Wall newspaper

A wall newspaper is put together on a specific topic source of information in the form of newspaper clippings and articles, which are mounted on a wall. Creates a wall newspaper is an author or an author team.

Wall newspapers were first used in the fledgling Soviet Union and quickly spread to all socialist countries. Today they are also used in education.

Political wall newspapers

In the era of National Socialism which was published " slogan of the week," a wall newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( NSDAP). Even Julius Streicher, editor of the battle sheet " Der Stürmer ", dropped his newspaper in display boxes ( " Forward boxes " ) exhibit in nearly every German community.

Wall newspapers with strong information importance are known mainly from the Asian region. With My First Wall newspaper Mao Zedong led the 1966 Chinese Cultural Revolution. 1979 suspended the dissident Wei Jingsheng on the Democracy Wall in Beijing on his legendary wall newspapers.

In the GDR, it was common to have lead in factories and schools wall newspapers to political and other issues. This should be primarily aimed agitprop purposes. In practice, however, it remained mostly in adhering of newspaper clippings.

Other forms

In the training system, the wall newspaper belongs to the methodology. In their results are mainly held by group work and thus not made the participants in the work accessible.

In the Freinet pedagogy, the wall paper is used as a memory of the class. For the class council is an important tool for creating an agenda. They usually has three columns: I am not criticizing, I think it's good, I suggest. In Freinet even the wall paper had four columns: We criticize, Congratulations, We wish, We have realized.

At colleges and universities wall newspapers are still an indispensable means of information on which students find lecture plans, event dates, student council releases and cafeteria menus.