Critical Education

As critical pedagogy one created in the 1960's direction is education scientific theory called. The scientific understanding of this current goes back to the direction of critical theory . It emerged against the older humanities pedagogy and is also differentiated from empirical educational science. Central to their understanding of upbringing is the emancipatory interest in greater self-determination .

Education in the Context of Critical Theory

According to the claim of critical educational science , education should take place in such a way that mature and critical subjects are formed who can also transform society according to emancipatory aspects. Individual " maturity " is thus directed towards society as a whole. In the 1970s, critical educational science helped the influential philosopher Jürgen Habermas turn to discourse theory : educational goals must be determined in social discourse , as was the case with Klaus Mollenhauer and the later Wolfgang Klafki . Following the example of Claus Offe , upbringing is viewed as a function of economic and political conditions, but it is also granted relative autonomy. With Klafki in particular, didactics are defined as " critical-constructive didactics " on a practical level of action. Another pulse has in the history of education the expression of the intellectual history of social history promoted education. At the reception of symbolic interaction that was qualitative research revived in education. However, the appeal of critical educational science ebbed with the decline in fascination with theories of social change since the 1980s. The “empirical turn” in education was u. a. borne by the criticism of the lack of precision in terms in critical educational science.

Since empirical pedagogy came to the fore, especially through the major educational tests such as TIMSS or the PISA studies , representatives of critical educational science have pointed to the blind spots of this consideration of education and upbringing: z. B. Horst Rumpf .

Representative of critical educational science

• Kurt Beutler
• Herwig Blankertz
• Hans-Jochen Gamm
• Andreas Gruschka
• Ulrich Herrmann
• Wolfgang Keim
• Wolfgang Klafki
• Klaus Mollenhauer
• Ulrike Prokop
• Gerd Radde
• Klaus Schaller
• Max Horkheimer
• Theodor W. Adorno
• Friedrich W. Kron
• Gernot Koneffke
• Heinz-Joachim Heydorn
• Peter Euler

See also

• Portal: pedagogy , pedagogy
• Democratic education , liberation pedagogy , progressive education , Oedelsheimer Circle , Yearbook of Education

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Koller, Hans-Christoph: Basic concepts, theories and methods of educational science. Stuttgart 2004, p. 227. ISBN 978-3-17-019604-9
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Heinz-Hermann Krüger: Theories of Education and Educational Science , in: H. Faulstich-Wiegand / P. Faulstich: educational science. A basic course. rororo Reinbek, 2008, pp. 248-252.

literature

• Theodor W. Adorno : Education to come of age , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1971
• Armin Bernhard, Lutz Rothermel (Ed.): Handbook of Critical Pedagogy . Beltz UTB, Weinheim and Basel 2001, 2nd edition. ISBN 3-8252-8214-7
• Herwig Blankertz : The History of Education. From the Enlightenment to the Present , Wetzlar: Pandora's Box 1982 ISBN 3-88178-055-6
• Andreas Gruschka : Negative pedagogy. An introduction to pedagogy with critical theory . Pandora's box, Wetzlar 1988, ISBN 978-3-88178-076-6
• Andreas Gruschka / Ulrich Oevermann (Hrsg.): The vitality of critical social theory. Documentation of the workshop on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Theodor W. Adorno. Pandora's box, Wetzlar 2004, ISBN 978-3-88178-324-8
• Wolfgang Klafki : Critical-Constructive Pedagogy. Origin and future. In: Eierdanz, Jürgen / Kremer, Armin (Eds.): Neither expected nor wanted - critical educational science and pedagogy in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time of the Cold War. Baltmannsweiler 2000, pp. 152-178.
• Päd.extra / Horst Speichert: Critical Lexicon of Educational Science and Educational Policy , rororo 6190, Reinbek 1975; 980- ISBN 3 499 16190 7

Trade journals

• Educational correspondence . Journal for critical diagnosis of time in education and society. Wetzlar: Pandora's Box Verl. ISSN  0933-6389
• Yearbook for Education , founded by Kurt Beutler, Ulla Bracht, Hans-Jochen Gamm, Klaus Himmelstein, Wolfgang Keim, Gernot Koneffke, Karl-Christoph Lingelbach, Gerd Radde, Ulrich Wiegmann, Hasko Zimmer. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, ISSN  0941-1461

Web links

• Critical Education Forum
• Critical-emancipatory educational science Good preparation on the pages of the "virtual seminar" of the educational science department at the TU Chemnitz-Zwickau.