Peter Johannes Droste

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Peter Johannes Droste (* 1959 in Oberhausen-Osterfeld ) is a German historian , didactic and grammar school teacher and acting chairman of the Association of German History Teachers (VGD).

Life

Droste studied history, German language and literature and philosophy at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate there. From 1987 to 1993 he was director of the computer museum in Aachen and from 1994 to 1995 scientific director of the museum Zinkhütter Hof in Stolberg . From 1988 to 2016 Droste worked as a research assistant and university lecturer for medieval history and history didactics at RWTH Aachen University and, in the meantime, from 2004 to 2008 at the University of Cologne . He is also a teacher at the Couven-Gymnasium in Aachen and has been publishing school books since 1999. Droste is a founding member and chairman of the HisTech e. V.and member of the Joseph Kuhl Society .

Droste was managing director of the 43rd German Historians' Day and member of the expert council for the German-Polish history book. Since 2006 he has been the head of history at the Center for Practical School Teacher Education (ZfsL) (Gy / Ge) in Jülich and has been a member of the Federal Board of the Association of History Teachers in Germany (VGD) since 2010 . In 2012 he took over the state chairmanship of the VGD in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In addition to the history teacher training, Droste's focus is on medieval history , the history of technology , regional history and German-Polish history. He was involved in the development of museum concepts (Computermuseum Aachen (CMA), Museum Zinkhütter Hof (MZH)), study regulations for teaching history (RWTH Aachen), the practical semester and the educational standards (VGD) as well as various specialist curricula and textbook recommendations.

Publications (selection)

  • Computer museum and documentation center Aachen. In: LOG IN, Informatik und Computer im Schule, 6 (1989), pp. 9-11.
  • Hydraulic engineering and water mills on the Middle Rur. The heartland of the Duchy of Jülich 8th - 18th century (Aachen studies on older energy history, volume 9. Ed .: Dietrich Lohrmann) Aachen 2003. (Dissertation of the RWTH-Aachen from 1999).
  • With Max Kerner : One World - One Story? 43rd Deutscher Historikertag Aachen 2000 (program booklet) , 2 volumes, Aachen 2000.
  • With Michael Käding (ed.): Made in Aachen. Contributions to the regional technical, economic and social history . Association for regional technical, economic and social history "HISTECH" eV, Aachen 2000. ( digitized version )
  • With Frank Schweppenstette: Values ​​and Values ​​Education in Modern History Lessons, in: Ceterum Censeo. Considerations for a contemporary history lesson. Festschrift for Rolf Brütting on his 70th birthday (series of publications by the Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfälischer Geschichtslehrer eV vol. 1, 2013), Verlag Nicole Schmenk, Oberhausen 2013, pp. 11–24.
Contributions in school books
  • Expedition history (Diesterweg), SI / SII
  • Horizons (Westermann) SI / SII
  • Anno (Westermann) SI
  • History and events (Klett) SII

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lecturer at the Historical Institute of the RWTH Aachen
  2. ^ Federal Board of the Association of History Teachers Germany eV
  3. ^ Board of Directors of the History Teachers Association of North Rhine-Westphalia
personal data
SURNAME Droste, Peter Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, didactician and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen-Osterfeld