Frank Beuster

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frank Beuster (* 1961 in Fockbek ) is a German teacher and non-fiction author.

Life

After completing his community service in Hamburg, Beuster studied educational science and elementary school education with the subjects German, religion and sport from 1982 to 1987. After some time as a primary school teacher, he worked at a comprehensive school in Hamburg-Bergstedt and worked as a seminar leader for "teacher training" at the then Institute for Teacher Training (IFL).

Services

He became known with the book The Boy Catastrophe . The title alludes to the programmatic writings of Georg Picht , who postulated an educational catastrophe in the magazine Christ und Welt in 1964 , whereby according to Picht the Catholic working-class girl from the country should pay special attention to educational policy. According to Beuster, sedentary students , special school students and dropouts are mostly male. Frank Beuster attributes this to the lack of male role models in the German education system and in families. A large part of the living environment of many boys is shaped by women. Men are in short supply and are often only available virtually and unfit for everyday use. The development-specific needs of boys are not addressed in everyday school life.

From 2006, Beuster was represented in some media as an expert on boy education and in 2007 as part of a public hearing of the Greens in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. In 2009 the magazine Der Spiegel reported on Beuster's “Patent for Boys” project at Hamburg's Bergstedt Comprehensive School.

Beuster's lectures and readings took place at the Evangelical Academy Tutzing and other events in the church environment.

He performed at rbb Im Palais on March 23, 2006 and at BR-alpha (Forum) on April 12, 2007.

reception

In 2009, Sabine Mehlmann stated two interpretations of the debate about school failure among boys - the feminization of education was named as the central cause of school problems and the disadvantage of boys in school . The thesis is not only reflected in the media and, as in Beuster's advisory literature, but also in social science specialist discourse in two variants that cannot always be clearly distinguished. Mehlmann notes that Beuster's popular science bestseller , published in 2006, is an example of the thesis of the overrepresentation of female educators and teachers, Allan Guggenbühl's “Little Machos in Crisis. How parents and teachers understand boys better ”, on the other hand, is more in favor of the assumption of a 'feminization of school culture' that has set female (good) behavior as the norm and benchmark for boys.

In 2006 a short review in Pedagogy Classes was published .

In 2011 the magazine for educational science published a summary review of Beuster and other best-selling publications and popular science books about “the young”. It often states that empirical results are received very far from theory and selectively. In most cases, this does not detract from the sellability of the books: the boys' topic is booming in the book market in particular and in the media in general. The authors miss a reproduction of the now rare references to the real diversity of being a boy and masculinity and questions about the significance of the various masculinity concepts of boys in the educational system, which are now rare even in scientific publications.

Anke Gasch writes: "This book is a valuable guide for everyone who works with boys, who understand boys and who want to help them find a recognized place in society." The book is also listed in literature recommendations on the topic of "Promoting boys", This is the case with the opinion of the Education Action Council on gender differences in the education system.

The sociologist Rolf Pohl classifies Beuster alongside Arne Hoffmann and Gerhard Amendt as "radical representatives of men who are moved by men", without specifying a corresponding network. and criticizes a literally pompous and pathetic urgency in Beuster's formulations.

Project fathers wanted

Under the motto Fathers wanted on time , Beuster was looking for men who could spend their free time with boys as godparents. According to Beuster, many children grow up in single-parent families, but a variety of male personalities is good for every boy. In the project "Paten-t for boys" Beusters, male sponsors were to be sought for individual boys. According to Der Spiegel, the initiative was particularly successful in 2009 with group meetings at schools at which, according to the goal of "adult male role model behavior, appreciative care and orientation for their lives", one-to-one sponsorships met with less interest.

Fonts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boys and School Impulses from boy education for counseling work, book review, interview with a publication by the State Institute for Teacher Education and School Development Hamburg (PDF; 3.1 MB)
  2. ↑ The school system is unfair to boys, claims the Hamburg educator Frank Beuster. The teacher encourages them to be more considerate. SZ Schule Die Not der Jungs November 29, 2006
  3. ↑ Not stupid, but the stupid? The promotion of boys in school ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 36 kB) Documentation of the hearing of April 27, 2007 of the Greens in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bawue.gruene-fraktion.de
  4. ↑ FOCUS Online: [1]
  5. ↑ [2] Interview in the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast on April 12, 2007, 8:15 pm
  6. ↑ Role models wanted “Boys need men!”, Der Spiegel November 13, 2009, by Jonas Goebel.
  7. ↑ Lecture at the Diocese of Augsburg Diocesan Men’s Day 2011 on the subject of “fatherliness” March 19 in Augsburg
  8. ^ Program boys - the weak strong sex March 9-11, 2007, Beusters reading on the book, conference chair: Karin Andert
  9. ↑ http://www.br-online.de/download/pdf/alpha/b/beuster.pdf
  10. ↑ [3] (PDF; 104 kB) Dr. Sabine Mehlmann About Alpha Girls and School Failures - Gender-Political Implications of the Debate on the 'Feminization of Education' (Lecture at the Women's Culture Center in Giessen as part of the series of events organized by the JLU Women's Representatives on June 25, 2009)
  11. ↑ Review by Rüdiger Gollnick, Frank Beuster: Die Jungskatastrophe. The overwhelmed gender . In: Pedagogy Lessons. (26th year) 4/2006. Pp. 70-71.
  12. ↑ a b Journal for Educational Science (2011) 14: 171–182 doi : 10.1007 / s11618-011-0171-x Boy Research, Boy and Girl Education Barbara Drinck, Melanie Schmidt, Daniel Diegmann, collective review
  13. ↑ Book review: Frank Beuster: The boy catastrophe - The overwhelmed gender (PDF; 3.1 MB) in: Boys and School - Impulses from boy education for counseling work , Authority for Education and Sport , Hamburg, State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development, 2007, P. 30
  14. ↑ [4] (PDF; 53 kB) Recommendation from Klaudia Schultheis , Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Conference “Crisis of the Little Guys? - Boys in primary school “on June 6, 2008 in Neuwied
  15. ^ [5] Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft eV (Ed.), Report of the Action Council Education: Gender differences in the education system - the federal states in comparison. Facts and data on the annual report, Munich 2009.
  16. ↑ a b Rolf Pohl: Men - the disadvantaged sex? Defense against femininity and anti-feminism in the discourse on the crisis of masculinity (PDF; 181 kB). In: Mechthild Bereswill and Anke Neuber (eds.): In the crisis? Masculinity in the 21st century . Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-231-2 .
  17. ↑ Looking for temporary fathers. Fathers should become godparents for boys who have too few male caregivers . Kaija Kutter, in Taz April 7, 2007
  18. ↑ www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/schule/article1604145/Frank-Beuster-will-Jungen-helfen-Maenner-zu-haben.html
  19. ↑ Frank Beuster wants to help boys become men Hamburger Abendblatt August 19, 2010, 7:24 am
  20. ↑ Role models wanted "Boys need men!" , Der Spiegel November 13, 2009, by Jonas Goebel

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Beuster, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Fockbek