Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother
Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother (born December 10, 1917 in Wilsdruff , Saxony; † October 6, 1991 in Augsburg ) was a primary school teacher . She was particularly committed to the beginnings and general classes. With her trend-setting didactic work on local studies / world studies / specialist knowledge, she can be described as a pioneer of modern subject teaching.
Live and act
Lichtenstein-Rother was the first daughter of the railway official Friedrich Kurt Rother and his wife Rosa, nee. Hertel. Her father died in November 1918. The mother's second marriage resulted in daughter Jutta. After training to be a primary school teacher in Dresden, she studied psychology, education and philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden (from 1941 to 1943) . During the bombing of Dresden, her almost finished dissertation fell victim to the flames. When the Russians marched into the city on the Elbe, she fled. Lichtenstein-Rother reported about this difficult time:
“I walked in the direction of Teplitz-Schönau , slept in the woods, was literally stripped and robbed, so I lost what little I had left before the air raid. After about two weeks I slowly returned to Dresden ... I stayed there until 1946 and stayed with a friend. It was raining in their apartment, but at least it was still an apartment. "
After she left Dresden, Lichtenstein-Rother worked for a short time as a private tutor at the Belli circus.
In 1946 Rother took over the construction and management of a youth center for children and young people with social deficits in the Lüneburg Heath. It was a day care center with full board for 300 partially malnourished children and young people who were cared for in 28 different working groups. The “club”, which “had become a kind of adult education center for children and young people”, was attended by over 300 young people.
In 1948 she was a lecturer in Practical Education at the College of Education Adolf Reichwein School Celle , where she worked as a teacher of a sample class and engaged intensively with work equipment. During this time she and Liselotte Nerlich von Diesterweg wrote the book Schulanfang , published in 1955 (published several times). In her suggestions for teaching, she developed from the then dominant local history to specialist knowledge . In 1957 Rother was appointed professor for school education at the PH Bielefeld. During this time she tried out her suggestions for introductory lessons in close cooperation with schools . During this time, she already clearly represented technical terms such as subject teaching and world studies . She played a key role in the new Lower Saxony guidelines for elementary schools and developed the technical term “Sachunterricht” very early in her writings as well as in Lower Saxony's guidelines.
From 1964 to 1973 Lichtenstein-Rother worked as a professor for school education at the PH Westfalen-Lippe, Münster department :
“Here she was significantly involved in the reform of the North Rhine-Westphalian primary and secondary schools. She had a particular influence on the primary sector. "
From 1972 to 1974 she headed the Salem Castle boarding school . She then took up the chair of pedagogy with a focus on elementary school didactics at the University of Augsburg (1973 to 1986). During this time, based on her anthropological orientation, she wrote writings on basic education and published numerous textbooks. Even after her retirement in 1986 , she influenced the pedagogical debate and advocated a school pedagogical theory-building based on school reality.
Her career as a non-doctoral and habilitated university lecturer is remarkable. In an interview she reported that after 1945 she was repeatedly advised to do a doctorate:
“Both Wilhelm Flitner and Herman Nohl were ready to accept me, I had spoken to both of them, and I had also gotten to know both of them in the meantime. I could also have done my doctorate at Döpp-Vorwald in Münster or at Brezinka in Innsbruck, at whose university I had temporarily matriculated. I even submitted a thesis there in Innsbruck, which was accepted as a dissertation, but then waived the Rigorosum. "
In 1957 Rother married the philosopher Ernst Lichtenstein , who died after 14 years of marriage. She found her final resting place in the Protestant cemetery in Augsburg .
Honors
Elementary schools in Bremen , Augsburg and Riede are named after her. The Society for Didaktik des Sachunterrichts (GDSU) has named the annual award after Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother. 1990 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
literature
- Manfred Berger : Leading women in social responsibility: Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother. In: Christ und Bildung 1999, no. 3, p. 27.
- Röbe, E .: Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother - an educational scientist who also remained a teacher. In: Astrid Kaiser / Monika Oubaid (ed.): German pedagogues of the present. Cologne 1986, pp. 67-73.
- Neuhaus-Siemon, Elisabeth: Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother (1917–1991) - your understanding of subject teaching. In: Kaiser, Astrid / Pech, Detlef (Hrsg.): History and historical conceptions of general teaching. Baltmannsweiler 2004.
- Edith Findel / Irene Löffler / Anne Schmucker (eds.): Augsburger Frauenlexikon, Augsburg 2006, pp. 99-100.
- Rainer Winkel : Conversations with educators. Education - Upbringing - School, Weinheim / Basel 1989
- Alois Knoller: She taught the school to respect the children. How the teacher Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother, who was born 100 years ago, turned the school inside out, in: Augsburger Allgemeine on December 12, 2017
Fonts (selection)
- Lichtenstein-Rother, Ilse: Back to school . Weinheim 1969.
- Lichtenstein-Rother, Ilse (ed.): Youth and books in Europe , Gütersloh 1967
- Lichtenstein-Rother, Ilse / Röbe, Edeltraud: The pedagogical space for the foundation of education . Munich / Vienna / Baltimore, 1982 (revised by Edeltraud Röbe under the title: Elementary School. The pedagogical space for the foundation of education . Weinheim / Basel 2005).
- Lichtenstein-Rother, Ilse (Hrsg.): Education as a task and order , Donauwörth 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winkel 1989, p. 223
- ↑ Winkel 1989, p. 225
- ↑ Findel / Löffler / Schmucker 2006, p. 99
- ↑ Winkel 1989, p. 230 f
- ↑ Honorary doctorates. In: uni-wuppertal.de. www.uni-wuppertal.de, accessed on May 15, 2018 .
Web links
- under 2. Spectrum article with photo by Lichtenstein-Rother
- A Lichtenstein-Rother school in Augsburg
- Literature by and about Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother in the catalog of the German National Library
- School named after her and co-founded by her (Lichtenstein-Rother-Volksschule Augsburg)
- Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother's estate in the Augsburg University Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lichtenstein-Rother, Ilse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German elementary school teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilsdruff , Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1991 |
| Place of death | augsburg |