Fritz Oser

Fritz Oser (born July 15, 1937 in Hofstetten ) is a Swiss educator , psychologist and professor emeritus.

Life

1952–1957 he attended the teachers' seminar in Solothurn and in 1962 earned his diploma as a Swiss music teacher. This was followed by studies at the University of Basel in philosophy with Karl Jaspers , also in education and linguistics, 1963–1964 at the Sorbonne and at the Institut Catholique de Paris in Paris (philosophy, French literature, theology and musicology), from which he graduated in 1964 graduated as a secondary school teacher. In 1966 he received a teaching position at the theological faculty in Lucerne for psychological didactics and methodology and in 1969 he studied in Zurich. In 1972 Oser became an assistant at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Zurich, where he presented his dissertation in 1975 on “Learning the conscience. Problems of intentional learning concepts in the field of moral education ». After a research project in the USA, Oser completed his habilitation in 1979 and became full professor of education at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland in 1981. In 2007 he retired.

He developed basic models of teaching .

Model of the development of religious judgment

Oser assumes that religious judgment is independent from moral judgment. According to his model, man goes through up to five stages in the development of religious judgment:

• 1: « Deus ex machina - God can do everything.» The ultimate, whatever its form, protects or lets you down, gives disease and health, etc. It directly affects all living beings, including humans. The will of the ultimate must be fulfilled, otherwise the relationship with it will break.
• 2: « Do ut des - I give so that you give». The will of the ultimate can be influenced, e.g. B. through prayers. If you obey your will, you will be treated well.
• 3: "God does and man does". The human being is seen as completely responsible. The ultimate is a quantity outside of the human. It has its own field of action, its wholeness has a freedom, a meaning and a hope that are completely different from that of humans. The ultimate is representative of the basic order of life and the world.
• 4: "Man does because God exists".
• 5: «Communicative-religious practice».

Fonts

• The Jesus relationship. 7. Volume of the series models . A series for religious education. Curriculum RU 1st school year. Third workbook. Walter , Olten 1973 (2nd edition 1975, ISBN 3-530-57796-0 )
• with Wolfgang Althof: Moral self-determination. Models of development and education in the realm of values. A textbook. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-608-95816-9 .
• with Christian Grethlein: Religious Education . De Gruyter , Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-014549-9 .
• with Wolfgang Edelstein , Peter Schuster: Moral education in school. Beltz , Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-407-25246-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Oser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the University of Friborg: Lifetime Award to Prof. em. Fritz Oser