In 1989, Helmut Peukert organized in Hamburg an intensive seminar on the work of Wilhelm Flitner at the occasion of his hundredth birthday. Flitner who was to die 1 year later had been teaching for almost 30 years in Hamburg and was one of the leading figures of the so-called Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik. This was a crucial tendency in educational thought which has been very influential far beyond German borders throughout a large part of the twentieth century. And although there are, no doubt, very dubious and questionable aspects related to the entanglement of at least some of its representatives in the NS policies and ideologies, there is also no doubt that the “Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik” has played a very important role in the exploration of the possibility of the elaboration of autonomous educational thought.
It is no surprise then that the central question of the seminar in Hamburg concerned the place of a “general educational theory” (“Allgemeine...
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Masschelein, J., Simons, M. (2017). Educational Theorists. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_224
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