Michael Soostmeyer

Michael Soost Meyer (* 23. March 1943 , † 29. March 2002 in Bottrop ) was a German social studies s educationalists and Professor at the University-University of Essen , the scientifically especially with the physical employed social studies. In doing so, he essentially developed the concept of problem-oriented subject teaching and conceptually transferred the genetic teaching and learning that can be traced back to Martin Wagenschein to subject teaching.

Life

After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter and worked as a technical draftsman on construction tasks. In addition to his job, he obtained a secondary school leaving certificate and finally a university entrance qualification. In 1971 he completed a teacher training course at the PH Essen for elementary and secondary schools with a focus on physics. This was followed by a short time as a teacher at the school. He then became assistant to Josef Saxler, took up postgraduate studies in educational science and graduated in 1973 with a diploma. The title of Dr. paed. he acquired in 1977 with a font for discovery and research learning. His habilitation was accompanied by the reviewers Franz-Josef Wehnes and Josef Saxler and took place in Essen in 1982. He worked at this university since 1984 as a professor in the department for didactics of physics in the working group for didactics of physics and devoted himself to especially problem-oriented teaching. Together with the university professors Gramm, Haupt and Rappinger, he was involved in the research group for subject teaching and developed new discursive concepts for subject teaching. Among other things, the later award-winning theater project Kinderspiel Theater was developed, which was about subject-related teaching . Thus Soostmeyer can also be counted among the founders of aesthetic approaches in subject teaching. Soostmeyer had early collaborations with Japanese scientists, in particular with Nobuyuki Harada from the Japanese Society for Life Studies, which corresponds to the subject lessons for the 1st and 2nd school year. Soostmeyer died in 2002 after his important work Genetischer Sachunterricht had just been published by Schneider Verlag .

Services

Soostmeyer's scientific role model was Martin Wagenschein, whose approach of genetic-Socratic-exemplary teaching shines through in all his theoretical drafts and practical examples. In this sense, for him, action-oriented teaching was always also thought-provoking. He further developed this approach productively for teaching subjects and thereby also integrated Dewey's ideas , which are particularly visible in his works on experiential subject teaching . His five steps of problem-oriented teaching are important clarifications of Dewey for the didactics of teaching. He developed the concept of problem-oriented subject teaching theoretically and practically in many aspects. The systematic further development of the spontaneous curiosity behavior of children was particularly important to him. In later scientific articles - such as in the lexicon of material instruction - he was one of the first to orientate himself towards the conceptual approach of constructivist material instruction in the didactics of material instruction.

Selected Works

• The exploratory and exploratory learning as a starting point for a didactics of thought education in material teaching in elementary school - specialist perspective physics. Attempt to lay the foundation. Dissertation, University of Essen, 1977.
• Problem-oriented learning in general teaching. Schöningh-Verlag, Paderborn 1978.
• as publisher: Development of experience in a factual encounter. University of Essen, Essen 1988.
• with Ewald Kurowski: Commentary on the subject teaching curriculum. Dieck Agency, Heinsberg 1986.
• On the subject of general science. Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt, Bern, New York, Paris 1988; 3rd revised edition 1999.
• Genetic science education. Schneider Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 2002.
• The coexistence in subject teaching as the basis of science-based learning. In: R. Lauterbach, W. Köhnlein u. a .: Dimensions of coexistence. Kiel 1993, pp. 197-219.
• Teaching exemplarily, Socratically and genetically! To the death of Wagenschein. In: Pedagogical Review. 42: 6, 723-730 (1988).
• Autopoiesis. In: Astrid Kaiser (Hrsg.): Lexikon Sachunterricht. Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 1997, p. 16.
• Rooting. In: Astrid Kaiser (Hrsg.): Lexikon Sachunterricht. Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 1997, p. 34
• Ask. In: Astrid Kaiser (Hrsg.): Lexikon Sachunterricht. Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 1997, p. 58
• Genetic learning. In: Astrid Kaiser (Hrsg.): Lexikon Sachunterricht. Schneider-Verlag, Baltmannsweiler 1997, p. 68.
• Learn by discovering. Why are the walls getting dark over the heaters? In: Marlies Hempel: Children's learning paths. Baltmannsweiler 1999, pp. 102-131.
• Learning by experiencing, experimenting and speaking. In: Diethard Cech et al. (Hrsg.): The topicality of Martin Wagenschein's pedagogy for subject teaching. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbronn 2001.
• Energy - an introduction to primary school teaching . In: Ding - Wort - Zahl , Vol. 29, No. 39, 2001, pp. 4–9.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Soostmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Soostmeyer. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter, Berlin. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
2. ↑ Blurb ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 29, 2014. 
3. ↑ Article in honor of Wagenschein by Bußmann / Soostmeyer. . Retrieved April 29, 2014.
4. ↑ Playing theater with children - improving practical relevance in the primary level teacher training course. By Wolfgang Haupt, Thomas Langkau and Jürgen Wehling, ESSENER UNIKATE 24/2004.
5. ^ The project “Children play theater”. Official website of the theater project, University of Duisburg-Essen. Retrieved April 30, 2014.