Carl-Ludwig Furck

Carl-Ludwig Furck (born November 3, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 23, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German educationalist and educational reformer.

As one of the first German university educators, Carl-Ludwig Furck, with his essay "School for the year 2000", published in 1963, advocated comprehensive schools as a form of school appropriate to a democratic society. He has participated in many other educational reforms as a reviewer or commissioner. He promoted the professionalization of educational professions by significantly promoting the establishment of the diploma course for education.

Life

Furck began studying history, philology and education at the universities of Frankfurt / Main and Göttingen in 1945 and received his doctorate in 1952. phil. with Herman Nohl . He then went on to teach at various schools and worked as a research assistant at the University of Marburg . In 1956 he became an academic councilor at the Free University of Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1960. In 1961 he was offered a position at the University of Hamburg . In 1963 he was involved in founding the German Society for Educational Science. In 1965 he was appointed full professor at the Free University of Berlin and was also appointed director of the newly founded Pedagogical Center in Berlin. In 1973 there was a renewed call to the University of Hamburg. From 1979 Furck was the project manager of a distance learning course for German students abroad. He retired in 1989 .

Furck was editor of the magazine for pedagogy and of relates: education .

Awards

• 1998 honorary member of the German Society for Educational Science
• 2004 Ernst Christian Trapp Prize

Works

• The young Hegel's concept of education , Beltz, Weinheim 1953.
• The educational problem of performance in school , Beltz, Weinheim 1961, 5th edition 1975.
• The performance profile of young people in school and at work , Juventa, Munich 1964.
• The outmoded high school , Beltz, Weinheim 1965.
• Expert opinion on the pilot project "Single-phase teacher training at the University of Oldenburg" , together with Kurt Ewert and Werner Ohaus, Oldenburg 1981.
• Revision of teacher education. On the problem of entry-level unemployment among teachers , Beltz, Weinheim 1986.
• together with Johannes Bastian: On the future of the secondary school in Hamburg , Hamburg 1990.
• Co-editor of the six-volume handbook of German history of education , Beck, Munich 1990 ff.
  • Edited with Christoph Führ : Volume 6/1: 1945 to the present. Federal Republic of Germany. Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-406-32467-3 .
  • Edited with Christoph Führ: Volume 6/2: 1945 to the present. German Democratic Republic and the new federal states. Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-406-42931-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl-Ludwig Furck in the catalog of the German National Library