Martin Wagenschein

Martin Wagenschein ( born December 3, 1896 in Giessen, † April 3, 1988 in Traut home to Mill Valley ) was a German physicist and educator. He was particularly involved in the didactics of mathematics and science field.

Life

From 1914 to 1920 Martin Wagenschein studied mathematics, physics and geography in his hometown of casting and in Freiburg, Germany and graduated with a first state exam. He received his doctorate in 1921 at Walter King in experimental physics from. Had the dissertation at the University of Giessen the title Experimental study on the resonance of a sphere in a vibrating liquid or gas mass. From 1920 to 1921 Martin Wagenschein was a high school assistant in his doctor father and helped this build its experimental physics lecture. In the two following years, his teaching clerkship and sample year joined, which he finished in 1923 with the 2nd state examination.

From 1923 to 1957 Martin Wagenschein worked in the public school system. From 1924 to 1930 and 1930 to 1933 he was on leave but with only a half year break from government service to teach at the Odenwald School by Paul Geheeb in Ober- Hambach ( now part of Heppenheim ). 1933 joined Wagenschein the Nazi People's Welfare ( which he also served as treasurer ) and the NS - Teachers' Association at. In 1938 he became a member of the NSDAP. When denazification 1947 he was relieved that he had " encouraged independent thinking in all respects " with the students and "that a strong active resistance " done.

In 1949, Martin Wagenschein received a teaching assignment for "Scientific cognition psychology " at the Pedagogical Institute in Jugenheim / mountain road. After the institute was moved to Frankfurt in 1963 to the College of Education, he was there until 1972 Lecturer for " Didactics of Exact Sciences ". At the same time he had from 1952 to 1987 (sic) a lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt for " Practical Education" and was from 1956 to 1978 as an honorary professor in Tübingen active.

Wagenschein developed the principle of the exemplary learning, which he subsumed in the genetic principle later, and coined in this context, the phrase " Mind the gap! ". He characterized his approach as Socratic, genetically and examples.

Prizes and awards

Writings

  • Experimental study on the resonance of a sphere in a vibrating liquid or gas mass. In: Annals of Physics. Vol 370, H. 13, 1921, pp. 461-480, doi: 10.1002/andp.19213701305 (dissertation).
  • Education through science (1930 )
  • Science and Education (1932 /33)
  • For educational task of teaching mathematics and science education (1933 /34)
  • Physical education and intellectualism (1935 )
  • Relationships of the forces of nature (1937 )
  • Natural from a physical point (1953 )
  • The earth under the stars (1955 )
  • The concept of the exemplary teaching (1956 )
  • The pedagogical dimension of Physics ( 1962)
  • Original understanding and precise thinking ( 2 volumes, 1965/67 )
  • Teach understanding. Genetically - Socratic - an example (1968 )
  • Hugo Kükelhaus: Save the Phenomena (1975 )
  • Reminders for tomorrow ( 1983)
  • Children on the way to physics (1990 )
  • See and understand (1995 ) Natural Phenomena
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