Gerhard Glück (educational scientist)

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Gerhard luck

Gerhard Glück (born September 4, 1941 in Ulm ; † August 11, 2015 in Erkelenz ) was a German educationalist .

Professional background

Glück was initially an elementary school teacher. After postgraduate studies at the University of Tübingen , he received his doctorate in 1970 with an empirical survey on computing power in elementary school. phil. After working as an assistant in Tübingen, he became professor for school education at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland (Dept. Neuss, 1976–1980), at the Technical University of Aachen (1980–1988) and in 1988 - until his retirement in 2006 - at the university Cologne .

Work areas

Glück initially dealt with theoretical and practical problems in teaching research and later expanded his questions to include aspects of gestalt therapy. As part of his work on alternative education, he received the German Learning Game Award in 2003 - together with Annette Forkel . The focus of his work also includes his work on sex education . In connection with empirical surveys on the reality of sexual education in schools, Glück developed an emancipatory position which he - as he himself put it - saw in connection with the "church-critical and liberal-democratic lines of argument by Helmut Kentler , Friedrich Koch and Hans Heid " and on the other hand to the Knowledge of humanistic psychology was oriented (sex education concepts, page 62).

Publications (selection)

  • Generalization of experiences. Justification of the GDT procedure with an example from teaching research. Weinheim 1987.
  • Hot iron cold feet? Parents, teachers and young people on sexuality and sexual education in schools. In: Friedrich Koch (ed.): Sex education and AIDS. The end of emancipation? Hamburg 1992, page 111ff.
  • Hot irons in sex education. Where they are and how to handle them. Weinheim 1990.
  • Sex education concepts. Cologne 1998
  • Dear Celestin Freinet. Hohengehren 2006.
  • School sex education only thrives on the fringes of the system: The free "AG Sexpäd" for secondary level I. In: Stefan Timmermanns, Elisabeth Tuider , Uwe Sielert (eds.): Sexualpädagogik further think. Postmodern delimitations and attempts at educational orientation. Weinheim and Munich 2004, page 295 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Prof. Dr. Gerhard luck
personal data
SURNAME Luck, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist, professor at the University of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2015
Place of death Erkelenz