Rolf Arnold

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Rolf Arnold (born November 15, 1952 ) is Professor of Education at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern .

Life

The trained pedagogue ( adult and professional pedagogy ) initially worked for three years as a research assistant before receiving his doctorate at Heidelberg University in 1983 . For the next four years he worked in an international adult education institution ("German Foundation for International Development", today part of the Society for International Cooperation - GIZ), where he was in particular responsible for the further training of specialists and managers from vocational training institutions in developing countries, with a focus on Central and South America . He completed his habilitation in 1987 in the Department of Education and Social Sciences at the Distance University in Hagen , and was appointed to the University of Kaiserslautern in 1990. In 2002, Arnold turned down an appointment to the University of Tübingen (Chair of Adult Education).

Rolf Arnold headed the Center for Distance Learning and University Continuing Education (ZFUW) from 1992 to 2006. Since 2007 he has been Scientific Director of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC), in which the ZFUW was incorporated in 2007. Until 2009 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Further Education and Consulting (IFB) in Speyer and until 2011 chairman of the board of directors of the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) in Bonn. Since 2003 he has been the spokesman for the state's Rhineland-Palatinate Virtual Campus . He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Carl-Auer-Verlag and the magazine Tendencias Pedagogikas. In 2016 he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Instituto de Creatividad e Innovaciones Educativas (ICIE)" at the University of Valencia . In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the West University of Timisoara .

Rolf Arnold is regarded as the founder of enabling didactics and emotional constructivism as well as systemic pedagogy. He is at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern a. a. Involved in the management of the master's programs “Adult Education”, “Personnel Development”, “School Development” and “Systemic Consulting”.

Thematic focus

Rolf Arnold's book and magazine publications cover the areas of adult education, vocational training, constructivism as well as international personnel development and leadership development. He has carried out numerous studies in Latin America and was involved in the design of the UNEVOC vocational training center of the United Nations (UN).

His research focuses on the areas of adult education, school-based vocational training, in-company training and further education, development of teaching and learning systems (e.g. distance learning, eLearning), intercultural professional education and emotional learning. In the last few years his focus has been on the sustainable transformation of cognitive-emotional competencies through methods of systemic adult education. Another topic is the pedagogical professionalization of corporate learning as well as the further training of teachers to become learning guides.

The thematic orientation of his work is outlined in the research model "The Kaiserslautern Approach to Adult Learning".

Fonts (selection)

  • with I. Schüßler: Change in learning cultures. Ideas and building blocks for lively learning . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-534-14168-7 .
  • with A. Krämer-Stürzl and H. Siebert: Lecturer's Guide. Planning and preparation of lessons in advanced training and adult education . Cornelsen, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-464-49124-2 .
  • with K. Faber: develop quality - but how? Kallmeyer, Seelze-Velber 2001, ISBN 3-7800-1000-3 .
  • with I. Schüßler: Enabling didactics. Adult pedagogical basics and experiences . Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2003, ISBN 3-89676-717-8 .
  • with H. Siebert: Constructivist Adult Education. From interpretation to the construction of reality. 4th edition. Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2003, ISBN 3-89676-649-X .
  • Ed., With C. Griese: School management and school development. Requirements, conditions, experiences . Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2004, ISBN 3-89676-874-3 .
  • The emotional construction of reality. Contribution to an adult education in emotions . Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2005, ISBN 3-89676-921-9 .
  • with P. Gonon: Introduction to Vocational Education . Budrich, Opladen 2006, ISBN 3-8252-8280-5 (= UTB, volume 8280).
  • Superstition discipline. Pedagogical responses to the “praise of discipline” . Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89670-614-0 .
  • Leading with feeling. A self-coaching. With an ABC of methods . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8349-0791-2 .
  • with B. Arnold-Haecky: The Oath of Sisyphus. An introduction to systemic pedagogy . Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2009, ISBN 978-3-8340-0538-0 .
  • How long have you had this? Basics of an emotional constructivism . Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89670-711-6 .
  • Enable. Texts to develop skills . Baltmannsweiler, Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2012, ISBN 978-3-8340-1119-0 .
  • How to teach without teaching. 29 rules for a wise teaching. The LENA model. Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89670-838-0 .
  • Leadership by Personality. From emotional to spiritual guidance . Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-05834-0 .
  • How to become who you can be. 29 rules for personality development . Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8497-0102-4 .
  • Education through relationship. A plea for a difference . Hep, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-0355-0309-8 .
  • It's later than you think. Perspectives for the rest of the biography . Hep, Bern 2017, ISBN 978-3-0355-0742-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rolf Arnold. In: - TU Kaiserslautern. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
  2. ^ Distance and Independent Studies Center. In: www.zfuw.uni-kl.de. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Kaiserslautern approach to adult learning. (PDF) Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, professor of pedagogy
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1952