Günter Ludwig (pedagogue)

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Günter Ludwig (born August 9, 1925 in Lipporn , † October 5, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German educationalist.

Life

Ludwig grew up in a Catholic family in the Nassau Rhine region; his parents were active in the teaching profession. After graduating from the Höchst High School, he was captured by the English as a result of the war. From 1946 he devoted himself to studying classical philology, philosophy and education at the University of Frankfurt a. M. After the state examination in 1951, he received his doctorate in 1952 on Thucydides as a sophistic thinker . At the same time, he completed training as a pianist, choir director and organist until he graduated. But he went to high school for 10 years.

In 1963 he was appointed senior director of didactics to the pedagogical seminar at the University of Frankfurt a. M. and entrusted with the development of a practice-oriented didactics in connection with curriculum development. At the same time he wrote the book Cassiodorus - On the Origin of the Occidental School , published in 1967 as a habilitation thesis .

With the title Metaphysical Basic Questions of Educational Science , he published an investigation of the metaphysical approach of the Spanish Jesuit Francisco Suarez in 1970 .

In the winter semester 1971/72 Ludwig accepted the call to the Pedagogical University Berlin and took over a full professorship for systematic pedagogy. As a prerequisite for pedagogy, he saw it as essential to clarify the conceptual instruments and conscientiously research the foundations. From the work on the Cassiodorus book he took the foundations for the main pedagogical topics with which he continued to deal as a professor in research and teaching: the situation of historical transition times, the problem of conveying the old to the new, the origins and sources of his own present.

During his time in Berlin he published several essays: In the study of pluralism as a learning objective , he assessed this formulation as a fashionable term and pointed to the corresponding consequences for school and study; He also discussed three curriculum approaches that were often discussed at the time in his contribution Do learning-theoretical, cybernetic and educational-theoretical curriculum principles completely exclude one another? in the publications of the Pedagogical University Berlin.

On festive occasions he was asked for contributions that were always educationally critical, such as B. 1975 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Canisius-Kolleg Berlin and 1976 in the Philologists' Association on the subject of interdependencies between the educational principles of freedom and equality . He was involved in topics offered by the Catholic Educational Community and teacher training in the Diocese of Berlin as well as in the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation.

Ludwig also researched and published in the field of music education. With the booklet Creative Powers. Regarding the genealogy of the term , he criticized the careless syncretistic use of this term in the youth music movement and in the reform pedagogy of the twenties. In his last essay he devoted himself to questions of music theory under the title Remains and Beginnings .

Fonts (selection)

  • Thucydides as a sophistic thinker Frankfurt 1952 (Frankfurt, University, PhD thesis of May 28, 1952)
  • Cassiodorus. About the origin of the occidental school , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt a. M. 1967.
  • Basic metaphysical questions in educational science , A. Henn Verlag, Ratingen 1970
  • Creative powers. On the genealogy of the term , B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1970
  • Are learning theory, cybernetic and educational theory curriculum principles completely mutually exclusive? , in: Contributions to the history of the Berlin University of Education. Edited by Gerd Heinrich; Colloquium Verlag Berlin 1974, pp. 27-42

literature

  • Heinrich, Gerd: Contributions to the history of the Berlin University of Education , Colloquium Verlag Berlin 1974, p. 350
  • Heinrich, Gerd: Contributions to the history of the Berlin University of Education , Colloquium Verlag Berlin 1980, chapter: Günter Ludwig (1925-1977) by Alfred Kelletat, pp. 121–126.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clemens Menze appreciated the book in a review of the Pädagogische Rundschau 21, 1967, p. 794 ff, see Kelletat's obituary
  2. ↑ Quarterly journal for scientific pedagogy 50, 1974, pp. 31–49, see Kelletat's obituary
  3. ↑ Volume 1 of the treatises from the Pädagogische Hochschule Berlin 1974, pp. 27–42
  4. ↑ cf. his lecture as a historical feature on the value-philosophical school location in the commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Canisius-Kolleg Berlin
  5. ↑ see Kelletat's obituary, p. 125
  6. ^ Volume 2 of the music education series , Verlag B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1970
  7. ↑ The article is in the collection Fruchtblätter , Berlin 1977, pp. 65–84.
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipporn
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1977
Place of death Berlin