Ecole d'Humanité
| Ecole d'Humanité | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Boarding school / educational home |
| founding | 1934 |
| place | Hasliberg |
| Canton | Bern |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 658028 / 176768 |
| student | about 120 |
| Teachers | about 30 |
| management | Katja Maike Braun, Bruno Geiger |
| Website | www.ecole.ch |
The Ecole d'Humanité is a Swiss boarding school in the municipality of Hasliberg in the canton of Bern .
The Ecole d'Humanité was founded in 1934 by the German reform pedagogue Paul Geheeb and his wife Edith Geheeb-Cassirer . The two had already established the boarding school Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim in Hesse in 1910 . After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, they emigrated to Switzerland in 1934 with some employees and students from the Odenwald School and founded the Ecole d'Humanité here, first in Versoix in the canton of Geneva and then in 1946 at their current location in Goldern-Hasliberg.
The school complex consists of around 15 family houses and chalets , in which most of the students and teachers live together in a community similar to that of large families . Individual students and teachers also live outside the school in the neighboring villages.
Teaching practice
There are currently around 120 students aged between 10 and 20 living in the school. Around half of them come from Switzerland, the rest from around 25 different countries, many of them have English as their mother tongue, and around 20 percent of the students come from the USA . The school is divided into a German and an English language system, in which the respective language is the language of instruction.
Lessons are given in small groups of around eight students, who are more or less homogeneous in performance, but can also be across grades. In the mornings, three identical subjects are taught daily in units of 60 to 75 minutes in length for about six weeks in epoch form . In the afternoon there are musical and artistic, handicraft and sporting activities, which often have a special project and experience character. These include many alpine sports activities.
The pupils are intensively involved in school activities. They represent their interests in trend-setting committees and decide for themselves about the choice of many lesson contents.
principal
- Paul Geheeb , Edith Geheeb, Nikolaus Varga, Rosemarie Varga
- Armin Lüthi, Natalie Lüthi, Hans Willi
- Hans Willi, Frederic Bächtold, Sarah Hudspith, Kathleen Hennessy, Kenneth Christopher Hill
- Hans Willi, Barbara Hanusa, Ashley Curtis
- Barbara Hanusa, Enrico Simen, Mike May
- Mike May, Enrico Simen
- Katja Maike Braun, Michael Schreier, Enrico Simen
- Katja Maike Braun, Bruno Geiger
Well-known alumni of the Ecole d'Humanité
- Eberhard Berent , Germanist and Chairman of the German Department at New York University
- Iren Dornier (Irenäus Dornier), entrepreneur
- Stephan Eicher , musician (stay of 1½ years)
- Luca Giuliani , scientist
- Giorgio Gomelsky , music manager and producer
- Leda Luss Luyken , artist
- Hans Zimmer , composer
additional
The school is a member of the school association Blick über den Zaun and the boarding school association .
literature
- Barbara Hanusa: Ecole d'Humanité. In: Frank Brückel, Ute Schönberger (Ed.): Querblick. Alternative schools in private ownership in Switzerland. Pestalozzianum, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03755-095-3 .
- Frank Brückel, Saskia Kobler: Experience school differently: the Ecole d'Humanité (students describe their life in the boarding school). Potthoff, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-925416-25-0 .
- Hans Näf: A human school. The Ecole d'Humanité seen from the inside. Zytglogge, Oberhofen am Thunersee 2009, ISBN 978-3-7296-0784-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Berent and the bond with the Ecole d'Humanité. In: The Ecolianer, June 2016, p. 17
- ↑ Roger Köppel : Stephan Eicher, traveler. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 1992. Last accessed on February 16, 2014.