Olaf-Axel Burow

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Olaf-Axel Burow (born July 19, 1951 in Berlin -Charlottenburg) is a German teacher, gestalt pedagogue and professor of general pedagogy .

Life

Burow studied German and educational psychology at the PH Berlin . After the first state examination, he taught at a Neukölln elementary school. After passing the 2nd state examination, Burow got a job as a music, German and English teacher at a comprehensive school in Berlin. From 1984 to 1994 he was an assistant at the Institute for Psychology at the HdK Berlin . After meeting Robert Jungk , Burow experimented with future workshops and completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin in 1992 (subject: On a creative educational theory of changing personal paradigms). In 1994 he was offered a professorship at the University of Gießen and in 1996 he was appointed to the Chair of General Pedagogy at the University of Kassel . Burow worked as a professor at the University of Kassel until March 2017. He is co-founder and member of the Institute for Synergy and Social Innovations as well as director of the IF-Institute for Future Design. He is co-editor of the magazine for educational leadership.

Research priorities

In his research, Burow focuses on creativity research ( theory of creative fields ) and educational personnel and organizational development as well as appreciative school development , in the context of which he developed the theory of "positive pedagogy" and the concept of "appreciative leadership". This also includes art coaching , cultural education and "service learning". Since 2009 he and HGRolff have been running the future workshop "Reduction of stress - how does that work?" At the German Academy for Educational Leadership (DAPF). by. He also focuses on processes of participation , citizen participation and process-oriented future moderation and has developed the future workshop, which goes back to Robert Jungk, into a future design tool for educational institutions and companies. In addition to the further development of theories and methods in educational science, and in particular gestalt pedagogy , the examination of the new media has recently become a further research focus. This is about the question of the future of education in the digital age, the changing formats of teaching and learning as well as the development of future skills. As co-founder and director of the IF - Institute for Future Design (Research & Training), he advises organizations from the non-profit and profit sector on questions relating to future design and leads training courses in future moderation and future designers.

Fonts

  • 1981: Learning objective: humanity. Gestalt pedagogy - an opportunity for school and education (with Karlheinz Scherpp)
  • 1987: Gestalt pedagogy in practice: teaching examples u. player. Exercises for d. School life (u Helmut Quitmann Martin P. Rubeau. Salzburg. ISBN 3-7013-0721-0 )
  • 1988: Basics of Gestalt pedagogy. Teacher training - teaching concept - organizational development. Dortmund : Verlag modern learning .
  • 1993: Gestalt pedagogy - training concepts and effects. Paderborn : Junfermann.
  • 1994: Gestalt pedagogy in school. (together with Herbert Gudjons: Hamburg: Bergemann & Helbig)
  • 1995: Future workshop in school and class. (together with Marina Neumann-Schönwetter: Hamburg: Bergemann & Helbig)
  • 1999: The individualization trap . Creativity only exists in the plural. Stuttgart : Velcro-Cotta.
  • 2000: I am good - we are better. Success models of creative groups. Stuttgart: Velcro-Cotta.
  • 2003: Principles of Successful Education. Bad Heilbrunn : Klinkhardt. ISBN 3-7815-1287-8
  • 2005: Organization as a creative field. Evolutionary personnel and organizational development. Kassel : University Press. (in cooperation with Heinz Hinz)
  • 2006: Develop all-day school . From the educational institution to the creative field. Wochenschau-Verlag (with Bettina Pauli)
  • 2011: Positive pedagogy. Seven ways to enjoy learning and happiness in school. Weinheim: Beltz-Verlag
  • 2014: digital dividend. An educational update for more joy in learning and creativity in school. Weinheim: Beltz-Verlag.
  • 2015: team flow. Growing together in the creative field. Weinheim: Beltz.
  • 2016: Appreciative school management. The way to commitment, wellbeing and top performance. Weinheim: Beltz.
  • 2017: Invitations to positive pedagogy. Weinheim: Beltz. (Together with Ernst Fritz-Schubert and Jürgen Luga)
  • 2017: Education 2030 - Seven trends that are revolutionizing schools. Weinheim: Beltz. (Edited with Charlotte Gallenkamp)
  • 2018: Leadership with appreciation. The leadership compass for more commitment, well-being and top performance. Weinheim: Beltz.
  • 2018: The great manual for teaching and education in schools. Cologne: Carl Link. (Edited together with Stefan Bornemann)
  • 2019: School digital - how does it work? How the digital revolution is changing us and the school. Weinheim: Beltz.
  • 2020: Future Friday - Why we need the future as a school subject. Weinheim: Beltz.

Novels (with Jens Johler )

  • 1995: Bye, bye Ronstein , Luchterhand literary publisher
  • 2001: God's brain , Europa-Verlag 2010 (revised new edition)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from Burow's biography on the website of the University of Kassel
  2. ↑ University of Kassel: Olaf-Axel Burow winter semester courses ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kassel.de
  3. ↑ http://www.isi-am-see.de

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personal data
SURNAME Burow, Olaf-Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, professor of general pedagogy
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin