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WOLFGANG HÖRNER ALS BAUMEISTER DER BRÜCKEN ZWISCHEN DER DEUTSCHEN UND DER POLNISCHEN ERZIEHUNGSWISSENSCHAFT
WOLFGANG HÖRNER AS A BUILDER OF BRIDGES BETWEEN THE GERMAN AND THE POLISH EDUCATION

Author(s): Mirosław S. Szymański
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Wolfgang Horner; wspólpraca polsko-niemiecka; edukacja

Summary/Abstract: This is the text of the speech the author delivered at a scientific seminar entitled “But of course – apples and pears can be compared to each other!” Theoretical and methodological challenges of comparative education. The colloquium was held on 12 February 2010 at the so-called neo-classical Old Senate Hall at the University of Leipzig. It was organized by the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Leipzig, as a farewell of Professor Wolfgang Hörner, who retired at the end of the winter semester of the academic year 2010. And I must add that Professor Wolfgang Hörner, for nearly 30 years, has tirelessly worked on the development of scientific cooperation between German teachers (mostly from the University of Bochum and the University of Leipzig) and Polish teachers (mostly from the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University). Following a suggestion or a wish of the colloquium organizer Solvejg Jobst that the speech be “scientific as well as personal and free,” it is difficult to pigeonhole the speech. Generally, it can be described as “a scientific laudation from the Polish perspective.” It is not surprising, then, that the author concentrated – as in the title of his speech – on this activity of Professor Wolfgang Hörner which may be metaphorically described as bridge-building. Building two bridges in particular. One from the German bank to the Polish side; while the other – from the Polish bank to the German one. The first one has been defined as a 'methodological bridge’, as the Polish education science (especially Czeslaw Kupisiewicz and Miroslaw S. Szymanski) has popularized the concept of comparative research methodology proposed by Professor Wolfgang Horner. The second one has been defined as a ‘factual bridge’, as Professor Wolfgang Hörner, who derived from the Bochum School of Oscar Anweiler, for three decades has propagated the Polish educational policy and educational research both in German and in English.

  • Issue Year: 219/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 77-88
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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