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Herbartianism and social pedagogy

In the project "Herbartianism and Social Pedagogy", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the connection between Herbartianism and social pedagogy as well as the theoretical history of social pedagogy was investigated by means of a journal analysis.

Der Adolf-Reichwein-Campus der Universität Siegen

Project description

Herbartianism can be regarded as an overlooked pedagogy in the theoretical history of social pedagogy. So far, only individual studies in the past ten years have pointed out that Herbartianism had a central influence on the development of social pedagogical theory in the second half of the 19th century up to the time of the Weimar Republic and also produced its own social pedagogical positionings and forms of professionalization. The aim of the project was to systematically trace developments and controversies in the arguments and positions by means of a journal analysis in order to arrive at a more appropriate understanding of the connection between Herbartianism and social pedagogy as well as the theoretical history of social pedagogy in general.

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    Duration
    01.10.2007 - 30.09.2009

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    Research area
    Education and Social Affairs

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    Funding
    German Research Foundation (DFG)

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Team | Publications

  • Prof. Dr. Bernd Dollinger, University of Siegen (Head)
  • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schröer, University of Hildesheim (Head)
  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Müller, FH Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven (freelancer)
  • Florian Eßer (Dipl.-Päd.), University of Hildesheim (research assistant)
  • Michael Schabdach (Dipl.-Päd.), University of Siegen (research assistant)
  • Dollinger, B./Eßer, F./Müller, C./Schabdach, M./Schröer, W. (2010): Herbartianism and social pedagogy. Studies on a forgotten tradition. Bad Heilbrunn.
  • Dollinger, B./Schabdach, M. (2009): Theodor Waitz and the constitution of pedagogical currents. Notes on the genesis of Herbartianism. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. 86th vol., pp. 190-205.
  • Dollinger, B. (2009): Prague social pedagogy and the social dimension of Herbartianism. In: E. Adam/G. Grimm (eds.): The pedagogy of Herbartianism in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Berlin/Vienna.
  • Dollinger, B. (2007): Social liberalism and the emergence of social pedagogy. In: B. Dollinger/C. Müller/W. Schröer (eds.): Die sozialpädagogische Erziehung des Bürgers - Entwürfe zur Konstitution der modernen Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden. S. 51-67.
  • Dollinger, B. (2006): The pedagogy of the social question. (Social) pedagogical theory from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the Weimar Republic. Wiesbaden.
  • Dollinger, B. (2006): Johann Friedrich Herbart and social pedagogy. A failed relationship? In: Zeitschrift für Sozialpädagogik, 4th Vol., H.1, pp. 2-20.
  • Dollinger, B./Müller, C. (2006): Is there a Herbartian social pedagogy? - or: Social aspects of Herbart's pedagogy as perceived by social pedagogy. In: R. Bolle/G. Weigand (eds.): Johann Friedrich Herbart. 1806-2006 - 200 years of general pedagogy. Impact-historical impulses. Münster. S. 73-96.
  • Eßer, F. (2010): Between self-activity and the need for education. The child in the "Zeitschrift für Kinderforschung". In: Paedagogica Historica. 46. vol., pp. 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230902921338 [Transfer title to Citavi project using this DOI]
  • Eßer, F. (2010): "Herbartian pedagogy and the reform of education at the beginning of the 20th century". In: C. Müller (ed.): Historisch-kritische Zugänge zur Professionalität der Sozialpädagogik und Sozialarbeit. Essen. S. 93-107.
  • Müller, C. (2007): Johannes Trüper as a social pedagogue. Against the reform pedagogical narrow-mindedness of special education. In: Sonderpädagogik, 37th vol. 3, pp. 165-174.
  • Müller, C. (2007): A reassessment of the dispute about individual and social pedagogy - The uses of the terms "individual pedagogy" and "state pedagogy". In: Journal of Social Pedagogy, Vol. 5, H.2, pp. 114-133.
  • Müller, C. (2007): Johannes Trüper as a social pedagogue. Against the reform pedagogical narrow-mindedness of special education. In: Sonderpädagogik. 37. vol. 2/3, pp. 165-174.
  • Müller, C. (2007): "No democracy without citizens?!" - On the understanding and criticism of the citizen program in the concept of social pedagogy. In: B. Dollinger/C. Müller/W. Schröer (eds.): Die sozialpädagogische Erziehung des Bürgers - Entwürfe zur Konstitution der modernen Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: VS. S. 13-28.
  • Müller, C. (2005): Sozialpädagogik als Erziehung zur Demokratie - ein problemgeschichtlicher Theorieentwurf. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
  • Müller, C. (2005): Sozialpädagogik und Arbeitsschule - der vergessene Beitrag von Carl Gottfried Scheibert. In: F.M. Konrad (ed.): Sozialpädagogik im Wandel - Historische Skizzen. Münster: Waxmann. S. 55-67.
  • Schabdach, M. (2010): The struggle for the citizen school: social pedagogy in the middle of the 19th century using the example of Carl Gottfried Scheibert. In: C. Müller (ed.): Historisch-kritische Zugänge zur Professionalität der Sozialpädagogik/Sozialarbeit. Essen. S. 77-92.
  • Schabdach, M. (2009): The citizen school: social pedagogy in the middle of the 19th century. In: B. Dollinger/F. Merdian (eds.): Trust as a basic element of social order. Augsburg. S. 111-134.
  • Schabdach, M./Dollinger, B. (2009): The "Pädagogische Revue": social pedagogy in the context of political and pedagogical transformation. In: Journal for Social Pedagogy. Issue 1.
  • Schröer, W. (1999): Social pedagogy and the social question. Man in the age of capitalism around 1900. Weinheim/Munich: Juventa.

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