Christoph Wulf

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Christoph Wulf (2018)

Christoph Wulf (born August 4, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German educationalist and professor of anthropology and education at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Wulf spent his childhood in a rectory in Berlin-Britz . After graduating from high school in Steglitz , he first studied history , educational science , philosophy and literature at the Free University of Berlin, which he completed in 1968 with a Magister Artium . In 1969 he went to Marburg with a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation to do his doctorate with Wolfgang Klafki . After an information trip through the USA as a guest of the US Department of Education , he spent a year researching his dissertation at the Universities of Stanford, Los Angeles, Boulder and New York. From 1970 to 1975 he was a research assistant at the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt. 1973 PhD at the University of Marburg Dr. phil .; In 1975 he completed his habilitation there in educational science. In 1975 he became a full professor for educational science at the University of Siegen . Since 1980 he has been Professor of Anthropology and Education in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the Free University of Berlin.

Wulf has held guest professorships at the Université de Paris ( Nanterre , St. Denis , Denis Diderot ), the Fondazione San Carlo in Modena , the European Peace University , the Universiteit van Amsterdam , the Stockholm University , the University of London , the University of Tokyo , and Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi, as well as in Kyoto, Beijing and Kazan; Research stays at Stanford University .

Together with Dieter Lenzen , Wulf published the book series Pedagogical Anthropology on behalf of the Pedagogical Anthropology Working Group of the German Society for Educational Science. Michael Wimmer, professor for basic research in educational science at the University of Hamburg, is one of his students.

Act

Wulf works on questions of anthropology , especially pedagogical anthropology. The focus of work is on mimesis and imagination research, performativity, gesture and ritual research as well as aesthetic and intercultural education. He is concerned with the knowledge of people in a globalized world characterized by cultural diversity. The aim of his research is to use historical and ethnographic methods as well as philosophical reflection to make a contribution to the self-image of people today.

Memberships

  • Society for Historical Anthropology (Deputy Chairman)
  • Pedagogical Anthropology Commission of the German Society for Educational Science (initiator and chairman 1993–1999)
  • German UNESCO Commission (Vice President); Member of the Education Committee
  • Member of the National Committee "Education for Sustainable Development"
  • Member of the board of trustees of the DAAD.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1973: The curriculum development in New Social Studies: Development tendencies and current status , Marburg 1973, DNB 369374258 ( Dissertation , University of Marburg , Faculty of Social Sciences 1973, as a book under the title: The political and social science curriculum: an analysis of curriculum development in the USA ( = Education in Science and Practice, Volume 22), Piper, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-492-02035-6 , 312 pages).
  • 1977: Theories and Concepts of Educational Science (= Juventa-Paperback ), Juventa Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7799-0539-6 ( Habilitation at the University of Marburg 1975 under the title: Educational Science Between Hermeneutics, Empiricism and Criticism ); 6th edition 1992.
  • 1981: with Dietmar Kamper : In the shadow of the Milky Way. Experiences on the " Camino de Santiago ". Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-88769-002-8 .
  • 1997: From people. Handbuch Historische Anthropologie , Beltz , Weinheim 1997, ISBN 3-407-83136-6 (2nd edition Der Mensch und seine Kultur… , Anaconda, Cologne 2010; Japanese translation 2005).
  • 1998: with Gunter Gebauer : play - ritual - gesture: mimetic action in the social world (= Rowohlt's encyclopedia ), Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-55591-3 ; Danish edition: Copenhagen, 2001; French edition 2004.
  • 2001: Introduction to the Anthropology of Education. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2001, ISBN 3-407-25233-1 ; English edition 2002; Spanish edition 2004.
  • 2002: with Dietmar Kamper (Ed.): Logic and Passion. Income from historical anthropology , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002.
  • 2003: Mimetic World Access (with Gunter Gebauer ), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003; Brazilian edition 2004.
  • 2005: On the genesis of the social. Mimesis, Performativität, Ritual , Transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-415-8 .
  • 2006: Anthropology of cultural diversity. Intercultural Education in Times of Globalization , Transcript, Bielefeld 2006.
  • 2007: Learning cultures in transition. Ritual practices in school, media, family and youth , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15175-5 .
  • 2007: with Christina von Braun (ed.): Myths des Blutes , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 2007.
  • 2007: with Gabriele Brandstetter (ed.): Tanz als Anthropologie, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4344-1 .
  • 2007: with Jörg Zirfas (Ed.): Pedagogy of the Performative. Theories, methods, perspectives . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-407-32074-2 .
  • 2007: with Michael Göhlich and Jörg Zirfas (eds.): Pedagogical Theories of Learning , Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2007; 2nd edition 2014.
  • 2009: Anthropology. Philosophy, history, culture. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-55664-2 ; Anaconda , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86647-403-1 .
  • 2010: as editor: Man and his culture. One hundred articles on the history, present and future of human life , Anaconda, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86647-524-3 .
  • 2011: with Shoko Suzuki, Jörg Zirfas u. a .: The happiness of the family. Ethnographic studies in Germany and Japan . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18152-3 .
  • with Gabriele Weigand: Man in the globalized world: anthropological reflections on understanding our time, Christoph Wulf in conversation with Gabriele Weigand, Waxmann, Münster / New York, NY / Munich / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2528-6 .
  • 2013: Anthropology. A continental perspective , Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013.
  • 2013: The riddle of the human. Introduction to historical anthropology , Wilhelm Fink Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-4718-0 .
  • 2013: with Shoko Suzuki: On the way of life: west-east meditations , translated from Japanese by Rolf Elberfeld , Logos Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8325-3317-5 .
  • 2014: The Images of Man. Imaginary and performative foundations of culture , transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2949-1 .
  • 2014: with Jörg Zirfas (ed.): Handbuch Pedagogical Anthropology , Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-18166-0 .

Editing

  • ZfE. Journal for Educational Science, 1998ff.
  • Historical anthropology series , 1988ff.
  • Series European Studies in Education , 1995ff.
  • Pedagogical Anthropology Series , 1996ff.
  • Series of Berlin Works on Educational and Cultural Studies , 2000ff.
  • Managing editor of Paragrana - International Journal of Historical Anthropology , 1992ff.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Wulf  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 20th edition (2005). Vol. 3, p. 3945.
personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin