Ernst-Michael Kranich

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Ernst-Michael Kranich (born June 29, 1929 in Stuttgart ; † May 10, 2007 there ) was a German biologist , teacher , Goetheanist and anthroposophist .

Life

After studying biology, geology, paleontology and chemistry, Kranich taught from 1955 as a specialist teacher for biology and chemistry at the Free Waldorf School in Rendsburg . In 1962 he was appointed as the first full-time lecturer at the Waldorf teacher training college in Stuttgart. He was involved in the public discussion about the educational reform and warned of the consequences of experiments that were insufficiently founded anthropologically.

As a Goetheanist, Kranich mainly worked in the fields of botany, zoology, anthropology and chemistry. In the 80s he had a temporary teaching position at the Philipps University in Marburg . Since 1990 he has supported the first Russian Waldorf teacher training at the Moscow Teachers' College.

As a member of the board of directors of the Association of Independent Waldorf Schools and numerous international committees, he made significant contributions to the further development of Waldorf education .

Create

Kranich regarded it as his life's task to bring Goetheanism on a methodologically secure basis and to strictly differentiate it from merely phenomenological methods. As their main feature, he saw the addition of a precise observation of natural phenomena through inner activity, through “inner recreation” of their shapes. As a result, Kranich was occasionally at a distance from other Goetheanists. He was able to rely on Rudolf Steiner's preliminary work on the epistemological foundation of the Goethean method, since Goethe himself did not make any epistemological considerations, but developed his method more in action.

Another important area of ​​work for Kranich was the relationship between the Goethean method, as he understood it, and pedagogy. In his seminar work at the Free University of Stuttgart, he conveyed to future teachers the importance of this "method of internal recreation" for lively teaching. Further publications arose from colloquia he initiated with other university professors in the field of education.

Works

Listed in chronological order. His numerous publications in anthologies and magazines are missing here.

Monographs

  • Anomalies in Pasque Flower Pulsatilla Miller . Diss. Tübingen 1958, in: Flora or Allgemeine botanische Zeitung , Volume 146, Jena 1958, pp. 254-301
  • Educational projects and their consequences. On the problems of programmed lessons, spring learning and new mathematics . Free spiritual life (education before the Forum of Time 5), Stuttgart 1969
  • The initial lessons in writing and reading in their importance for learning and the development of the child (with Erika Dühnfort). Free Spiritual Life (Human Studies and Education 27), Stuttgart 1971; 5th adult A. 1996
  • The design language of the plant. Basics of a cosmological botany . Free Spiritual Life (Human Studies and Education 33), Stuttgart 1976
    • extended new edition as: Plant and Cosmos. Basics of a cosmological botany . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7725-1680-7
  • Shape drawing. The development of the sense of form in education (with four other authors). Free Spiritual Life (Human Studies and Education 47), Stuttgart 1985 (3rd A. 2000), ISBN 3-7725-0247-4
  • Trees and planets. Contribution to a cosmological botany (with Frits H. Julius). Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1985 (4. verb. A. 2004), ISBN 3-7725-0843-X
  • From certainty to the science of evolution. The importance of Goethe's method of knowledge for the theory of evolution . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7725-0580-5
  • Waldorf Education in Discussion. An analysis of educational criticism (with Lorenzo Ravagli). Free spiritual life (education before the Forum of Time 17), Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7725-0297-0
  • Plants as images of the soul world. Sketch of a physiognomic knowledge of nature . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1993 (2nd edition, 1996), ISBN 3-7725-1173-2
  • Characteristic images of animals. Introduction to Goethean Zoology . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1995 (2nd A. 2004), ISBN 3-7725-1554-1
  • Anthropological foundations of Waldorf education . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7725-1781-1
  • The inner man and his body. An anthropology . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7725-1865-6
  • Primordial plant and plant kingdom. Metarmorphoses from lichens to flowering plants . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-7725-2099-5

As editor

  • Educational science and Waldorf education. The beginning of a necessary dialogue (with Fritz Bohnsack). Beltz, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-407-34050-8
  • In search of the tangible context. Overlooked dimensions of nature and their importance in school (with Peter Buck). Beltz, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-34091-5
  • What kind of knowledge does the teacher need? An objection to common practice (with Horst Rumpf). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-94276-9
  • Understand chemistry. The importance of the elements in substance and life processes . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7725-1555-X

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  1. ↑ See web links: Obituary and short portrait; Biographical information also in: Understanding chemistry , p. 375
  2. ↑ see: Kranich, Goetheanism - its method and meaning in the science of the living , in: Elements of Natural Science , Issue 86, Dornach 2007, pp. 31–45

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personal data
SURNAME Kranich, Ernst-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, Waldorf teacher and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2007
Place of death Stuttgart