Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann

Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann (born September 17, 1944 in Bochum ) is a German educational scientist. He worked as a professor for school education at Bielefeld University . There he was also (from 1994 to 2008) scientific director of the " Laborschule Bielefeld ", a reform school that was founded in 1974 by Hartmut von Hentig . He has been retired since 2009.

From 1966 to 1969, Tillmann completed a teaching degree at the University of Education in Dortmund and then worked as a secondary school teacher in Bochum. In 1974 he did his doctorate at the University of Education in Dortmund with a thesis on school socialization. Before he came to Bielefeld in 1992, he worked as a research assistant at the " Institute for School Development Research " at the PH Dortmund (1972–1979) and as a professor at the University of Hamburg (1979–1991). In 1991/92 he set up the "Pädagogische Landesinstitut Brandenburg" (Ludwigsfelde) as founding director.

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he was / is active in various scientific committees - for example in the scientific advisory board of the DJI ( German Youth Institute ). He was also chairman of the scientific advisory board of the research association "Studies on the Development of All-Day Schools" (StEG). From 1999 to 2003 he was chairman of the "Pedagogical Committee" in the DFG ( German Research Foundation ). He has political advisory projects a. a. carried out in Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia.

The focus of his work is: school theory , school development in the secondary level, school socialization, empirical educational research . He is one of the authors of the German PISA 2000 study.

Tillmann lives in Berlin. He has been married to the pedagogy professor Marianne Horstkemper ( formerly: University of Potsdam ) since 1983 .

Works (selection)

• Lessons as a social field of experience , Frankfurt / M. 1976
• Education for the year 2000. Review of the reform, future of the school , (with K. Klemm and HG Rolff), Reinbek 1985
• School theories , Hamburg 1987
• Between euphoria and stagnation. Experiences with the educational reform , Hamburg 1987
• Socialization Theories , Reinbek 1989 (15th edition 2007)
• Youth female - youth male , Opladen 1992
• School development and teacher work , Hamburg 1995
• School violence as a school problem , (with B. Holler-Nowitzki et al.), Weinheim 1999 (3rd edition 2007)
• PISA 2000. Basic competencies of schoolchildren in comparison (with J. Baumert et al.), Opladen 2001
• Experimental schools and the mainstream school system , (with L. Huber), Bielefeld 2005
• Laboratory school - model for the school of the future (with S. Thurn), Bad Heilbrunn 2005
• The laboratory school as reflected in its PISA results (with R. Watermann et al.), Weinheim 2005
• School development and teacher research , (with E. Terhart), Bad Heilbrunn 2007
• PISA as an educational policy event , (with K. Dedering and others), Wiesbaden 2008
• Datenreport Educational Science 2008 , (editor, with T. Rauschenbach, R. Tippelt and H. Weishaupt), Opladen / Farmington Hills 2008, ISBN 978-3-86649-179-3
• Teacher Research and School Development. German approaches and international perspectives , (editor, with Nicole Hollenbach), Opladen / Farmington Hills 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-352-0
• Socialization and education in school. A problem-oriented introduction, (with M. Horstkemper), Bad Heilbrunn: UTB 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4537-5
• Empirical educational research. The critical view and the answer to the critics . (Editor, with J. Baumert) special issue 31 of the journal for educational science. Wiesbaden 2016. ISBN 978-3-658-13784-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann in the catalog of the German National Library