S. I. Hessen in Scientific and Pedagogical Life of the Russian Émigré Community in Germany (the 1920s)
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The article reveals an episode from the scientific biography of the famous domestic educator Sergey Iosiphovich Hessen (1887-1950) involving his stay in Germany at the beginning of the 1920s. Residing in Berlin after his escape from Soviet Russia, S. I. Hessen completes his fundamental work “The Basics of Pedagogics. Introduction to Applied Philosophy” (1923), works for leading magazines of the Russian émigré community, re-establishes his contacts with the German scientific community, carries out pedagogical activity and delivers lectures in Berlin and Prague. This unknown page of his biography is reconstructed on the basis of archival materials, the analysis of émigré periodicals, S. I. Hessen’s works. Some previously unknown archival documents are introduced into scientific use. The paper offers a definition of pedagogical/scientific and pedagogical biography, emphasizes its importance in modern historical and pedagogical studies.
Source: Pedagogy Theory & Practice
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2998563243