Peter Alheit

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Peter Alheit (born September 22, 1946 in Naumburg ) is a German educational scientist and sociologist and held the chair for general pedagogy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen until his retirement in 2011 .

Life and academic career

Peter Alheit spent his school days in Kassel and studied theology , philosophy , sociology and education in Bielefeld, Göttingen, Munich and Marburg from 1966 to 1971 ; The first doctorate in religious philosophy on the subject of "Science and Ethics at Max Weber" took place in 1971. After working as a research assistant at the Pedagogical-Theological Institute, Kassel, and the Comenius Institute, Münster, followed in 1977 the social science second doctorate at the Kassel University . In 1978 he accepted a professorship for non-institutional adult education at the University of Bremen. This was followed by visiting professorships at the University of Wales , at the Università degli Studi Firenze and, from 1994 to 1995, a Humboldt professorship at the Danish Research Academy at the Universitetscenter Roskilde . In 1997 he was offered the chair for pedagogy with a focus on extracurricular pedagogy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen.

Services

With his working group, Peter Alheit has opened up new perspectives for the concept of "biography" in terms of social science and education. Sociologically, his biography theory overcomes the classic difference between subject and society, between structure and action. In terms of educational science, his biographical approach not only refers to the social and lifeworld contexts of educational action and experience, he also makes the fundamental resources of all learners comprehensible in a social constructivist interpretation of individual learning processes. With his term "biographicity" an ability of people in modern societies is conceived, the competence necessary for civil survival, to connect their own experiences to new social challenges and to always find new ideas for individual and social problem solutions. Alheit initiated a comparative study of three post-socialist sub-societies, the border regions between Poland, the Czech Republic and East Germany, or in long-term and multiple university comparative studies in seven European countries, finally in an extensive comparison of autobiographies from the end of the 18th century to the present. Alheit is also one of the protagonists of the socio-cultural movement in the Federal Republic, as a lifelong learning specialist in Europe and as an expert in analyzing the consequences of demographic change in modern western societies.

Works (selection)

  • Everyday life , Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1983.
  • with Bettina Dausien: Arbeitsleben , Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1985.
  • Culture and Society , Bremen: Bremen University Press 1992.
  • Civil culture , Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1994.
  • Autobiography and Aesthetic Experience , Frankfurt, New York: Campus 2006.
  • with Frank Schömer: The climber. Autobiographical evidence of a prototype of modernism from 1800 to today, Frankfurt, New York: Campus 2009, ISBN 3-5933-8857-X .
  • with Morten Brandt: autobiography and aesthetic experience . Origin and change of the self in the modern age, Frankfurt, New York: Campus 2006, ISBN 3-5933-7991-0 .
  • with Kerstin Bast-Haider and Petra Drauschke: The hesitant arrival in the west. Biographies and mentalities in East Germany . Frankfurt, New York: Campus 2004, ISBN 3-5933-7484-6 .
  • with Hanna Haack: The forgotten “autonomy” of the workers . A study on the early failure of the GDR using the example of the Neptunwerft, Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-3200-2051-X .

Editorships

  • with Erika M. Hoerning: Biographical knowledge. Frankfurt, New York, Campus 1989.
  • with Wolfram Fischer-Rosenthal: Biographies in Germany. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995.
  • with Irena Slachcicowa and Frantisek Zich: Biographies in the Border Region . Neisse Verlag, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-9340-3823-9 .
  • with Heide von Felden: Lifelong learning and educational biography research. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009.
  • with Heide von Felden: Lifelong learning and educational biography research. Concepts and research in European discourse, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-5311-5600-4 .
  • with Linden West, Anders Siig Andersen and Barbara Merrill: Using Biographical and Life History Approaches in the Study of Adult and Lifelong Learning. European Perspectives, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft Retrieved on March 16, 2012
  2. ↑ uni-goettingen.de Retrieved on March 16, 2012
  3. ↑ RUC Roskilde Universitet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Danish) Retrieved September 22, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ruc.dk  
  4. ↑ abl-uni-goettingen.de ( Memento from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on March 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Alheit, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Hesse)