Germany and abroad. For example, from 1974 to 1978 he chaired the “Vocational and Business Education” commission of the German Society for Educational Science, of which he was a member of the board from 1980 to 1988. From 1988 and 2001 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Göttingen for one year , at which he has been a member of the professors' group of the interdisciplinary graduate school "Acting in Complex Economic Situations" for five years . From 1987 to 1999 he was also a member of the advisory board of the Bertelsmann AG vocational school in Gütersloh, whereupon further activities in the educational field followed. In 2013, he was named President of the Executive Committee on Vocational Education and Training Research for the Secretary of State for Education, Research and Innovation and, in the same year, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association . Achthagen was also active in the print industry. So he published the journal educational science until 2007, among other things . In addition, one of them is a signatory of the Hamburg appeal .

Works (selection)

• Lifelong learning at work - its foundations in childhood and adolescence: Volume 5: Education theory and educational research . Springer-Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-80864-6 .
• Vocational Training PISA: Feasibility Study . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08947-0 .
• Milestones in vocational training. Volume 1. The Teaching-Learning-Perspective . Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 2003, ISBN 978-3-7639-3015-9 .
• Didactics of economics lessons . UTB Verlag (Uni-Taschenbücher), Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-8252-1300-8 .
• Learning action in complex situations: New concepts in business education . Gabler Verlag , 1992, ISBN 978-3-409-13397-5 .
• Multi-dimensional teaching and learning arrangements: innovations in commercial training and further education . Gabler Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-409-13389-0 .

Web links

• Frankhabenhagen on the website of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Literature by and about Frankhabenhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Frankhabenhagen in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} vita. Retrieved July 31, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Memberships. Retrieved July 31, 1016 . 
3. ^ Signatory of the Hamburg appeal. (PDF) Retrieved July 31, 2016 .