Cecil Reddie

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Cecil Reddie

Cecil Reddie (born October 10, 1858 in London , † February 6, 1932 ) was a British reform pedagogue and founder of the Abbotsholme country home in England. He is the pioneer of rural education homes.

After attending school at Fettes College in Edinburgh, he studied chemistry, physics and mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and from 1882 at the University of Göttingen , where he graduated with a doctorate in chemistry. In 1884 he returned to Scotland and worked as a scientific demonstrator and teacher, a. a. again at Fettes College and Clifton School Bristol. Influenced by the works of John Ruskin (1819–1900), William Morris (1834–1896), Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) and Walt Whitman , he became an active socialist. Around 1888/89 he had a homosexual relationship with Edward Carpenter. He joined the Socialist Fellowship of the New Life with him and founded the Abbotsholme School in 1889. The school relied more on modern than ancient languages ​​and on voluntary learning, and corporal punishment was abolished. He replaced competitive sport with works and field work. He then traveled several times to Wilhelm Rein's Jena University School and kept in touch with his student Hermann Lietz , who also became a teacher in Abbotsholme for a year. Reddie, who was difficult to deal with, remained headmaster with interruptions until 1927, when he only had two students. During the Boer War and the First World War, he got into trouble because of his friendliness towards German.

Herbartianism played a major role in Reddie's school design . This made him more conservative than other reform pedagogues.

Fonts

  • John Bull: His Origin and Character ; London 1901
  • Abbotsholme, 1889-1899, or ten years work in an educational laboratory ; London 1900
  • Steffi Koslowski: The New Era of the New Education Fellowship: Your Contribution to the Internationality of Reform Education in the 20th Century . Julius Klinkhardt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7815-1899-5 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).

Single receipts

  1. ↑ mudlark 121: Today in mystic socialist history: the Fellowship of the New Life formally founded, 1882. In: past tense. October 24, 2017, accessed June 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reddie, Cecil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British educator and founder of the Abbotsholme Country House in England
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1932