Wolfgang Melzer

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Wolfgang Melzer (born June 1, 1948 in Strang near Bad Rothenfelde) is a German educational scientist and school researcher .

Life

Melzer completed his Abitur in 1966 at the Carolinum Osnabrück high school . In 1971 he passed the first state examination for teaching at primary and secondary schools at the University of Education in Osnabrück and in 1975 he obtained a diploma in educational science from the University of Osnabrück . After his doctorate (1978) with a dissertation on the professional field and awareness of teachers, he worked between 1979 and 1987 as a research assistant for school and socialization research at Bielefeld University . There he completed his habilitation in 1986 with a habilitation thesis on the subject of “Parents and Schools” and received the venia legendi for the subject “ Pedagogy with a focus on socialization”. From 1987 to 1992 Melzer worked as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University. From 1992 he took over the representation of the founding professorship for school pedagogy at the University of Rostock , until in 1993 he accepted the call to the professorship for school pedagogy with a focus on school research at the Technical University of Dresden . For many years Melzer was director of the Institute for School Education and Elementary School Education at the Faculty of Education and Managing Director of the Center for Teacher Training, School and Vocational Education Research .

Research activity

Following early studies on teacher research and on the cooperation between parents and school , three main areas were systematically pursued within the framework of the "Research Group on School Evaluation" founded by Melzer in 1993:

  • Studies on school quality and school development including the evaluation and scientific support of pilot projects
  • Studies on violence in school and on the social behavior of schoolchildren as well as development and evaluation of violence prevention strategies
  • Studies on the socialization and health of children and adolescents, etc. a. as part of the WHO studies “Health Behavior in School-aged Children” (HBSC).

Fonts (selection)

  • Professional field and awareness of the young teachers . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1979, ISBN 3-593-32401-6 (campus research; 72).
  • Family and school as a living environment. On school innovation through parental participation . Verlag Deutsches Jugendinstitut, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-87966-265-7 .
  • (Ed. With G. Neubauer): Kibbutz as Utopia . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-407-34023-0 .
  • (Ed. With H. Sünker): Well-being and woe of the children. Pedagogical communication of childhood theory, child life and social childhood images . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 1989, ISBN 3-779-90810-7 .
  • (with W. Fölling): Lived dreams of youth. Youth Movement and Kibbutz . Südmarkverlag, Witzhausen 1989, ISBN 3-882-58112-3 .
  • (Ed. With W. Lukowski & G. Neubauer): German-Polish youth report. Worlds of life in a cultural comparison . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 1991, ISBN 3-779-90831-X .
  • Youth and Politics in Germany. Sociopolitical attitudes, future orientations and extremism potential of young people in East and West Germany . Leske + Budrich Verlag, Opladen 1992, ISBN 3-8100-0968-7 .
  • (Ed. With W. Heitmeyer, HG Holtappels & K.-J. Tillmann): Research on violence in schools . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 1991 (5th edition: 2009), ISBN 3-779-90463-2 .
  • (Ed. With U. Sandfuchs): What school does. Functions and duties of school . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-779-91310-0 .
  • (Ed. With K. Hurrelmann, A. Klocke, U. & Ravens-Sieberer): Youth health survey. International comparative study on behalf of the World Health Organization WHO . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2003.
  • (with W. Schubarth & F. Ehninger): Violence prevention and school development. Analyzes and action plans . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2004 (2nd edition: 2011), ISBN 3-781-51322-X .
  • (Ed. With H.-D. Schwind): Violence prevention in schools. Fundamentals-Practice-Models-Perspectives . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 3-832-90645-2 .
  • (Ed. With M. Richter, K. Hurrelmann, A. Klocke, & U. Ravens-Sieberer): Health, inequality, and youthful worlds. Results of the second international comparative study on behalf of the World Health Organization WHO . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2008, ISBN 3-779-91971-0 .
  • (Ed. With Th. Bals & A. Hanses): Health promotion in educational settings. An overview of prevention approaches in target group-oriented living environments . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2008, ISBN 3-779-91318-6 .
  • (Ed. With R. Tippelt.): Cultures of education. Contributions to the 21st Congress of the German Society for Educational Science . Budrich, Opladen 2009, ISBN 3-866-49230-8 .
  • (Ed. With U. Sandfuchs, B. Dühlmeier & A. Rausch): Handbook Education . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2012, ISBN 3-825-28488-3 .
  • (Ed. With P. Kolip, A. Klocke, M. Richter & U. Ravens-Sieberer): Health and health behavior in a gender comparison: Results of the youth health survey "Health Behavior in Schoolaged Children" . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2013, ISBN 3-779-91984-2 .
  • (Ed. With D. Hermann, U. Sandfuchs, M. Schäfer, W. Schubarth & P. ​​Daschner): Handbook of aggression, violence and aggression in children and adolescents . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 3825285804 .

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personal data
SURNAME Melzer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school pedagogue and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH strand