One-room school

The Einklassenschule, sometimes called Schoolhouse, in Switzerland as a comprehensive school was as close to home village school, the common form of school in rural areas until well into the middle of the 20th century.

Overview

It included the classes 1 to 8 of the former elementary school. All children were of only one teacher, rare, teaches a teacher in most cases a new improved two rooms.

Early in the morning only classes 5 came later to 8 ( high school) to class, the students of classes 1 to 4 ( lower level). For the older students were able to after hours scheduled end of the class even longer as " helpers" for the little ones remain.

Education

These less-structured school required a high degree of pedagogical skill and oriented in many cases to the ideas of progressive education. Various forms of internal differentiation of teaching were indispensable. At the same time the type of school but offered the opportunity to also classes and across disciplines to develop topics for a weekly schedule and to create a social environment that were involved in the older and younger students in a prosperous and organic social field of action. Frontal teaching was the exception in the Einklassenschule. Rather, stood silent work, self-reliance and self- activity, varied exercises and repetitions, action orientation and lively collaborative learning at the center of school work that led to the life-world and the interests of children. The subjects did not play a dominant role, because learning content offered in the form of " total education " holistic experience based mediated and where possible, have been developed independently.

A variety of equipment, mostly made ​​in the time from the teacher with the simplest of materials themselves, allowed individual learning at their own pace. So it was quite conceivable that, for example, a student of class 6 cooperated with poor performance in mathematics among the students of class 4 and also vice versa. Even with learning difficulties children were not excluded, but included in the " school community ".

Anchoring

School life was embedded in the village community, in festivals and celebrations of the annual cycle, the Church and the clubs. As part of the changes in the years around 1970 ( science orientation, curricula, criticism of popular education, life changing world, specialized teacher training, and others), the small schools were gradually merged into larger units as annual classes. Chance Einklassenschulen still exist, for example, on the North Frisian holms Hooge, Langeneß, Gröde and Nordstrandischmoor, but also in Tyrol, in Switzerland and in France. The multi-award winning documentary by Nicolas Philibert Etre et avoir ( being and having ) from 2002 shows the classes in a Einklassenschule in the Auvergne during a school year.

Current situation

NRW Minister of Education Sylvia Löhrmann announced in December at a new primary school concept. It is to be adopted in mid-2012 in the parliament.

The combination of remote comprehensive schools for demographic and financial reasons were in Switzerland problematized in the movies Sternberg and The Children of the bowl and documented.

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