Graubünden teaching material dispute (1900)
The Grisons teaching material dispute of the year 1900 indicates a conflict in the Surselva in the canton of Grisons to the question of which textbooks are in which regions of the culturally and religiously heterogeneous canton to be in use and what skills does the cantonal government in this regard.
prehistory
In 1890 the Graubünden government implemented a school reform - centralized in terms of the administrative process - at the center of which was the introduction of the pedagogy of the German philosophers and educationalists Johann Friedrich Herbart and Tuiskon Ziller and which aimed to develop and use numerous new teaching materials.
course
The immediate cause of the cultural struggle between the conservative Catholic Surselva and the liberal was cantonal government attempt of the latter, the traditional, as hagiografisch perceived teaching aids Sigisbert en Rezia ( Sursilvan for Sigisbert in Rätien ) by a modern teaching material for literary person and civilizational topic Robinson To replace Crusoe . Against this, under the leadership of Caspar Decurtins, the Catholic part of the Surselva, especially the Cadi , ran a storm. However, she shied away from launching a political initiative, as she should have expected a rejection across the canton.
Instead, it came to the phenomenon of lavina nera . In 1900, 2700 Oberlanders, including all 28 school councilors, gathered on the Ilanzer Landsgemeindeplatz ( plaz cumin ). In addition to protesting the government's actions, a manifesto called for an increase in teachers' salaries.
Result
On October 24, 1900, the Graubünden government decided to allow the Sigisbert teaching aid again, but made this conditional on a fundamental revision. Teachers' wages increased. The Surselva school inspectors, who refused to communicate and enforce the interim ban on teaching materials, received reprimands .
literature
- Sabrina Bundi: How “Sigisbert en Rezia” brought down the adventurer Robinson , in: Bündner Tagblatt of March 12, 2014, p. 6.
- Ivo Berther: Il mund sutsura - the world is upside down. Alpine periphery and modernity using the example of the Landsgemeinde Disentis 1790-1900 , series sources and research on Graubünden history: Volume 25, (historical dissertation) 2011, ISBN 978-3-85637-409-9 .