Wolfgang Maiers

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Wolfgang Maiers (born January 19, 1950 in Braunschweig ) is a German psychologist and former professor at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (Stendal location), where he held the chair for general psychology . He belongs to the school of critical psychology . His main research interests were subject-scientific action theories and learning psychology , also general psychology, as well as philosophical and epistemological foundations of psychology ( history of psychology ).

Career

Maiers studied psychology (major) and pedagogy (second major) in Braunschweig, Göttingen and Berlin ( Free University Berlin ) since the winter semester 1968 . In 1974 he began working on his dissertation, which resulted in regular, professional and personal contact with Klaus Holzkamp . Like him, Maiers was also committed to real socialist university politics.

During his research he discovered that "mainstream psychology" does not do justice to its self-imposed goal of being natural science and that it requires a monistic foundation of psychology in order to overcome the crises that occur regularly in psychology. The aim of this monistic psychology is to overcome the problem of the dualism between the humanities / cultural studies and natural scientific approaches to psychology, which still exist today.

In the 1990s he worked as a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. His appointment as successor to Klaus Holzkamp failed, although he was placed on the first list of the appointment process ; the position was canceled as a result of university political battles. At the end of the 1990s, Maiers received teaching positions at the Altmark University of Applied Sciences. Later he was involved in the conception of the rehabilitation psychology course at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. In 2001 he was appointed professor for general psychology. From October 2005 to June 2018 he was dean of the applied human sciences department. In 2018 he retired from active teaching.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the rehabilitation psychology course on October 2, 2019, he gave the welcome address.

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Normality and pathology of the psychic. In: The argument. Volume 91, 1975, pp. 457-493.
  • with M. Markard: Critical Psychology as Marxist Subject Science: Conclusion of a development on the occasion of the first "International Congress of Critical Psychology". In: Socialist Politics. Volume 41, 1977, pp. 136-156.
  • For the cognitive function of scientific-historical analysis for determining the subject matter of psychology. In: K.-H. Braun, K. Holzkamp (ed.): Subjectivity as a problem of psychological methodology. Report from III. International Congress of Critical Psychology. Marburg 1984. Campus, 1985, pp. 315-363.
  • Critical psychology. In: HE Lück, H. Heidbrink (Hrsg.): Scientific and epistemological foundations of psychology. Course unit 3: Philosophical positions in psychology. FernUniversität, 1986, pp. 79-107.
  • The Historical Approach of Critical Psychology - Just Another Case of "Paradigm Promotion"? In: WJ Baker, MV Hyland, H. van Rappard, AW Staats (Eds.): Current Issues In Theoretical Psychology. Elsevier, 1986, pp. 175-188.
  • 60 years of crisis in psychology. In: Forum Critical Psychology. Volume 20, 1988, pp. 23-82.
  • with Ch. W. Tolman (Ed.): Critical Psychology: Contributions to an Historical Sience of the Subject. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Klaus Holzkamp's contribution to the unity of psychology. In: The argument. Volume 212, 1995, pp. 881-886.
  • Learning / learning theory. In: S. Grubitzsch, K. Weber (Ed.) Basic Psychological Concepts : A Handbook. Rowohlt, 1998, pp. 316-323.
  • with F. Haug and U. Osterkamp (eds.): Klaus Holzkamp writings. Volume II: Theory and Experiment in Psychology: A Fundamental Critical Investigation. Argument, Hamburg 2005.
  • "Learning" - a powerful explanatory concept or an empty promise of psychology? In: Forum Critical Psychology. Volume 57, 2013, pp. 116-137.
  • with Ch. Allesch among others: Memorandum on the situation and future of the subject history of psychology. In: Psychological Rundschau. Volume 66, 2015, pp. 176-177.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maiers, Wolfgang. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Former university lecturers. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Research Network Early Education | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maiers. Retrieved on October 21, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ A b c Reimer-Gordinskaya, Katrin, Zander, Michael, ARGUMENT-Verlag GmbH Dept. Verlag: Crisis and Criticism (in) the Psychology Festschrift for Wolfgang Maiers. 1st, first edition edition. Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86754-599-0 .
  5. ↑ Rehabilitation Psychology. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Antonius Wollmann: rehabs refute critics. Volksstimme Magdeburg, accessed on October 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Maiers, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and former university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig