Helmut Fend

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Helmut Fend (born December 26, 1940 in Hohenems , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian education professor.

After graduating from high school in 1960 and training as a primary school teacher, he taught at one-class primary schools in Vorarlberg. He studied at the University of Innsbruck and completed a study visit to the University of London in 1965/66 . In 1967 he obtained a doctorate in educational science and psychology at the University of Innsbruck. From 1968 he worked at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Konstanz and at the Center for Educational Research. In 1978/79 he was head of the State Institute for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. From 1987 he worked as a full professor for educational psychology at the University of Zurich . He has been retired since 2006.

Fend's early works developed a sociological school theory . His research and teaching focuses at the University of Zurich are youth development, educational systems and school development. So he developed the offer-use model for teaching.

Fonts

His dissertation Socialization and Upbringing (1969) is still a standard work in educational science .

This was followed by four volumes of a "School Sociology" (1974–1979):

  • Social conditions of school socialization , Weinheim, Basel: Beltz, 1974
  • School climate / 1. Processes of social influence in schools , Beltz 1977
  • Social conditions for school socialization , Beltz, 1979, 5th edition, (13th - 14th thousand)
  • Socialization through literature , Beltz, 1979

A standard work is above all the theory of the school , 2nd edition Munich 1981 (first 1980) ISBN 3-541-40852-9 .

The following books have recently appeared:

  • From Child to Adolescent: The Transition and Its Risks (1990)
  • Parents and friends. Social Development in Adolescence (1998),
  • Quality in Education (2001),
  • Developmental Psychology of Adolescence (2005),
  • School's new theory. Education as an institutional actor in human education (2006)
  • History of education. The special path in the European cultural area (2006)
  • Shaping schools: system control, school development and teaching quality (2008)

literature

  • Rudolf Tippelt (Ed.): "How life works or how it works" · Helmut Fend. Award of an honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Helmut Fend , ISBN 3-8316-0786-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Fend: Theory of the school . Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1980.
personal data
SURNAME Fend, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian professor of education
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenems