Wolfgang Edelstein

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Wolfgang Edelstein (born June 15, 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † February 29, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German social scientist and educational scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development .

Life

Edelstein grew up in Iceland after his family had to emigrate in 1938 because of their Jewish origins. Here he attended the Icelandic 9-year-old elementary school that left his mark and graduated from high school in Reykjavík . After studying linguistics and philosophy in Grenoble and Paris, he first became a teacher in 1954 and then director of studies at the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach in 1961 . He described this time as the "most important apprenticeship years of his life". He distanced himself very early and clearly from the later events at the Odenwald School.

In 1962 he received his doctorate in Middle Latin Philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1963 he went to Hellmut Becker's research assistant at the newly founded Institute for Educational Research in the Max Planck Society in Berlin. In 1971 he was appointed scientific member of the Max Planck Society and in 1981 director of the research area “Development and Socialization” at the institute. From 1966 to 1984 he was Chief Scientific Adviser of the Icelandic Ministry of Education, where he played a key role in reforming the school system. In 1980 he was visiting professor at Harvard University , where he also worked with Lawrence Kohlberg on issues of moral development and moral education. At the beginning of the 1990s he was a member of the founding senate of the University of Potsdam , where he and Ulrich Herrmann developed the 'Potsdam Model for Teacher Education'. Until his retirement in 1997 he remained a member of the board of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. A bibliography of his writings up to 1997 is contained in a volume with speeches on his retirement.

He was a co-initiator of the model program “ Living & Learning Democracy ” of the Federal-State Commission for Educational Planning and Research Funding (BLK) as well as founder and chairman of the German Society for Democratic Education . V. Edelstein gave important impetus with regard to inclusion and impairment of participation: from positive experiences of recognition, strength develops for one's own engagement in the democratic society. In 2006 he was one of the supporters of the “Berlin Declaration” of the Shalom5767 - Peace 2006 initiative , which advocates a Palestine policy based on the principles of humanism and international law. In 2012 he received the Theodor Heuss Prize .

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  1. ↑ Obituaries of Wolfgang Edelstein , Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 7, 2020
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Edelstein died on mbl.is on February 29, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ Silence, stutter, clarify. The supporters of reform pedagogy are looking for a way out of the crisis, in: Die Zeit, March 18, 2010, p. 71
  4. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!52991/
  5. ↑ see speeches on the retirement of Wolfgang Edelstein , page 91ff, MPI for Educational Research, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87985-063-1 at http://d-nb.info/952768380
  6. ↑ "Living & Learning Democracy"
  7. ↑ German Society for Democracy Education e. V.
  8. ^ Wording of the declaration
  9. ↑ see report from the MPI for Educational Research at https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/presse/2005/02/bundesverdienstkreuz-fuer-wolfgang-edelstein
personal data
SURNAME Edelstein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 2020
Place of death Berlin