Fritz Beckert

This article is about the educational psychologist Fritz Beckert. For the painter of the same name see Fritz Beckert (painter) .

Fritz Beckert (born April 5, 1925 in Reichenhain ) is a German educational psychologist .

Life

Fritz Beckert was born on April 5, 1925 in Reichenhain near Chemnitz . From 1932 he attended elementary school and from 1936 to 1943 middle school . He then worked as part of the Reich Labor Service in the Wehrmacht . In 1945 he first became a teacher at the Chemnitz elementary school , and the following year also became its headmaster. In the period up to 1950 he also attended courses on psychology at the Institute for Teacher Training in Chemnitz (1953–1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt ). There he taught from 1952 to 1954 with a teaching position for educational psychology. In 1954 and 1955 he was also senior assistant at the Pedagogical Institute in Dresden and then until 1957 an aspirant at the German Central Pedagogical Institute in Berlin .

1958 doctorate in the University of Leipzig Beckert Doctor of Pedagogy. His dissertation is entitled Investigations into the perception of radio plays by children and young people. A contribution to the psychology of teaching materials in history lessons . Four years later his habilitation in educational psychology took place at the university. His post-doctoral thesis was TV game experience and personality. Attempt of a psychological-pedagogical foundation .

In 1964 Beckert left the Chemnitz Institute and in the following year became professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz and head of the educational and psychological institute. He also served as Vice Rector until 1970 . He gave guest lectures on mass communicative psychology in 1972 and the following year at the University of Film and Television Potsdam . Furthermore, since 1968 he was chairman of the city council of Karl-Marx-Stadt in the Kulturbund der DDR . He held this office until 1975.

In 1975 Beckert was appointed professor to the journalism section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He taught there until 1990.

Fonts

• Investigations into the perception of radio plays by children and young people. A contribution to the psychology of teaching materials in history lessons (dissertation 1958)
• TV game experience and personality. Attempt of a psychological-pedagogical foundation (habilitation thesis 1962)
• Children on Screen (Berlin Ost 1962)
• Methodical contributions to teaching history. Volume 4: The radio play in history lessons (Berlin Ost 1963)
• TV game experience and personality. Contribution to a psychological foundation (Berlin Ost 1967)
• Personality as a psychological problem area in journalistic work (study material) (Berlin Ost 1979)
• Psychology of journalistic communication (two textbooks Leipzig 1985 to 1987)

Web links

• Fritz Beckert in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Fritz Beckert, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 17, 2017