Federation for school reform

The "Bund für Schulreform - General German Association for Education and Teaching" brought together reform-oriented teachers of all types of schools, representatives of school administrations, university lecturers and interested laypeople from 1908 to 1933. The goals were a single school and academic teacher training for elementary school teachers.

The association organ of the federal government was the magazine " Der Säemann " (1910-14), in which important articles appeared, among others by Gertrud Bäumer . The headquarters, under the youth researcher Ernst Meumann since 1911 , was in Hamburg. "German congresses for youth education and youth studies" were organized nationwide, at which central pedagogical questions were discussed:

from October 6th to 8th 1911 in Dresden with the controversy between Georg Kerschensteiner and Hugo Gaudig about the work school as well as about the intelligence problem and school
from 3 to 5 October 1912 in Munich on the nature of education, school types and teacher training
from 4 to 6 October 1913 in Breslau on the gender difference and co-education

Employees included the psychologist William Stern , Kurt Löwenstein , the school reformer Wilhelm Wetekamp and Edith Stein as students.

After Meumann's death, the association was restructured under the name "German Committee for Education and Teaching" on December 28, 1915 to become the umbrella organization of 32 associations in the German Reich. The still active teacher Peter Petersen held the position of "Secretary General" or "Managing Director" from 1912 to 1923. In 1916 he published the conference proceedings "Ascent of the Gifted" on behalf of the "German Committee for Education and Teaching".

Important congresses were also held in the Weimar Republic, in Weimar in 1926 and in Wiesbaden in 1930. The contributions were edited by Georg Ried , who played a role again in the Philologists Association after 1945 . Theodor Litt's 1926 lecture on the limits of pedagogy led to the now classic question: Leading or letting things grow ?

literature

Federation for school reform. Tasks and goals of the federal government, Teubner Leipzig, Berlin 1910
Christa Berg (ed.): Handbook of the German history of education . 1870-1918 , Vol. IV, Beck, Munich 1991 ISBN 3-406-32465-7
Hein Retter: Peter Petersen. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1061-1083. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Footnotes

^ Catalog of the German National Library. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
^ Congress report : Catalog of the German National Library. Accessed April 30, 2020 .

[1] Catalog of the German National Library. Accessed April 30, 2020 .

[2] Congress report : Catalog of the German National Library. Accessed April 30, 2020 .