This is an exercise for next week:
Please google educational scientists, women and man, contemporary and historical and pick one name of a famous educational scientist... in your comment add the name and a biographical or theoretical characteristic of this person...
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google keywords to find people and
check out their context
what and with whom did they think? (theoretical approach)
where and how did they grow up to think this way? (biographical and cultural background)
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1) This is my personal pop star in sience. I don´t agree to all his insights, but I find it very interesting, when a human being does something totaly different as most of his other colleges do.
(english translation follows, hopefully)
"Wolfgang Brezinka (* 9. Juni 1928 in Berlin) ist ein emeritierter Professor der Erziehungswissenschaft.
Brezinka habilitierte sich 1954 an der Universität Innsbruck und lehrte an den Universitäten Würzburg, Innsbruck und Konstanz. Er gilt als führender Vertreter einer empirisch-analytischen Erziehungswissenschaft (obwohl er nie große empirische Forschungsprojekte vorgelegt hat) bzw. einer wissenschaftlichen Pädagogik. Brezinka zählt zu den bedeutendsten Erziehungstheoretikern der Gegenwart.
In seiner Metatheorie der Erziehung unterscheidet Brezinka drei Klassen von Erziehungstheorien: die Erziehungswissenschaft, die Philosophie der Erziehung und die Praktische Pädagogik."
Quote:
"http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Brezinka"
Hi all!
I tell you something about Friedrich (Ernst Daniel) Schleiermacher (1768–1834)
He was born in Poland and he studied at Halle, became a preacher in Berlin (1796), and he was professor at Halle (1804–6) and Berlin (from 1810). He was a leader of the movement which led to the union in 1817 of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Prussia. His most important work is Der Christliche Glaube (1821–2, The Christian Faith), and he also wrote on Christian ethics, a life of Jesus, sermons, and letters. He is generally held to be the founder of modern Protestant theology.
I found that at:
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9474465
“Bilde den Menschen so, dass er für die Ewigkeit reife, ohne für die Arbeit und Strapazen in der Zeit untaugsam zu sein“ citation from Fr. Schleiermacher
I found the name Friedrich Schleiermacher and this citation in the book ”Mutter dein Kind” from A.E.am Wasser. In the book you can read how people should educate their children in 1964 – I was negative surprised – it´s “Schwarze Pädagogik”! Schleiermacher was very religious and for the church was/is it very important that children are “good” children. They thought that you only get “good” children when you are very, very strict, bat them and so on. Moreover his father was a “Feldprediger – and i think he was also very strict to Friedrich.
And so it stands to reason that Schleiermacher thought so too.
My favourite Person in conjunction with education is Alice Miller. I don´t know if she is a "pop star of education" - but i want to tell you something about her: She was born 1923 in Poland and gained her doctorate in philosophy, psychology and sociology in 1953 in Basel. She trained as a “Psychoanalytikerin”and worked about 20 jears as a “Psychoanalytikerin”. In 1980, Alice Miller gave up her job and wrote some books. In this books she dealed with causes and consequences of child maltreatment. In 1986, she was awarded the Janusz Korczak Literary Award by the Anti-Defamation League.
A common denominator in Miller's writings is to explain why human beings prefer not to know about their own victimization during childhood: to avoid unbearable pain. She thinks, to work with people, who were battered, and their parents requires to understand them and you can only understand them, when you know about your own childhood and your parents.
Alice Miller`s childhood was maybe a reason why she wrote about that. She was born 1923 in Poland and and at this time parents were allowed to bat their children (in some countries people are still allowed to bat their children). It is possibly that Allice Miller or her friend(s) fell victim to child maltreatment.
I found that information in the books „Am Anfang war Erziehung“ and „Evas Erwachen“ von Alice Miller
Here is my result:
Robert W. Conell
"Raewyn Connell (formerly Robert William Connell, born January 3, 1944) is an Australian social scientist known for her work in the disciplines of sociology, education, gender studies, political science and history. She is currently a Professor at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Education and Social Work, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raewyn_Connell)
hi,
this is one of the educator who is, in my opinon at the one hand very interesting, but on the other hand very questionable:
Émile Durkheim
He was born in Épinal (France) in 1858 as a Jewish. After school he studied philosophy, but then went to Bordeaux to teach sociology. There, at the university, he also got a chair for education and sociology. In this position, he had the chance to reform the French school system, and so he did. In the 1890’s he published a lot: the most known literature is: The division of labour in Society; Suicide. He is also a great functionalist. One of his quotes is: “The one, who doesn’t function, has to eliminate himself.”
Durkheim argued that education has many functions:
1. To reinforce social solidarity
History: Learning about individuals who have done good things makes an individual feel insignificant.
Groups: Make individuals feel part of a something and therefore less likely to break rules.
2. To maintain social roles
School is a society in miniature. It has a similar hierarchy, rules and expectations to the "outside world". It trains young people to fulfill roles.
3. To maintain division of labour.
School sorts students into skill groups, encouraging students to take up employment in fields which are best suited to their abilities.
He worked together with Marcel Mauss and also Max Weber is a contemporary of him.
Durkheim died in 1917.
quote: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim and my own knowledge from the studies of cultural science.
by, angelika
Louis Rosen
It's hard to find any CV of this man, because everywhere I looked I only found the same information but I will give you a little shortcut:
-executive director of the School Justice Institute
-executive director of Partner of Education of Toronto
-high school principal in the L.A. area for 19 years
-project director at the Center for Civic Education especially for Drugs in schools...
well anyway I could go on.
The very interesting thing I found on him is one of his books "College is not for everyone".
His point of view is that not all jobs require College education and most important: not all high school kids want to attend College even if the people who make the Curriculum for the high schools want to make us believe so. It's also a problem of the No Child Left Behind act signed 2002 so that the curriculum leaves no other way than to College and many teachers will say so too.
Especially with the discurs going on in Austria about the Gesamtschule and the Univeritäten I think his opinions are interesting to think about.
MARIA MONTESSORI (1870 - 1952)
I think that Maria Montessori was an impressive personality. She afford a pioneering work in early childhood education. Montessori was born in Ancona (Italy), and in 1896 she was the first woman in Italy who graduate in medicine at the university in Rome. She was interested in how children learn from their environment. In 1901 she studied psychology and philosophy
in Rome. Montessori established the Casa dei Bambini(Kinderhaus), a school in which she teached children with normal intelligence! Such schools still exist and I`ve found a link, so you can visit the webside: www.casadeibambini.net
"The Montessori method assumes that children learn best by interacting with concrete materials and by being respected as individuals. The teacher's role is primarily in organizing materials and establishing a general classroom culture. Most activities are individual, though the children interact in groups in some activities.(http://womenshistory.about.com/
library/bio/blbio_maria_montessori.htm )"
Maria Montessori died in Holland in 1952, but her work is still present in our life.
I want to write about my favourite psychologist and author Alice Miller.
She was born in Poland on the 12th January in 1923 and she migrated 1946 to Switzerland.
She gained her doctorate in phlilosophy, psychology and sociology 1953 in Basel.
At first she applied psychoanalysis for twenty years, but after 1973 she abandoned it`s methodes and developed her own ideas on psychological issues.
Her specific field contains education, child abuse and �black education science� and it`s consequences. In some of her works she also transfers these technics on politics and it`s leaders, for example Adolf Hitler. She analyses their childhood and shows how their education influenced their whole life and producing.
She published fourteen books from which �der gemiedene Schl�ssel� is my favourite.
Hello everybody!
I want to tell you something about John Locke (1632-1704)
He was an English philosopher born in the near of Bristol.
He was sent to Westminter School in London. Later he awarded the title master of arts and also a bachelor of medicine at the university of Oxford.
Locke´s views influenced the American and French Revolutions and also the American Declaration of Independence.
One of his most important philosophical work on education was "Some Thoughts Conserning Education". He expressed his beliefes that education makes the man and said:"I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education"
Hello everybody! I had a little problem with my blog the last week but ow I am here!
Today I want to tell you something about my favourite educater. Everybody knows her: Maria Montessori. I am very interested in her wwork because I don't like the >normal< schoolsystem. I think that children should show their talents more often and thats not really possible in normal school.
Maria Monessori broke traditional roles between teacher and sudent. Everybody knows her work and so I want to tell you a little bit of her life: She was born in 1870 in Italy and was the daughter of a successful government official. At first she would go on to study medicine, only to become the first femal doctor in Italy. Montessori only had one son, because she had a secret reltionship with a colleague. They made a deal to keep the relationhip and father's identity a secret.
During the remaining years of her life she devotet all of her timeand energy to developing schools troughout Europe and North America.
hi!
let me introduce into "humanistic education" and give you a short overview on their most influential scientifical supporters:
the term includes a special image of humanity on which every interaction between children and grown-ups is based upon and this image appreciates every person's freedom, dignity and integrity. its philosophical origins can be found among the ideas of humanism and existentialism relating to names as platon, erasmus from rotterdam, rousseau or bollnow.
during the 20th century, mainly american psychologists developed modern humanistic pedagogics dealing with behavior, values and emotions of the learner. its actual founding father was abraham harold maslow (he was born in 1908 in nyc), whom all of you know because of his hierarchy of human needs, investigating human self-actualisation. in his life time he published more than a hundred books and essays like for instance "a theory of human motivation." or "motivation and personality." maslow died in 1970 in california.
sources:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistische_P%C3%A4dagogik
Prof. Dr. Andreas Gruschka,
a german educationalist born in 1950.
For me he is a very inetresting person because he is someone who thinks/works on educational science in a critical way.
He ,for example, published "Negative Pädagogik". It's I guess one of his most famous works . A.Gruschka also runs or honestly I don't know if he still does but at least he did the "Pädagogische Korrespondenz" - it's a magazine about contempary critical education or educational science.
He also developed a new kind of reflection. It's supposed to assist on practical education.
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb04/personen/gruschka.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gruschka
Hey dudes!
My favourite educational scientist is John Amos Comenius. He was born in former Czechoslovakia on the 28th of march in 1592 and died in Amsterdam on the 15th of november in 1670) and was a famous philosopher, theologian and educationalist.
Im Mittelpunkt seiner Pädagogik steht eine christlich-humanistische Lebensgestaltung. Ein philosophischer Grundsatz seiner Pädagogik lautet: „omnes omnia omnino“ (lat.), das heißt: „Alle alles ganz zu lehren“ [Didactica magna, caput XI, Sp.49]. Comenius forderte nicht nur zwangsfreien Unterricht, sondern er lehnte Zwang in jeder Hinsicht ab. Das zeigt das Motto auf der Titelseite seines Orbis sensualium pictus: „Omnia sponte fluant, absit violentia rebus“ (lat.) das heißt: „Alles fließe aus eigenem Antrieb, Gewalt sei fern den Dingen“. Comenius sah Bildung der heranwachsenden Menschen zur Weisheit als den rettenden Weg, auf dem die Menschheit aus ihren verderblichen Irrtümern zurückfinde zu der Ordnung der Welt, wie Gott sie vorgesehen habe.
Als Lernprinzipien stellte er Lernen durch Tun, Anschauung vor sprachlicher Vermittlung, Muttersprache vor Fremdsprache, Beispiel (Vorbild) vor Worte.
Throughout his life Comenius tried to improve the ways students were taught. His first success in this area was a beginning Latin textbook, Janua Linguarum Reserata ("The Gate of Languages Unlocked"), published in 1631. Much later in life, he showed that he still had the needs of beginners on his mind, producing the first-ever children's picture book, Orbis Pictus ("The World Illustrated"), published in 1658. Both these books became best-sellers, translated into every major European language and used by beginning learners for over a hundred years. Comenius's most important work, however, was written between 1628 and 1632, first in Czech and then in Latin: the Didactica Magna, usually called in English The Great Didactic. Perhaps a more meaningful translation would be "The Whole Art of Teaching."
It explored how people learn and how they should be taught from infancy through the university and beyond. Published in 1649, it was a radical work for its time. In an age when people believed that human beings were born naturally evil and that goodness and knowledge had to be beaten into them, Comenius believed that they were born with a natural craving for knowledge and goodness, and that schools beat it out of them. Although he did not use the modern words (nor did the Victorian translator who made his work available in English), Comenius addressed such topics as: Education for everyone; Students' natural tendency to learn; Learning by easy stages; Financial aid; Career preparation; Extracurricular activities; and Lifelong learning.
That's it! See you tomorrow!
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The German educator, statesman, political theorist, and philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) reformed the Prussian school system and founded the University of Berlin.
Wilhelm von Humboldt was born in Potsdam on June 22, 1767. He studied law in Berlin and Göttingen.
You might have also heard of his younger brother,Alexander von Humboldt, who was an equally famous naturalist and scientist.
In Jena, Wilhelm von Humboldt was a member of Friedrich von Schiller's circle. After travelling through Spain and France, during which Humboldt became interested in philology, he was appointed Prussian resident minister in Rome.
Humboldt was influenced by the educational principles of Johann Pestalozzi. As Prussian minister of education, he sent teachers to Switzerland to study Pestalozzi's methods, and he founded the University of Berlin (1809). Humboldt's ideas profoundly influenced European and American elementary education.
For Wilhelm von Humbold LIBERTY is a key word. He describes the role of liberty in individual developement and liberalism in general.
In one of his famous books :The Sphere and Duties of Government, Humboldt held that although the nation-state is a growing body, government´s sole aim should be to provide security for social development.
He said : "The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
My favourite statement of him is:
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."
Sources:
http://www.answers.com/topic/wilhelm-von-humboldt
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Humboldt
http://www.didaktik.uni-jena.de/did_04/humboldt.htm
and memories of the lecture: Einführung in die Erziehungswissenschaften von Mr.Hackl
Sorry, i forgot the sources:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Amos_Comenius
See you!
hello, everybody!
While googeling I came across Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. He was born on the 21st of January 146 in Zurich. His aim was to make people strong, so that they can help themselves in difficult situations. He turns his attention to the elementary education of children, which should start before going to school. He thinks that it's very important that the intellectual, religous and technical skills are harmonical. In 1798 he became principal of an orphanage in Stans, in 1799 he founded an elementary school in Burgdorf. In 1801 his book "Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt" came out. In the year 1805 he founded an Institute in Yverdon, where he connected school, teacher education and an orphanage.
Background:
Pestalozzi quit studying and started an agrarian schooling. He developed new excrescences to help poor countrymen upgrade their situation. But his intention failed. In september 1769 he married Gebenstor Anna Schulthess, against the will of her parents. They put up 40 children and Pestalozzi teached them spinning and weaving.
At the end I want to show some of his most important quotes:
"The foundation of every development is the view"
"If parents want the development of the child-personality success, they have to have time, give devotion and be tenderly."
"Education with head, heart and hand"
hey everybody.
when thinking about which pedagogue to take, it was important for me, that this pedagogue didn't only think and write, but is (was) also doing something to put his own knowledge in practice.
so i picked klaus-peter wick.
born 1960 in erlangen, he is a german theater-pedagogue, clown, director and actor.
he studied in several german cities and switzerland and is now active clown-doctor and also does workshops in the fields of theater, prevention of violence, body language and communication.
he did not write a lot of books, i only found some "fachartikel":
„Der Sinn vom Unsinn – Humor in der Pädagogik“
„Lachen verleiht der Seele Flügel – Humor in der Medizin und Therapie“
check out:
http://www.humorcare.com/profile/534395985d11c710c.html
http://www.akademie-wick.de/theaterp/bio.html
After looking for "the great names in education" i begin to be very interested in famous female educators because i could not find a lot.
I chose Rebeca Wild because her life and ideas are interesting. I'm not shure if she is very famous.
Rebeca Wild was born in 1939 in Berlin, she lives in Ecuador since 1961. She is highly influenced by Maria Montessori. She founded two schools together with her husband in Ecuador based on Montessoris educational theory. The "freie Spiel" (i don't know how to translate it) has a central signification in their schools. They also refer to Jean Piaget (gradual development, learning from experience).
An important statement of Rebeca and Mauricio Wild: "Lebensprozesse respektieren"
Books: "Erziehung zum Sein", "Sein zum Erziehen", "Kinder im Pesta", "Freiheit und Grenzen, Liebe und Respekt", "Kinder wissen, was sie brauchen", "Lebensqualität für Kinder und andere Menschen", "Genügend gute Eltern"
Link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_Wild
I want to tell you a little about Jean Piaget.
Piaget served as professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and is best known for reorganizing cognitive development theory into a series of stages, expanding on an earlier work. There are four levels of development corresponding roughly to infancy, pre-school, childhood, and adolescence
The four development stages are described in Piaget's theory as
1.Sensorimotor stage: from birth to age 2 years (children experience the world through movement and senses and learn object permanence)
2.Preoperational stage: from ages 2 to 7 (acquisition of motor skills)
3.Concrete operational stage: from ages 7 to 11 (children begin to think logically about concrete events)
3.Formal operational stage: after age 11 (development of abstract reasoning).
Piaget viewed children as little philosophers, which he called tiny thought-sacks and scientists building their own individual theories of knowledge. Piaget, however, used their problem areas to help understand their cognitive growth and development.
There can be found a lot of books, here are only some:
Introduction à l’Épistémologie Génétique, La psychologie de l'intelligence, The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence, The Early Growth of Logic in the Child: Classification and Seriation.
I googled some keywords of educational science and I found the name Schleiermacher and first I wanted to write something about him, but than I saw that already somebody had written something about him and than I remembered the name Wolfgang Sünkel.
In our first year we read a very interesting scientific text called “Generation als pädagogischer Begriff” from Sünkel who often refers in his text to Schleiermacher. I don´t know if Sünkel is something like a pop star in science but I found his text very interesting.
Wolfgang Sünkel was born in 1934 Detmold, where he grew up and then he went to Marburg, Hamburg, Basel and Münster to do his german language and literature, philosophy (in combination with educational science) and theology studies. Since summer term in 1971 he holds a chair for educational science at university of Erlangen- Nürnberg. His most important teachers were for example Berthold, Jaspers and Flitner. The only scientific text from him I know is “Generation als pädagogischer Begriff” where he talks about acquisition and intercession of knowledge.
Other publications are for example:
• Friedrich Schleiermachers Begründung der Pädagogik als Wissenschaft. Ratingen : Henn 1964 (zugleich Diss. phil. Münster 1962)
• Zur Entstehung der Pädagogik in Deutschland. Studien über die philanthropische Erziehungsrevision, Habil.-Schr. Münster 1970 (Ms., Kopien in UB Münster und UB Erlangen)
• Centaurus. Reden über Humanismus und Anthropologie, mit einem aphoristischen Anhang, Frankfurt/Main : Sendler 1983
Source: http://www.paedagogik.phil.uni-erlangen.de/mitarbeiter/wolfgang-suenkel.shtml
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