Otto Seydel
Otto Seydel (* 1945 in Potsdam ) is a German educator and school reformer.
biography
Otto Seydel is the son of Liselotte Seydel, b. Schrecker, and the lawyer Joachim Seydel. Karl Theodor Seydel , Lord Mayor of Berlin from 1862 to 1872, was his great-grandfather. From 1965, after graduating from the Tellkampf School in Hanover, he studied Protestant theology and pedagogy at the University of Göttingen and the University of Marburg . a. with the theologian Manfred Josuttis and the pedagogues Hartmut von Hentig and Dieter Baacke .
After completing the vicariate at the Mariengemeinde in Göttingen in 1972, Seydel moved to the newly founded University of Bielefeld as a research assistant in the pedagogy department and did his doctorate with Dieter Baacke on the subject of “Conflict. Study on a Basic Concept of Civic Education and Social Learning ”.
From 1976 to 2001 he worked as a teacher and educator at the Schloss Salem boarding school . In 1986, from Salem, he set up the pedagogical work center of the German Landerziehungsheime, the first joint teacher training facility for the 21 boarding schools in the reform pedagogical tradition (including Hermann-Lietz schools , Birklehof, Schondorf, and others). As part of this job, with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation , he founded the school association Blick über den Zaun . In 1992 he took over the role of senior management of the Salem lower level, Hohenfels Castle , and in 1997 the senior level management of the Salem upper level, Spetzgart Castle. In 2001 he founded the independent institute for school development .
Act
In 1981 Seydel initiated the reform of the Salem middle school classes (formation of class teams, epoch and project classes, etc.), in 1989 he founded the school association 'Blick über den Zaun' from the pedagogical department - with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation - in which approx. 120 schools are united on the basis of common quality standards.
In 2002/2003 he moderated the "Education Round Table" of the city of Bremen together with Wolfgang Harder, which initiated profound changes in the Bremen school landscape. As part of his Institute for School Development, he initiated and led an extensive school development project for the Robert Bosch Foundation “Teachers in a Team” from 2003 to 2008.
Starting in 2004, Seydel developed and implemented the concept for the Bremen school inspection. Bremen was the only federal state that outsourced the school inspection on the basis of this concept and was exclusively qualitative, i.e. it did not result in a school ranking. From 2005 he was significantly involved in developing the concept for the German School Prize and was a member of the jury from 2006 to 2011. During this time he and his institute also laid the foundations for the Academy of the German School Prize.
In addition, a number of accompanying schools took place during these years. a. as "coordinator of the leaders' conference" of the Hermann Lietz schools . Since 2011, the focus of work in various projects of the Montag Foundation for Youth and Society and the Montag Foundation for Urban Spaces has been the subject of school construction. For the two Monday foundations he is u. a. Member of the competence team, member of the “Current Learning Spaces” advisory board and the “School Art” advisory board. He had already carried out a trend-setting study on the subject in 2003/2004 as part of a project by the Wüstenrot Foundation . He advises various municipalities on current school construction projects (including Stuttgart, Munich, Darmstadt district, etc.). In 2012/13 he headed the "Commission for the Revision of the Baden Württemberg School Building Guidelines" together with Jochem Schneider.
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| SURNAME | Seydel, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and school reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |