Itinerant teacher

Itinerant teachers is a professional designation for those individuals who were teaching and as a consultant without binding to a fixed location in certain industries and areas of expertise.

History

In ancient Greece sophists were BC worked as a professional itinerant teachers in the period from about 450 BC to about 380. They wanted to thereby provide a higher, empowering the governance education. Her teaching activities they related primarily to the specialist areas rhetoric and poetics as well as ethics and law. The sophistic converter teachers traveled from its center of Athens to the Peloponnese, Thessaly and southern Italy.

In the Middle Ages there were in German-speaking the profession of hiking Lehres: So the Hussite Friedrich Reiser worked (1401-1458) as an itinerant teacher of the Waldenses from 1420 in the Swabian- Alemannic and then from 1430 in Bohemia.

As part of the European agricultural revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries took over trained itinerant teachers the task of communicating the special expertise to farmers, and to advise further. This resulted in collaborations with agricultural associations, which increasingly were founded at this time. Special knowledge about their respective regional activities and their official recognitions are above these migrant teachers before:

• Anton Swap: Appointed provincial itinerant teachers of the country Cultural Council for all German districts of Bohemia by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1877.
• Friedrich Kling man: Career advancement from the wine-growing itinerant teachers for Agricultural Council for vineyards and orchards in the area Frankenthal.

The industrial revolution in Germany caused in traditional sectors deep faults, which should be mitigated by the use of migrant teachers. For this reason, the Prussian state promoted the training of teachers for walking weaving. The purpose in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin trained Richard Wedge Wood worked in Silesia.

Also currently traveling teachers are trained in Austria in beekeeping continue.