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Georg Michael Kerschensteiner , 1854-1932, German educational theorist. Educated in Munich, he taught math in Nuremberg and Schweinfurt, he was director of the Munich public schools from 1895 to 1919 and became (1920) a professor at the Univ. of Munich. He developed a pragmatic approach to education that included the integration of academic study with physical activity and the establishment of a network of vocational schools. Kerschensteiner summarized his philosophy in Theorie der Bildungsorganisation (1933).
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Georg Michael Kerschensteiner
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Georg Michael Kerschensteiner , 1854-1932, German educational theorist. Educated in Munich...activity and the establishment of a network of vocational schools. Kerschensteiner summarized his philosophy in Theorie der Bildungsorganisation... |
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Kerschensteiner, Georg (1854–1932)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education KERSCHENSTEINER, GEORG (1854 – 1932) A dominating figure in the German Progressive education movement, Georg Kerschensteiner gained an international reputation as promoter of activity schools... |
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Prosser, Charles (1871–1952)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...maintained that learning, to be effective, had to be specific and directed to immediate ends; and following Georg Kerschensteiner, he pled for separate secondary schools which – apart from the traditional high school –... |
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Snedden, David (1868–1951)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...their students' intellectual capabilities, vocational interests, and future careers. Like Charles Prosser and Georg Kerschensteiner, Snedden propagated part-time and full-time industrial education and practical project work nationwide as... |
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