Edukand

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As Educandus or Germanized Edukand (from Latin educandus to-parent ' ) is referred to in the German educational jargon persons to whom education is applied. Depending on the context, one also speaks of the " student " or simply of " child " or " young person ". Older synonyms are pupil and Eleve .

In pedagogical technical jargon, educators are people who practice upbringing . Lessons used for the educator are Edukator or Edukant. The latter comes from Latin (E ducans).

The educator can be understood as a representative of an educational authority .

Word history

The term arose from an anthropological perspective that understands humans as homo educandus, i.e. as defective beings who need upbringing in order to be able to survive in nature.

Although the term has occasionally appeared earlier, it found more widespread use in German-language educational specialist literature when the humanities education was increasingly replaced by a more social science education in the 1960s and 1970s. Outside the German-speaking area, a distinction between “pupil” and “educand” is not very common because there is often no distinction between “ education ” and “upbringing” due to the lack of reception of German idealism .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Educandus. Retrieved February 11, 2017 (online encyclopedia of psychology and education).
  2. educational authority. In: DeWiki> Lexicon. dewiki.de, June 16, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  3. The image of man in education: The "homo educandus". Retrieved February 11, 2017 . Christoph Wulf, Jörg Zirfas: Homo educandus. An introduction to educational anthropology . In: Christoph Wulf, Jörg Zirfas (Hrsg.): Handbuch Pedagogical Anthropology . Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18166-0 , pp. 9-26 .
  4. Constantin Gutberlet: Philosophical Yearbook . tape 65 . K. Alber, 1957, p. 338 .