Werner Esser (pedagogue)

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Werner Maria Esser (born November 4, 1949 in Aachen ) is a German Germanist , reform pedagogue , school developer and university professor. Esser became known as the director of the re-establishment of the Saxon State High School for the Promotion of Gifted Children in St. Afra in Meißen .

Life

In 1968 Esser passed his Abitur in Aachen and studied German and philosophy from 1969 to 1978 at the RTWH Aachen and at the University of Freiburg . After working as an assistant in Aachen and a lecturer in Liège , Esser worked from 1981 as an employee at the Schloss Salem boarding school , from 1985 as a member of the management team and as a middle and college level leader. In 1995 Esser became a member of the (new) founding committee for the St. Afra high school in Meissen, 1998 founding director and until 2008 its headmaster. Since his work at the state high school, Esser has been closely associated with the Karg Foundation .

In 2007, the University of Leipzig appointed him honorary professor for  general pedagogy with a special focus on the promotion of gifted children . From summer 2008 to January 2014 he was overall director of the Louisenlund Foundation , Güby .

Since 2014, Esser has been working as a freelance coach and consultant in Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Saxony , Berlin and Thuringia , as a school developer at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium and for the Nehemiah Gateway Foundation in Pogradec, Albania .

Werner Esser lives in Dresden and Hamburg.

Works (selection)

  • The physiognomy of the fictional character or reflections: forms of self-reflection in modern drama. Dissertation . Heidelberg 1980.
  • »Pedagogy ad personam« Traditions of scholastic support in schools . In: Armin Hackl, Carina Imhof, Olaf Steenbuck, Gabriele Weigand (Eds.): Karg Hefte: Contributions to the promotion of talented students and research on talent . No. 6 . Frankfurt am Main 2014, p. 22–29 , urn : nbn: de: 0111-pedocs-100302 .
  • About the Princely School St. Afra zu Meißen - Creativity: Something forbidden? In: - Educational leadership. Magazine for school management and school counseling . No. 2 . Carl Link Verlag, 2002, ISSN  0939-0413 , p. 63 ff .
  • A pleasure to think. Promotion of talented students at the St. Afra high school in Meißen ... for example in German . In: Christian Fischer (ed.): Curriculum and didactics of the gifted. Promote talents, individualize learning . Litverlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-7737-8 , p. 250-270 .
  • About role models, honorary posts and 'young elites'. This side and beyond of the egalitarian. Hans Peter Dreitzel's elite term read again . In: Peter Gutjahr-Löser, Dieter Schulz, Heinz W Wollersheim (eds.): Theodor Litt. Freedom - responsibility - participation. 10 years of Theodor Litt Research Center at the Faculty of Education at Leipzig University . Special volume 2007. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-215-3 .
  • The mentor principle. What does promotion of gifted students have to do with reform pedagogy? In: Thomas Trautmann, Wilfried Manke (Hrsg.): Talent - Individual - Society: Promoting the gifted as an educational and social challenge . Beltz Juventa Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7799-2856-0 , p. 95-114 .
  • Werner Esser: Autonomy and Performance . In: Armin Hackl, Claudia Pauly, Olaf Steenbuck, Gabriele Weigand (eds.): Values ​​for the promotion of gifted students in schools: Talent and performance . No. 4 , October 2012, ISSN  2191-9992 , p. 67–79 ( karg-stiftung.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Werner Esser. In: xing.com. XING, accessed on April 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Mira Gajevic: The Sankt Afra high school in Meißen is the first German state school for gifted students . It won't be the only one: intelligence test. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung, August 28, 2001, accessed on April 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Reinhold: School education: The state discovers its young elites. In: faz.net. FAZ, August 9, 2001, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Experts. In: karg-stiftung.de. Karg Foundation, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Honorary Professors. In: erzwiss.uni-leipzig.de. Faculty of Education at the University of Leipzig, May 5, 2014, accessed on April 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ Inga Griese: Renowned boarding school: Louisenlund - How the elite is trained. In: welt.de. May 24, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esser, Werner Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, reform pedagogue, school developer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen