Wolfgang Keim

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Wolfgang Keim (born November 16, 1940 in Halle (Saale) ) is a professor emeritus for general and historical education at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Paderborn.

Career

Wolfgang Keim grew up in Remscheid, passed his Abitur here in 1960 and studied German, history and education in Tübingen, Münster, Mainz and Hamburg. After completing his studies at various adult education centers, he obtained his doctorate in 1969 with Theodor Ballauff in Mainz with a thesis on "Literature in Adult Education" and in 1970 passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools with Heinz Nicolai and Fritz Fischer in Hamburg. In 1971/72 he was able to gain experience at the first Berlin comprehensive school in Britz-Buckow-Rudow (Walter-Gropius-Schule) as part of his legal traineeship. After the second state examination in the autumn of 1972, he was assistant to Paul Röhrig at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland, Dept. Cologne (now University of Cologne). In 1975 he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor of General Education, in 1978 he was appointed Full Professor of Education at the University of Paderborn (later University), initially for education at secondary levels I and II as well as adult education, and later for general and historical education. since 2000 with a teaching position at the Detmold University of Music and a visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt in the same year. In 2008 he retired.

Wolfgang Keim has been married to senior teacher Ursula Keim since 1973 and has one son.

Focus of work

Keim's teaching and research activities initially focused on questions of school reform, especially the comprehensive school, for whose consistent introduction as the only type of school for all pupils in a form that promotes educational reform, individual skills and interests such as social skills, he was emphatically committed. Among other things, he belonged to the planning group for the Cologne comprehensive schools, was involved in the development of the team small group model of the Cologne-Holweide comprehensive school and maintained a wide range of contacts with the German and international comprehensive school movement; In 1977, the Federal Ministry of Education and Science commissioned him with an expert opinion on degrees and degree systems in lower secondary education.

Since the mid-1980s he has been concerned with the debate about the role of German pedagogues in National Socialism as well as the question of the continuity and discontinuity of their theories and concepts from the German Empire , through Weimar , the Nazi era to the early Federal Republic. In 1995/97 his 2-volume presentation "Education under the Nazi dictatorship" was published, which for the first time addressed the "services" and "operations" of the German pedagogy in the context of Nazi crimes, and conversely the "other", non-Nazi German pedagogy in the resistance, tried to appreciate in Jewish education and in exile. Various German-Polish projects, the central theme of which was dealing with the Nazi past, followed. In 1989, together with colleagues interested in the subject, Keim founded the “Oedelsheim Circle” and in 1992 its “Yearbook for Pedagogy” as a critical organ of educational science.

Another focus of his scientific work was reform pedagogy, its ambivalences and forgotten traditions. Keim advocates their historical-social context and thus the distinction between reform pedagogy as an epochal phenomenon in the period from 1890/1900 to 1933 and later phases of reception. The conclusion of these studies was in 2013 his two-part “Handbook of Reform Education”, which he developed and published together with Ulrich Schwerdt.

1974–1978 he was co-editor of the series “pocket sciences” in the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch, since 1979 he has published the “studies on educational reform” in the publishing house Peter Lang (so far 51 volumes).

Fonts (selection)

  • Literature in Adult Education . Stuttgart 1971.
  • as publisher: comprehensive school. Balance of your practice. 2nd Edition. Hamburg 1976.
  • Secondary level I. Models, problems, perspectives . Koenigstein / Ts. 1978.
  • Qualifications and qualification systems in lower secondary education. In: Federal Minister for Education and Science (Ed.): Report of the Federal Government on the structural problems of the federal education system . Munich 1978, pp. 168-195.
  • School differentiation. A systematic introduction. 2nd Edition. Koenigstein / Ts. 1979.
  • as publisher: course instruction - reasons, models, experiences. Darmstadt 1987.
  • The History of Peace Education Discussions and Efforts. In: Jörg Calließ, Reinhold E. Lob (Hrsg.): Handbook of environmental and peace education. Volume I: Basics . Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 557-606.
  • Education under National Socialism. A research report . Supplement 1990 to "Adult Education in Austria". Vienna 1990.
  • as publisher: Educational Science and National Socialism - A Critical Position Determination. Marburg 1990.
  • as Ed .: Pedagogues and Pedagogy in National Socialism - An unresolved problem in educational science. 3. Edition. Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Education under the Nazi dictatorship . Volume 1: Anti-Democratic Potential, Accession to Power and Enforcement of Power ; Volume 2: Preparations for War, War and Holocaust . Darmstadt 1995/97.
  • with Anne Ratzki et al. (Ed.): Team small group model Cologne-Holweide. Theory and practice. Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Work on memory in south-east Poland - backgrounds, places, shapes. In: Tomasz Kranz (Ed.): Educational work and historical learning in the Maidanek memorial . Lublin 2000, pp. 125-150.
  • as editor: From remembering to understanding. Pedagogical Perspectives of German-Polish Understanding. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Education versus training. Was there a paradigm shift under the Nazi dictatorship? In: Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle (Hrsg.): National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. Volume 2: Key concepts - Interpretation patterns - Paradigm struggles. Experiences and transformations in exile . Göttingen 2004, pp. 223-258.
  • with Ulrich Schwerdt (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Reformpädagogik in Deutschland (1890–1933) . Part 1: Social contexts, central ideas and discourses ; Part 2: Fields of practice and situations for action. Frankfurt am Main 2013.
  • 20 years of the “Yearbook for Education”, 25 years of the “Oedelsheimer Kreis” - a look back at the beginnings. In: Yearbook for Pedagogy 2013. Frankfurt am Main 2014, pp. 17–38.

literature

  • Martin Dust, Christoph Sturm, Edgar Weiß (ed.): Pedagogy against forgetting. Festschrift for Wolfgang Keim . Kiel / Cologne 2000.
  • Institute for Educational Science of the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn (Ed.): Farewell Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Keim. Paderborn 2008.
  • Edgar Weiß (Ed.): Pedagogical Perspectives in a Critical Tradition. A gift for Wolfgang Keim . Frankfurt am Main 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Keim, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)