Hans-Jürgen Pandel

Hans-Jürgen Pandel (born December 2, 1940 in Opole ) is a German historian, history teacher and professor emeritus at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

biography

After studying history, political science and German in Giessen and Frankfurt / M. The first and second state exams for teaching followed and from 1965 to 1973 activities as a teacher at various school levels and types of school. From 1971 to 1978 Pandel was Klaus Bergmann's pedagogical assistant at the History Didactics Seminar at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , then from 1978 to 1984 research assistant at the University of Osnabrück .

The doctorate took place with a dissertation on the German history in the Enlightenment and early historicism , the habilitation in Osnabrück for the field of modern history and didactics of history. Since 1985 Pandel has been in charge of the professorship for didactics of history at the University of Osnabrück, in addition to which there were professorships at the Universities of Bochum (1987/88 and 1989) and Bielefeld (1993). From 1994 until his retirement, Pandel was professor of history and its didactics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Since 1990 he has been in the DFG - Collaborative Research Center ( Social History of the Modern Bourgeoisie: Germany in International Comparison ) at Bielefeld University, in charge of the sub-project “Emotional culture of the bourgeoisie in Germany and England using the example of historians and their families” .

Pandel's research interests are the theory of history , the history of historiography and the didactics of history. He is one of the representatives of a critical and communicative history didactics that place less emphasis on acquired overview knowledge than on their own historical thinking . He rejects the demand for fixed year catalogs for learners and the predominant teaching in schools largely as pure reproductive learning .

Pandel co-edited several school books and helped shape the history curriculum in Saxony-Anhalt . His approach of a method curriculum parallel to the historical content was innovative. In 2005 he also presented his own competency model for historical learning, which differed greatly from others .

Works (selection)

Pandel was / is editor and co-editor of the journals Geschichtsdidaktik (1976–1987), Geschichteearning, and history and politics books for teaching in lower secondary and upper secondary levels (e.g. editor of the history booklets for lower secondary level I).

• History and didactics: the problem of the distribution of historiographically generated knowledge in German historical studies from the late Enlightenment to early historicism, (1765 - 1830) , Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt 1990
• Source interpretation. The written source in history lessons , newsreel, Schwalbach / Ts. 2003 ISBN 3-89974-103-X
• History lessons according to PISA , Schwalbach / Ts. 2005 ISBN 3-89974-171-4
• History didactics. A theory for practice , Schwalbach / Ts. 2013 ISBN 978-389974670-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Pandel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hans-Jürgen Pandel  in the German Digital Library