Walter Herzog (pedagogue)

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Walter Herzog (born November 21, 1949 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss educator .

Life

Herzog attended schools in Wiesendangen and Winterthur. He then studied psychology , sociology , education and philosophy at the University of Zurich . This was followed by a licentiate in 1975 and a doctorate in 1980. From 1976 Herzog worked as an assistant and from 1981 as a permanent research assistant at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Zurich, where he received a scholarship from the Commission for the Promotion of Young Academics in 1984. The Venia legendi (license to teach), awarded in 1986, covers the subject of pedagogy with a special focus on pedagogical psychology. In 1988 he studied at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley . Herzog became an assistant professor in 1989. From 1991 to 2014, Herzog was full professor for pedagogy, pedagogical psychology, didactics and school research at the University of Bern , where he gave his farewell lecture on December 3, 2014 with the title “Theory and Practice - An Exploration on the Biographical Path”.

Memberships

  • President of the Association Education Reforms Memorandum.

Publications

  • The moral subject. Educational intuition and psychological theory. Huber, Bern 1991, ISBN 3-456-82071-2 .
  • Up-to-date education. The construction of pedagogical reality. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2002, ISBN 3-934730-55-8 .
  • Scientific theoretical foundations of psychology. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-53117213-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.walterherzog.ch/vorlesungen/habensvorlesung/
  2. ^ Roger von Wartburg: Memorandum "More education - less reforms": Educators call for an emergency brake. In: Zeit -fragen from October 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur , Switzerland