Paul Heimann

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Paul Heimann (born March 16, 1901 in Mittelwalde , district of Habelschwerdt , province of Silesia , † June 30, 1967 in West Berlin ) was a German educationalist and taught at the University of Education in Berlin .

Life

Heimann attended the teachers' seminar in Wroclaw and studied pedagogy and Slavic studies at the University of Wroclaw, as well as economics at the Berlin School of Commerce . After completing his teaching degree, Heimann initially worked at a private bank , as he initially could not find a job in the school service. At the beginning of the 1930s he started teaching and worked at a school in Berlin-Neukölln . Heimann was drafted in 1943, became a French prisoner of war and worked at POW schools from 1945–1946. In 1946 he taught Russian as a lecturer in Berlin and was temporarily editor of the journal Pädagogik . In 1947/1948 Heimann initially worked as an assistant for educational psychology and finally as a lecturer for systematic educational science at the University of Education in Berlin. In 1953 he was appointed professor there. In 1962 his work Didactics as Theory and Teaching was published , which was the basis for the “learning theory didactics”, also known as the Berlin School of Didactics .

In addition to his university activities, Heimann worked in numerous research and information centers. He was u. a. For eight years he was a member of the SFB Broadcasting Council and was a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education and of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin . He belonged to the second educational path working group of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and took part in state and church committees that dealt with problems of school television . Heimann was a jury member at the film and television competitions Adolf Grimme Prize , Prix ​​Jeunesse and Berlinale .

Didactics: Berlin School

The Berlin school with Paul Heimann and his assistants Gunter Otto and Wolfgang Schulz developed the didactic model from the practical needs of teacher training at the University of Education in Berlin, at which there was a practical phase of didactics in the third semester . Heimann accused the existing didactic models, especially by Wolfgang Klafki , of "stratospheric thinking", i. that is, he considered them unsuitable for practice and out of the ordinary.

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Above all, he saw the insufficient consideration of methodological factors in lesson planning as a deficit in educational theory didactics . That is why he renounced the concept of education and replaced it with learning, which could be better understood empirically . Furthermore, he wanted to have the concrete social and individual starting positions of the students more included. All teaching factors, i.e. intention, subject matter, methodology, use of media as well as anthropogenic and socio-cultural requirements of the students, should be included in the planning as a structural analysis.

Other focal points

Heimann is one of those media didactics who dealt early with the effects of film, radio and television on schoolchildren. In West Berlin he was one of the spokesmen for the introduction of comprehensive schools . His comparative studies on the different educational systems of the states moved him to do this . a. in the Soviet Union . He was a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW).

Fonts (selection)

  • (with others): youth and television . Munich 1958.
  • Paul Heimann, Gunter Otto, Wolfgang Schulz: Lessons - Analysis and Planning . Schroedel, Hanover (various editions since 1965).
  • Basic didactic terms . In: K. Reich, H. Thomas (Ed.): Paul Heimann - Didaktik als teaching science . Klett, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-12-923380-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Heinrich: Contributions to the history of the Berlin University of Education . Colloquium Verlag Berlin 1980, p. 186.
  2. ^ Paul Heimann. Life data (PDF; 108 kB). In: K. Reich, H. Thomas (Ed.): Paul Heimann - Didaktik als teaching science . Klett, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-12-923380-6 , pp. 229-230.
personal data
SURNAME Heimann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittelwalde , District of Habelschwerdt , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1967
Place of death West Berlin