Peter Henkenborg

Peter Henkenborg (born October 6, 1955 in Cloppenburg ; † August 22, 2015 in Gießen ) was a German political scientist and professor of didactics in political education .

Live and act

Peter Henkenborg studied politics and history teacher for secondary schools and completed in the years 1982-1984 clerkship . From 1986–1999 he worked as a research assistant and teacher at the Institute for Didactics of Social Sciences at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He is writing his dissertation under the title “The Inevitability of Morals. About the contribution of ethics to political education in the risk society ”. It was published in 1992 by Wochenschau Verlag . 1995–1998 he took on substitute professorships at the Universities of Kassel University , at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at the TU Dresden . From 1999 to 2006 he worked as a professor for didactics of political education / social studies at the TU Dresden and was most recently professor for didactics of political education at the Philipps University of Marburg from October 1, 2006 until his death . His work includes contributions to the didactics of political education, in particular the socio-theoretical foundation of political education and empirical teaching research. He was married and the father of two children and, according to his own statement, a "practicing fan and member of 1. FC Köln ".

Participation in professional associations and editorial activities

Peter Henkenborg was involved in professional and professional associations for political education. He was a founding member of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE) and from 1999 to 2002 a member of the speakers' group. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the federal board of the German Association for Civic Education (DVPB) and from 2000 to 2006 he was regional chairman of the German Association for Civic Education, Saxony.

In addition, he participated in specialist journals. 1998 to 2002 he was editor of the magazine "DVPB aktuell" of the German Association for Political Education (now Polis); 2002/2003 senior editor of Polis magazine. From 2001 to 2005 he was co-editor of the magazine "sowi-onlinejournal - magazine for social sciences and their didactics". He was also a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Kursiv - Journal für Politische Bildung" (now: Journal for Political Education). After all, since 2003 he has been co-editor of “Journal of Social Science Education - Journal for Social Sciences and Their Didactics”.

Works (selection)

Monographs, editorships

• Author group subject didactics (2016): What is good political education? Guide to social science teaching . Schwalbach / Ts.
• Peter Henkenborg / Gerrit Mambour / Marie Winckler (Eds.) (2014): Teaching policy oriented towards competence. Planning, implementation and analysis of a teaching unit on the subject of war and peace. An introduction . Schwalbach / Ts.
• Author group subject didactics (2011): Concepts of political education. A polemic . Schwalbach / Ts.
• Peter Henkenborg / Jan Pinseler / Rico Behrens / Anett Krieger (2008): Political Education in East Germany. Learning about democracy between aspiration and reality . Wiesbaden.
• Peter Henkenborg / Benno Hafeneger / Albert Scherr (eds.) (2002): Pedagogy of Recognition . Schwalbach / Ts.
• Peter Henkenborg / Hans-Werner Kuhn (eds.) (1998): The everyday political lessons: Contributions of qualitative teaching research to political education in schools . Opladen.
• Peter Henkenborg / Wolfgang Sander (eds.) (1993): Against boredom: New forms of learning in political education . Festschrift for Siegfried George's sixtieth birthday. Schwalbach / Ts.
• Peter Henkenborg (1992): The Inevitability of Morality. About the contribution of ethics to political education in the risk society . Schwalbach / Ts.

Obituaries

• Faculty 03 Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg.
• Polis. Report of the German Association for Civic Education 03/2015, p. 7.
• Courageous. Magazine for democratic action and civil society.
• Upper Hessian Press, Marburg

Web links

• Peter Henkenborg: What does professionalism mean in political education. A European finding. Lecture.
• Peter Henkenborg: Learning Democracy - A Philosophy of Political Education

1. ↑ Obituary notice
2. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage Didactics of Political Education at the Philipps University of Marburg. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Henkenborg: My philosophy of political education means learning democracy as a culture of recognition . In: Kerstin Pohl (ed.): Positions of political education. Interviews on political didactics . tape 2 . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2016, p. 212-229 .
4. ↑ Peter Henkenborg / Wolfgang Sander: Invitation to the founding event for a “German Society for Political Didactics” (provisional name) at the Justus Liebig University. 1999, accessed August 20, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Polis. German Association for Civic Education, accessed on August 20, 2018 . 
6. ^ Journal of Social Science Education. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
7. ^ Journal for Political Education. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
8. ↑ JSSE. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
9. ^ Obituary for the death of Prof. Dr. Peter Henkenborg (1955-2015). Faculty 03 Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg, accessed on August 20, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Obituary Prof. Dr. Peter Henkenborg (1955-2015). In: Polis. Report of the German Association for Civic Education. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
11. ↑ In memory of Peter Henkenborg. In: Courage magazine. November 10, 2015, accessed August 20, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Life for Politics and Podolski. Professor Peter Henkenborg died at the age of 59. He was regarded as a renowned researcher on extremism - and an ardent soccer fan of 1. FC Köln. In: Upper Hessian Press. August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
13. ↑ What does professionalism mean in political education? Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Learning about democracy. A Philosophy of Political Education. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .