Wolf Rudiger Wilms

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Wolf Rüdiger Wilms (born January 23, 1941 in Recklinghausen ) is a German teacher and university lecturer as well as screenwriter and theater director .

Life

After graduating from high school, Wolf Rüdiger Wilms studied to become a teacher at elementary and special schools in Münster and Dortmund . He worked for ten years as a teacher in schools with intensive educational needs.

From 1974 to 2006 he was a lecturer and professor for special education at the Heidelberg University of Education (PH Heidelberg). Among other things, he participated in the newly designed master’s course for street children education at the PH Heidelberg and universities in Heidelberg and Freiburg . Since his retirement in 2006, Wilms has continued to teach as a retired professor at the Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences, currently teaching on the master’s course “Methods of Street Children Education”.

Since 1978 Wilms has been involved in development and management activities in the Institute for Curative Education and Educational Assistance in Heidelberg, which is active in the UNESCO project schools movement . In particular, he developed concepts for artistic work with so-called difficult children and adolescents and put them into practice. He worked as 2001 together with students from the PH Heidelberg and children from the Institute the play Crazy World , which on the book The children possessed by Hartwig Weber builds, and staged it as a modern musical fairy tale.

Wilms runs student theater at several schools in the Heidelberg district and supports street children in Colombia . He is co-initiator of the project “Patio 13 - School for Street Children”, which started in 2001 and brings teaching students in Germany and Colombia closer to the problem of street children. Wilms has been traveling with students to Bogotá and Cartagena in Colombia for years to work with them on street children projects. In the meantime, “Patio 13” has developed into an international educational initiative of the PH Heidelberg and the Colombian teacher training (“Escuelas Normales Superiores”), at which several universities in Germany (Heidelberg and Freiburg) and in Colombia ( Universidad de Antioquia , Medellín , and Universidad Externado) de Colombia, Bogotá) are involved.

In Colombia he also founded a theater school in Copacabana , which is conceived as a cultural and educational project in the form of an "Asociación" (German association ) and is intended to serve as a contact point for street children. Wilms specializes in music and dance theater and mostly writes his plays himself.

Wilms' focus in teaching, research and publication is on the social integration of the disabled , intensive pedagogical approaches and theater pedagogy . His current focus is on projects on choreographic theater with children, young people and students.

In addition, he is committed to the promotion of disadvantaged children and young people; Among other things, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Free School SPATZ , a reform-pedagogical all-day school for educational assistance in Offenburg .

Wilms lives with his wife in Neckargemünd .

Publications (selection)

  • New math for students with learning difficulties. Support measures for number concept formation on a set theoretical basis . Marhold, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-7864-5075-7 .
  • Learning with the "disabled". Suggestions for cooperation between learning disabled and social education . Maier, Ravensburg 1979, ISBN 3-473-60430-5 .
  • Didactics of mathematics classes . With: Ulrich Bleidick u. Josef Fischer, 2nd, through Ed., Marhold, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-7864-1935-3 .
  • "We haven't reached the ballroom yet". Experiences, hopes, disillusionment after ten years of integration . In: TPS-extra, No. 11: Joint education of disabled and non-disabled children , theory and practice of social pedagogy (TPS), Kallmeyer, Seelze 1992, ISSN  0342-7145 .
  • Problems of the implementation of evaluation results using the example of learning and mentally handicapped students . In: The special school. Journal for Theory and Practice of Special Education, No. 39, pp. 430–443, Luchterhand, Neuwied 1994, ISSN  0323-4592
  • Talk to the body . With: Gabriele Blattner-Wallich, In: Together. Disabled and non-disabled people, No. 9/03, Erhard Friedrich Verlag, Seelze 2003, ISSN  0721-4626

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biographical information about Wolf Rüdiger Wilms ( memento from January 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the list of lecturers of the Theaterakademie Mannheim (ThaM) on their website (accessed on February 24, 2009).
  2. ↑ Retired professors >> Wilms, Wolf-Rüdiger ( memento of October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), list of the Institute for Special Education on the website of the Heidelberg University of Education (accessed on February 25, 2009).
  3. ↑ a b Internet presence of the master’s degree in street children pedagogy “Patio 13 - School for street children” (German, Spanish; accessed on February 24, 2009).
  4. ↑ Campus TV in February ( Memento from June 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), press release on the Heidelberg University website from February 21, 2001 (accessed on February 24, 2009).
  5. ↑ http://www.patio13.de/new/NEWS/N0701 Interview.htm (link not available)
  6. ^ Website of the Free School SPATZ in Offenburg ( Memento from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 24, 2009).
personal data
SURNAME Wilms, Wolf Rüdiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and university professor as well as screenwriter and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen