Joachim Lompscher

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Joachim Lompscher (born November 7, 1932 in Chemnitz , † February 5, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German psychologist and didactician .

Life

Lompscher's parents were in the KPD , his father Paul Lompscher, his mother Jenny (née Zudkowitz). During the National Socialist era , they were persecuted for illegal activity: as the husband of a Jewish woman, their father was used for forced labor in the bombed Dresden, most of the mother's relatives died in extermination camps, and the son was denied high school. He was only allowed to attend high school in 1945 and was delegated to the Soviet Union to study in 1951. He studied pedagogy and psychology at the Moscow "Pedagogical University VI Lenin", he passed his diploma in 1955 with distinction. In 1955 he became an aspirant in Leningrad and studied at the "AI Heart Pedagogical College". In 1958 he submitted his dissertation on the topic of “On the understanding of children for some spatial relationships”.

After graduating, he worked in the GDR as a senior assistant in the department (later: the institute) for educational psychology at the pedagogical faculty of the HU in Berlin from 1958 to 1962, mainly in the training of qualified pedagogues, and became a lecturer in 1961. In 1962 he went to the German Central Pedagogical Institute (DPZI) and helped set up a department for educational psychology. As head of the department of learning psychology , member of the Society for Psychology of the GDR and until 1982 of the editorial board of the magazine “Pädagogik” he gained influence. From 1966 he headed the department, the practical teaching projects and the research group on questions of the mental development of children, especially in the lower grades. In 1970 he completed his habilitation at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1970 he became professor for educational psychology at the Academy of Educational Sciences of the GDR , deputy director of the institute for educational psychology, deputy chairman of the institute's science council and member of the coordination council and doctoral council. In 1981 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Psychologie für die Praxis .

Lompscher dealt with Vasily Dawydow and his theory of learning activity as "rising from the abstract to the concrete", which he presented at conferences and congresses at home and abroad. His subject also aroused interest in the West, he was called the " Aebli of the East". His book Psychological Analyzes of Learning was only published after changes to the manuscript in 1989 and was pulped again. The criticism of the authoritative pedagogue Gerhart Neuner , among others, accused him of neglecting the technical and misinterpreted the deductive learning path as an overemphasis on the theoretical and negation of the empirical, the perception, the direct experience, etc. The background of the criticism, especially APW Vice President Karl-Heinz Günther (1926-2010) lecture, forms the subject orientation of the activity theory of Vygotskijs , Leont'evs , Lurijas and Davwydows, which Lompscher pursued. With this he combined criticism of the objectivism and determinism of the predominant scientific psychology. But this threatens the active and dominant role of the teacher, which was set up in SED resolutions, so the APW criticism.

When the APW was closed, he and some of his former employees founded a “working group for learning and teaching research” at the HU. In 1993 he was appointed professor for psychological didactics and director of the interdisciplinary center for learning and teaching research at the University of Potsdam . Three months before his retirement, he was prematurely retired in 1997 because of a reassessment of his social commitment in the GDR, and the center closed a few months later. At that time he was a member of the German Society for Psychology and the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR).

Upon invitation, he also taught at universities in Scandinavia, Cuba, Vietnam and Brazil.

Fonts (selection)

  • Development and learning from a cultural and historical perspective. What does Vygotsky tell us today? (= International Studies on Activity Theory . Volumes 4.1 & 4.2). Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-924684-66-9 .
  • Psychology for Practice. Organ of the Society for Psychology of the German Democratic Republic, 1981–1990.
  • with Georg Rückriem (Ed. and Exercise): Lev Semjonowitsch Vygotskij: Thinking and Spoken. Psychological research. Beltz 2017, ISBN 978-3-621-28621-3 .

literature

  • Hartmut Giest (Hrsg.): Memories for the future - educational psychology in the GDR. Conference proceedings in memory of Joachim Lompscher. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86541-156-8 .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Georg Rückriem, Hartmut Giest: Obituary for Joachim Lompscher. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lompscher, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2005
Place of death Berlin