Ralph Schumacher

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Ralph Schumacher (born June 11, 1964 in Eutin , Ostholstein ) is a German philosopher and behavioral scientist.

Life

Schumacher studied philosophy in Hamburg (1985–1987) and Munich (1987–1990). At the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, he completed his master's degree and received his doctorate there in 1994. phil.

In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2002 to 2003 he taught philosophy at the University of Essen . Together with Elsbeth Stern at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences , he developed a curriculum for early childhood education in 2004 .

In 2005 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia . In the same year he led a project on the influence of music on cognitive development. Since 2006 he has coordinated a project on the influence of music on learning motivation, learning strategies and social skills. Since 2007 he has been at the Institute for Behavioral Sciences at ETH Zurich . His main areas of research are cognitive development and learning , brain and learning, theories of consciousness and perception .

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  • Does Mozart make smart? The promotion of cognitive skills through music ; together with Eckhart Altenmüller, Werner Deutsch, Lutz Jancke, Aljoscha Neubauer & Andreas Fink, Gudrun Schwazer, Maria Spychiger, Elsbeth Stern and Oliver Vitouch, Volume 18 of the "Educational Research" series of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin 2007
  • Perspectives on Color Perception ; Double Issue of Knowledge, Vol. 66, 2007
  • together with Elsbeth Stern, R. Grabner: Teaching-Learning Research and Neurosciences: Expectations, Findings and Research Perspectives , Series Educational Reform, Volume 13, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Berlin 2006
  • together with Elsbeth Stern: Learning in preschool age, electronic textbook for the model course "Early Education" at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg , 2004
  • Perception an Reality, From Descartes to the Present , Paderborn, Mentis Verlag, 2004
  • Dealing productively with errors: Errors as a learning opportunity and orientation aid , in: R. Caspary (ed.): Only those who make mistakes can get further, ways to a new learning culture, Herder Verlag, Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 2008
  • Brain and consciousness from a philosophical point of view , in: Konrad Sandhoff, W. Donner et al: From Big Bang to Consciousness - Self-Organization of Matter , Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2007
  • Brain research and school learning , in: Neurodidaktik, 2nd extended edition, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2009, pp. 124-133
  • John Stuart Mill (1806-1973) , in: Wulff D. Rehfus (Ed.): History of philosophy III: 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3682-3 , pp. 47-54

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personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin , East Holstein