Rudi Krawitz

Rudi Krawitz (born December 11, 1943 in Brombach , Lörrach district ) is a retired professor for general didactics and school pedagogy at the University of Koblenz .

Studies and scientific stations

After studying educational science and passing the state examination for teaching at elementary and secondary schools, school experience, postgraduate studies in special education and a diploma in school education, Krawitz received his doctorate in 1980 at the University of Heidelberg .

After working as an academic advisor at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education, he completed his habilitation in 1992 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1994 he accepted a professorship for general didactics and school pedagogy at the University of Koblenz . From 2005 to 2008 he was head of the teacher training center there.

He has been retired since 2009.

Act

Rudi Krawitz belongs to the scientific group of transcendental-critical pedagogues who, in the tradition of Kant's transcendental philosophy and neo-Kantianism, ask about the conditions of the possibility of upbringing and education and derive the appropriate standards and measures for educational action from this. In his dissertation from 1980 “Pedagogy as action orientation. The Significance of the Transcendental Critical Aspect of Pedagogy “he developed practical approaches for modern pedagogy as a doctrine of reason building, in which teaching and learning is understood as philosophizing.

In 1992 he transferred this view of pedagogical action to his concept of individual pedagogy, which he described in his habilitation thesis “Pedagogy instead of therapy. From the sense of individual educational seeing, thinking and acting ”(3rd edition 1997) unfolded. Individual education sees itself as an educational practice for all children and young people. The exclusion and outsourcing of special education from the so-called 'regular' education has been overcome. This requires pedagogical competence that has a range of specific offers and concrete options for individual help for the diverse life, interaction and learning problems of children.

After his appointment to the professorship for general didactics and school pedagogy at the University of Koblenz, he converted the general didactics seminar into an institute for integrative education, combining school pedagogy with special education .

From 1994 to 1999 he was responsible for the scientific support of the Rhineland-Palatinate school experiment “joint teaching of children with and without disabilities” at 16 primary schools in the state. In several projects, he developed didactic concepts for media-based, differentiated and individualized teaching in primary and secondary schools in cooperation with the State Center for Media and Communication of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Fonts (selection)

• Pedagogy as action orientation. The importance of the transcendental-critical aspect of pedagogy. Minerva, Munich 1980.
• (Ed.): The integration of disabled children in school. A school trial from primary school to secondary level I. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1995.
• (Ed.): Education in the house of learning. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1997.
• Education instead of therapy. From the sense of individual educational seeing, thinking and acting. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1997 (3rd edition).
• with Konrad Bundschuh, Ulrich Heimlich (Hrsg.): Dictionary curative education. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2007. (3rd edition, UTB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudi Krawitz in the catalog of the German National Library