Gottfried Schröter

Gottfried Schröter (1977)

Gottfried Schröter (born December 17, 1925 in Rialen , Glogau district; † August 30, 2018 in Detmold ) was a German teacher, grades researcher and professor of education . He retired from the University of Kiel in 1988 .

life and career

Gottfried Schröter was born as the sixth child of the village teacher Friedrich Schröter and his wife Erna, geb. Arnold was born in Räden, Glogau district ( Silesia ). As a seventeen-year-old high school graduate, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1943 and then a soldier in France, Belgium and Holland. After his English captivity in 1945, at the age of nineteen, he worked for one year as a school helper (i.e., untrained teacher) for 70 pupils from 1st to 4th grade. School year in the village school Heubach (Rhön) . He passed his first teacher examination in 1947 after studying for a year at the University of Education in Weilburg . In 1950 his second exam followed. In 1953 he married his wife Christine, b. Rougher. The marriage had three children who also all became teachers. He now has four grandchildren.

In 1947 he took up his first position as a primary school teacher in Neuengronau , Hesse , and completed his pedagogy studies with the minor subjects psychology and Protestant theology in Frankfurt am Main, which he obtained in 1953 with a doctorate. phil. graduated from Heinrich Weinstock . He then taught as a teacher in Emmershausen . From 1958 to 1960 he worked as an assistant for school education at the Pädagogisches Institut Weilburg. 1960 he was appointed to the College of Education Kiel, later in the education faculty of the local university came up. There he last worked as director until 1988. In 1993 he published his autobiography Life Can't Be Censored .

Focus of his work

Everyday school life

In order to be realistically informed about the minds of the students, Schröter explored the whole everyday life of the student and in it the role of the school. The information from 1700 affected persons (students), a total of 19,000 responses, were processed. The results appeared in 1962 in the book Der Schüleralltag - viewed critically . It supplemented the dissertation The elementary school child in the massing process of the present (1953, PhD supervisor Heinrich Weinstock ).

Beginning teacher problems

Since Schröter observed a general deficit of the students in the task of putting the school-related, but initially only theoretical knowledge into practice as an intern during their studies or after the exam as a young teacher, he researched the young teacher's problems for beginners and discussed them in seminars.

Publications: Introduction to School Practice. A school pedagogy for school interns, young teachers and their mentors (1963, 4th edition 1984); Exciting teaching - but how? The Moment of Tension in Education and Teaching (1964); Modern essay topics (1954, 7th edition 1968).

Group lessons

The dominance of frontal teaching should be combated. For this purpose, the focus and aim of the work was to “prepare the way” for group lessons at as many regular schools as possible.

Publication: Start group work tomorrow. 300 teachers and 8000 pupils try out group lessons - research report and practical guidance (1967, 2nd edition 1972).

Censorship research

In the time of the 1968 movement , the question of justice arose in the judgments of schools and their teachers about the performance and behavior of their students, namely in grades, comments and certificates.

Publications: The unfair article censorship (1971, 5th edition 1976; the content of this study was presented and discussed in German newspapers and in other domestic and foreign media); Information and training folder for censoring student essays (1972, 3rd edition 1973); Censorships? Censorships! Basic knowledge and new research results for teachers, parents and interested students (1977, 3rd edition 1981); Transfer at risk (1980); School criticism. What Germans think of grades, certificates and exams (1985).

Religious Education and Theology

Together with Rudolf Seiß , Schröter organized the university seminar “Faith and Thinking” for 17 years. In connection with this, religious-pedagogical and theological questions were examined.

Books on this topic: The meaning and limits of religious instruction (1952); What is holiness? (1955); Can you believe the Bible as a scientist? (1974, 2nd edition 1986); The Father in the Family (1975); Do Christians Educate Different? (1976); Love is difficult and beautiful - guidelines for young Christians (1978, 5th edition 1984; Hungarian: Szerelem - nehez es szep , 1988); Thinking Desired - Why I Believe the Bible (1978); A Christian Celebrates Christmas (1979, 3rd edition 1986); First hear what God says - school devotions (1980, 2nd edition 1982); Grounded in Facts - Become a Christian, Remain Christian (1983); Our Cloud of Witnesses (2005).

Narrative

21 Stories For Today's Young People (1966); Christoph and Christiane , Roman (under the pseudonym "Gottfried Arnold", 1978, 2nd edition 1979); Think! Stories for Children and Young People (1982).

Editor of books

Schröter published the following books with his own contributions and those of other scholars and school practitioners: Problems of the Primary School (1972); The school for 10 to 15 year olds (1975); Analysis and approaches of a new elementary school didactics - The school for 5- to 10-year-olds (1976); Schoolchildren problems. Experience reports for teachers and parents (1981).

In addition to articles in educational journals, Schröter published articles in books that were edited by other authors, mostly scientists and school practitioners.

On his 60th birthday on December 17, 1985, Schröter was given a commemorative publication published by Hans Hielscher and Martin Schwab entitled Schoolchildren Eight and Promote .

Fonts

• Purpose and Limits of Religious Instruction. Paulus, Stuttgart 1952.
• The elementary school child in the process of the present. Dissertation, University of Frankfurt am Main 1953.
• Modern essay topics. Hirschgraben, Frankfurt am Main 1954.
• What is holiness? 1955.
• Everyday school life - viewed critically. New German School, Essen 1962.
• Introduction to school practice. Wunderlich Verlagbuchhandlung, Worms 1963, ISBN 3-8084-4062-7 .
• Exciting teaching - but how? Wunderlich Verlagbuchhandlung, Worms 1963.
• 21 stories for young people today. Wunderlich Verlagbuchhandlung, Worms 1966.
• Start group work tomorrow. Wunderlich Verlagbuchhandlung, Worms 1967.
• The unjust censorship of essays. Kamp, Bochum 1971, ISBN 3592714805 .
• Information and training folder for censoring student essays. Kamp, Bochum 1972.
• Can you believe the Bible as a scientist? R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1974, ISBN 341700506X .
• The father in the family. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1975, ISBN 3417005175 .
• Do Christians Educate Different? R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1976, ISBN 3417005639 .
• Censorships? Censorships! Pedagogical publisher Burgbücherei Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 1977, ISBN 3871161195 .
• Thinking Desired - Why I Believe the Bible. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 3417202655 .
• Christoph and Christiane. Schulte, Wetzlar 1978, ISBN 3877399606 .
• A Christian celebrates Christmas / Blessed Christmas Time. Schulte and Gerth, Asslar 1979, ISBN 3877395333 .
• First hear what God says - student devotions. Schulte and Gerth, Aßlar 1980, ISBN 387739437X .
• Love hard and beautiful - direction for young Christians. White Cross, Kassel 1987, ISBN 3878930704 .
• Transfer endangered. Hänssler, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3775104984 .
• Think! Stories for children and teenagers. Schulte and Gerth, Asslar 1982, ISBN 3877394493 .
• On the ground of facts - become a Christian, remain a Christian. Schulte and Gerth, Aßlar 1983, ISBN 3877395139 .
• School criticism. Pedagogical publisher Burgbücherei Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 1985, ISBN 3871161616 .
• Life cannot be censored. Autobiography. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3417110165 .
• The sovereignty of God. Private print 1997.
• Our cloud of witnesses. Private printing 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Schröter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Grades - Grades Part 1. SAT.1 interview on the importance of grading (August 1991)
• Censorship-Censorship Part 2.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Educator and author Gottfried Schröter died at the age of 92 , idea.de, message from September 6, 2018.