Gernot Koneffke

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Gernot Koneffke (born August 28, 1927 in Lauenburg , district of Lauenburg i. Pom. , † March 17, 2008 ) was a German philosopher, educator , teacher and educationalist . With Heinz-Joachim Heydorn and Hans-Jochen Gamm, he is one of the main representatives of what is known as critical educational theory and is a co-founder of materialistic education . With Gamm, who brought Gernot Koneffke to the TU Darmstadt as a full professor , he was - in addition to the close cooperation - also a lifelong friendship.

Life

Koneffke's life was shaped by the experiences of fascism and the sufferings of the Second World War , in which he had to take part as a soldier. He made his Abitur in the special military training course in Hanover. Koneffke later studied in Kiel, where he worked as a primary school teacher for seven years and met Heinz-Joachim Heydorn. In 1957 the son Ulrich Koneffke was born, the brother Jan Koneffke followed in 1960. After further studies in education, philosophy and art history, Koneffke received his doctorate in 1962 in Heidelberg. He taught at the University of Education in Frankfurt am Main from 1962 to 1969. In that year he received a professorship at the “ Kant University ” in Braunschweig, but in 1972 he was appointed professor for general education at the TU Darmstadt (formerly the Technical University of Darmstadt ) where he taught for a long time beyond his obligation.

In his novel Ein Sonntagskind Jan Koneffke processed his father's life in literary terms. Gernot Koneffke's relationships with Heinz-Joachim Heydorn and his wife Irmgard Heydorn , who, as Jochen and Nelli Moosbach, promote Konrad Kannmacher's (= Gernot Koneffke) scientific career, take up a lot of space in the book .

Critical educational theory

During his life he worked with the pedagogue Heinz-Joachim Heydorn. After his death he worked on the critical theory of education he had developed . The focus of his work was the historical analysis of the contradicting reproductive conditions in bourgeois society and, as a result, a materialistic reflection on the foundation of pedagogy. Part of his work was influenced by Theodor W. Adorno's main work ( Negative Dialectic ). In March 2008, Koneffke died at the age of 80.

Courage to criticize

The conversation between Gernot Koneffke and Hans-Jochen Gamm under the title Courage to Criticism also served posthumously as introductory material for first-year students in education.

Known students

Publications

  • Human education and child labor at Pestalozzi and Owen. An analysis of the educational works Pestalozzis and Owens as a contribution to the history of ideas of the work school. Dissertation Heidelberg 1961
  • Integration and Subversion. On the function of the educational system in late capitalist society. In: Das Argument, H. 54/1969, pp. 389-430
  • with H.-J. Heydorn (ed.): Studies on the social history and philosophy of education. 2 volumes. List, Munich 1973
  • Pedagogy in the transition to the bourgeois ruling society: studies on social history and philosophy of education. Pandora's box, Wetzlar 1994
  • Hans-Jochen Gamm and Gernot Koneffke (eds.): Mündigkeit. On the new version of materialistic pedagogy . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-31959-2 .
  • Globalization and Pedagogy - Comments on an Old, Dodgy Relationship. In: Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2004, p. 237 ff.

literature

  • Irmgard Heydorn , Brigitte Schmidt (eds.): Traditio lampadis. Wrest the reconciling from the destructive. Festival for Gernot Koneffke. Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1989
  • Harald Bierbaum, Peter Euler, Katrin Feld, Astrid Messerschmidt, Olga Zitzelsberger (eds.): Thinking about contradictions. Gernot Koneffke's critique of bourgeois pedagogy. Wetzlar 2007, ISBN 978-3-88178-328-6 .
  • Jan Koneffke: A Sunday Child , Galiani, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-107-2 . ( Review on Deutschlandfunk )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gernot Koneffke: Some remarks on the justification of materialistic pedagogy . In: Wolfgang Keim, Gerd Steffens (Hrsg.): Education and social contradiction . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55455-5 , p. 29–44 ( digitized version [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Gernot Koneffke. Documents. In: kritische-bildungstheorie.de. Retrieved June 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Courage to criticize. Gernot Koneffke and Hans-Jochen Gamm in conversation about Darmstadt pedagogy. Retrieved June 2, 2016 (video).
personal data
SURNAME Koneffke, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, pedagogue, teacher and educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenburg , district of Lauenburg i. Pom.
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2008