Laboratory school

A laboratory school is an experimental school that is typically affiliated with an educational research and training institute.

In a laboratory school of regular teaching activity takes place, received by the students an education that will be switched to the regular schools at least equivalent. At the same time, a laboratory school of educational research, and usually also the training of educators serving.

A laboratory school is thus similar to a university hospital, which also serves to patient care as well as academic research and teaching. However, this combination of research, practical application and teaching in education, unlike in medicine, an exception. Besides the traditionally aligned to a theory-practice composite teacher education at colleges of education, most educational training centers have no affiliated school operations.

In states with closely regulated state school inspection laboratory schools may require statutory exemptions; so there is in North Rhine -Westphalia own state law that allows the operation of the Laboratory School Bielefeld.

The first so-called laboratory schools were founded by John Dewey around 1900 in Chicago and New York. One of the German laboratory schools founded by Hartmut von Hentig and operated by the University of Bielefeld. It is characterized by mixed-age learning groups in the school entrance and different variants of the orientation experience.

A similar combination of research, teaching and application, though not under the name of " laboratory school", there were already in the 19th century in Jena, where the Herbartians Karl Volkmar Stoy and Wilhelm Rein operated an educational seminar with training school, which then of Peter Petersen has continued and contributed to the development of his Jena plan.

Other examples include the Arts and Media Education Laboratory School in Flensburg and the Laboratory School Dresden.

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