Wolfgang Brezinka
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Wolfgang Brezinka (Professor emeritus) 2011
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Wolfgang Brezinka (born June 9, 1928 in Berlin) is a German-Austrian educational scientist. He served as Professor of Pedagogy at the Pädagogischen Hochschule (Pedagogical University) in Würzburg, as well as at the Universities of Innsbruck and Konstanz.
Professor Brezinka earned his doctorate in 1951 at the University of Innsbruck, and his Habilitation at that institution in 1954. He taught at the Pedagogical College Würzburg (1958–1959), as well as at the Universities of Innsbruck (1960–1967) and Konstanz (1967–1996). His research activities led him to research and studies at NYC (1957–1958) and Cambridge, MA. He was a guest professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Brixen, Italy, in 1983 and 1990. In 1984 he served as a guest professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and in 1985 he was also a guest professor at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. He is a supporter of empirical- educational science, or respectively of scientific pedagogy.
Wolfgang Brezinka is married to Erika Brezinka (born Schleifer); the couple has three children (Christof, Veronika and Thomas).
Currently he lives in Telfes im Stubai (Tyrol) in Austria.
In his metatheory of education, Professor Brezinka distinguishes three classes of educational theory: educational science, the philosophy of education and practical pedagogy:
His texts have appeared in numerous editions and languages (including Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Czech). On this basis, Professor Brezinka can be regarded as the pedagogical thinker from the German-speaking countries whose texts are the internationally most widely available in foreign languages.
As a practical pedagogue, he evaluates from a conservative viewpoint; as an educational scientist he has oriented himself in questions of scientific theory to the thinking of Viktor Kraft, Karl R. Popper, Hans Albert and Wolfgang Stegmüller. Orientation in educational analysis is provided by his widely quoted definition of the concept of education:
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