Primary School Association

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The primary school association e. V., based in Frankfurt am Main, is a German professional association for primary school education with around 7,000 members. It was founded in 1969 by Erwin Schwartz as Arbeitskreis Grundschule e. V. Chairwoman of the association, succeeding Horst Bartnitzky , has been Maresi Lassek since 2012.

Issues and activities

According to its own account, the association is committed to the further development of primary schools nationwide and in 16 regional groups and wants to take a position on education policy. The central concern should be the improvement of the position of the primary school as a basic educational institution and the demand for the associated necessary investments for its expansion into a modern and child-friendly school from the politically responsible.

His position on topics such as “Primary school - place of learning and workplace”, “Cooperation between family, day-care center and primary school”, “Inclusive education”, “Media education”, “Multilingualism - language learning in primary school”, “All-day school” were published with reasons. In terms of school pedagogy, the reform of school practice and teacher training is to be promoted in cooperation between science and practice and new knowledge about the educational opportunities and demands of children is to be promoted and disseminated jointly. Several specialist units have been set up for this purpose.

In an alliance with other associations such as the Union for Education and Science and the Humane School campaign , the primary school association advocates longer common learning for all children.

One of the association's important projects since 1979 has been “One World in School”, which develops materials for work in (primary) schools.

Since 2007, the Primary School Association has been awarding the "Erwin Schwartz Primary School Prize" in memory of its founder.

The association celebrated the 100th birthday of the primary school as part of the Federal Primary School Congress, which takes place every ten years, in September 2019 in Frankfurt's Paulskirche. At this ceremony, the Federal President gave a keynote speech in recognition of the importance of primary schools for democracy. To mark its 50th anniversary and the history of the elementary school since 1969, the association has published an extensive documentation volume.

public relation

The association publishes the series of books "Contributions to the reform of the elementary school", the magazine "Grundschule aktuell", information brochures under the title "Elementary School Parents" and a "Elementary School Fact Check". The association also organizes specialist conferences and prepares expert reports on topics such as "Are grades necessary and useful", "Inclusive education in the primary level", "How does cross-year learning work?" And "Financing and equipping German primary schools". In addition, the “ basic font ” concept was developed.

Winner of the Erwin Schwartz Elementary School Prize

Publications (selection)

  • Karlheinz Burk et al. (Ed.): Participate children - learn democracy? Contributions to the reform of the primary school, vol. 116, primary school association Frankfurt am Main, 2003
  • Horst Bartnitzky et al. (Hrsg.): Pedagogical performance culture: materials for grade 1/2 and grade 3/4 . Contributions to the reform of the primary school, Vol. 119 & 121 & 124, Primary School Association Frankfurt am Main, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Horst Bartnitzky et al. (Hrsg.): Course book elementary school. Contributions to the reform of the primary school, vol. 127/128, primary school association: Frankfurt am Main, 2009
  • Horst Bartnitzky, Ulrich Hecker (Hrsg.): All children meet . Task and ways . Vol. 129, Primary School Association Frankfurt am Main, 2010
  • Friederike Heinzel (Hrsg.): Children in society. What do we know about current childhoods . Contributions to the reform of the primary school, Vol. 130, Primary School Association Frankfurt am Main, 2010
  • Heike de Boer, Susanne Peters (ed.): Developing primary schools - using creative leeway . Contributions to the reform of the primary school, Vol. 131, Primary School Association Frankfurt an Main, 2011
  • Erika Brinkmann (Hrsg.): Spelling in the discussion - written language acquisition and spelling lessons . Contributions to the reform of the primary school, vol. 140, primary school association Frankfurt am Main, 2015
  • Markus Peschel , Thomas Irion (eds.): Primary school and new media 2.0 . Contributions to the reform of the primary school, Vol. 141 Primary School Association Frankfurt am Main, 2016
  • Horst Bartnitzky: On the way to a child-friendly elementary school - 50 years of elementary school reform, 50 years of the elementary school association . Primary School Association Frankfurt am Main, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Project "One World in School". Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Federal Primary School Congress 2019: Children learn the future. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 100 years of primary school. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bartnitzky, H. (2019): On the way to a child-friendly elementary school. 50 years of primary school reform - 50 years of the primary school association. Contributions to the reform of the primary school vol. 148/149. Primary School Association: Frankfurt a. M.
  5. ↑ see publications