Extracurricular learning location

The term “ extracurricular learning place” (also abbreviated to ASL ) is initially understood literally as a place outside of the school that pupils and teachers visit together as part of the class for the purpose of clear learning .

Primary and secondary learning locations

A distinction can be made between pedagogically prepared or pre-structured extracurricular learning locations, such as school laboratories , science centers or museums, and non-pedagogically prepared, pre-structured extracurricular learning locations, such as the bakery of the local bakery. Salzmann (2007, p. 435), on the other hand, uses the term "primary learning locations" to distinguish between those learning locations that have been set up specifically for learning and "secondary learning locations" where learning is also carried out, but which primarily serve other tasks, e.g. B. Youth residences.

Extracurricular learning locations enable a special form of establishing practical relevance in school education. Visiting an extracurricular learning location can vary widely. It is possible that students are actively involved in horticultural or manual work and visit them in a targeted and recurring manner. For example, stays in so-called school camps offer several days of extracurricular learning on certain topics (nature, environment, culture, history, biology, geography, geology). Extracurricular learning locations are particularly suitable as excursion destinations. As a rule, however, the visit is limited to a single day, as it can be an integral part of a school lesson on a topic, e.g. B. a company inspection (in the field of economics and social sciences).

Historically, reform pedagogy included extra-curricular learning locations in school-based educational processes.

Visiting out-of-school learning locations is primarily associated with the early subject lessons and the social science subjects that follow later, into which this is divided in the secondary schools (secondary school, secondary school, comprehensive school, grammar school) (e.g. political science, geography, history). This has to do with the fact that the early general education in elementary school would like to tie in with the new impressions of the later world (environment) of the children.

Examples

• The KennenLernenUmwelt project within the Regionale 2010 in North Rhine-Westphalia offers various examples of learning locations outside of school . There is a nature school, an archeology workshop, a music, dance and theater workshop as well as a literature and art workshop. The target group of this long-term project are elementary school students.
• Another example is the out-of- school learning location in Wilhelmshaven .
• Numerous zoological gardens in German-speaking countries, with their zoo schools, are regarded as separate extracurricular learning locations. The zoo educators who work there try to convey sustainability in all areas to the learners and offer teaching materials as well as lessons for school classes. Something similar happens in botanical gardens and at state and federal horticultural shows .
• Planetariums , in particular those in which the audience has to interact with the presenter in the respective programs, and / or those which offer the opportunity to deepen some of the content experienced in the planetarium program in an independent way. Often hands-ons are made in such free work units, which help " understand " the cognitive process in the truest sense of the word .
• Attending a political event in a class or course association as part of the class, e.g. B. participation in " Fridays for Future " demonstrations.
• Autostadt
• Farm as a place of learning
• Kaniswall outdoor laboratory
• Dynamic
• Phyllodrome
• Mathematikum
• Experiminta
• Young researchers initiative
• Exploratorium Potsdam
• palaeon , today the Schöningen Research Museum
• phæno - Science Center in Wolfsburg
• A place of learning for civil courage & resistance e. V.
• Klimahaus Bremerhaven
• Q.UNI (University of Münster for children and young people)
• Keibelstrasse learning location

See also

• Museum Education , Bauspielplatz Roter Hahn , cooperation between learning locations

literature

• Brade, Janine & Krull, Danny (Eds.) (2016): 45 learning locations in theory and practice. Extracurricular learning in elementary school for all subjects and grade levels , Hohengehren, Schneider Verlag
• Dühlmeier, Bernd (2008): Extracurricular learning locations in elementary school . Baltmannsweiler. Schneider publishing house
• Feige, Bernd (2006): Learning location pedagogy in primary schools . In: Grundschulunterricht 2006, Heft 11, pp. 3–7.
• Hellberg-Rode, Gesine (2004): Extracurricular learning locations , in: Kaiser, Astrid / Pech, Detlef (Ed.): Lesson planning and methods. Basic knowledge of general teaching , Volume 5, Baldmannsweiler 2004, 145–150
• Salzmann, Christian (2007): Teaching and learning in extracurricular learning locations , in: Kahlert, Joachim / Fölling-Albers, Maria / Götz, Margarete / Hartiner, Andreas / von Reeken, Dietmar / Wittkowske, Steffen (eds.): Handbuch Didaktik des Sachunterrichts , Bad Heilbrunn, pp. 433–438
• Westphal, Kristin / Hoffmann, Nicole (2007): Places of learning. Contributions to a pedagogy of space , Weinheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hellberg-Rode, Gesine (2004): Extra-school learning locations, in: Kaiser, Astrid / Pech, Detlef (ed.): Lesson planning and methods. Basic knowledge of general teaching, Volume 5, Baldmannsweiler 2004, 145–150
2. ↑ Experimentarium of the Young Researchers' Initiative (IJF) ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Q.UNI - University of Münster for children and young people. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .