Primary education
The primary education is generally the pedagogy for the actions of primary schools or in primary cycles.
tasks
Primary school pedagogy has two central tasks, namely to be a pedagogy of basic school learning and life and of the transition from home to school. Primary school pedagogy also has an orientation function for further educational courses .
Age range
Elementary education refers to a specific age group of children . In Germany , in most federal states it affects the age group from 5.5 to 11 years, in a few federal states also up to 13 years. In other European countries, primary school age is usually completed at 12 or even 13 years and sometimes starts at 4/5 years.
Methods
A characteristic of elementary school pedagogy is the way in which the heterogeneity of children is dealt with , even if the selection task for secondary schools increasingly also affects elementary school pedagogy. In everyday life , various methodological approaches such as “free work”, “weekly plan”, “station learning”, “project week” or “open lessons” are associated with primary school education, but these forms are also increasingly represented in secondary education .
organization
Primary school pedagogy in Germany is shaped by the “Primary School Working Group. The primary school association "with several thousand members . This association tries to influence the development of primary schools and primary school education through publications and congresses . The primary school education magazines , congresses and books provide other impulses .
The German Society for Educational Science has set up a scientific commission for primary school research and pedagogy in order to develop primary school pedagogical research.
Well-known primary school teachers
- Ilse Lichtenstein-Rother (1917–1991)
- Erwin Schwartz (1916-2003)
literature
- Astrid Kaiser and Silke Pfeiffer: Elementary school education in modules . Baltmannsweiler 2007, ISBN 978-3834002860
- Günther Schorch: Study book primary school pedagogy . UTB / Klinkhardt, Stuttgart / Bad Heilbrunn 2007, ISBN 978-3825229511