Wolfgang Feige (specialist methodologist)

Wolfgang Feige (* 1931 ) was a German methodologist specializing in civics in the GDR .

Life

Feige attended the two-class village school from 1937 to 1941 and then the municipal high school in Neurode . He passed his Abitur in 1950 at the Petrischule Leipzig . A three-year course in pedagogy with history as an elective followed at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . As a teacher at the Extended Helmholtz High School (EOS) in Leipzig, he taught history and civics.

Since 1964, Feige was a research assistant at the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig . Feige's first publication in the magazine “Geschichte und Staatsbürgerkunde” took up a formula of West German political didactics in 1964: “Freedom and Responsibility”. In 1971 a group habilitation followed with Lothar Gärtner and Jonny Gottschalg at the Franz-Mehring-Institut of the University of Leipzig. From 1973 he headed the Marxism-Leninism / Citizenship Section at the Clara Zetkin College of Education in Leipzig and became a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR . In the GDR's research cooperation, Leipzig was responsible for developing teaching aids for the 8th grade.

The Interdisciplinary Center for Teaching Research was set up in Leipzig in the 1980s (headed by Edgar Rausch ), where the “Leipzig School of Communicative Didactics” was coined. Feige said in a lecture: “It must be clear: The school under socialism does not force any pupil to make an ideological commitment, but social science lessons in particular must convincingly show the pupils that the worldview of the working class must be observed as the intellectual basis for the political decision-making process and that is why it is acceptable to everyone - even those who have a different worldview - precisely because of their materialism and their dialectics in this practical-political sense. ”This conception was described as“ open partisanship ”. A distancing from it is not known, the last book was "Ways to Worldview" (1988).

Feige was as Honored professor of the German Democratic Republic excellent. He was considered a pedagogue with a “feel for unusual teaching situations” (Siegfried Piontkowski).

Fonts

• Social structure of the late medieval German city as reflected in historical statistics. With special consideration of the lower strata of the population and with an excursion into Leipzig in the 16th century (Diss. Leipzig 1965).
• with Lothar Gärtner / Jonny Gottschalg: Determination of basic knowledge in Marxism-Leninism and its effect on the formation of ideology and theories. A sub. in Citizenship Studies , Leipzig 1971.
• Co-author: On working with teaching materials in citizenship classes , Berlin 1979
• Making students aware of socialist democracy as a historical achievement and constant challenge , in: Geschichte und Staatsbürgerkunde (1989) 9, pp. 650–657.

literature

• Wolfgang Sander / Peter Steinbach: Political Education in Germany. Profiles, people, institutions , Bonn 2014 (series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, vol. 1449)

Web links

• Portrait at the Federal Agency for Civic Education