New Education Working Group
| Working Group New Education (ANE) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| sales | 1,638,406 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 15 (2018) |
| Volunteers | 124 (2018) |
| Members | 156 (2018) |
| Website | www.ane.de |
The New Education Working Group (ANE) is a non-profit, registered association based in Berlin . He is known for his letters from parents, which are made available to families all over Germany. These are financed by the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and by several federal states. The working group also organizes events on the subject of upbringing and offers advice for families.
history
In 1946, the New Education working group was founded by parents and teachers in order to counter the educational concept of the National Socialist era with a democratic one. The reason for the first information leaflets published by the district were elections by the parents' committees following the enactment of the law on unified schools . In 1951 the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft" became the association "Arbeitskreis Neue Erschung eV" and a member of the German section in the World Association for the Renewal of Education ( New Education Fellowship ) - an association of school reformers from all over the world. At this time, the working group received government grants for the first time. The topics in the working group at that time were the abolition of corporal punishment and denominational schools , as well as the introduction of co-education , eight-year elementary school and the participation of parents in school.
In the 1960s, the working group increasingly geared its offers to parents with small children and offered more and more events. In 1971 the association expanded its name to “Arbeitskreis Neue Erziehungs eV for family, school and society” and began to exert direct influence on school policy in Berlin together with other organizations such as the Union for Education and Science (GEW) and the State Parents' Committee Published opinions on the School Constitution Act (1974) and initiated a campaign against class dissolution (1976). In the 1980s the question of the integration of parents of non-German origin became the focus of the association's work: Greek, Spanish, Yugoslav and Turkish parents took part. The working group accompanied the establishment of the Turkish Parents' Association in Berlin . The association has been a non-profit organization since it was founded .
Guidelines
The task of the new education working group is to support parents in their upbringing. In addition, parents, children and young people should be enabled to take part in social processes themselves. The association wants to offer them a forum for this. An intercultural approach is important to the association. Furthermore, he is committed to ensuring that children's rights are increasingly enforced and that they participate more in democratic events in Europe. The association's projects aim to motivate parents and children to live together peacefully and with mutual respect. In addition, ANE does lobby work for families.
The New Education Working Group is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .
structure
The association consists of the board of directors (two chairmen, a cashier and up to four assessors), the general assembly (around 200 members) and the management. The board is always made up of representatives from various migrant groups.
Written help
Parents letters
Letters from parents are written educational aids that are sent by subscription. In Berlin, all parents automatically receive four letters with tips for a child's first months after the birth. After that, around 70 percent of them decide to become subscribers. A total of 46 letters are sent to the parents, initially monthly, later at longer intervals. The content of the letters depends on the stage of development the child is currently in. When the child turns eight, the subscription ends. Parents' letters have now been around for almost 50 years and are currently being sent to around 500,000 parents across Germany. There were 4.8 million letters in 2008. This is free in Berlin and 200 other cities, printing and shipping are financed by the respective federal state. In the 1950s, the model of the parents' letters was initially adopted from America and only translated, slightly modified and initially not printed but broadcast as a radio broadcast. At that time mothers were z. B. recommended that you should only place your babies in the father's arms when they are full, clean, and satisfied. In 1969 the radio broadcast became the letter subscription. In the seventies, the working group developed its own, much more modern version. At that time, other organizations were set up that publish letters to parents. But ANE remained the pioneer. For example, the working group was the first to recommend day-care centers for children under the age of three and addressed the separation of parents. The letters to parents are updated every year, for example when legislation has been changed. Parents and other readers send e-mails with suggestions that are often taken into account in the new version. A pediatrician, for example, criticized the recommendation of marjoram butter against colds as "questionable". Such interventions are expressly encouraged. Every ten years all letters from parents are fundamentally revised.
In addition to the regular ones, there are also letters that deal with more specific topics, such as puberty or non-violent upbringing. There is also a version available for families of Turkish origin. a. created between 1999 and 2002 by Kemal Kurt . There are further intercultural offers of extra letters with adaptations in 10 languages.
School letters
In addition to the letters from parents, the association has also been responsible for the so-called school letters since 1980, which are currently limited to Berlin. They are about teaching, learning behavior and the emotional state of the pupils, the functioning of the all-day school, dealing with school problems and help with homework. The school letters should also accompany parents over several years: in 17 letters, from school registration to the transition to secondary school, which are distributed by the teachers. The topics range from the right breakfast to the climate in class and sex education to the choice of foreign languages and dealing with drug problems. There are 481,000 school letters per year in Berlin. Every Berlin primary school can access free copies according to the number of pupils. More than 90 percent of all primary schools in Berlin accept the offer. Around 160,000 parents have already received the letters. Furthermore, the working group provides bilingual Turkish-German "school information" on its homepage.
Digital help
Funding for the online portals BundesweitesElternNetz (BEN) and “Aktiv für Kinder (a4k)” has expired. ANE is currently developing digital media in the “Nonviolent Education” project (funded by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees ). There arise z. B. four short films that provide information on various aspects of non-violent upbringing in Germany. The short films and the ANE special letters on domestic violence are available in several languages. In the ElternApp Bildungsguide, parents can find out more about the education system in Germany in several languages .
consultation
ANE offers advice (by phone and e-mail) on the ANE school letters for the Berlin elementary school.
Cooperation with other parent organizations in the EU
A new focus of the working group is the cooperation with other parent organizations in the EU . In March 2009 the working group organized the symposium "Democratic Education in New Europe - Challenges for Parents and Families" in order to present the ANE program and to conclude cooperation agreements. The other participants came from organizations from Slovakia, Romania, Belgium, Morocco, Finland, as well as from the German Institute for Human Rights , the German Red Cross and the Federal Family Forum . The European project on the topic of nonviolent upbringing with the title "It works better with respect!" Was also presented. / "Respect Works Out!", Which the working group coordinated from April 2007 to March 2009. It was funded by the European Commission's Daphne II program . Besides ANE and the Polish Foundation were Nobody's Children Foundation / Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje (FDN) and the British National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) ( National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children involved). Components of the project are a new letter to parents on the subject of "Better with respect", which is distributed to 50,000 parents each in Germany, Poland and Great Britain, a discussion series with parents, experts and media representatives, as well as an English-language Internet portal that provides organizations and institutions with international Should connect level with each other.
Awards
The working group was awarded the project prize of the Berlin Youth and Family Foundation, as well as the Hanse Merkur Prize for Child Protection , in the "www.weg" competition of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology , in the "Competition for the Integration of Immigrants" of the Federal President and the Bertelsmann Foundation . The working group also successfully participated in the 2006 German Prevention Award, which was organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Center for Health Education .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.transparency.de ( Memento from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 27, 2014
- ↑ Jeannette Goddar: The concept of upbringing that has grown in industrialized nations should be made transparent to Turkish parents , in Der Tagesspiegel of September 21, 1999, online at tagesspiegel.de , accessed on November 14, 2014
- ^ ANE: ANE project: Nonviolent education. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ ANE: ANE-Eltern-APP Bildungsguide. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .