Uwe Sielert

Uwe Sielert (born November 3, 1949 in Witten ) is a German author , sex educator and educator . He was a professor in Kiel until 2017 .

Life

Uwe Sielert studied pedagogy , psychology and sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund and Ruhr University Bochum from 1970 to 1974 and passed the examination to become a qualified teacher at the University of Dortmund. In 1977 Sielert was there with a dissertation about employees in the school youth doctorate .

Sielert worked from 1974 to 1989 at the TU Dortmund in the Institute for Social Pedagogy founded by Siegfried Keil and Rita Süssmuth , interrupted in 1980 by a DAAD guest lecturer at the Free University of Amsterdam . Sielert completed his habilitation in 1982 at the TU Dortmund on "Between grassroots democracy and state access - social work in the Netherlands".

From 1989 to 1992 he worked at the Federal Center for Health Education in Cologne and from 1992 to 2017 as a professor for education with a focus on social education at the Institute for Education at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

He was a member of the ad hoc commission “Sexuality, Violence and Pedagogy” of the German Society for Educational Science and in AG III “Research and Education” of the round table against child sexual abuse . He was a member of the ad hoc commission "Sexual Ethics" of the Evangelical Church in Germany and scientific advisory board of the Institute for Sex Education in Dortmund. Sielert is a founding member and on the board of the Society for Sex Education and a member of the extended board of the German STI Society.

research

Sielert's theories go back in particular to drive mythological and neo-Marxist theories according to Wilhelm Reich . In his concept of sex education, he postulates sexuality as "life energy", which is largely shaped through the medium of the body and the child as a sexual being from the start.

Sielert describes his concept as "neo-emancipatory". Sielert does not make a demarcation from the tradition of the “emancipatory concept” (according to Helmut Kentler ).

With his studies on youth work, Sielert strengthened the professionalization efforts of this extracurricular field of activity and then concentrated his research on gender-conscious work with boys. He comments on the theoretical discourse from the 1990s to the present day in the practical handbook for boys' work .

reception

Sielert's positions are controversially discussed and received in science and the media. Sielert's advocacy stands for a sexual education of children that is pleasurable and warning of sexual violence, the recognition of diverse sexual identities, the emphasis on sex education as a task of public educational institutions. As soon as small children also affirm this sexuality with adults, this gives both life energy and joie de vivre. The Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapeutic doctor Christian Spaemann criticized the sexual arousal of children should be included in sex education classes. The psychotherapist Tabea Freitag criticizes that "modern" sex education, according to Sielert, should encourage children to have sexually pleasurable experiences as early as possible. It remains unclear whether the pleasure of children or the pleasure of professionals in the children's pleasure is and should be in the foreground.

Sielert is primarily concerned with breaking up a socially heterosexual normative dominance culture ( heteronormativity ), for which he postulates that “heterosexuality, nuclear family and generativity are to be denaturalized”, which sometimes triggered criticism in the media.

Sielert's scientific and social commitment also met with a positive response at various specialist levels. Sielert has significantly established the so-called “ Sexual Education of Diversity ” in the German-speaking area and played a key role in shaping the WHO standards (2010/11).

Fonts

• Between grassroots movement and state access - social pedagogy and social work in the Netherlands. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-593-33489-5 .
• Youth sexuality between lust and violence. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-87294-418-5 .
• with Frank Herrath: Lisa & Jan. An educational book for children and their parents. 1991, ISBN 3-407-83111-0 .
• Sex education materials for youth work in free time and in school. Beltz, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-407-55761-2 .
• Teaching sex education: Didactic basics and materials for training and further education. Beltz, Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-407-55835-X .
• Boy work - practical handbook for youth work part 2. Juventa, Weinheim 2005, ISBN 3-7799-0261-3 .
• Think further about sex education. Postmodern delimitations and attempts at educational orientation. Juventa, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-935596-59-6 .
• Introduction to sex education. Beltz, Weinheim 2005, ISBN 3-407-25372-9 .
• Competence training in the pedagogy of diversity. Juventa, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-7799-2137-0 .
• E-learning and sex education. Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-937707-69-3 .
• Handbook on Sex Education and Sexual Education. Juventa, Weinheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-7799-0791-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Uwe Sielert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Uwe Sielert (2005): Sexual Education from the Beginning! Sexuality and sex education in the educational mandate of day-care centers (PDF)
• Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), Uwe Sielert: Sexual education in Germany
• Uwe Sielert (2010): Keynote lecture: The socio-educational view of schools as well as the training and further education of teachers and other educational specialists ( Memento from February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
• German Youth Institute, Uwe Sielert, Stefan Timmermanns (2011): Expertise on the living situation of gay and lesbian youth in Germany (PDF).
• Uwe Sielert (2013): The Sexual Self (PDF).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tabea Friday: Statement hearing in the National Council Bern 01/15 - Sexual Education of Diversity (PDF), p. 1 f.
2. ^ ^{A b} Yvonne Bauer: Sexuality - Body - Gender. Liberation courses and new technologies. Opladen 2003, p. 47.
3. ↑ “The 'liberation of child sexuality' was chosen as the educational goal [...] after all, following Wilhelm Reich, the social revolution had to be preceded by a change in the individual. [...] For sex education, this meant that children should now be brought up to the ability to lust at any cost. ”(Christin Sager: Show Mal! - but how much ?! In: Sexual Revolution? the 1960s , p. 78).
4. ↑ Frank Herrath: Friendly company. How to order an educational field. (PDF) In: Dare to Diversify. Festschrift for Uwe Sielert (Eds. Renate-Berenike Schmidt, Elisabeth Tuider, Stefan Timmermanns). Berlin 2009
5. ^ ^{A b} Christian Spaemann (2015): Statement on the draft of an update of the basic decree "Sexual Education" of the Federal Ministry for Education and Women (PDF), p. 9.
6. ↑ Sielert: Sexuality and Diversification of Sexual Worlds and Identities
7. ↑ curricula. Education or guidance on sex? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2014
8. ↑ Renate-Berenike Schmidt et al. (Hrsg.): Diversity dare: Festschrift for Uwe Sielert. 2009, pp. 5-6.
9. ↑ WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA: Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe ( Memento of the original of March 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)