Compassion (social learning)
The Compassion project is a social learning project . The aim is to develop socially responsible attitudes such as solidarity , cooperation , communication and commitment for people who depend on the help of other people. For this purpose, the pupils of the project schools spend two weeks in a social facility, in old people's homes, hospitals, disabled facilities, homeless shelters, kindergartens, train station missions and the like during the school year. The experiences that are made in practice are combined with school lessons in the various subjects before and after the internship.
The initiators of the Compassion project, a working group at the German Bishops' Conference under the leadership of Adolf Weisbrod , the former director of the school foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , see the formation of social sensitivity and socially responsible attitudes as a task that schools must face up to society. Solidarity, human behavior, ethical learning and a focus on experiences are important keywords in the target setting.
The project was scientifically monitored and evaluated. It could be proven that this project can sustainably learn and strengthen social sensitivity.
All approximately 13,000 pupils in the schools of the School Foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg take part in the Compassion project. In the meantime, many state and private schools in Germany and abroad are also taking on this project. In 2004, a similar project was included in the education plan for secondary schools in Baden-Württemberg with TOP SE (topic-oriented project social engagement). From 2005 to 2008 there was a project within the framework of the Comenius program "School development projects to promote social learning in schools" of the European Union on the subject of Compassion, in which several schools from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and the Czech Republic participated. The social internship is also an integral part of the school profile at many monastic schools. B. in almost all Benedictine and Cistercian schools in Germany.
In 2002 the Compassion project received the Alcuin Award from the European Parents Association (EPA), the largest European parent organization, as an exemplary project with potential for implementation across Europe.
The Compassion project is described in a school book published in 2010 for the subject of community studies in upper secondary schools as an example of volunteering and civic engagement.
The term compassion is understood as “compassion” and was coined in political thinking in the sixties .
Further literature
- Compassion - World Program of Christianity . Herder Verlag, Freiburg, ISBN 3-451-27211-3
- Lothar Kuld: Compassion - Get out of the ego trap . Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach, ISBN 3-878-68638-2
- Lothar Kuld, Stefan Gönnheimer: Practice book Compassion - Social learning in schools . Auer-Verlag GmbH, ISBN 3-403-03741-X
- COMPASSION - an idea catches on . In: engagement (magazine for education and school) issue 1/2005, Aschendorff Verlag, ISSN 0723-3507
- Christoph Kunz, Birgit Bäuerle, Martin Kimmig: Days of reflection, school camp, Compassion: ideas and practical aids for educational work . ISBN 3-827-62655-2
- Alexandra Weber-Jung: Social commitment and gender. Investigation of the gender-specific effects of the Compassion project . LIT-Verlag 2011, ISBN 9783643110237
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Kuld, Stefan Gönnheimer: Compassion - Socially committed learning and action . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, ISBN 3-17-016304-3
- ↑ http://www.google.de/#hl=de&xhr=t&q=compassion+schule
- ↑ http://www.bildung-staeckt-menschen.de/service/downloads/Sonstiges/realschule/heft_se.pdf
- ↑ EU Project Comenius Compassion , St. Ursula School Vienna, accessed on June 22, 2018
- ↑ http://www.gymnasium-marienstatt.de/index.php?id=39
- ^ Previous Winners & Resources , Alcuin Society
- ↑ People & Politics - Secondary Level II . Schreodel-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-507-10865-3 , p. 100