Ulrich-Johannes Kledzik

Ulrich-Johannes Kledzik (* 1927 in Meseritz ) is a German school teacher and education specialist. From 1972, as senior high school councilor and department head for the lower secondary level of the Berlin school inspectorate, he was significantly involved in the pedagogical design for the Berlin comprehensive schools and the introduction of the subject of work studies . From 1980 Kledzik taught as a professor for didactics at the Institute for Vocational Education and Training at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Kledzik graduated from 1946 to 1949 with a degree in education, sociology, history, art history and English studies at the Berlin University of Education (1st state examination in 1949; 2nd state examination in 1951) and in 1953/1954 in the USA at the universities of Illinois and Texas, as well then from 1954 to 1958 at the Free University of Berlin . In 1960 he became head of the Ernst Reuter High School in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen ; 1963 High School Councilor for the High School Practical Branch in Berlin.

Services

In 1962, Kledzik began a three-month lecture tour through South America and West Africa on behalf of the World Teachers' Organization WCOTP to provide information about the effects of the building of the Wall on teaching and education in Germany. He was a representative of the Conference of Ministers of Education in international organizations on issues relating to the transition from school to the world of work.

From 1963 to 1990 Kledzik was a senior school officer with the Senator for Schools in Berlin. Here he worked for the extension of school days, English at secondary schools, the development of the school subject work theory and school television. In 1966 he was a member of the School and Work Environment Committee of the German Education Council. In 1972 he was the senior high school councilor and department head for the lower secondary level I of the Berlin school inspectorate. He created a pedagogical draft for comprehensive schools in education centers and advocated the introduction of the subject of work studies and preparation for career choices. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a department head in the Berlin education administration.

In 1969 he received a teaching position at the University of Education and an honorary professorship for theory and practice of secondary level I. In 1980 he was honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of planning and social sciences at the Institute for Labor Studies.

From 1984 to 1987 Kledzik worked as chairman of the work teaching commission of the Conference of Ministers of Education in Bonn. In 1984 he worked as a consultant on the implementation of a technical-vocational education initiative / TVEI in London and one year later became Fellow Assoc Ed. from the University of London of the Institute of Education and 1988 Fellow honoris causa of the College of Preceptors in London.

In 1988 Kledzik became the founding and honorary chairman of the Friends of Practical Learning and Schooling in Berlin and in 1990 an honorary member of the Association of History Teachers in Germany in the Berlin State Association.

From 1990 until 2000, he was in charge of management seminars on rhetoric and personal development personal coaching in companies such as Honda Germany, Offenbach am Main, DER DATA , Wiesbaden and Krupp -Fördertechnik in Essen. Since 1990 he has been the spokesman for the chalk circle of Berlin school teachers and since 2006 a curator in the Christian-Jewish Society Berlin.

Awards

• 1988 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1988 Fellow hc of the College of Preceptors, now the College of Teachers London
• 1998 Officer of the British Empire OBE
• 2005 Medal of Honor from the Technical University of Berlin
• 2019 Award from the SPD for 60 years of membership in the SPD

Fonts

• The OPZ in Berlin - A contribution to the redesign of the elementary school upper level Berlin - Hanover 1964
• Design of a Hauptschule - An analysis of the experiences, problems and possibilities with special consideration of a 10th year of compulsory school in Berlin. Hanover 1967
• Lesson planning - example secondary school. Hanover, Schroedel Verlag Hanover, 1971 2nd edition.
• Labor theory as a subject - approach to a realization. Schroedel Verlag Hannover, 1972
• Comprehensive school on the way to regular school - educational centers in Berlin. Hanover 1974
• (with B. Jenschke): Vocational choice lesson as part of work apprenticeship - results of a project tested by school and career counseling in Berlin, Hanover, 1979
• (with G. Groth): Arbeitslehre 5-10 - Practice and Theory of Teaching, Beltz Verlag Weinheim / Basel, 1983
• Keywords - Selected interviews and radio texts in the Sender Freies Berlin. SFB Berlin, 1983, 100 pages. TV series “Chatted from school”, u. a. on topics like people and work, 1959; Latin America, 1962, Ernst Reuter School, 1963; High school practical branch 1964; Comprehensive school 1978; European routes from school to work, 1980; Youth Alcoholism, 1981; Integration of Foreign Students, 1982; Schools in Cambridge
• (with H. Shoes): Arbeitslehre - A school subject introduces itself - Didactically commented documentation of an exhibition, Cornelsen Verlag Berlin, 1984
• London Letter 1985 - Report on upbringing, educational policy approaches, current issues in the United Kingdom. Berlin, 1985
• Study field work theory - publications on school pedagogy. PZ Berlin (ed.) 1988
• School for everyone - approaches and accents. Festschrift for Ulrich-Johannes Kledzik. Writings on school pedagogy, Pedagogical Center Berlin (ed.), 1990
• (with H. Boerner): Noffiti - A material offer for lower secondary education, Prinz-Medien Berlin, 1997
• (with P. Kaßner and B. Roland): Berlin comprehensive school `68-`88 - documents on a reform movement, Domino-Verlag, Munich 2000

Web links

• Homepage of the Institute for Vocational Education and Training

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin school pedagogue receives Silver Medal of Honor