Jakob Muth Prize
The Jakob Muth Prize for Inclusive Schools has been honoring schools that implement inclusive education in exemplary fashion since 2009 . The project sponsors are the Federal Government Commissioner for Disabled People , the German UNESCO Commission (DUK) eV and the Bertelsmann Foundation . A total of four prizes will be awarded: three equal prizes at individual schools with prize money of 3000 euros each and one prize to a school association endowed with 5000 euros. In 2019, instead of the group award, another individual school award was awarded. At times, the award winners were also able to take an individually tailored training course on the subject of inclusion free of charge .
The price
The award was launched in 2009 and refers to the UN Disability Rights Convention , which came into force in Germany in the same year. Until 2014, the motto was “Learning together with and without disabilities”, which was initially the subtitle of the award. In 2014, this addition to the name was deleted on the grounds that inclusion went beyond learning together for children with and without disabilities. In the opinion of the project sponsors, inclusion means rather “valuing each individual, focusing on the needs and abilities of all children and enabling everyone to participate better”. The award is named after the social democratic educator Jakob Muth (1927–1993), a pioneer of the comprehensive school who campaigned for the common upbringing of disabled and non-disabled children from an early age.
Award ceremony
The prize has usually been awarded annually since 2009. The place of the award changes. The 2017 award ceremony was in Rostock , the location of one of the award-winning schools; The city of Oldenburg is one of the 2017 award winners . Since its inception, over 600 schools have applied for the award, 32 of which from a total of twelve federal states were awarded. In 2019, an audience award for inclusive school projects was awarded for the first time.
Award criteria and jury
The project sponsors decide on the schools or associations to be honored on the basis of advice from a voluntary jury. In 2017, the approximately 20 members included educationalists , school practitioners and representatives from politics, civil society and parents' associations . For applicants for the prize for individual schools, the following five areas are relevant for the award: 1. School on the way to inclusion, 2. Inclusive learning, 3. Inclusive teaching and working, 4. Inclusion and performance, and 5. Inclusion and society. The criteria are constantly updated and further developed, in particular to take account of an expanded understanding of inclusion beyond the joint learning of pupils with and without disabilities. In the case of applications from several schools or other participating institutions ("joint applications"), the jurors assess the following areas of activity: 1. Structure and organization of the network, 2. Cooperation within the network, 3. Cooperation with the environment.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Jakob Muth Prize for inclusive school . All award winners and reports on the award ceremonies of the Jakob Muth Prize can also be found here.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: City of Oldenburg awarded for exemplary inclusion (14.6.2017)
- ^ Jakob Muth Prize for five inclusive schools. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, September 20, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 .