Leo Weber (educator, 1909)

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Leo Weber (born October 19, 1909 in Basel , † March 11, 2000 ; resident in Riedholz ) was a Swiss educator and university professor .

Life

Leo Weber was born as the son of the same-named Solothurn pedagogue Leo Weber with a twin sister in Basel, where his parents lived at the time.

After the acquisition of the Swiss Matura , Weber turned to the study of pedagogy, which he in 1935 with the promotion of Dr. phil. completed. Leo Weber then took on an assistant position at the University of Zurich , where he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in his field of study, he was elected associate professor in 1949, he was promoted to full professor in 1955 , and in 1968 he was appointed director of the Pedagogical Institute. Leo Weber retired in 1975 . Weber came out particularly with contributions on the systematics and history of pedagogy. He died in March 2000 at the age of 90.

Publications

author

  • Stratification and mediation in Georg Kerschensteiner's educational thinking , dissertation . Gatzer & Hahn, Schramberg (Black Forest), 1936
  • Pedagogy of the Age of Enlightenment. In: Swiss educational writings. Huber, Frauenfeld, Leipzig, 1941
  • The mental development of the primary school pupil. Self-published by the Cantonal Teachers' Association, St. Gallen, 1945
  • The methodological situation of the present. In: Forms of Teaching in the Present, 1953
  • together with Robert Dottrens, Paul Auber: On new paths - modern forms of teaching in Switzerland. Swiss Association for Handicraft and School Reform, [Sl], 1955
  • The secondary school student today - from the pedagogical point of view. In: Yearbook of the Secondary Teachers Conference of Eastern Switzerland. 1967
  • The sense of handicraft in the technical age. In: Schweizerische Arbeitslehrer-Zeitung: official organ of the Swiss Arbeitslehrer-Verein. Swiss Association of Working Teachers, 1968

editor

  • Zurich contributions to education. Juris publishing house, Zurich

Associate Editor

  • Education and upbringing. Morgarten, Zurich, 1961–1964

literature

Individual evidence

  1. University of Zurich Annual Report 2000, p. 108 ; accessed on March 6, 2019
  2. ^ Otto Feier: Seminar director Leo Weber 1876-1969 . [Sn], [s. l.] 1976, p. 62 .