Bertrand Stern

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Bertrand Stern (born November 11, 1948 in Montbéliard ) is a German author living in Siegburg , who describes himself as a freelance philosopher .

He devotes himself mainly critical of civilization concerns with regard to the dignity of man, in a special way of his desired break out of the schooling ideology and aspects of free forming , questions about medicine and health, money and labor, transport and mobility.

Life

Stern was born the son of the educator Arno Stern and Claire Stern in Montbéliard, France. He has two siblings and a son. He grew up in different places in Europe and therefore speaks French, English and Spanish in addition to German.

Stern worked for many years at the adult education center in Cologne , among other things for anti-pedagogy .

From 2011 to 2012 he had a teaching position at the University of Kassel .

Activities and initiatives

He was a co-initiator of the following initiatives:

  • Conference: "Children - the forgotten dimension" (Akademie Remscheid, 1982)
  • “Children's double resolution” called the political “offensive for peace between the generations” in publik-forum magazine (1983); as part of this, he organized the 3rd Regensburg Congress (1st Congress of the German Children's Rights Movement)
  • "Child Rights Action" and its congress in Berlin, September 1991
  • Symposium free to learn - free to learn - libre de s´instruire in Luxembourg on October 6, 2017

In addition, he participated in the “Children's Health Congress” in October 2016 and at the “Children are Peace” symposium in September 2017.

One focus of his activity is on the one hand his numerous lectures, seminars and workshop discussions at home and abroad; on the other hand his publications and media appearances.

For Stern, the term “ free to form ”, which he initiated , is of central importance in order to distinguish this process from what is popularly meant by what, in his opinion, is often negatively influenced by the term learning for many people due to their experience in school . In particular, following Ivan Illich and Thomas Mohrs , he criticizes the dominance and, from his point of view, the negative effects of school learning.

The foundation he founded in 2017, “bertrand stern - free education”, aims to support initiatives in political, economic and cultural life related to education. The focus here is on a changed understanding of education - described as free formation .

He initiated the feature film Caraba #LebenohneSchule , which was released in May 2019 and introduces people who are not educated and who are free to educate themselves. Joshua Conens is the producer.

Publications

  • Freedom of education instead of compulsory education. In: Yearbook Children's Rights and Youth Policy. Knowledge Verlag Wilde , Fürth 1992, ISBN 3-926810-23-8 .
  • School? No thanks! For a right to free education! In: Kristian Kunert (ed.): School in the cross fire. Mission - tasks - problems. Lecture series on basic questions of school education at the University of Tübingen. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren , Baltmannsweiler 1993, ISBN 3-87116-918-8 .
  • (as ed.): Children's rights between resignation and vision. 2., ext. and revised Edition. Klemm & Oelschläger Verlag , Ulm 1995, ISBN 3-9802739-6-2 .
  • Time instead of rush! On the way to a culture of leisure? Klemm + Oelschläger, Ulm 1996, ISBN 3-9802739-8-9 .
  • No more school! the human right to freely educate. tologo , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-9810444-5-2 .
  • Dear Federal Minister for the German School System ...: Thoughts about the educational republic. tologo, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-940596-03-1 .
  • School - a tragic accident? In: Ulrich Klemm (Hrsg.): Education without compulsion. Texts on the history of anarchist education. Edition AV, Lich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86841-037-2 .
  • (with Ulrich Klemm): On the happiness of doing nothing: leisure instead of education. tologo, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-940596-14-7 .
  • (with Franziska Klinkigt): Attempts to defend freedom. Discussions on the "educational republic". Klemm + Oelschläger, Ulm / Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-86281-060-4 .
  • Form freely - apologetic perspectives. tologo, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-937797-34-2 .
  • Seeds of freedom. Impulses for a blossoming educational landscape. Klein Jasedow 2016, ISBN 978-3-927369-96-2 .
  • To break out of the schooling ideology: Good reasons to also legally place our prospective trust in those who refused to attend school. In: Matthias Kern (Ed.): Self-determined and self-organized education versus compulsory schooling. tologo, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-937797-59-5 .
  • Gabriel - From discovering a happily liberated life. Klemm & Oelschläger, Ulm, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86281-131-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great moment with Bertrand Stern. In: Kinderwärts. June 1, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Home. Retrieved on February 5, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Everything is new in ... March! - At the beginning of spring 2019 · Newsletter # 17. March 20, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ It wants to see the light of day, what should be refreshed in life ... · Circular # 18. August 6, 2019, accessed March 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Vita. In: Bertrand Stern. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ The double resolution for children. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  7. ↑ This week: Children's double resolution. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Katy Zago: Free education? In: freetolearnluxembourg.eu. October 6, 2017, accessed December 14, 2017 .
  9. ^ Christian Clemens: Free education instead of compulsory schooling. In: gluecksknirpse.de. October 2016, accessed December 14, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Bertrand Stern: Free Form. In: Bertrand Stern. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ken Jebsen: In conversation: Bertrand Stern ("Saat der Freiheit: Impulses for blossoming educational landscapes"). In: KenFM.de. April 12, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020 (German).
  12. ^ Bertrand Stern Foundation. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Joshua Conens: Feature film Caraba. February 14, 2018, accessed February 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Bertrand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbeliard