Heike Fleßner
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- Educationalist
- Professor
Heike Fleßner | |
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| Born | 14 April 1944 |
| Died | (aged 76) Germany |
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Heike Fleßner (14 April 1944 – 2 February 2021[1]) was a German educationalist and professor, whose work focused on social education and social work. She was a Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg from 1996 until her retirement in 2009. Her scientific work focuses on analytics and conceptual developments in the field of gender- and diversity-conscious social education. For many years, Fleßner was involved in social policy and the institutional anchoring of public toddler care and early childhood education (crèche and kindergarten).
Fleßner was born in Esens, East Frisia, Hanover, Prussia. From 1966 to 1971, she was a secondary school teacher. She later became a scientific assistant and then a director of studies at the University of Oldenburg. In 1980, she earned her doctorate from the university, focusing her research on the development of public preschool education in rural Germany from 1870 to 1924. Her habilitation in 1994 – she received a venia legendi for educational science with a focus on social education, also at the University of Oldenburg – dealt with the topic "Motherhood as a profession: historical findings or current structural feature of social work?"[2] In 1996, Fleßner was appointed by the university as a lecturer and Professor of Social Pedagogy.[3] The following year, in 1997/98, she was a visiting professor of women's studies at Towson University in Maryland in the United States.[4]
Fleßner was a co-founder of Gender studies at the University of Oldenburg, which began offering a Master's degree in Gender Studies in the 1997/98 school year and BA in Gender Studies beginning in 2007/08, and of the university's Center of Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender (ZFG) which opened in December 2000, and which she directed until her retirement in 2009.[4][5]
Heike Fleßner died on 2 February 2021, at the age of 76.
