Adolphe Ferrière

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Adolphe Ferrière, ca.1923

Adolphe Ferrière (born August 30, 1879 in Geneva ; † June 16, 1960 ibid), pseudonym Frédéric Emmanuel , was a Swiss pedagogue and one of the founders of the Éducation nouvelle (new education = reform pedagogy ).

family

He was the eldest son of Frédéric Auguste Ferrière and his wife Adolphine, nee Faber. His family had originally immigrated to Switzerland from France, but had lived in the French-speaking area for around two hundred years. His great-grandfather was tutor to Madame de Staël and later worked as a teacher and director at the Geneva College. His grandfather was a prison chaplain and welfare educator. His father was a doctor, scientist and psychologist and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross .

As a result of an illness, Adolphe Ferrière lost his hearing from 1893, initially partially, then gradually and completely from 1921.

education

After attending secondary school, Ferrière studied science at the University of Geneva . He volunteered in the German Landerziehungsheim (DLEH) founded in 1902 by Hermann Lietz in Haubinda , Thuringia . In 1902 he received a PhD in sociology .

Professional development

Adolphe Ferrière around 1915, while working as a teacher at the Les Pléiades rural education center near Blonay

Ferrière was involved in various educational initiatives and in 1899 founded the Bureau international des Écoles nouvelles , a documentation center for school reformers. In 1902 he helped found the first Swiss rural education home at Glarisegg Castle . From 1909 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Geneva , from 1912 to 1922 as a full professor at the (still) private institute Jean-Jacques Rousseau there . During this period he also worked as a teacher at the Les Pléiades rural education home near Blonay , where he worked between 1913 and 1920. In 1920 he opened his own private school in Bex , which ran until 1921. But then he had to give up his practical teaching activity completely due to the total loss of his hearing. In 1921 he founded the New Education Fellowship (from 1927: World Federation for the Renewal of Education ) with Elisabeth Rotten (1882–1964) and worked as editor of the World Federation periodical Pour l'ère nouvelle (for a new era). With her he also worked at the International Bureau of Education in Geneva. Ferrière campaigned for the pupil to work independently and to share responsibility in an “École active” (active school). He defined the country school as a boarding school in the country with a family-like character. He viewed the pupil's personal experience as the basis for his intellectual upbringing and education, and he advocated the pupils' hands-on work in the sense of a work school. Through this practical cooperation, moral education leads to extensive self-regulation of the pupils. Ferrière wrote numerous essays and books and dealt with religious psychology.

He died at the age of 80.

Works (selection)

from left: Ovide Decroly , Pierre Bovet , Beatrice Ensor , Édouard Claparède , Paul Geheeb , Adolphe Ferrière, 1920s
  • Projet d'école nouvelle , Foyer solidariste, Neuchâtel 1909
  • La loi biogénétique et l'éducation , Kundig, Genève 1910
  • Biogenetics and Labor School. A program for the organization of the elementary school . Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1912
  • Les fondements psychologiques de l'école du travail , Imprimerie Rossel et fils, Bruxelles 1914
  • La loi du progrès en biologie et en sociologie et la question de l'organisme social , Giard et Brière, Paris 1915
  • Call for the organization of community service for occasional economic goals in Switzerland . Zbinden, Basel 1919
  • The rural education home and the scientific central office for rural education homes . Society and Education Publishing House, Berlin 1920
  • L'autonomie des écoliers, l'art de former des citoyens pour la nation et pour l'humanité , Delachaux & Niestlé, Neuchâtel u. Paris 1921
  • L'éducation dans la famille , Editions Forum, Neuchâtel u. Paris 1921
  • L'activité spontanée chez l'enfant , Editions internationales populaires, Genève 1922
  • École active , Editions Forum, Neuchâtel u. Paris 1922
  • La pratique de l'école active , Editions Forum, Neuchâtel u. Paris 1924
  • La coéducation des sexes , Imprimerie générale, Genève 1926
  • Upbringing in the family . Art Institut Orell Füssli, Zurich 1927
  • School of self-activity or school of action . H. Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1928
  • The primacy of the mind as the basis of an uplifting education . J. Beltz, Langensalza 1932
  • A non-partisan plan of work to the Swiss people. Economic order on a democratic basis . Jean-Christophe-Verlag, Zurich 1936
  • Nos réfugiés. Point de vue d'un simple citoyen. Tirage à part du Messager Social . La Tribune de Genève, 1944
  • Le Dr Frédéric Ferrière. Son action à la Croix-Rouge internationale en faveur des civils victimes de la guerre . Geneva 1948
  • Our children, the main victims of the war . Schöningh, Paderborn 1949
  • Autonomy des écoliers dans les communautes d'enfants . 1950
  • Brève initiation a l'éducation nouvelle . 1956

literature

  • Franz Hilker : Adolphe Ferrière in memory . 1960
  • Homage au pédagogue Adolphe Ferrière (1879-1960) à l'occasion du centenaire de sa naissance , Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation, Université de Genève (ed.), 1980
  • Hans-Ulrich Grunder: From Criticism to Concepts, Aspects of a History of Education in French-speaking Switzerland in the 20th Century , Haag a. Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Daniel Hameline : L'école active de Adolphe Ferrière . 2004
  • Jean Houssaye (ed.): Quinze pédagogues. Idées principales et textes choisis. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Heinrich Pestalozzi, Friedrich Froebel, Paul Robin, Francisco Ferrer, Rudolf Steiner, John Dewey, Ovide Decroly, Maria Montessori, Anton Makarenko, Adolphe Ferrière, Roger Cousinet, Célestin Freinet, Alexander S. Neill, Carl Rogers . Fabert, Paris 2013. ISBN 978-2-84922-127-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Hilker: Adolphe Ferrière for memory . In: Bildung und Erbildung, December 1, 1960. From: degruyter.com, accessed April 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Adolphe Ferrière . From: unige.ch, accessed on April 15, 2017
  3. ^ Daniel Hameline: Adolphe Ferrière (1879-1960) . In: Perspectives. Revue trimestrielle d'éducation comparée. Unesco Bureau international d'éducation, Paris (ed.), Vol. XXIII, No. 1-2, March / June 1993, pp. 379-406. From: unesco.org, accessed April 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Adolphe Ferrière . From: whoswho.de, accessed on April 15, 2017
  5. ^ Adolphe Ferrière: École active , 1922
  6. ↑ Daniel Hameline: relater sa pratique? Les tentations d'Adolphe Ferrière (1879-1960). Entre compte rendu d'évaluation et libelle de propagande . In: Revue française de pédagogie, Vol. 153, No. 1, 2005, pp. 67-80. From: persee.fr, accessed April 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Ferrière, Adolphe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmanuel, Frédéric (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1960
Place of death Geneva