Emancipation in Schools and the Family

Authors

  • Walter Herzog

Abstract

Summary: The concept of emancipation plays a limited role in the recent science of pedagogics. With the concept of education, all alternatives are available which preserve the critical potential of the emancipation concept. The extent to which a critical pedagogic attitude is also necessary today, will be illustrated by means of examples chosen from the schooling and familial domains. Countering the increasing tendency to judge education and teaching in terms of their output and so intensify surveillance and control, is a reminder that education is not doable but rather needs to be accomplished by the subject who is being educated.

Key words: education, the politics of education, emancipation, helicopter parents, competence, PISA

Author Biography

Walter Herzog

Walter Herzog, geb. 1949. Studium der Psychologie, Soziologie, Pädagogik und Philosophie an der Universität Zürich. 1975 Lizentiat, 1980 Doktorat und 1986 Habilitation an der Universität Zürich. 1988 Research Fellow am Institute of Human Development der University of California in Berkeley (Stipendium SNF). 1989–1991 Assistenzprofessor für Pädagogik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pädagogischen Psychologie an der Universität Zürich, 1991–2015 Ordinarius für Pädagogik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pädagogischen Psychologie, Didaktik und Schulforschung an der Universität Bern. 2000–2004 Präsident der Konferenz der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung des Kantons Bern, 2004–2005 Präsident des Gründungsschulrats und 2005–2007 Präsident des Schulrats der Pädagogischen Hochschule Bern.

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Published

2015-12-30

How to Cite

Herzog, W. (2015). Emancipation in Schools and the Family. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 5(2), 110–117. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/281

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2015): Kongress-Dokumentation

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Special Issue

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