Regine Seidler (pedagogue)

Regine Seidler (born 1895 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died February 27, 1967 in Des Moines ) was an Austrian pedagogue and psychologist who played a key role in initiating the application of individual psychology as part of the Vienna school reform.

Life

Regine Seidler was a secondary school teacher. She met Alfred Adler in 1922 during an educational counseling session. She had registered a problem child from her class there. Although initially skeptical, she was soon one of the active supporters of individual psychology in schools , along with Oskar Spiel and Ferdinand Birnbaum . She played a key role in the expansion of the network of educational counseling centers in Vienna during the interwar period and worked closely with teachers and parents. She wrote individual psychological articles in teacher magazines and was a member of the working group of teachers and educators. In the individual psychological association she gave lectures and organized courses and was a member of the board from 1926 to 1932, later deputy chairwoman and honorary chairwoman.

In 1939 Seidler emigrated to the USA, where she studied at the Universities of Rochester and Syracuse . She worked as an educator and teacher in Rochester and Auburn . In 1947 she moved to Des Moines , Iowa to work as a psychologist at an educational counseling agency.

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In addition to her work as a teacher, she was committed to expanding the educational counseling centers, one of the new achievements in the context of Red Vienna and the Vienna school reform. The first of the counseling centers was established in 1920, and when they were dissolved by the Dollfuss government in 1934 there were over thirty. Initially, the voluntary advice centers were intended for teachers, carers, doctors and students, but later they were also made available to parents - with and without children.

Regine Seidler described the work in the then new educational counseling centers as follows:

“ The individual psychological educational counseling centers work - in most cases - with open doors. The public of the sites has often been challenged. Our experience shows, however, that the appearance of a child in front of a larger gathering promotes public consultation on the child. His social spirit may be awakened more. The child faces people who are full of sympathy without being condescending. It is received as an equal person. The public is a means of initiating a sense of community in children. The public means so much to the child that his cause is not a private matter, since it also interests those who are distant. "

Fonts

• Regine Seidler, The Development of Individual Psychological Educational Advice Centers in Vienna, International Journal for Individual Psychology, Vienna 1935
• Regine Seidler, Alfred Adler as educational advisor, International Journal for Individual Psychology, Vienna 1937
• Regine Seidler, Treatment of Educational Errors in School. The source in 1928

literature

• Clara Kenner: Seidler, Regine. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 681–683.
• Bernhard Handlbauer, The History of the Development of the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler , Geyer Edition, Vienna-Salzburg, 1984
• Wolfgang Keim, The Vienna School Reform of the First Republic - A Forgotten Chapter in European Reform Education , 1984. Published as an article in the magazine: Die Deutsche Schule , Volume 76 No. 4
• KJ Parisot, Education as a Path from Imitation to Self-Assessment , Dissertation, Vienna 1966 (1973)
• L. Wittenberg, history of the individual psychological experimental school in Vienna , dissertation, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85114-739-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clara Kenner: Der zerrissene Himmel: Emigration and Exil der Wiener Individualpsychologie, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-45320-9