Walter Schäfer (pedagogue)
Walter Schäfer (* 1910 ; † 1984 ) was a German history teacher, reform pedagogue and headmaster of the Odenwald School .
Live and act
Walter Schäfer studied German and history up to his doctorate in 1936 with a dissertation on Adalbert Stifter at the Albertus University in Königsberg . From 1949 he taught at the Odenwald School . He participated in school planning and was headmaster of the Odenwald School from 1962 to 1972 before Gerold Becker . He was an honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg .
There have been reports of sexual abuse in school even during his time as headmaster, which he allegedly did not do anything about. In the final report of a 2010 study, however, his partial intervention against individual teachers is documented.
Fonts
- Upbringing and educator with Adalbert Stifter , Triltsch, Würzburg 1936 (= diss.)
- Paul Geheeb . Human being and educator . Issue 4 of the series: From the German rural education homes. Stuttgart no year (1960)
- (With Wolfgang Edelstein and Gerold Becker ): Problems of schools in social change: The example of the Odenwald school . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1971
- Education in an emergency. The Odenwald School 1946–1972 . Frankfurt a. M. 1979
- History in school , publications by the research group model schools , Vol. 5, Klett, Stuttgart 1976 On history lessons at the Odenwald School (PDF)
literature
- Jens Brachmann: Reform pedagogy between re-education, educational expansion and abuse scandal. The history of the Association of German Landerziehungsheime 1947–2012 , Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015 ISBN 978-3781520677
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
Single receipts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepherd, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schäfer, Walter Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German headmaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |