Educational canon

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As educational canon of the indispensable core of a formation is culture deemed knowledge base called. It is, as it were, a yardstick for the education to be conveyed in a society or in a specific subject. Its contents depend on the canon of subjects ; In ancient times, the seven liberal arts were considered to be decisive for the content of the educational canons.

School education canon

One of the goals of today normative in Western culture school education, to convey certain contents in curricula and curricula are set. This content is intended to provide people with appropriate methods and available knowledge for solving problems in common life situations, so they should make people competent for their environment.

The subject combination of general schools in Germany only provides a framework for the educational canon. Concrete contents are therefore to be selected from the common subjects:

Beyond these formal criteria, there is great uncertainty in public discourse about what is actually necessary. Was for generations of students, for example, the memorization of Schiller's bell an integral part of the advanced German classes, found since the 1960s, a turning away from learning canonical works towards a culture of interpretation instead. Instead of mental arithmetic , set theory was massively imposed in mathematics around the same time . In biology, knowledge about species identification was replaced by the teaching of genetic and molecular biological principles. So the concrete knowledge decreases in favor of abstractions.

Canon of cultural creation

Canon of Religious Education

In religious studies, the term also includes normative texts of religions:

criticism

The problem with every canon would not be that classics were wrongly included in it, but that inclusion in a canon would also be influenced by the laws of the market and the economy of attention. This would presuppose the displacement of others, possibly also through shouting behavior.

See also

Portal: Education  - Overview of Wikipedia content on education

literature

General education canon

  • Tatjana Alisch, Angela Sendlinger (editor): General education - all the basic knowledge of today in question and answer. Compact, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8174-6081-6 .
  • Eberhard Anger, Klaus Volkert (editorial management): The great book of general knowledge - an indispensable reference work for the whole family. Verlag Das Beste GmbH, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-87070-403-9 .
  • Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut: The current book of general education. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89996-485-3 . (The volume includes a CD with test questions.)
  • Jonathan Byron: Jonathan Byron's Education Navigator for Messy Readers. Thiele Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85179-002-3 .
  • Bodo Harenberg (idea and publisher): Harenberg course book education - the first interactive lexicon. Harenberg Verlag, Dortmund 2003, ISBN 3-611-01154-1 .
  • Barbara Holle, Stephanie Köber, Stefanie Thuir (editorial director): General education - the great standard work with the knowledge of our time. Special edition with 5000 questions & answers. Weltbild, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8289-4191-5 .
  • Meyers Lexikonredaktion (Hrsg.): Meyers Memo - The knowledge of the world according to subject areas. Meyers Lexikonverlag Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich, © German edition: Bibliographisches Institut & FABrockhaus AG, Mannheim 1991, ISBN 3-411-07311-X .
  • Matthias Vogt: DuMont's handbook general education . Monte series, DuMont-Monte publishing house, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8320-8655-2 .
  • Detlef Wienecke-Janz (editorial director): The Brockhaus Education 21 - Knowledge for the 21st century. knowledgemedia, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-577-09056-8 .

Education canon natural sciences

Education canon humanities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Jessen (journalist) : Misunderstood geniuses: Look, they are alive! In: The time . January 8, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 16, 2019]).