Peter Conrady

Peter Conrady (born May 5, 1944 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German literary scholar , literature and language didactician.

Life

Conrady completed a teaching degree at the University of Education in Westphalia-Lippe and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He then worked at the University of Education in Westphalia-Lippe, initially as a research assistant and later as a lecturer. In 1975 he received his doctorate in educational sciences with a thesis "Students dealing with texts". In 1979 he completed his habilitation in the field of "Didactics of German Language and Literature" with a thesis on "Literature Lessons in the 1st School Year". From 1981 to 2009 Conrady was a full professor for German language and literature and its didactics with a focus on primary level at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Prices

In 2005 Conrady received the Award of Change from the artist Lucia Dellefant . Excerpt from the reason for the award: “Mr. Prof. Dr. Peter Conrady promoted the goals and projects of the abc society for the promotion of reading and writing learning in the 3rd World eV in a special way and made an important contribution in the field of education. For many years he has helped [...] as an author and editor to give the students a better start in life and to make the world a fairer place. He has shown many teachers ways to make schools more humane and learning more effective. "

Publications (selection)

Numerous publications on children's and young people's literature and reception research as well as on the theory and didactics of reading and writing, in particular on reading and writing, promoting reading, German as a second language and foreign language teaching in primary schools - including:

• Students working with texts. Kronberg: Librarian 1976.
• Interpretations on Ingeborg Bachmann. Munich: Oldenburg 1976.
• Texts and activities - contexts of reasons and possibilities for dealing with texts in the primary level. Münster: mimeo 1978.
• Language in the beginning class. Practice and theory of teaching (together with W. Wallrabenstein, H. Balhorn and HJ Tymister ). Munich: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1981.
• ... so that reading is enjoyable. Models for reading in elementary school. Würzburg: Arena 1989.
• Reading and learning - a pleasure. Class reading for grades 5-10. Würzburg: Arena 1989.
• Language lessons in primary school. Language books and alternatives (Ed., Together with G. Rademacher). Essen: The Blue Owl 1990.
• Reading lessons in primary school. Reading books and alternatives (Ed., Together with G. Rademacher). Essen: The Blue Owl 1993.
• Further reading. In: writing and writing. Writing And Its Use (= Handbooks for Linguistics and Communication Studies, Vol. 10.2). Edited by Hartmut Günther / Otto Ludwig. Berlin: de Gruyter 1996, 2nd half volume, pp. 1225-1230.
• Spelling boxes: The German spelling for grades 1 to 6. 1 magnetic board and 2 boxes (in collaboration with M. Potthoff). Dorsten 1997.
• Reading promotion at the university. Project documentation 1996 - 1998. (Ed .; together with Thomas Eicher). Oberhausen 1998.
• Flagship project reading (r) promotion. A documentation (Ed .; together with Thomas Eicher). Oberhausen 2000.
• Reading and CD-ROM. Studies on media use by young people: computers instead of books or books against computers? Oberhausen 2001.
• Harry Potter in the square. The uncanny success of a best and long seller. Oberhausen 2003.
• Tempt to read. Lessons developed for the secondary level (folder). Wuerzburg 2003.
• Tempt to read. Lessons developed for the primary school (collection folder). Wuerzburg 2003.
• Fascism in texts and media: yesterday - today - tomorrow? (Ed.). Oberhausen 2004.
• The SPECTRA rainbow package with 12 modules for learning to read and learn to write (publisher). Essen 2005/2006.

Web links

• Homepage of Peter Conrady