Family education facility

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A family education center , often called FBS , Fabi , but also called Haus der Familie (HdF), family forum or parents ' school, is an institution for adult education in church , non-profit or, more rarely, municipal sponsorship. Their offer is aimed particularly at families, parents and children and is often coordinated with the offer of local adult education centers and educational institutions . As a rule, a family education center has its own house with group rooms and specialist rooms for the courses.

The range of programs offered by family education centers traditionally includes birth and family preparation courses (see also babysitting diploma ), parent-child offers, educational-psychological lectures and courses, creative and leisure activities, health courses and nutrition courses, but also self-help offers, offers for the qualification of women , Offers from the fields of art and society, person-oriented and intercultural education as well as site-specific offers. Value-based education and religious education offers are particularly emphasized in the profile of church-sponsored institutions.

For some years now, grandparents and older people in general have also been addressed. Project work is carried out in particular to better reach disadvantaged target groups.

Family education offers are complementary and then usually without specific room equipment also by adult education centers , (church) educational institutions , day-care centers and family centers , local culture rings, (church) youth work and youth welfare institutions, often in joint cooperation.

The distribution of family education centers in the Federal Republic of Germany shows regional differences. In North Rhine-Westphalia there are more than 150 such institutions, in Schleswig-Holstein there are more than 30 family education institutions (there half are independent and half are church-sponsored). This distribution depends on the public funding of the family education facilities by the responsible state ministries. The ministries are sometimes responsible for women, family, social affairs, and culture, education and science. This is an indication of the two mainstays of family education institutions: adult education and social work.

The funding mandate is also specified in SGB ​​VIII ( KJHG ) § 16. This results in funding in many municipalities.

Forerunner: the mother school

The mother school, which was widespread in the German-speaking area until the 1960s, is considered to be the forerunner of today's family education center . This went back to a basic idea of Friedrich Froebel to found an educational institution for girls, women and mothers. The implementation of a mothers 'school to prepare women for their function as mothers, to give them guidance on how to raise their children and to enable them to train as nannies was first implemented in 1916 when Luise Lampert founded the first mothers' school in Stuttgart. The specific reason for the establishment was the high infant mortality rate in the previous war years. One of the stated goals was also to bring middle-class ideas about the family and the role of women closer to women in the lower social classes. At the end of the 1920s, schools for mothers were widespread in German-speaking countries.

In Nazism, the importance of mothers schools changed, and they served, especially after the DC circuit of all mothers schools by the Reich Mothers service of the German Women's work , now on a priority the dissemination of Nazi women's and mother image for. B. the Reichsmütterschule Wedding . After the end of the Second World War, all mothers 'schools were therefore initially closed by the Allies, but a few years later many mothers' schools were handed over to their former sponsors or newly founded by church and municipal sponsors. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the course of the change in the image of women and families, the mothers' schools were increasingly transformed into family education centers that were also aimed at fathers and children as target groups.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christiane Kuller: Family policy in the federal welfare state. The formation of a political field 1949–1975 , Institute for Contemporary History, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, ISBN 3-486-56825-6 , p. 253
  2. ↑ a b Melanie Mengel: Family education with disadvantaged addressees: A consideration from an adragogical perspective , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, August 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15614-9 , p. 17 f.