Alice Salomon School

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Alice Salomon School
Alice Salomon School, main building
type of school Vocational school
for health and social affairs
founding 1878
address

Hanover-Kleefeld

country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 22 '16 "  N , 9 ° 47' 32"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '16 "  N , 9 ° 47' 32"  E
student 3,600 (school year 2018/19)
management Sabine Sahling
Website www.asbbs.de
Alice Salomon School, Herrenhausen location

The Alice Salomon School is a vocational school for health and social issues in Hannover-Kleefeld . The school is the oldest state-sponsored vocational school for women's education . With 3,600 students in 150 school classes, it is the largest vocational school of its kind in Germany. In 1999 the school was named after Alice Salomon .

history

Foundation and time in the empire

Today's Alice Salomon School was founded in January 1878 by the then women's education association as a commercial and household school in Hanover. Courses in machine sewing, tailoring, handicraft drawing and handicraft were established. The school started with eight students. A seminar for handicraft teachers was set up at Easter of the founding year (called "technical teachers" at that time). In 1902 a seminar for home economics teachers was added. Since this year, the school was no longer run by the women's education association , but by an employed headmistress. In 1911, a decree by the Ministry of Trade and Industry created the conditions for the establishment of seminars for the training of trade teachers. At first there were seminars for cooking and housekeeping, later also for tailoring and linen making.

State school in the Weimar Republic

In 1921 the school passed into the sponsorship of the city of Hanover and has since been called the municipal commercial and household school. In 1923 seminars for "trade teachers for vocational and technical schools specializing in handicraft and housekeeping" were set up. In 1926 a nursery school and kindergarten were attached. The change to the state school was accompanied by an expansion of the training concept, which not only includes the teaching of practical skills, but also general educational goals. In addition to the job-related commercial and domestic subjects, German, history, mathematics and physics were also part of the canon of subjects. In 1930 the seminars for teachers of housekeeping and manual labor were closed by a ministerial decree, and a year later the seminars for trade teachers were also closed. They were only allowed to be trained at universities. However, the established higher technical college for women's professions qualified for the study of trade teaching.

The time of National Socialism

During the time of the Third Reich, the National Socialist ideology found its way into the curriculum. In this way, an image of women was conveyed that limited the social role of women to so-called "female" activities in the household, care and preparation for existence as a mother. During this time the school lost the higher technical college for women's professions, so that from 1935 to 1939 only the housekeeping school and the department for nannies were continued. In 1939 the two-year women's technical school was founded and in 1941 there was again the opportunity to train trade teachers for manual labor and housekeeping. The school building was bombed out in the air raids on Hanover in 1943 . The school continued teaching in up to 4 different buildings.

post war period

School entrance door

After the two-year and three-year women's technical school was opened in 1949, the school was able to move back into its own building in August 1952 after renovations. It was the former provincial blind institution in Hanover-Kleefeld, which is now the headquarters of the Alice Salomon School. In 1953 the school was named Hedwig Heyl School. The name was chosen by the teaching staff because Hedwig Heyl is considered a pioneer in the professionalization of housekeeping. The problematic side of Hedwig Heyl - her nationalist-racist views and her admiration for the National Socialist ideology - only came into the public eye much later in the 1990s. In 1962 the housekeeping school, the day care center for teachers and the nursery school were affiliated to the Anna Siemsen School in Hanover. On the other hand, I trained as a kindergarten teacher at the Alice Salomon School. In 1963 the three-year women’s technical school, specializing in housekeeping and textile trade, was founded, the completion of which enabled the study of educational professions. In contrast, the women's college for domestic and industrial subjects was closed two years later. In 1967 the two-year technical college for social pedagogy was established, and kindergarten teacher training was replaced by training to become an educator. In 1968 the one-year vocational school for home economics was founded. In 1969, the three-year higher women's technical school was converted into a technical high school with a domestic science and textile science branch, at which the subject-specific university entrance qualification can be acquired.

More recent past since 1970

Cafeteria at the Kleefeld site

Since 1970, important changes have been made in the school’s training programs up to the present day. As early as 1970, the college for social education / social work, today's college for health and social affairs, with a focus on social education, which leads to the advanced technical college entrance qualification, can be incorporated. In 1979 the Fachgymnasium provides the general university entrance qualification (Abitur) for the first time in domestic science and textile science. The follow-up course is now the vocational high school health and social with a focus on social education and health care. Also in this year an advanced class "curative education" was set up. In 1984 it was converted into a part-time technical college to enable working people to do this. Many more full-time school and dual education programs followed in the next few years (see table of education programs).

In 1999 the name "Hedwig-Heyl-Schule" was dropped. On the one hand, this happened because Hedwig Heyl, as a housekeeping reformer, stands for an area that no longer existed at the school. The other reason for the renaming was their problematic nationalist and racist views. The school was named after Alice Salomon because she was a national and international leader in the women's movement. She founded the first school for social pedagogy in Germany, today's Alice Salomon University in Berlin . In 2001 the school sponsorship changed from the state capital Hanover to the Hanover region . The 75th anniversary celebration in 1953, the 100th anniversary celebration in 1978 and the 125th anniversary celebration in 2003 were held with great public sympathy. Between 1994 and 2005 the school had a second location in Hanover-Hainholz. A second location has existed in Hanover-Herrenhausen since 2005.

In the student body, female students continue to have the large majority, but the proportion of male students has grown continuously in recent years.

In June 2009 the bust of the namesake Alice Salomon was ceremoniously unveiled in the entrance area of ​​the school, and a copy of the bust was also placed in the entrance area at the Herrenhausen location. Both works of art were created by the sculptor Petr Váňa from Prague .

In 2010 and 2011, extensive energetic and monumental renovations were carried out on the main building of the school in Kleefeld. The structural changes made over the decades have been returned to the original historical architectural style.

Special services

In the last few decades there has hardly been an innovation project in the vocational training area for the fields of health and social affairs in Lower Saxony - in some cases beyond the state - in which teachers from the Alice Salomon School have not been leading or at least significantly involved. The Alice Salomon School is exemplary in terms of cooperation with extracurricular institutions.

Schoolchildren contributed to the content design of the Lesestart Hannover website .

School board

School names

  • 1878 commercial and household school
  • 1921 Municipal trade and housekeeping school
  • 1939 Municipal school for women and housekeeping
  • 1953 Hedwig Heyl School
  • 1978 Vocational School 21 of the state capital Hanover - Hedwig-Heyl-Schule
  • 1999 Vocational School 21 of the state capital Hanover - Alice Salomon School
  • 2001 Alice Salomon School, vocational school for health and social affairs, Hanover region

principal

  • 1878–1902 Women's Education Association
  • 1902–1932 Minna Schanze, director
  • 1933–1955 Margarete Schade, director
  • 1955–1970 Hildegard Peters, senior director of studies
  • 1970–1971 Ilse Müller-Wiener, Director of Studies (provisional)
  • 1971–1978 Ursula Sinke, senior director of studies
  • 1978–1980 Ilse Müller-Wiener, Director of Studies (provisional)
  • 1980–1997 Hannelore Schmidt, senior director of studies
  • 1997–1998 Gabriele Hackbarth, Director of Studies (provisional)
  • 1998–2013 Matthias Gleitze, Senior Studies Director
  • since 2013 Sabine Sahling, Senior Studies Director

Courses

Cooperation partner

We work with the following partners in the context of practical training in the field of social education and social care:

With the HAWK University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen in Hildesheim , a study network for Bachelor Education and Upbringing takes place, with the first study modules being completed at the Social Pedagogy School of the Alice Salomon School.

Partnerships

Schoolchildren and students make annual exchange visits with the following partners:

Awards

  • 1997: Lower Saxony Peace Prize
  • 2007: "Strong in Sport" award
  • 2009: Solar Challenge design award
  • 2009: Lower Saxony Peace Prize
  • 2010: Solar Challenge design award

Web links

Commons : Alice-Salomon-Schule (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prague sculptor gave Alice Salomon bust to the university. In: www.berlin.de. February 6, 2011, accessed November 10, 2019 . (This press release also mentions the erection of the bust in the Alice Salomon School.)
  2. ↑ Welcome. In: lesestart-hannover.de/. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .