Fritz Wilkening

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Fritz Wilkening, 1990

Fritz Wilkening (born February 23, 1926 in Wagenfeld ; † October 22, 2016 in Hamburg ) was a German pedagogue and educationalist . From 1972 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as a professor of educational science with a focus on technology didactics at the University of Hamburg . His name is associated with the change from handicrafts to a modern, multi-perspective technology lesson .

Life

Wilkening passed his Abitur at the high school for boys in Hameln . He then did military service until 1945 and was taken prisoner. Released from this position, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter with a journeyman's examination by 1947. He studied interior design at the Werkschule in Hildesheim, then until 1952 education, professional education, art history and constitutional law at the University of Hamburg . After completing his studies, he worked as a lecturer at a Hamburg trade school. From 1956 to 1961 he also completed a degree in architecture at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . From 1961 he taught at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate there in 1970. In 1973 he was appointed professor for educational science with a focus on technology didactics at the University of Hamburg. Visiting professorships at home and abroad followed. He had been married since 1959 and had four children from the marriage. He died in 2016 and was buried in the Bergstedt cemetery.

Scientific focus

The main focus of his academic work since the late 1960s has been the reform of handicraft teaching and the development of contemporary, multi-perspective technology teaching . At the 2nd Crafts Education Congress in 1968, Wilkening presented for the first time considerations on the content of a technical education and thus set an important impetus for the further development of craft teaching and the concept of craft pedagogy. In 1971 Wilkening presented two programmatic essays on the didactic justification and urgency of teaching technology in general schools, which at the same time marked two of his future focus areas, i. H. Outlines and elements of technology didactics as well as teaching methods and media in technology teaching. Up until the 1990s, his book “Lehrsverfahren im Lernbereich work and technology” was regarded as a technical didactic standard work for the methodical design of technology lessons.

Another focus of his didactic research is the concept of multi-perspective technology lessons, which he presented in detail in his book "Technikunterricht" published in 1984. In the tradition of humanities education and didactics, technical education for Wilkening follows a pedagogical primacy and is committed to the Klafk understanding of education.

Fonts (selection)

Fritz Wilkening has written numerous articles for specialist journals, encyclopedias and conference reports. His writings on technical and technical instruction were considered standard works of technical didactics until the 1990s and were published several times.

  • Technical education in handicraft history. Development and current problems . Weinheim, Berlin, Basel: Beltz 1966.
  • Living space design. A textbook and workbook. 8th edition. Verlag Handwerk und Technik, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-582-04141-7 .
  • Technology lessons (together with Winfried Schmayl). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 1984. 4th edition 1994, ISBN 3-7815-0550-2
  • Teaching methods in the field of work and technology . Neckar Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1994, ISBN 3-7883-0372-7 .
  • On the aesthetic dimension of technology and technology lessons, in: Zeitschrift für Technik im Studium 111/2004, p. 5ff

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wilkening, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and educational scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wagenfeld
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2016
Place of death Hamburg