Jens Boenisch

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Jens Boenisch (* 1964 ) is a German educator and university professor for pedagogy for the physically handicapped . He currently teaches at the University of Cologne .

Life

Jens Boenisch is married and has three children.

Boenisch studied special education and rehabilitation for the physically and speech-impaired at the Technical University of Dortmund . He then made his 2nd state examination for teaching special needs education. Since 1995 he has been a research assistant and assistant for physically handicapped education at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg at the chair of Professor Harry Bergeest . He received his doctorate there in 1999.

In 2003 he was appointed junior professor in the field of pedagogy for the physically challenged. From 2004 he also took over the duties of the sick chair holder.

Jens Boenisch has been at the University of Cologne since 2005 . There he holds the professorship at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Curative Education, Department of Education for People with Impairments in Physical and Motor Development.

His main research area is the language development and language promotion of children without spoken language, the support by means of various forms of assisted communication. To this end, he heads the research and advice center for assisted communication in Cologne. Furthermore, he researches the learning behavior of children with spina bifida and / or hydrocephalus as well as the effects of impaired motor skills on language and learning behavior.

Quotes

“The majority of people with severe physical disabilities who cannot speak are still considered to be mentally handicapped. As long as these people are trapped in their bodies, they are dependent on assisted communication. ”( Jens Boenisch, quoted from Jürgen Salm: Speaking without a voice: How" talkers "generate synthetic speech. In: Bayern 2. Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 17, 2009 , accessed 13 December 2009 . )

"What should a stutterer learn in a stutterer class other than stuttering?" ( Jens Boenisch in a seminar on pedagogy for the physically handicapped at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg in 2004 )

Works (selection)

  • Jens Boenisch: Integration pedagogy in special needs teacher training . Analyzes and perspectives for the second training phase. 1st edition. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn / Obb. 2000, ISBN 3-7815-1080-8 (also: dissertation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1999).
  • Jens Boenisch, Christof Bunk, ISAAC Society for Supported Communication eV (Ed.): Methods of supported communication . 1st edition. Von-Loeper-Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-86059-143-6 (also: dissertation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1999).
  • Harry Bergeest, Jens Boenisch: Physically handicapped education . 20th Century Bibliography. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn / Obb. 2002, ISBN 3-7815-1225-8 .
  • Jens Boenisch, Volker Daut (Ed.): Didactics of teaching with physically handicapped children . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017436-3 .
  • Jens Boenisch: Diagnostics and advice in supported communication . Von-Loeper-Literaturverl., Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3-86059-193-2 .
  • Jens Boenisch: Children without spoken language . An empirical study on the status of funding and the use of supported communication in schools for the physically handicapped in Germany. Von-Loeper-Literaturverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86059-211-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from Jens Boenisch in: Physically handicapped pedagogy
  2. ^ Ernst Joachim Waschke: On the status of junior professorships at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In: The Rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (ed.): Scienta hallensis . tape 4/2003 . Halle (Saale) July 2003, p. 11 ( uni-halle.de [PDF; accessed on December 13, 2009]).
personal data
SURNAME Boenisch, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and university professor for pedagogy for the disabled
DATE OF BIRTH 1964