Hans Brügelmann

Hans Brügelmann (born December 29, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German educational researcher, elementary school teacher and literary didactician.

biography

Brügelmann, grandson of the opera singer Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann , is the son of the local politician Hermann Brügelmann (1899–1972) and his wife Eva nee. Wollmann (* 1914). After graduating from high school in Cologne, he studied law, social and political sciences at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Bonn and the University of Tübingen from 1966 to 1970 . He completed his educational studies with grants from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Volkswagenwerk Foundation from 1970 to 1975 at the University of Konstanz and at various foreign institutes ( London 1968/69, Norwich 1974/75, Toronto 1975 and Urbana / IL 1975).

From 1971 to 1973 he was assistant to the Committee on Strategies for Curriculum Reform at the German Education Council . Before and after his doctorate in 1975 he worked on various evaluation projects from pre-university to university. In 1980 he was appointed professor for beginners lessons at the University of Bremen . During this time the work Children on the Path to Writing was published many times over. In 1993 he accepted a professorship for elementary school pedagogy and didactics at the University of Siegen . In the Primary School Association , Brügelmann was responsible for the quality development department from 2000 to 2017 and for the elementary school parents supplement to the Grundschule aktuell magazine from 2011 to 2014 . From 2006 to 2015 Brügelmann was the curator of the Carl Richard Montag Foundation . From 2008 to 2012 he was the spokesman for the school association Blick über den Zaun and, together with Axel Backhaus, headed the educational reform department of the association at the University of Siegen. Brügelmann retired in 2012 and has been working as a freelance education journalist ever since. In November 2018 he was awarded the Erwin Schwartz Primary School Prize by the Primary School Association.

With the elementary school teacher Karin Loos he has two sons, the sports journalist Matthias Christian Brügelmann and the logistician Benjamin Thomas Brügelmann.

Contributions

• Brügelmann was co-editor and employee of several magazines such as Thema Curriculum, Elementary School, Elementary School Magazine and book series such as DGLS Yearbook Reading and Writing, Yearbook Elementary School
• Alone or together with Erika Brinkmann and Hans Werner Heymann, he led various research and development projects that became influential in reading / writing didactics and in elementary school pedagogy, including children on the way to writing, learning workshop Büffelstübchen, writing comparison BRDDR, open work and social forms (OASE), parent school in the university, BLISS, didactic development and testing center for learning software primary level (DEP), learning biographies in school and extracurricular context (LISA & KO), longitudinal examination of sentence reading and text understanding (LUST), shift-specific learning outside of class ( SCHLAU) , Dialogic Diagnostics in Adult Literacy as part of the BMBF joint project Progress.

Educational ideas

In his first publication Open Curricula from 1972, the basic topics that Brügelmann has repeatedly addressed in his projects, publications and lectures are already mentioned :

• Respect of adults for the rights of children to determine their own life and thus also their learning as much as possible ( open teaching );
• Empowering teachers as researchers of their own practice;
• Obligation of educational research to present the perspectives of everyone involved in an investigation;
• Decentralization of responsibility in the education system, since school reform “from above” cannot be successful;
• Need to differentiate and enrich statistical findings from large-scale educational research studies (as in PISA ) through dense case studies.

The reform of reading and writing lessons in elementary schools that began in the early 1980s had a lasting influence on Hans Brügelmann, among other things with his multiple published books Kinder auf Weg zum Schrift (9th edition, 2013) and The invention of writing , in which he With the language experience approach, he advocated independent access to reading and writing for children and a greater tolerance for mistakes. Since the end of the 1990s he has played a key role in the discussion of international performance studies such as TIMSS , PISA, IGLU (see What do our schools do? 1999, and Understanding and Shaping Schools , 2005). Above all, he criticizes the dominance of the central evaluation over a lesson-related and context-related evaluation of teaching and learning processes and their success (cf. most recently measured schools - standardized students , 2015). Together with Axel Backhaus and Erika Brinkmann, he developed practical alternatives to large-scale studies such as VERA in the LUST study and in the “Pedagogical Performance Culture ” project (Grundschulverband 2005) .

His focal points included the relationship between professional learning in school and extracurricular activities and experiences (see the LISA & KO project), especially with regard to class-specific influences (see the SCHLAU project on the holiday effect and the investigation of the caravan effect in the development of professional services). From 2011-2014 he was with Axel Backhaus, Babette Danckwerts (until 2012) and Erika Brinkmann (from 2012) the quarterly supplement primary school parents the journal Primary School currently the primary association out.

Public criticism

Der Spiegel describes Brügelmann as "one of the most important door openers for the new spelling anarchy". His basic ideas - and related methods such as Jürgen Reichen's “ reading by writing ” method - are partly responsible for the fact that weaker students such as dyslexics or children with a migration background or from educational backgrounds are left behind in learning correct written language - with serious consequences for them further life.

He countered his critics in the Tagesspiegel : “Another thing that is often forgotten in the whole discussion: 50 or 100 years ago, error-free writing was taken much more seriously in everyday social life as well as in school. Today, correct spelling is generally of less importance, for example in e-mails and private messages. But there are also more misprints in newspapers, and advertising deliberately plays with spelling variants. One may complain about that, but children live in this society. " He particularly accuses the grammar schools of requiring the students entering them to have a good command of spelling. In many publications, Brügelmann and others have reviewed German and international research on the sound-oriented spelling of words as a beneficial introduction to the development of reading and (legal) writing. In a historical review, Brügelmann has shown that criticism has been expressed in a similar way for every change in teaching methods since the 1950s and that the majority of functionally illiterate people come from the times when children did not write in a phonetic way at first.

Fonts

• The teachers' center. 1976. (2nd edition. 1978)
• Children on the way to writing. 1983. (9th edition. 2013)
• Discover the writing. 1984. (6th edition. 1996) (pedocs.de)
• with Heiko Balhorn and others: rainbow reading box. 5x5 books for beginners, 1987. (8th edition. 2010)
• with Erika Brinkmann: Ideenkiste written language. 1993. (8th edition. 2010)
• with Sigrun Richter and others: How we learn to write correctly. 1994. (2nd edition. 1996) (pedocs.de)
• with Erika Brinkmann: inventing the font. 1998. (2nd edition. 2005)
• with Sigrun Richter and others: Girls learn DIFFERENTLY, boys learn. 1994. (2nd edition. 1996)
• with Heiko Balhorn and others: The riddle of the acquisition of written language . 1995.
• with Heiko Balhorn and others: worlds of writing in the classroom. 1995.
• Children learn differently: before school - at school . 1998. (2nd edition. 2000)
• What do our schools do? 1999.
• with Erika Brinkmann and Axel Backhaus: Independent learning and individualization “from below”. Old and new media as a challenge and help in primary school. 2003. (2nd edition. 2006)
• Understand and shape school. 2005. (pedocs.de)
• Pedagogical performance culture. with Horst Bartnitzky and others, Volume 1: 2005, Volume 2: 2006, Volume 3: 2007.
• with Axel Backhaus and others: Are grades useful - and necessary? 2008.
• with Otto Seydel: Observe, evaluate, advise. Procedures and tools for a different evaluation. 2007.
• with Axel Backhaus and others: Democratic primary school . 2008. (pedocs.de)
• with Erika Brinkmann: Opening of the initial lessons - theoretical principles, practical teaching ideas and empirical findings. 2008, 2nd edition. 2009. (dokumentix.ub.uni-siegen.de)
• with Horst Bartnitzky and others: primary school course book. 2010.
• Funding - why, who, how, when? 2012.
• with Wolfgang Eichler: Reading and writing lessons today: Against ideological shortenings, for more perspectives and more pluralism , 2013. [1]
• with Axel Backhaus, Erika Brinkmann and Babette Danckwerts: GrundschulEltern - A guide for family and school. 2014.
• Measured Schools - Standardized Students. 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ grundschulverband.de
2. ↑ The new bad spelling. In: Der Spiegel. Issue 25/2013, p. 98.
3. ↑ Hans Brügelmann: Our children are not spelling chaots. In: tagesspiegel.de. June 20, 2013, accessed June 20, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Hans Brügelmann explains the language experience approach In: Der Spiegel. June 27, 2013.
5. ↑ Cf. among others the articles in: E. Brinkmann (Hrsg.): Spelling in the discussion - written language acquisition and spelling lessons. (= Contributions to the reform of the primary school. Volume 140). Primary School Association, Frankfurt 2015, pp. 164ff., 185ff., 194ff .; s. also: grundschulverband.de and https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dbu3x6po9zdazv/brue.19.LdS.lautorientierter_schreiben.invented-spelling.rs-entwicklung.%C3%BCberblick.190308.pdf?dl=0 , accessed on August 26, 2019
6. ↑ Brügelmann, H. (2019k): “Today's students can no longer read and write” - really not (anymore)? https://www.academia.edu/s/9ce574920f/brue19lds_rsu_freies_lauttreues_schreibenruckblickms_lang_www190128apdf , accessed on August 26, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Brügelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.hans-bruegelmann.com/