Discussion on Klafki’s Influence on German Teacher Education Reform

Abstract

Geisteswissenschaften Padagogik dominating German education circles for a long term witnessed crises after the 1950s. The critical theory of society and ideology from Frankfurt School, the orientation of positivistic experience sciences and the traditional hermeneutics way of human Geisteswissenschaften had undergone a progress of confliction and fusion which the external regime reform of teacher education relaid. Klafki also appealled for further reforms of German education regime on democratization, synthesization and diversification. Herein the traditional overlook of bildung was transformed into category and example teach- ing deeply influencing classroom reality.