Hans Werner Heymann

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Hans Werner Heymann (born 1946 in Soest ) is a German mathematician , educational scientist and author . From 1996 until his retirement in 2012 he was Professor of Education at the University of Siegen .

Life

Hans Werner Heymann graduated from high school in 1966 in his native Soest . Until 1972 he studied mathematics , physics and sometimes musicology at the University of Münster . He graduated in the first two subjects with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In the following years he was a research assistant at the Institute for Business Education of the University of Göttingen , where he Education and Social Psychology studied in 1977 with a dissertation on "teaching-learning processes in mathematics education" was awarded his doctorate .

From 1978 to 1996 he was academic advisor and senior advisor at the Institute for Didactics of Mathematics at Bielefeld University , passed his second state examination and gave mathematics lessons at various schools . In 1995 he qualified as a professor in Bielefeld for educational science with a thesis entitled “General Education and Mathematics”.

From 1996 Heymann worked at the University of Siegen. He initially took on a substitute professorship and from 1997 until his retirement in 2012 a professorship for educational science. At Siegen University he was one of the founding members of the Center for Teacher Training , which he later chaired. Among other things, he was a member of the senate and the university council .

Hans Werner Heymann has been an editorial member of the Pädagogik magazine since 2000 . After his retirement he became a member of the expert commission “Community Schools in Baden-Württemberg”.

Heymann lives in Werther . He has been a choirmaster since 1983 and one year later he founded the East Westphalian Chamber Choir in Bielefeld, as well as the Voices of Paradise at the University of Siegen in 1999 . Since 1961 he has been composing choral music, chamber and piano pieces as a part-time job . In 1991 he was awarded the composition prize of the Cooperativa Neue Musik in Bielefeld for a sonata for flute and piano . Hans Werner Heymann is married and has two children.

Work and ideas

Hans Werner Heymann's professorship in Siegen focused on school pedagogy and didactics . In his publications, too, he dealt in particular with mathematics didactics and mathematics lessons , which he regards as part of an "interdisciplinary general education concept".

In particular, “mathematics as a science does not give an answer to the question of which mathematics should be learned by all adolescents in which way”. The elaboration of his concept takes place from the educational theory justified, as Heymann calls it, “external point of view” and is to apply as “yardstick for the assessment and criticism of a mathematics lesson” as well as to justify the necessity of obligatory instruction for all in the respective subject. Heymann sees himself "committed to a socially scientifically enlightened hermeneutics " and joins the "tradition line of humanities education." In his concept Heymann formulates seven different, partly interlinked tasks: life preparation, foundation of cultural coherence, world orientation, instructions for the critical use of reason, Developing willingness to take responsibility, practicing understanding and cooperation as well as strengthening the student self. Although other subjects such as religion and German could tackle some tasks more directly, Heymann believes that "the specific contribution of mathematics lessons cannot be compensated for by any other subject". On the basis of the tasks, he succeeds in formulating different emphases on how a general education should be designed in comparison to conventional teaching, whereby he also sees this approach clearly more international. In addition to the tension between society, learners and mathematics, Heymann also looks at the teachers, from whom, in addition to their enthusiasm for their subject, he also demands modesty as an insight "that mathematics cannot be equally important for all students."

In 2008 Heymann advocated teaching soft skills in schools. Too little research is being done on this topic. Even in the working world that follows school, specialist knowledge and social skills such as the ability to cooperate cannot be separated and both are required. He considered Waldorf schools “exemplary” in this regard.

In 2009 he joined the criticism of specialist colleagues, including Hans Brügelmann , on the politics of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government. This planned to introduce bachelor's and master's degrees for prospective teachers, which was implemented in 2011. The criticism of the educationalists was that a meaningful reform of the teaching degree would fail due to the multitude of requirements of the Conference of Ministers of Education , and that teachers and fellow students would not be able to adequately exchange ideas in the expected large lecture halls.

Publications (selection)

  • Teaching-learning processes in mathematics lessons: analyzes in the area of ​​the orientation level . also dissertation 1977. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-929181-4 .
  • General education and mathematics . Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-34099-0 (also habilitation thesis 1995).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our authors. In: Beltz Publishing Group. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on February 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Information on the dissertation.
  3. ↑ a b c d University of Siegen: Short biography. Retrieved December 25, 2014 .
  4. ↑ editorial office. In: Journal Pedagogy online. Retrieved December 25, 2014 . >
  5. ↑ University of Siegen: Hans Werrner Heymann. Retrieved December 25, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Mathematics and School - Prof. Dr. Hans Werner Heymann. (No longer available online.) In: University of Mainz, Department of Mathematics. July 6, 2010, archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on December 27, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mathematik.uni-mainz.de
  7. ↑ General education and mathematics . Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-34099-0 , p. 277 .
  8. ↑ General education and mathematics . Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-34099-0 , p. 8th f .
  9. ↑ General education and mathematics . Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-34099-0 , p. 133 .
  10. ↑ General education and mathematics . Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-34099-0 , p. 277 ff .
  11. ↑ General education and mathematics . Beltz , Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-34099-0 , p. 280 .
  12. ^ Christian Werner: Soft Skills for Classes. In: time online . February 16, 2008, accessed December 27, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Teacher training courses (Bachelor / Master). In: University of Cologne: Central Student Advisory Service. Retrieved December 27, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Education: Pedagogues in Siegen criticize Bachelor and Master plans. In: Westfälische Rundschau online. December 3, 2009, accessed December 27, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Heymann, Hans Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest