Martin Keilhacker

This article is about the psychologist and educator, for the physicist see Martin Keilhacker (physicist)

Martin Keilhacker (born June 15, 1894 in Höselsthal, today part of Isen ; † November 11, 1989 in Munich ) was a German psychologist and media educator .

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After studying psychology and education , Keilhacker received his doctorate from Aloys Fischer in Munich with a thesis on the history of Munich youth care and youth movement. Since 1916 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Aenania Munich . After becoming an assistant at the University of Königsberg , he completed his habilitation in 1931 at the State Academy in Braunsberg . From 1934 Keilhacker worked as a Wehrmacht and army psychologist and also took on teaching positions at the University of Munich and the University of Vienna , where he was appointed as an adjunct professor.

After the Second World War , Keilhacker worked briefly in teacher training in Regensburg and at the Pädagogische Hochschule München-Pasing and became an extraordinary professor in 1946, an extraordinary professor in 1946 and a full professor in 1952 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Even after his retirement in 1961, Keilhacker was active in media education. In 1964 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Keilhacker was one of the pioneers of media education in Germany. In 1949 he founded the forerunners of the "Institute for Youth Film Television", today JFF - Institute for Media Education in Research and Practice . He was editor of the magazine "Jugend und Film", which has existed since 1957, today "Medien + Erziehungs - merz, magazine for media education". Many of Keilhacker's students, whose views were predominant in German media education until the 1970s, have achieved important positions in media education. One of his students is Werner Glogauer .

Keilhacker was an advocate of conservation education , which set itself the goal of protecting young people from harmful influences of the media - for example in the form of depictions of violence - and promoting possible positive effects, for example by selecting ethically valuable films with role models. Keilhacker tried to adequately counter the growing influence of the media on the development, upbringing and life of people, with blurred boundaries between school and extracurricular education, by recommending education for media competence - with special attention to the ability to criticize. On the other hand, Keilhacker saw especially in radio and television as powerful instruments for promoting education, for example through school television or programmed lessons .

literature

• Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2003, ISBN 3-7815-1271-1
• Jürgen Hüther: Martin Keilhacker (1894–1989) - pioneer of media education . In media + education. merz, Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik, No. 2, 2002, pp. 118–121
• Christa Kersting: Pedagogy in Post-War Germany. Science policy and discipline development 1945 to 1955 . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7815-1581-9
• Bernd Schorb: Martin Keilhacker's media education position . In: Uwe Sander, Friederike von Groß and Kai-Uwe Hugger (eds.): Handbook of media education . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15016-1 article on the web

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Keilhacker in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ^ University of Munich - civil status completed on October 15, 1942 . Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, PDF document, accessed on February 25, 2010