Lothar Klingberg

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Lothar Klingberg (born January 11, 1926 in Rosenberg / Upper Silesia, † July 8, 1999 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German pedagogue and didactic .

Life

Klingberg began training in 1940 at the Brunneck teacher training college , then in Patschkau , Neisse and Beuthen , joined the Waffen SS in 1945 and was taken prisoner after fighting. In 1945 he became a new teacher in Otterwisch and from 1948 to 1951 studied history, philosophy, pedagogy and music as a primary school teacher at the KMU Leipzig , with Hans Mayer and Ernst Bloch , among others . He continued studying as an assistant and aspirant. He defended his dissertation, which he wrote under Hugo Müller, under the title Structural Problems of the Lesson , in 1956 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, followed by his habilitation in 1962. In 1964 he was appointed professor in Leipzig, in 1965 he was offered a chair for systematic pedagogy and general didactics at the “Karl Liebknecht” college of education in Potsdam and taught until 1980 when he was disabled. He continued to research there until the end of his life.

Klingberg wrote the Dialectical Didactics , which in the GDR analyzed the relationship between material, teachers and learners in a new way. As a result, the dominance of the given GDR curriculum was in question. He considers children capable of actively shaping the upbringing process as ?? self-education ?? and ?? self-education ??. In its ?? However, as an introduction to general didactics , he also explains his closeness to the socialist image of man

?? “An image of man only becomes a viable, reliable model of education if it is scientifically justified from the perspective of social development and derived from the future of man, if it is a human image of man, a humanistic model ?? ”. (P. 63)

Klingberg was a member of the GDR's Central Pedagogy Commission. In 1962 he received the Dr. Theodor Neubauer Medal (bronze) and later the Pestalozzi Medal (bronze).

Works (selection)

  • Teachers and learners in class: on didactic aspects of their positions in the teaching process , Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-06-204105-6
  • Teaching process and didactic questions - studies and experiments , 3rd edition, Berlin 1986.
  • Introduction to general didactics: lectures , Berlin 1972. (7 editions until 1989)

literature

  • Werner Jank , Hilbert Meyer : Didaktische Modelle , Cornelsen Scriptor, Berlin 1991, etc. ISBN 358921012-5
  • Jonas Flöter: Educational Sciences . In: Ulrich von Hehl; John, Uwe; Rudersdorf, M. [Hrsg.]: History of the University of Leipzig 1409-2009 . Vol. 4: Faculties, institutes, central facilities ; 1st half volume: pp. 693-734. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, 2009.
  • Hilbert Meyer. Memories of Lothar Klingberg . In: kentron EXTRA: Journal for Teacher Education 2011, p. 7. Potsdam: University of Potsdam, Center for Teacher Education, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Memories of L. Klingberg. In: KentronExtra. Uni Potsdam, 2011, accessed on January 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klingberg, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German didactician
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1999
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel