Andreas Flitner

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Andreas Flitner (born September 28, 1922 in Jena ; † May 28, 2016 in Tübingen ) was a German professor of education .

life and work

Andreas Flitner was born in 1922 as the son of the pedagogue Wilhelm Flitner and the national economist Elisabeth Flitner . Andreas Flitner graduated from high school in Hamburg in 1940. From 1945 to 1950 he studied in Hamburg , Heidelberg and Basel . In 1950 he worked as a lecturer in Cambridge . He received his doctorate in 1951 in Basel and completed his habilitation in 1955. After a brief position as professor of education at the University of Erlangen in 1956, he worked from 1958 to 1988 as a professor at the University of Tübingen . In 1967 Flitner was a visiting professor at Evanston , Illinois . After his retirement he became honorary professor at the University of Jena in 1991 . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . In 1993 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Andreas Flitner's publications address questions of general pedagogy , the history of education , the educational problems of children and adolescents and educational policy . Together with the Academy for Educational Reform and the Robert Bosch Foundation , he launched the Practical Learning Initiative in 1983 and headed the associated project group at the University of Tübingen. According to this concept, students should increasingly acquire new knowledge through real actions. Theory and practice are interlinked, the learners apply their theoretical knowledge to an actual action or, conversely, create their theoretical knowledge from an action.

Andreas Flitner was married to Sonja Christ (born February 16, 1926 in Basel ; † December 24, 2016 in Tübingen ). They lived in Tübingen and had seven children, including Elisabeth Flitner, who was also a professor of education, and Michael Flitner , professor of geography at the University of Bremen . Bettina Flitner is Andreas Flitner's niece.

Political commitment

Flitner was also involved in practical training initiatives in the peace movement and in democratic citizenship , including the support of schools and youth work through the support program for Democratic Citizenship (since 1989 ).

Fonts

  • Erasmus in the judgment of his posterity. The literary Erasmus image from Beatus Rhenanus to Jean Le Clerc. Tübingen 1952.
  • Political education in Germany. History and Problems 1750–1880. Tuebingen 1957.
  • Sociological youth research. Presentation and criticism from a pedagogical point of view; [dealing with the thesis of the "skeptical generation"] , Quelle and & Meyer, Heidelberg 1963.
  • Paths to Educational Anthropology. Attempt at collaboration between the human sciences. Heidelberg 1963.
  • Learn to play. Practice and interpretation of the children's game. Munich 1972. (New edition 2002. ISBN 3-407-22109-6 .)
  • Unsuccessful progress. Pedagogical notes on educational policy , Piper, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-492-00466-0 .
  • For life - or for school? Educational and Political Essays. Weinheim-Basel 1987.
  • Konrad, said Mum's wife ... About education and non-education. Berlin 1982. (New edition 2004. ISBN 3-407-22150-9 .)
  • Education reform. Impulses from the 20th century. Jena lectures. With a contribution by Doris Knab . Munich-Zurich 1992. (New edition 2001. ISBN 3-407-22096-0 .)

as editor

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Andreas Flitner. Academia Europaea, accessed June 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hirsch: "Practical learning" has changed everyday school life forever. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, December 18, 1998.
  3. ^ Rolf Arnold, Markus Lermen u. a .: Practical learning. In: Didagma , Center for Teacher Training, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, accessed May 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Flitner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and education politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2016
Place of death Tübingen