Paul Ciupke

Paul Ciupke (* 1953 ) is a German adult educator and educational historian .

Life

Ciupke studied pedagogy, sociology and psychology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and graduated as a qualified teacher. After completing his studies, he worked in community work and worked from 1980 to 2018 in the management team of the educational institute of the Humanist Union. He was a co-founder of the state working group for another further training in North Rhine-Westphalia , lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.

Act

The focus of his work is contemporary history, East Central Europe, the Ruhr area and structural change as well as educational and cultural history.

He has published books and essays on the past and present of adult education, on coming to terms with National Socialism, on learning in other places and on further education policy. From 1997 to 2001 he worked on the editorial team of the fundamental rights report of several German civil rights organizations, which has been published annually since then .

Since 2004 he has also been co-editor of the journal “Extra-School Education” on behalf of the nationwide Working Group of German Educational Institutions and represents this association at the general assembly of the German Institute for Adult Education and in the “Basic Issues of Political Education” working group of the Federal Committee for Political Education (bap).

Publications (selection)

• Independent sponsors and the working group of German educational institutions , in: Wolfgang Sander / Peter Steinbach (eds.): Political education in Germany. Profiles, people, institutions, Bonn 2014
• with Guido Wärme , Alfons Kenkmann, Astrid Wolters and Wiesław Wysok (eds.), memorial work and culture of remembrance. A German-Polish exchange , Essen 2014
• Learning to travel: study trip and excursion , in: Wolfgang Sander (Hrsg.): Handbuch Politische Bildung, Schwalbach / Ts. 2014
• Extracurricular political education before the system change? in: Klaus Ahlheim / Johannes Schillo (eds.): Political education between formation and enlightenment, Hannover 2012
• with Franz-Josef Jelich, Alfons Kenkmann and Barbara Stambolis (eds.): Youth movement and adult education. Yearbook of the Archives of the German Youth Movement NF Volume 8/2011, Schwalbach / Ts. 2012.
• with Heidi Behrens and Norbert Reichling (eds.): Learning field of GDR history. A handbook for political youth and adult education . Schwalbach / Ts. 2009
• "Political education ... is taking sides for the realization of the dignity of all people in a community, which to regulate fairly remains a constant task". Studies on the history of the working group of German educational establishments , in: Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten (Ed.), Workshop of Democracy. 50 years of the Working Group of German Educational Institutions, Essen 2009
• with Klaus Heuer / Franz-Josef Jelich and Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): "Education for the German People" - Völkisch and nationally conservative adult education in the Weimar Republic , Essen 2007
• with Heidi Behrens and Norbert Reichling: Dealing with GDR history in political adult education , Essen 2006
• with Franz-Josef Jelich (Hrsg.): ideological education in castles of the National Socialism. On the history and future of Ordensburg Vogelsang , Essen 2006
• with Bernd Faulenbach, Franz-Josef Jelich and Norbert Reichling (eds.): Adult education and political culture in North Rhine-Westphalia. Topics - Institutions - Developments since 1945 , Essen 2003
• with Willi Gierke, Christiane Hof a. a .: Memorandum on historical adult education research , Bonn 2002 - online
• with Karin Derichs-Kunstmann (ed.): Between emancipation and the “special cultural task” of women. Women's education in the history of adult education , Essen 2000
• Political youth and adult education is a workshop of democracy . Contribution to the DIE-Forum Further Education 2000 "Future fields of further education", Bonn 2000 - [1]
• with Heidi Behrens and Norbert Reichling: New learning arrangements in cultural institutions , Essen 2002
• with Franz-Josef Jelich (Ed.): "A new beginning". Political youth and adult education in West German post-war society , Essen 1999
• with Norbert Reichling: "Unresolved Past" as an educational offer. The topic of "National Socialism" in West German adult education 1946 to 1989 , Frankfurt / Main 1996
• with Franz-Josef Jelich (Ed.): Social movement, community building and educational institutionalization. Adult education projects in the Weimar Republic , Essen 1996

Web links

• Literature by Paul Ciupke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Articles and reports by Paul Ciupke in the online archive of the Bildungswerk der Humanistische Union
• Position paper by Paul Ciupke, Monika Engel u. a. "On the democratic and professional location of political adult education"
• Memorandum on historical adult education research