Saul B. Robinsohn

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Saul Benjamin Robinsohn (born November 25, 1916 in Berlin ; died April 9, 1972 there ) was director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin from 1963 and honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Live and act

In 1933 Robinsohn left Germany and studied history, sociology, philosophy and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1959 he was appointed director of the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg. In 1964 he followed a call as director of the 1963 newly founded Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Robinsohn provided the theoretical basis for independent curriculum research , taking into account the socio-political context of differently structured societies. Through him, the term curriculum instead of curriculum, which had existed since Daniel Georg Morhof in 1688, was used again in Germany. With reference to new curriculum decisions in the USA, England, Sweden and the Soviet Union, he questioned the German humanistic tradition. His attack on the central position of the classical languages ​​in the grammar school had a strong impact. He also advocated a change in history class one, which refers to the variability of the world rather than the identity attachment and national tradition should focus.

“Who would deny that studying the spiritual sources of antiquity as well as studying their basic linguistic structures can be rewarding and exhilarating? This applies not only to the scholar, but to everyone who can look for inspiration here. A central position in the curriculum of the general school is not proven for this world. "

- Saul B. Robinsohn

estate

The Shaul and Hilde Robinsohn Foundation , founded in 1995, is located in Berlin-Lankwitz , which continues Robinsohn's work in the research and development work of the non-profit International Academy Berlin (INA) in the areas of curriculum research and development, teacher and educator training as well of comparative educational science. There, in the former buildings of the Berlin University of Education , is also the Shaul B. and Hilde Robinsohn Library , Robinsohn Library for short , which receives, maintains and distributes Robinsohn's writings in particular.

At the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam is the Hildegard and Saul B. Robinsohn estate library with around 1,500 titles on the fields of the Bible and biblical studies .

Fonts

A selection of Robinsohn's writings:

  • with Chaim Schatzker : Jewish history in German history textbooks (= series of publications by the International Textbook Institute . ZDB -ID 986851-3 . Volume 7). Limbach, Braunschweig 1963.
  • Educational reform as a revision of the curriculum. Luchterhand, Neuwied et al. 1967 (several editions).

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener (founder), Walter Habel (ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 16, 1: 1969/70. Federal Republic of Germany, West Berlin. Arani, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1056.
  • Julia Kurig: 'Planning' and 'Rationality': Saul B. Robinsohn's “Educational Reform as a Revision of the Curriculum” and the modernization paradigm of the 1960s. In: Wilfried Göttlicher / Jörg.-W. Link / Eva Matthes (Ed.): Educational reform as a topic of educational history. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 2018, pp. 195–211.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saul B. Robinsohn: Education reform as a revision of the curriculum. Luchterhand, Neuwied et al. 1967, p. 20.
  2. ↑ About the foundation . Shaul B. and Hilde Robinsohn Foundation website, accessed May 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Shaul and Hilde Robinsohn Foundation ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. together with the Shaul B. and Hilde Robinsohn library on the FU Berlin website. Retrieved April 24, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ina-fu.org
  4. ↑ Hildegard and Saul B. Robinsohn Collection . Site of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies e. V., accessed on May 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Robinsohn, Saul B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinsohn, Saul Benjamin (full name); Robinsohn, Shaul B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1972
Place of death Berlin