Ursula Drews

Ursula Drews (also Michailow-Drews ; born August 11, 1938 in Zwickau ) is a German educator and was a professor for general didactics and elementary school education at the University of Potsdam .

Drews received her doctorate in 1969 at the Central Institute for Pedagogy and completed her habilitation in 1978 in didactics at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR , where she worked in the department for lower-level education . In the summer of 1989 she presented a concept for the connection of course-related and project teaching as well as for the general change of school life in the lower grades (1st to 4th grade), which was completely rejected. In 1991 she began as a professor at the Institute for Elementary School Education at the University of Potsdam and at the State Education Institute for Teacher Training in Brandenburgto work. In 2003 she retired, but continued to publish.

The child's personality development - is the central task for Drews? of pedagogy. As they understand it, upbringing should not mean that? Uniformed average individuals? are formed. For Drews, the child as an individual ranks above the collective, which was a difficult position in the GDR.

Fonts

• (Ed.): Didactic principles. Viewpoints, discussion problems, proposed solutions , Berlin 1976
• with Elisabeth Fuhrmann: Questions and answers on how to organize a good lesson , People and Knowledge, Berlin 1980 (Russian translation 1982)
• On the dialectical character of the teaching process in general education schools , Contributions to Pedagogy, Vol. 30, Berlin 1983
• with Gerhard Schneider u. Wulf Wullrabenstein: Introduction to Elementary School Pedagogy , Beltz, Weinheim 2000 ISBN 978-3-407-25225-8
• Beginnings. Desire and frustration of young teachers . Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin 2002 ISBN 978-3-589-21634-5
• Time in school and class. Sovereign in dealing with time , Beltz 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-25457-3