Frank Nonnenmacher

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Frank Nonnenmacher

Frank Nonnenmacher (born June 30, 1944 in Monsheim ) is a German social scientist and professor emeritus for didactics of the social sciences and political education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and author.

Life

Frank Nonnenmacher was born as the son of the sculptor and artist Gustav Nonnenmacher and his wife Ingeborg. In 1966 he graduated from the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium in Worms am Rhein . He was then called up for military service, signed up as a "temporary soldier" and left the Bundeswehr after two years. In 1971 he was recognized as a conscientious objector at an oral hearing.

After the first state examination of his teaching degree, he moved to Hesse in 1971, passed his second state examination there in 1974 and entered the Hessian school service. He mainly worked at integrated and cooperative comprehensive schools in the Bergstrasse district .

From 1974 to 1977 Nonnenmacher completed a part-time second degree in political science and education at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

1984 doctorate Frank Nonnenmacher in Frankfurt with his work "Political action by students of the secondary." From 1977 to 1987 he was a member of the service teams at the Hessian Institute for Teacher Training (HILF) with a focus on "social studies / social studies".

1978 to 1988 Nonnenmacher was a member of the framework guidelines specialist group for social studies, secondary level I (so-called curriculum commission) at the Hessian Institute for Educational Planning and School Development (HIBS) at the Hessian Ministry of Education; Most recently, Nonnenmacher was in charge of this commission.

In 1989 Nonnenmacher taught as a guest teacher in schools in the Creuse department in France. From 1984 to 1991 he had a part-time job as a lecturer and publication activity in the field of political didactic theory, curriculum development and subject-related textbook analysis. From 1991 to 1996 he was a pedagogical assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M. In 1996 he was born in Frankfurt a. M. Senior teacher in university service.

From 1995 to 1998 Nonnenmacher was co-editor of the magazine “Praxis Politik” ( Westermann- Verlag), in which he published numerous articles on individual aspects of political education. In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kassel on the subject of “Political learning in schools. Justification of a didactic concept ". Since December 1999 Nonnenmacher has been Professor of Didactics in Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M.

Content information about the work

Political action by students

His experiences with a generation of teachers who had received their values ​​during the Nazi era gave Nonnenmacher two ideas: to become a different teacher from them and to educate future generations about right and wrong, social conditions and the need for political commitment .

At the beginning of his academic career, Frank Nonnenmacher dealt with the question of how to make political education in school more practice-oriented. From his point of view, there is a fundamental difference in practice between the demands and reality of curricula . In practice, political education is often essentially limited to the components of “seeing” and “judging”. The third component, namely that of action, falls by the wayside. A lot of theoretical knowledge is imparted to the students without actually making it tangible for them. In his dissertation from 1984, Nonnenmacher attempted to develop a concept for “political education based on the ability to act”.

Analysis of recent social studies books

Building on this thesis, he examined in his book “School books in criticism. Analysis of New Social Studies Books "Ten Social Studies Books. The investigation was carried out using a qualitative method , which means that it is essentially about assessing the effect the materials in the schoolbooks have on the students. Consequently, it is a matter of working out the methodological-didactic concept. In connection with his dissertation, Nonnenmacher primarily asks whether a book only wants to convey central terms and theses or whether it encourages students to reflect on their own work.

The result for him are three groups of school books:

  1. who address social conflicts in a solution-oriented manner and promote active student teaching
  2. which represent the central topics of political education as clearly as possible, but essentially have the character of a collection of material
  3. who present social issues in an ideologically restricted way and thus do not give the students the freedom to develop their own worldviews .

In books from groups 2 and 3, the didactic approach of practical, political action by the pupil was missing.

Biography project

Frank Nonnenmacher wrote a historical and political double biography "YOU had it better than I - Two Brothers in the 20th Century" about his uncle Ernst Nonnenmacher and his father Gustav Nonnenmacher .

Focus of work

Right from the start, the focus of Nonnenmacher's academic work was the development of a political didactic concept based on a critical analysis of society. It must be aware of the contradiction that exists in pursuing the goal of democratic self-determination for subjects capable of autonomy in the structurally hierarchical and rule-following institution of the school. Teachers are subject to the paradoxical imperative of “Be autonomous!” As well as the inevitable evaluation ubiquity. You must be able to act within these constraints without despairing of them.

Wolfgang Hilligen's triad “Seeing - Judging - Acting” is concretized in Nonnenmacher's conceptual development, as he understands “seeing” as the permanent observation of social reality, social struggles, political disputes, public debates and the development of crises. “Assessment” should not be about developing a pluralistic range of assessments, but rather judgments that are based on the tolerance, anti-fascism, social and justice postulates of human rights and the Enlightenment (ultimately also the fundamental law, which is by no means neutral). He understands "action" to be differentiated from the "commitment policy" of the federal government, which is content with cushioning the dismantling of the welfare state through caring private initiatives, as the social and political commitment that aims to change the criticized conditions on the basis of the analysis. As one of the few political didactics, Nonnenmacher sees the "Beutelsbach Consensus" critically, especially because with its concept of the "prohibition of overcoming" political action can be defamed as "actionism" and because all too often under this sign, keeping out and arbitrariness on the one hand and on the other hand as virtues appear.

In teacher training, Nonnenmacher sees a contradiction between the adaptation of prevailing routines in novice training (for example in the “practical semester”) and scientifically guided field research. One should not mix these two functions of a practical encounter, because each form has its own specific goals that cannot be achieved at the same time.

For several years, Frank Nonnenmacher, together with other Frankfurt academics, has sat in on classes in European countries, researched framework conditions and conducted interviews in order to identify different learning cultures in political education.

He also deals with the biography of concentration camp prisoners and their stigmatizing markings.

Bibliography of the most important works

  • Frank Nonnenmacher, YOU had it better than ME. Two brothers in the 20th century. VAS Bad Homburg 2014
  • Benedikt Widmaier, Frank Nonnenmacher (ed.): Participation as an educational goal. Political Action in Political Education. Schwalbach / TS. 2011
  • Benedikt Widmaier, Frank Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Active Citizenship Education. International impetus for political education. Schwalbach / Ts. 2011
  • Frank Nonnenmacher (ed.): Lessons and learning cultures. An international field study on the subject of migration. Schwalbach / Ts. 2008
  • Frank Nonnenmacher: Political learning in school. Establishment of a didactic conception (Frankfurter manuscript) 1999
  • "Praxis Politik", Risen from Ruins - Politics and Everyday Life 1945 - 49 (Issue 3/98)
  • Frank Nonnenmacher (Ed.): School books in the criticism. Analysis of recent social studies books. Marburg 1994
  • Frank Nonnenmacher, Weinheim [a. a.]: Political action by students: an investigation into the feasibility of a postulate of political education . Beltz, 1984

Volunteering

  • From 2003 to 2009 Nonnenmacher was chairman of the jury for the Frankfurt Peace Prize for Schools.
  • As the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's liaison professor, Nonnenmacher advises and assesses scholarship holders.
  • Nonnenmacher is a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW) and the German Association for Political Education .
  • Nonnenmacher works with his wife in the south of France in a local cultural association (CVPHA) founded in 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hanning Voigts: Frank Nonnenmacher: You had it better than me - two lives torn apart. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, July 9, 2014
  2. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher, Weinheim [u. a.]: Political action by students: an investigation into the feasibility of a postulate of political education. Beltz, 1984.
  3. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher: Political learning in school. Establishment of a didactic conception (Frankfurter manuscript) 1999
  4. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher, Weinheim [u. a.]: Political action by students: an investigation into the feasibility of a postulate of political education. Beltz, 1984.
  5. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher (ed.): School books in criticism. Analysis of recent social studies books. Marburg 1984
  6. ↑ Jürgen Reents: The criminal and the armed forces aviator . In: new Germany. Supplement to the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 7, 2014
  7. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher: Political education in schools. Democratic learning as a contradiction in the system. In: Yearbook for Pedagogy 2009, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 269 ff
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Hilligen: On the didactics of political teaching I, scientific requirements - didactic concepts - practical relevance. Opladen 1976
  9. ↑ Michael Götz, Benedikt Widmaier, Alexander Wohnig (eds.): Thinking about social engagement politically. Opportunities for political education. Schwalbach / Ts. 2015
  10. ^ Siegfried Schiele, Herbert Schneider (ed.): The problem of consensus in political education, Stuttgart 1976, pp. 179/180; see also: http://www.bpb.de/die-bpb/51310/beutelsbacher-konsens
  11. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher: Action orientation and political action in school political education. Origins, limits and challenges. In: Benedikt Widmaier, Frank Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Participation as an educational goal. Political action in political education. Schwalbach / Ts. 2011, pp. 83ff, in particular pp. 89-92
  12. ↑ Frank Nonnenmacher: Practical relevance in teacher training: theory-guided field analysis versus introduction to a field of activity. Or: The danger of killing two birds with one stone, of missing both. In: Journal for Sociology of Education and Socialization (ZSE), Issue 3/2000; P. 323ff
  13. ↑ Frank Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Teaching and learning cultures. An international field study on the subject of migration. Schwalbach / Ts. 2008
  14. ↑ Benedikt Widmaier, Frank Nonnenmacher (Ed.): Active Citizenship Education. International impetus for political education. Schwalbach / Ts. 2011
  15. ^ Frank Nonnenmacher: Tricks of the NS. No explanation / Until today the concentration camp prisoners, who were called 'anti-social' and 'professional criminals' by the Nazis, are not recognized as victims. In: Friday of February 2, 2017, pp. 16-17.
personal data
SURNAME Nunmaker, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and professor for didactics of the social sciences
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Monsheim