Klaus W. Döring

Klaus Wolf Döring (born November 24, 1938 in Silesia ) has been a professor at the Technical University of Berlin since 1974 in the field of "Organization and Didactics of Further Education". He is considered one of the pioneers of in-company training and further education in the German-speaking area.

biography

In 1964, Döring passed the first state examination for teaching at elementary and secondary schools at the University of Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1967 he received the Gustav Lesemann Prize of the Association of German Special Schools for the work "Programmed lessons in special schools and the draft of a rough program for the basics on behavioral psychology". In 1968 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. on the subject of "teaching and learning materials. On history and theory with special consideration of the work equipment ”. From 1968 to 1970 Döring was a research assistant at the philosophical faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. From 1970 to 1971 he took over a professorship at the University of Education in Kiel and then until 1974 at the University of Education in Rhineland - Cologne Department. Since 1974 he has been a professor at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of "Organization and Didactics of Further Education".

Focus

The implementation and support of the advanced and contact study of advanced training management at the Technical University is considered a founding achievement of Döring . In the context of this course of study, the specialist journal “New Perspectives - Journal for Vocational Education and Training” was created, for which Döring was the publisher in 1990.

At the end of the 1990s, Döring developed his university teaching activities in international study exchanges - especially with China. In 1998 he made a teaching stay there with lectures and seminars at various Chinese universities.

In the 1980s, Döring organized and accompanied the multi-year campaign “Art and Communication” in the foyer of the broadcaster Free Berlin . In it, contemporary art was regularly presented to the public. The most recent work he founded in 2004 was the Berlin association “Citizens for the Lietzensee eV”, which aims to maintain and look after the historic city park in central Charlottenburg .

Publications

Döring already dealt with professional teaching-learning interaction during his habilitation. The volume "Teacher behavior and teaching profession", which has been published in 10 editions since 1970, is considered to be the basic work in educational science teacher training. As one of the first German-language book contributions on the development of skills and the professionalization of trainers, lecturers and instructors, Döring published the volume “Teaching in adult education. A Lecturer's Guide ”. The basic work is structured in two synonymous parts, the first of which has been deliberately designed in a popular scientific manner in order to address the target group directly, while the second presents the same content in scientific language. In 2000 Döring completed his life's work in five volumes in cooperation with co-author Bettina Ritter-Mamczek.

• 1997: Teaching and training in further education.
• 1998: Media in further education.
• 1998: The Practice of Continuing Education.
• 1999: Further training in the learner system
• 2001: Learning and working techniques in further education.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus W. Döring in the catalog of the German National Library