Wolfgang Schulenberg

Wolfgang Schulenberg (born June 11, 1920 in Bremen , † June 26, 1985 in Oldenburg ) was a German educational scientist mainly in the field of adult education and university rector.

Life

The son of a master craftsman attended elementary school in Bremen from 1926 to 1930, then went to upper secondary school until 1936 until he reached upper secondary level . From 1936 to 1938 he completed a commercial apprenticeship. With the outbreak of war in 1939 he was hired as a Wehrmacht employee in Liegnitz / Silesia, returned to Bremen in 1941, but was drafted and served mainly in the occupied Netherlands. In August 1942 he passed the Abitur externally. Released from captivity in July 1945, he worked as a construction worker. In October 1946 he passed the first teaching examination. From October 14, 1946 he was a trainee lawyer in Switzerland . From 1951 he became an assistant at the Oldenburg University of Education. On April 1, 1952, he passed the second teaching examination in Switzerland. He studied pedagogy, psychology and sociology at the University of Göttingen with a study visit in 1955 at the University of London; In the same year he worked on the approach and effectiveness of adult education (Hildesheim study), with which he received his doctorate from Helmuth Plessner and Erich Less at the University of Göttingen in 1957. phil. PhD. From 1957 lecturer, in 1961 he accepted a position as professor for sociology at the Pedagogical University of Oldenburg, where he was the last rector in 1969. In the 1960s he was a member of the Lower Saxony Study Commission for Adult Education with the task of drafting an adult education law for Lower Saxony . From 1969 to 1971 he was the founding rector of the Lower Saxony University of Education . In 1969 he was accepted into the university political working group of the Lower Saxony parliamentary group of the SPD and in 1973 he was appointed full professor for sociology at the newly founded University of Oldenburg .

Wolfgang Schulenberg Institute for Educational Research and Adult Education (ibe)

The Wolfgang Schulenberg Institute for Educational Research and Adult Education (ibe) was founded in 1986 by members of the University of Oldenburg and association representatives from adult education in Lower Saxony in order to create a place of cooperation between adult education and the university. The focus was on the development of an archive and projects on the history of adult education, in particular on the rebuilding / rebuilding of democratic educational institutions after 1945: u. a. Securing oral history sources (interviews with contemporary witnesses), history of the educational association Work and Life Lower Saxony, securing and indexing scientific legacies (e.g. Wolfgang Schulenberg, Willy Strzelewicz , Fritz Borinski ), historical documents from adult education in Lower Saxony. Another project was carried out on the archives of adult and further education in the GDR (together with the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) as well as a large source study on the reconstruction of the genesis of plural structures in adult education in Lower Saxony.

Later, the institute dealt more with current issues of adult / further education and took on tasks of scientific support, advice and evaluation, initially on questions of quality assurance and the amendment of the Lower Saxony adult education law or in cooperation projects, together with the work area further education and education management and the Center for lifelong learning at the University of Oldenburg, with the development of part-time courses in academic further education and the development of measures to open up the university to non-traditional students.

Fonts

• with Hans-Dietrich Raapke and Willy Strzelewicz : Education and Social Consciousness (Göttingen Study - a multi-level study of the sociology of education in West Germany), 1966
• Plan and system: For the expansion of German adult education centers , 1968
• Rennplatz study (problems in a settlement on the outskirts of Oldenburg), 1969
• Structure plan for the establishment of a public further education system in the FR of Germany , 1975
• Reform in Democracy , 1976
• Social factors in adults ' willingness to educate , 1978
• Job and study. Educational motives and study experiences of students without school-leaving certificate (together with Andrä Wolter et al.), 1986
• Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg (eds.): The Protestant Seminars (History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Volume 1), Holzberg-Verlag Oldenburg 1979
• Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg (eds.): Teacher training between 1926 and 1945 (History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Volume 2), Holzberg-Verlag Oldenburg 1985
• Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg / Hilke Günther-Arndt (eds.): Teacher training in Oldenburg 1945–1973: From the Pedagogical Academy to the University (History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Volume 3), Heinz Holzberg-Verlag, Oldenburg 1991

literature

• Horst Siebert: Wolfgang Schulenberg . In: Wolgast, Günther / Knoll, Joachim H. [Hrsg.]: Biographical hand dictionary of adult education , Stuttgart and Bonn 1986, p. 353 f.

Web links

• Biography in the estate
• https://schulenberg-institut.de/