The school of life

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The School of Life - Series of scriptures of the Federal Resolute School Reformers (BESch)

The series of writings was started at the beginning of the Weimar Republic by the “Bund Decided School Reformers” in order to address the parents, educators, teachers, and above all the whole , in view of the Weimar school compromise and the “Reichsschulgesetz”, which is still required in the Weimar Constitution to win German youth for the introduction of a “new school”. With the title “The School of Life” the editor Franz Hilker deliberately envisaged the whole subject area of life reform . The life school refers to different considerations and attempts of reform pedagogy , such as rural education homes , cohabitation school , "elastic" unified school , work school , production school, etc., which should lead to a new "higher quality of human education" in terms of organization and content in the "new school" . Starting with the kindergarten , through the "elastic" unified school in the elementary , middle and high school sector , up to the vocational , technical and university colleges , the cultural and educational policy range was laid out in the life school concept of the "decisive school reformers". From the mid-1920s onwards, all those involved increasingly lost hope that a “Reich School Law” would ever be passed in the “Weimar Republic” that could serve as a social, cultural and educational basis for the “life school”. After a total of 20 individual titles, the series of publications published by the Berlin publisher CA Schwetschke & Sohn was discontinued.

Font sequence

  • Issue 1: Franz Hilker / Preface: Paul Oestreich : Youth celebrations . (1921)
  • Book 2: Walter Schönbrunn : The experience of poetry in school . (1921)
  • Book 3: Karl Wilker : Care Education as Life Training: A Call to Action . (1921)
  • Booklet 4: Paul Oestreich: The elastic unit school: Life and production school . (1921)
  • Book 5: Olga Essig : The vocational school as a member of the production school . (with excerpts from provisions on the establishment and curricula of technical and advanced training schools and vocational school teacher training) (1921)
  • Booklet 6: Mathilde Vaerting : New paths in mathematical teaching: At the same time, instructions for promoting and selecting mathematical and technical talents. (1921)
  • Issue 8/9: Olga Essig: Profession and humanity: lectures, abstracts and principles . (1924)
  • Issue 8/9: Olga Essig In the struggle for the vocational school: School policy and organizational plans, drafts, applications and experiments . (1924)
  • Issue 10: Franz Hilker (Ed.): Art and School: Paths and goals of creative design . (1922)
  • Booklet 11: Adolf Grimme : The religious person: A goal for the new school . (Following the guiding principles of the Hanover local group of the Federation of Decided School Reformers) (1923)
  • Volume 12: Maria Montessori u. a .: The child's self-education . (1923)
  • Issue 13: Henny Schumacher : Friedrich Froebel's ideas in the light of the present . (1923)
  • Issue 14/15 Fischl Schneersohn : The disastrous times and the growing generation . (The Effect of Disasters on the Soul of Normal and Abnormal Child) (1924)
  • Booklet 17: Fritz Müller : Dramatic design in elementary school . (1925)
  • Booklet 18: Helmut Alberts : From the life of the Berthold Otto School . (1925)
  • Issue 19/20: Fischl Schneersohn: Psychology of intimate children's life . (1926)

literature

  • Christa Uhlig : "Decisive school reform" and "life school" - a forgotten or suppressed concept? . In: Europe between Utopia and Reality , Verlag Kleine, Bielefeld 1994, pp. 228–232

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notes

  1. ↑ On the author see the lemma Œuvre de secours aux enfants , OSE. At that time he gave numerous lectures on education and medicine at the OZE, later name OSE.
  2. ↑ see note on issue 14/15