Kurt Aurin

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Kurt Aurin (born August 5, 1923 in Nordhausen am Harz; † July 21, 2017 in Müllheim (Baden) ) was a German educational scientist and professor emeritus at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . He published on Montessori pedagogy , questions of educational research, educational counseling and especially educational planning , finally on fundamental questions of school comparison and school system, of upbringing and education as well as the effectiveness of upbringing and pedagogical action in a culturally and socially more diverse society.

Live and act

Kurt Aurin was the only son of the furniture manufacturer Werner Aurin and his wife Margarete Aurin (née Schulze), an important Montessori teacher. After studying psychology, education and philosophy, Aurin earned his doctorate in 1957 at the Free University of Berlin . He wrote his dissertation on: The condition of student performance through the educational design . He then worked for several years at schools and technical schools for social education.

From 1964 to 1969 Kurt Aurin worked in educational research in the state of Baden-Württemberg : three years at the State Institute for Education and Teaching in Stuttgart and from 1967 to 1970 as a department head at the Center for Educational Research at the University of Konstanz . He received high scientific recognition for the empirical studies he led to identify and develop talent in rural areas, among other things. a. in the former districts of Buchen , Tauberbischofsheim and Künzelsau . The studies carried out in 1965 and 1967/68 made a significant contribution to reducing educational disadvantages in rural areas.

In 1969 he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Hanover . There he rebuilt the teaching and research area of ​​educational sciences. Six years later he followed a call as full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg to the Chair of Educational Science II, which he held until his retirement in 1991.

The Faculty of Education at the University of Leipzig awarded Aurin an honorary doctorate in February 2003. After his retirement he had made an outstanding contribution to the further development of schools and teacher training in the new federal states and to the development of educational science at the universities, especially at the University of Leipzig. Since 1991 he has been a member of the founding committee of the Faculty of Education.

Kurt Aurin had been a corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning ( Hanover ) since 1973 and worked in an advisory capacity in educational policy committees as well as in research and evaluation commissions at the state and federal level.

Kurt Aurin's lively commitment to Montessori pedagogy since the early 1950s deserves special mention. He was the head of the Berlin working group of the German Montessori Society (DMG) and of Berlin Montessori courses (until 1966). He also served as an executive board member of the DMG (1958-1962) and as a lecturer at Montessori training courses with special education orientation for school nurses, teachers, educators, etc. of the action sunshine of the Children's Center Munich worked from 1971 1998.

Kurt Aurin lived in Müllheim in Baden.

Works (selection)

  • The pedagogical-anthropological view of Maria Montessori . In: Pedagogical sheets . 1954, pp. 58-64
  • The methodological and educational prejudice in the dispute of opinions about Montessori pedagogy . In: Pedagogical sheets . 1955, pp. 245-250
  • The tasks and possibilities of Montessori education today . In: Messages from the German Montessori Society . 1958/1959, No. 2, pp. 4-6, No. 3, p. 4 and 1959, No. 1, pp. 6-8
  • The socio-educational concern in Maria Montessori's work . In: Westermann's educational contributions . 1960, pp. 455-462
  • Identification and development of talents in rural areas . Villingen 1966
  • Advice in the school sector . Weinheim 1977
  • Secondary education . Stuttgart 1978
  • More understanding for children - more understanding for school . Hanover 1979
  • Structured school system and comprehensive school - comparative study of the state of Baden-Württemberg , vol. I u. II. Freudenstadt 1986
  • Good schools - what is their effectiveness based on, Bad Heilbrunn 1989
  • Education and parenting. Basis for humane future planning . Bonn 1991
  • Achievement - one or no topic in Maria Montessori's concept of independent education . In: Montessori work letter . 1991, pp. 111-127
  • Concepts of school and educational consensus. Case study among teachers, parents and students from five grammar schools , Stuttgart 1993
  • Go to school together. School, teacher, parents - is consensus possible? Stuttgart 1994
  • School policy in conflict - do we need a 'different school'? , Bad Heilbrunn 1997
  • Achievement education in the field of tension between political demands - quality assurance in kindergarten and school . In: Harald Ludwig, Christian Fischer and Reinhard Fischer (eds.): Performance education and Montessori pedagogy. Chances and problems of achievement promotion in a child-oriented pedagogy . Münster 2001, pp. 17–35
  • “Montessori school culture” - results of a study group . In: Harald Ludwig, Christian Fischer and Reinhard Fischer (eds.): Performance education and Montessori pedagogy. Chances and problems of achievement promotion in a child-oriented pedagogy . Münster 2001, pp. 112–122

literature

  • Horst Wollenweber (Ed.): School in Focus: Upbringing and education in the field of tension between the individual and society; Dedicated to Kurt Aurin (Festschrift for Kurt Aurin's 60th birthday). Schönihgh, Paderborn 1983, ISBN 978-3-506-79765-0
  • Gerd E. Stolz, Bernd Schwarz (ed.): School and teaching: current challenges and development prospects; Festschrift for Kurt Aurin's 70th birthday . Lang, Frankfurt / Main a. a., 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-47494-5
  • Katharina Gröning: Pedagogical Advice: Concepts and Positions . VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2nd edition, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17031-2 , pp. 51-55

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Kurt Aurin obituary notice . Badische Zeitung , accessed July 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Aurin, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2017
Place of death Muellheim (Baden)