Educational love
Educational love is a term used in education that defines a specific type of educational practice characterized by respect for the person, their needs and their will. This term was coined by Herman Nohl. Basically, the intention of the educator is to be aligned with both the reality of life and the ideality of the child. This should be done in that the educator puts himself in the child's shoes and thus assumes a perspective that is similar to that of the parents. According to this idea, the medium through which this love is to be realized is culture , so that educational love is aimed at the spiritual in the child.
"From today's point of view, Nohl can be understood to mean that he wants to emphasize that educational action is not possible without the elementary affection for people."
However, since the abuse scandal at the Odenwald School at the latest, pedagogical eros has stood for one of the most controversial concepts in reform pedagogy and for the legitimation of sexual acts by adults on predominantly young men or boys.
literature
- Sabine Seichter, Pedagogical Love: Invention, Heyday, Disappearance of a Pedagogical Interpretation Pattern, Schöningh 2007
- Friedrich W. Kron, Eiko Jürgens, Jutta Standop (eds.), Basic Knowledge of Pedagogy, Munich 2013 (8th edition)
- Elmar Drieschner, Detlef Gaus (eds.), Love in Times of Educational Professionalization, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Kron, Jürgens, Standop, p. 177