Preliminary communication
Intellectuals and school
Wolfgang Müller-Commichau
; Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, University of Applied Sciences
Abstract
This paper addresses the ambivalent relationship between intellectuals and the institution of school. Based on the specific self-descriptions of intellectuals which can be summarized through the concepts of truth, reason and humanity, the author calls on the institution of school to make an increased effort into winning intellectuals as partners in dialogue and advisors for the institutional and pedagogical developmental process. On the other hand, intellectuals are encouraged to take a (more) active role in the topics related to school and school pedagogy, as was the case in the 70ies of the 20th century. The author develops the oppositeness of centripetal and centrifugal types of intellectuals and presents important intellectuals whose work had far-reaching benefi ts for education on an international level. Finally, it is clear that that the side-to-side pendulum motion between the inside and the outside and between inclusion and exclusion is what predetermines intellectuals to innovate. The examples of the two school projects - Glocksee and Laborschule Bielefeld – shows that they would be hard to imagine
without their initiators and scientific advisors Oskar Negt and Hartmund von Hentig.
Keywords
intellectuals; intellectual work; educational work; school
Hrčak ID:
21131
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Publication date:
20.11.2007.
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