Diether Hopf

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Diether Hopf (* 25). November 1933 in Eisenach is a German professor emeritus of school pedagogy from the University of Potsdam.

Childhood and youth
After graduating from high school in Bad Hersfeld, he studied at Philipps University in Marburg, at Freie Universität Berlin and at the University of California in Berkeley. He completed his doctorate in the field of educational science and also achieved his habilitation in this field.

Scientific work

Hopf initially worked as an educator. After that he was a primary school and high school teacher. In 1971 he began to teach at the University/University of Kassel. From 1971 to 1995 he worked as an educational researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Since 1995 he has been teaching in Potsdam. Hopf was visiting professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Hopf dealt with questions of the school system. He was particularly interested in the question of how migrant children find their way in the German school system.

Important activities

Hopf pursued numerous socially relevant activities. These include:

Hopf works for the German Education Council. He recommended that there should be school trials with comprehensive school and thus ensured that there are comprehensive schools in Germany today.
Hopf advised Iceland on reforming the school system there.
He was on the founding committee of the Pedagogy and Psychology Departments of the University of Cyprus.

Literature

German Education Council: Recommendation for the establishment of school trials with comprehensive schools of the German Education Council. 1969
Transitional readout and power differentiation. A study using the example of Grammar and Comprehensive Schools in England. Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1970
School problems of foreigner children. In: Journal of Pedagogy. Volume 27, Issue 6, 1981, pp. 839–861
Foreign Worker's Children in Primary and Secondary Schools. Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education: Between Elite and Mass Education. Education in the Federal Republic of Germany. State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y. 1983, p. 156–162.
Lessons in classes with foreign students. A concept for individualization and differentiation in multi-ethnic classes. Beltz, Weinheim 1984
Children of Migrant Workers in West German Schools: A Pool of Hidden Talents? U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), Documents ED 272 331 ERIC. 1986
with C. Hatzichristou: Social Adjustment and Integration of Minority Students in Schools: A Study of Greek Remigrant Children. 1989, ED 311 114 / UD 027 007

Weblinks

One speaks (not only) German www.zeit.de, 2006, retrieved on 22. December 2011

https://web.archive.org/web//http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/putz/feb96/s26.htm

Educational scientists
School teachers
Educators (20th century)
Educators (21st century)
University teacher (University of Potsdam)
German
Born in 1933
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