Wolfgang Einsiedler

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Wolfgang Einsiedler (born May 11, 1945 in Aitrang ; † February 21, 2019 in Schwabach ) was a German primary school didactic and empirical educational researcher . From 1981 to 2005 he held the chair for elementary school education and didactics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Career

After attending elementary school and the Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium in Kempten (Allgäu) , Einsiedler completed a teaching degree at the Augsburg University of Education and, after successfully completing this, worked as a teacher in Heising. Because he completed a doctoral program with the subjects pedagogy , psychology and sociology at the University of Munich and received his doctorate 1975 . He then worked as a research assistant and as a lecturer at the universities in Augsburg and Munich. In 1978 he was appointed to a chair for school education by the University of Hanover . From 1981 until his retirement in 2005 he held the chair for elementary school education and didactics and headed the institute for elementary school research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

In Nuremberg, Wolfgang Einsiedler had the following main areas of work: Empirical research on teaching methods (including quasi-experimental studies on knowledge representation), developmental psychological research on children's play (including fantasy play with variants of toys, influence of play on learning), research on initial reading concepts ( phonological awareness , development of Diagnostic and training materials), subject teaching at elementary school , research summaries and reviews for specialist journals, ministries of education, federal-state commission for educational planning and research funding , educational reports from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development .

Book publications took place u. a. on school pedagogy, teaching factors, teaching methods, elementary school concepts, children's games, didactic development research, history of primary school pedagogy .

Fonts

  • Teaching strategies and learning success. An investigation into teaching objective and student-oriented research. Weinheim / Basel 1976, ISBN 3-407-54027-2 .
  • Forms of work in modern material teaching in elementary schools. Justification, description, lesson structure. 7th edition. Donauwörth 1978, ISBN 3-403-00252-7 .
  • Teaching methods. Problems and results of teaching method research. Munich u. a. 1981, ISBN 3-541-41411-1 .
  • Children's game. On the pedagogy and psychology of children's play. 3. Edition. Bad Heilbrunn 1999, ISBN 3-7815-0977-X .
  • Lesson development and didactic development research. Bad Heilbrunn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7815-1794-3 .
  • Standards and research strategies in empirical primary school research. (together with Maria Fölling-Albers, Helga Kelle and Katrin Lohrmann). Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-2833-1 .
  • Handbook of Primary School Pedagogy and Primary School Didactics. (together with Margarete Götz and Hartmut Hacker). 4th, revised edition. UTB. ISBN 978-3-8252-8577-7 .
  • History of primary school education - developments in West Germany and the GDR. Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2017-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page by Wolfgang Einsiedler. Retrieved February 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hermit, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German primary school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Aitrang
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2019
Place of death Schwabach