Jakob Muth

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Jakob Muth (born June 30, 1927 in Gimbsheim in Rheinhessen ; † April 26, 1993 in Velbert ) was a German educator and professor who became known for his commitment to reforms in the school system and the integration of disabled children into it.

Life & Education

Muth was born as the third and last child on his parents' farm. His father was bedridden due to a war injury (gas poisoning) from the First World War . From 1933 he attended the elementary school in Gimbsheim and the Adolf Hitler School (AHS) at the Ordensburg Sonthofen , among his schoolmates at the AHS were a. a. Hardy Krüger and Theo Sommer . Muth did not adopt the National Socialist ideology prevailing there ; on the contrary, it shaped his future political and social attitudes. In 1943, at the age of 17, Muth was called up as a soldier in World War II and came to America in 1944Imprisonment . He fled from this and returned to Gimbsheim. After the war, he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1948 and worked as a casual worker until he graduated from high school in 1948 and then trained as a primary school teacher, first in Bad Neuenahr and later in Worms . After the first exam there in 1950, he became a teacher in Mainz . At the same time, he began studying pedagogy at the University of Mainz , which he later carried out exclusively and received his doctorate in 1958 on the subject of "Pre-vocational education in elementary school".

Jakob Muth was married and had two children. He was a staunch social democrat and trade unionist (GEW) and lived for decades in Heiligenhaus , where his family still lives today.

Teaching & Working

Muth was since 1958 Lecturer in Worms and since 1960 as a professor at the Pedagogical Academy Kettwig, later Pedagogical University of Duisburg (1962-1964 as its rector) operates from 1970 until his retirement in June 1992 at the Ruhr-University Bochum on the Chair of School Education. Ewald Terhart followed him in his chair . From 1970 to 1975 Muth was a member of the German Education Council . From 1969 to 1980 he was a member of the City Council of Heiligenhaus.

Early on, Muth criticized an upbringing that was strictly based on the curriculum and contrasted it with the so-called "pedagogical tact", a pedagogy that goes into the individuality of the child. Muth was considered a thought leader for a job-oriented school internship , a topic that he took up in his dissertation and in subsequent work. In addition, Muth is an advocate and pioneer of compulsory education up to the age of sixteen. He is also considered a thought leader in the comprehensive school . After his life experience and educational work, Muth is considered a proponent and pioneer of an inclusive school. Muth wrote around 400 publications on school pedagogy.

Honors

Many German schools for the disabled and primary schools bear his name; the Bertelsmann Foundation awards together with the Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People , the German UNESCO Commission and the Sinn Foundation - Children. Learn. Future. since 2009 the Jakob Muth Prize for inclusive school (see inclusive education ). In Heiligenhaus , a street was named after him on the newly created Velbert / Heiligenhaus campus of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Köhnes: Heiligenhaus: A campus road for Jacob Muth. In: rp-online.de. June 13, 2015, accessed February 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jakob Muth Prize in: bertelsmann-stiftung.de (November 12, 2011)
  3. ↑ City Marketing Working Group Gastronomy invites you to the 7th Heiligenhaus Wine Festival on the weekend of July 6th - 8th again on Basildonplatz. In: Homepage of the city of Heiligenhaus. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Courage, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Gimbsheim , Rheinhessen
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1993
Place of death Velbert