Salman Ansari

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Salman Ansari (* 1941 in Badaun , India ) is a German former teacher in the field of natural sciences (chemistry) at the Odenwald School and an author.

Life

Ansari was born in India in 1941 and had to flee to Lahore in Pakistan with his family in 1955 . Ansari came to Germany in 1958, he studied chemistry from 1962 in Karlsruhe and at the TU Darmstadt . From 1974 to 2005 he was a teacher at the Odenwald School .

Act

Ansari initially studied chemistry and received a doctorate in it, but he quickly turned to German literature. From 1964 to 1969 he worked as a tutor for contemporary literature as part of the tutor program at the University of Karlsruhe. He published reviews and texts in various newspapers such as the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and designed radio reports for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . During this time Ansari got to know the Büchner Prize winner Wolfgang Hildesheimer . In 1996 he published Hildesheimer's School of Seeing . In 2016 Ansari published a literary autobiography Willkommen in Germany at Marion Bergmanns Diotima-Verlag . which describes his contradicting roots in Germany.

Ansari's intellectual focus lies in the formulation of a simple, child-oriented concept of learning, especially for understanding natural phenomena. He rejects complex attempts at mediation, for example through abstract experiments or children's universities. Instead, he relies on the child's curiosity and ability to be amazed. “Ansari's strength is that he makes a lot of concrete suggestions on how adults can help children discover the world. In his 'researcher dialogues' he has bird nests built and measuring beakers filled, corn cakes baked and autumn leaves buried. “Children are natural explorers, teaching pedagogy blocks children from their undisturbed and headstrong view of nature. Ansari encourages the little researchers in their motto: "The Kleenians want to do everything". He says, "The problem with teaching is that the teachers are right."

In cooperation with research institutes, Ansari developed a number of scientific and educational projects, such as the "unsupported scientific teaching in secondary level I" or the "professionalization of teaching in general teaching", both for the renowned Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education . At the Odenwald School in the late 1970s, Ansari developed the project “Combining general and professional learning: matriculation examination and chemical-technical assistant ” (CTA).

Even after his time at the Odenwald School, which has been an experimental school for new learning since it was founded by Paul Geheeb, Salman Ansari dedicated himself to learning close to children. He wrote the School of Wonder in 2009 and in 2013, Save Curiosity . In a long-term project, he is advising the multicultural kindergartens Offenbach on the introduction of a language and curiosity-based model of joint research into everyday experiences. Ansari did not shy away from confrontation either. He rejects the academization of childhood and criticizes the supposedly cerebral principle of the “House of Little Researchers”. Ansari also attacked the concept of the children's university.

Odenwald School

Ansari developed his learning concept at and against the Odenwald School , where he worked as a teacher from 1974 to 2005. He was brought to the school by the headmaster Gerold Becker . He quickly realized that his own qualification as a scientific chemist had nothing to do with children's learning. Ansari at the same time refused to use Becker's technically undemanding relationship pedagogy and complained about the “family-like structure of teachers and students living together, the so-called OSO family”. Ansari insisted on giving real grades and challenging children at the model educational institution at the time.

Salman Ansari belonged to a group of teachers at the Odenwald School who protested against the headmaster Gerold Becker, who was later exposed as pedosexual. He supported this group and in the mid-1970s applied for Becker to be dismissed because of his pedagogical inability and lack of distance to young people. The application was rejected by the school's sponsoring association. Some of the teachers left the school at that time, Ansari stayed and criticized Gerold Becker continuously - without knowing that Becker was a pedophile and committed sexual violence. “Of course I knew that this headmaster has no distance from young people, but that he could sexually abuse children, I simply could not imagine.” When former students made Gerold Becker's longstanding sexual abuse known, Ansari was the only teacher unconditionally on the side of the victims. Ansari was insulted by the school's teaching staff as a Judas and a traitor. Ansari sees the lack of distance and uncritical poeticization of reform pedagogy as one of the causes of the endemic sexual violence at the Odenwald School.

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Hildesheimer: School of seeing . Edited by Salman Ansari. 2nd Edition. Insel, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-458-16805-2 .
  2. ^ Salman Ansari: Welcome to Germany: Novelle . Diotima Verlag, Wuppertal 2016, ISBN 978-3-945315-07-1 .
  3. ↑ Dietmar Pieper: Pedagogy Guide: Let the children mess up. In: Spiegel Online . June 12th, 2013.
  4. ↑ The Kleenen want to make all avenues. In: The daily newspaper . December 1, 2010, accessed March 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Win Future - An Education Network [1]
  6. ↑ Professionalization of teaching activities in primary schools: [2] IPN Uni Kiel, 2000–2004.
  7. ↑ Gerald Heidegger, Heinz Hug: Abitur and technical assistant. Conditions and experiences in Hessian model tests for double qualification. (= Series of publications of the scientific support "Model tests secondary level II in Hessen". 13). Kassel 1983, ISBN 3-88122-150-6 .
  8. ↑ u. a. Martin Näf: Paul and Edith Geheeb-Cassirer. Founder of the Odenwald School and the Ecole d'Humanité. German, international and Swiss reform pedagogy 1910–1961. Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-407-32071-X .
  9. ^ Salman Ansari: School of amazement. Learning and researching with children . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8274-2061-9 .
  10. ↑ Salman Ansari: Save curiosity! Against the academization of childhood . Fischer-Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8105-0192-9 .
  11. ^ Education Offenbach: How children learn: Common foundations for effective support in daycare and primary school. On-site learning, Offenbach 2013.
  12. ↑ Salman Ansari: Understanding the world in free play: 'House of Little Researchers' as a wrong path. In: Tagesspiegel . 5th September 2013.
  13. ^ Salman Ansari: Children do not need a children's university. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . March 22, 2015.
  14. ^ Jeannette Otto: A dark corner. In: The time . No. 19/2014, accessed on March 11, 2016.
  15. ↑ Martin Spiewak: One said how it was. In: The time. October 6, 2011.
  16. ↑ Christian Füller: Fall of Man: How the Reform School abused its ideals . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9634-9 , p. 116ff, p. 219ff.
  17. ↑ Ulrike Timm: They were all fairy tales. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . March 30, 2011.
  18. ↑ Jörg Schindler: The paint is off. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 17, 1999; Martin Spiewak: One said what it was like. In: The time. October 6, 2011. Jörg Schindler and Steven Geyer: "The protective wall". In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of March 12, 2010.
  19. ↑ Christian Füller: An institution for satisfaction of needs. In: The daily newspaper. July 11, 2010; Matthias Bartsch, Markus Verbeet: The roots of abuse. In: Der Spiegel . July 19, 2010.
  20. ^ Jeannette Otto: A dark corner. In: The time. No. 19/2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ansari, Salman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Badaun , India