Goldauer Conference

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The Goldau Conference was a specialist conference of the then Central Switzerland Conference of Educational Directors (IEDK), which existed from 1955 , which harmonized the curricula of the primary schools of the participating cantons and coordinated the joint publication of teaching materials regardless of their structures . It took its name from the meeting place Goldau in the municipality of Arth, which is well located in terms of traffic .

Political background

In the confessional area of ​​tension of the Kulturkampf and in the aftermath of the Sonderbund War, it was still important for the rural and Catholic cantons after the Second World War that the school and schoolbooks convey a rural-conservative worldview. That is why the cantons of Friborg , Valais and Appenzell Innerrhoden were also members of the IEDK in addition to the central Swiss cantons that gave them their name .

history

As early as 1955, a teaching materials conference was founded, which was supposed to create its own teaching materials or adopt suitable school books from individual cantons, so that the joint production saved costs on the one hand, but also provided higher budgets for the individual books.

In the same year, the Goldau Conference was entrusted with the task of harmonizing the curricula of primary schools and the work on teaching materials. The harmonization of the curricula was the starting point for being able to publish joint textbooks at all. The conference then designed new teaching materials, which were initially published by Benziger Verlag in Einsiedeln, later by Benziger and Sauerländer under the acronym SABE ( SA uerländer- BE nziger). Some of these books were illustrated by the well-known wood cutter Robert Wyss .

Originally only the cantons of Uri , Schwyz , Obwalden and Nidwalden and Appenzell Innerrhoden were involved in the conference. Zug , Freiburg, Wallis and the Principality of Liechtenstein were added later. The canton of Lucerne did not formally until 1983, after having already used books from the Goldau Conference in its schools. Some of the tasks of the Goldau Conference were taken over by the Intercantonal Teaching Aids Center .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b L. Lehmann: Regionalization beyond political obligations. In: L. Lehmann (Ed.): Lehrmittelpolitik. Educational Governance, vol 30. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 179–180.
  2. ↑ a b R. Fäh: The EDK from the perspective of the Central Switzerland EDK (IEDK). In: H. Badertscher (Ed.): The Swiss Conference of Cantonal Education Directors 1897 to 1997. Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1997, pp. 152–155.
  3. ↑ a b A. Kälin: Cooperation in teaching materials - the intercantonal teaching materials conference. In: Archives for the Swiss Education System. Volume 56 / 1970-57 / 1971. Huber, Frauenfeld 1971, pp. 93-102.
  4. ↑ IKLK [Interkantonale teaching aids Conference] (1976). Agreement on the Intercantonal Conference on Teaching Aids (IKLK) of July 1, 1976.
  5. ↑ Imprint of various school books in the author's collection.
  6. ^ J. Arnold: The path-dependent development in the Swiss education system. The influence of the Kulturkampf on the education system in central Switzerland, 1882 until today. Zurich 2013.