Klaus Westphalen
Klaus Westphalen (born October 5, 1931 ; † October 3, 2015 ) was a German educational scientist and didactic specialist in ancient languages .
After studying and obtaining his doctorate in 1957 at the University of Munich , he worked as a Latin and Greek teacher. He was department head at the Institute for School Education in Munich and in 1981 became Professor of Educational Science at the University of Education in Kiel (since 1994 Faculty of the University of Kiel ); In 1996 he retired .
His contributions to curriculum development in the 1970s, which responded to Saul B. Robinsohn's rejection of ancient languages, and to the interaction between English and Latin teaching were significant . He was co-editor of the Latin book Roma at CC Buchner Verlag and many other textbooks. Westphalen was one of the critics of the 1972 upper school reform and the loss of education at school.
Quote
Westphalen in the magazine Die Zeit on March 6, 2003:
- “My point of view is this: high school students should learn English thoroughly and fluently, a highly useful communication language. Training in similar skills would teach them French as a second foreign language. A complementary training of other, equally important skills would offer them the classical language: With Latin, students learn a language of reflection with a high educational effect, the "basic language of Europe". If, equipped with this complementary training, they - as ideal EU citizens - want to learn another foreign language afterwards, Italian and Spanish, perhaps even a non-European language, should be available. "
Publications
- Lucretius's theory of the development of culture. Dissertation . Munich 1957.
- Practical curriculum development: an introduction to curriculum reform using the example of Bavaria . Auer, Donauwörth 1973.
- Professor Unrat and his colleague. Literary portraits of the philologist . Buchner, Bamberg 1986, ISBN 3-7661-5650-0 .
- Basic language Latin. Aids to argumentation for Latin teachers and friends of the ancient world. Bamberg 1992, ISBN 3-7661-5429-X .
- (Ed.): "Everything flows" - world politics and contemporary diagnoses in antiquity and the present. Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7661-7662-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Westphalen in the catalog of the German National Library
literature
- Jürgen Wiechmann (Ed.): Developing the tried and tested. Impulses for high school education. Festschrift on the retirement of Klaus Westphalen. Buchner, Bamberg 1996, ISBN 3-7661-5696-9 .
- Günter Wojaczek : About Klaus Westphalen's retirement from the University of Kiel. In: The ancient languages in the classroom . 43, 1 + 2, 1996, pp. 16-18.
supporting documents
- ↑ Obituary notice. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2015, accessed on October 7, 2015.
- ↑ Markus Krischer: How SMART are the Germans. In: focus.de. Focus , June 21, 1999, accessed October 7, 2015.
- ^ Klaus Westphalen: Basic language Latin. In: zeit.de. The time 11/2003, March 6, 2003, accessed on October 7, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Westphalen, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1931 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 2015 |