German Institute for Scientific Education
The German Institute for Scientific Education existed in Münster (Westphalia) from 1922 to 1980.
Catholic teacher associations and academics, including the pedagogue and philosopher Max Ettlinger as their first director, founded the German Institute for Scientific Education in Münster in 1922 . A “Catholic pedagogy” should serve as a bulwark against all relativism and in Germany become a counterpart to the religion-free central institute for education and instruction in Berlin, for which the philosophy of Max Scheler was used above all . A research and training center with a substantial budget was created, where u. a. Edith Stein worked as a lecturer from 1932 to 1933. Despite a consensual conformity in 1933, the institute was forcibly closed in 1938.
After the “de-Christianization” of society through National Socialism , the institute was re-established from 1950 under Kurt Haase , initially for a markedly denominational educational policy . The Thomist Gustav Siewerth , the Neo-Kantian Alfred Petzelt and Franz Pöggeler were important teachers here. In the 1960s, Catholic pedagogy stepped back in the discussions about educational reform , especially the loss of the denominational school , and the "empirical turnaround" in educational science. The management was temporarily transferred to the church historian Bernhard Kötting until 1963. A personalistic pedagogy with Christian aspirations should take the place under Josef Speck . But Josef Homeyer, who was responsible for education in the diocese of Münster , realized that that was no longer enough. Due to his influence, Doris Knab was appointed head of the institute from the Berlin Max Planck Institute for Human Development in 1971 . Now it was about the then current curriculum research . An initiative under Aloysius Regenbrecht scientifically accompanied the Peace School Münster as the first Catholic comprehensive school in Germany. The German bishops finally dissolved the institute in 1980 after lengthy disputes because of the lack of a Catholic profile.
literature
- Markus Müller: The German Institute for Scientific Education 1922-1980. From Catholic Education to the Education of Catholics , Schöningh, Paderborn 2014 ISBN 978-3-506-77740-9