Otto Speck

Otto Speck (born March 25, 1926 in Rennersdorf (Upper Silesia)) is a German special education teacher who had a significant influence on education for the mentally handicapped and curative education .

Live and act

After studying to be a teacher, Otto Speck worked as a teacher and group leader at the Munich orphanage, where he initiated the first home magazine, Our Home . With his work "Children of Working Mothers: An empir.-pädag. Ascertainment of the facts and their interpretation "( latchkey children ), he received his doctorate in 1955 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for Dr. Phil. From 1964 to 1971 he was head of the training for special school teachers at the State Institute for the training of teachers at special schools in Munich . In 1970 this institute was transferred to the Munich University of Education and in 1972 to the University of Munich. There, Speck took over the newly created chair for special education in the faculty for educational sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In the 1980s he was Vice President here.

His scientific research focuses on general curative education, school integration and early support for disabled children as well as in the areas of outpatient helper services, parenting and quality development.

"Prof. Dr. Otto Speck originally made a name for himself nationally and even worldwide in the field of special education and he became more and more an offensive representative of realistic inclusive education . Bavarian early intervention is still admired nationwide. It was initiated by Otto Speck. His textbooks have been groundbreaking for many generations of students. "

Works

• Literature by and about Otto Speck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Founder of the journal Frühförderung interdisciplinary ( publisher information ( memento from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
• Curative education system: an ecologically reflective foundation. Munich, Basel: E. Reinhardt 2008, ISBN 978-3497019984
• The economization of social quality. For the quality discussion in disability assistance and social work. Reinhardt Verlag, Munich et al. 1999, ISBN 3-497-01502-4 .
• School inclusion from a curative educational perspective. Munich: Reinhardt 2011, ISBN 978-3-497-02229-8
• People with intellectual disabilities. A textbook for upbringing and education . Munich 2012
• Inclusion dilemma: how school can do justice to all children . Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-497-02891-7 .

literature

• Ulf Liedke, images of people and a ban on images. A study on the anthropological discourse in education for the disabled. Bad Heilbrunn 2013. pp. 213–239.

Web links

• Video Online: Speck, Otto: “Inclusion as a metaphor for more common ground among children who learn differently” , lecture as part of the event “Inclusion - A Path to More Equal Opportunities in the Education System?” At the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, February 11, 2010, Retrieved May 25, 2013.

Honors and awards (selection)

• 1986 Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1991 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1995 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 2012 ConSozial Science Award in the Lifetime Achievement category

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar , 1992
2. ↑ Excellent! Prof. Dr. Otto Speck receives the ConSozial Science Award for his life's work on November 7th in Nuremberg ( Memento from July 1st, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Catalog entry. In: Catalog of the DNB. German National Library, accessed on May 25, 2013 . 
4. ^ Monika Fenn : Schools after 1945. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns. Retrieved May 25, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Chronicle of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich 1983–1984. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, p. 5 , accessed on May 25, 2013 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Winner of the ConSozial Science Prize 2012 at consozial.de; accessed on February 4, 2019
7. ↑ Chronicle of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1991–1993. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, p. 205 , accessed on May 25, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Chronicle of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich 1995–1997. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, p. 216 , accessed on May 25, 2013 .