Karl Josef Klauer

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Karl Josef Klauer (born March 10, 1929 in Sargenroth ) is a primary and special school teacher and a psychologist. He has made a decisive contribution to the discussion regarding auxiliary and special schools and has significantly influenced the development of the discipline of educational psychology .

biography

Karl Josef Klauer was born in 1929. He studied psychology from 1954 to 1958 in Mainz and then also did his doctorate there. From 1963 to 1968 he held a professorship for pedagogy for the learning disabled in Cologne and completed his habilitation in 1967 at the University of Düsseldorf in the subject of educational psychology. From 1968 to 1976 he was Professor of Education at the TU Braunschweig . As the first holder of the chair for the history of empirical pedagogy, he established the basic pedagogical-psychological orientation of the seminar. From 1976 to 1994 he was professor for educational science at RWTH Aachen . He has been retired since 1994.

Work (selection)

In addition to the second edition of the book Cognitive Training ( ISBN 3-8017-0611-7 ), which was also published in Switzerland, Canada and the USA , he wrote numerous other books on this topic:

  • Criteria-based tests. Hogrefe, Göttingen 1987.
  • with Edeltrud Marx: No one is as smart as I and II. A support program for children. (Several volumes) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987.
  • Thinking training for children I . Hogrefe, Göttingen Verlag für Psychologie, 1989.
  • Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Aspects of Aging. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992.
  • Thinking training for children II . Hogrefe, Göttingen Publishing House for Psychology, 1991.
  • Thinking training for teenagers . Hogrefe, Göttingen Publishing House for Psychology, 1993.
  • Handbook of cognitive training. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2000.
  • with Detlev Leutner: teaching and learning. Introduction to instruction psychology. Beltz PVU, Weinheim 2007.
  • Brain training for older people. Bern: Huber, 2008, ISBN 3-456-84553-7 .
  • with Gary D. Phye: Inductive Reasoning. A training approach. Review of Educational Research, 2008, 78, pp. 85-123.

Previously, Klauer had written several works on the problem of special schools, including the school attendance behavior of primary and auxiliary school children. Henn, Ratingen 1963; Mind Training for Children: An Intellectual Development Program. Publishing house for psychology. Hogrefe, Göttingen, Toronto, Zurich; Handbook of educational diagnostics. (Volume 1 and 2) Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf. Programmed lessons in special schools. (2nd edition) Marhold, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1970 and his habilitation thesis Learning and Intelligence: The Influence of Training Methods on the Intelligence Performance of Weakly Gifted Children. Düsseldorf 1967.

literature

  • H. Feger (ed.): Science and responsibility. Festschrift for Karl Josef Klauer on his sixtieth birthday. Hogrefe, Göttingen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History ( Memento from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on tu-braunschweig.de
personal data
SURNAME Klauer, Karl Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, elementary and special school teacher and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Sargenroth