Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841) · Germany · Academics · Died at 65
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Something wrong?He turned teaching into a science. Before Herbart, pedagogy was folk wisdom and pulpit advice; he made it a discipline with principles, a system you could study and argue over.
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, It is of course a familiar precept that the teacher must try to arouse the interest of his pupils in all that he teaches.
About this person
Johann Friedrich Herbart was born on 4 May 1776 in Germany, into a world where Kant's ideas still echoed and philosophy was splitting into factions. He became a philosopher and psychologist, but his sharpest break was with method: while Hegel built vast dialectical systems, Herbart moved the other direction - especially in aesthetics, where he staked out ground that made him Hegel's greatest contrast among the post-Kantians. What lasted, though, was pedagogy. He founded it as an academic discipline, a field with its own logic, and the approach took his name: Herbartianism. He died on 14 August 1841, having given teachers something they'd never quite had before - a framework that could be taught back.
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