Laboratory school
A laboratory school is an experimental school that is typically attached to an educational research and training institute.
Regular classes take place in a laboratory school, giving students a school education that is at least equivalent to that taught at regular schools. At the same time, a laboratory school is used for educational research and mostly also for training teachers.
A laboratory school is thus similar to a university hospital, which serves both patient care and academic research and teaching. However , unlike in medicine, this combination of research, practical application and teaching is an exception in education . Apart from the teacher training at the universities of teacher education , which is traditionally geared towards a theory-practice network, most educational training centers have no affiliated schools.
In countries with tightly regulated state school supervision, laboratory schools may require statutory exemptions; North Rhine-Westphalia has its own state law that enables the Bielefeld Laboratory School to operate.
The first so-called laboratory schools were founded by John Dewey around 1900 in Chicago and New York. One of the German laboratory schools was founded by Hartmut von Hentig and is operated by Bielefeld University . It is characterized by mixed-age learning groups in the school entrance area and different variants of experience-based orientation.
A similar combination of research, teaching and application, albeit not under the name “Laborschule”, existed in Jena in the 19th century , where the Herbartians Karl Volkmar Stoy and Wilhelm Rein ran an educational seminar with a training school, which was then run by Peter Petersen was continued and contributed to the development of his Jena plan .
Further examples are the art and media education laboratory school in Flensburg and the Dresden laboratory school .
Footnotes
- ↑ Michael Knoll: The failure of a world-famous experiment. John Dewey and the End of Laboratory School in Chicago. In: Pädagogische Rundschau 67 (2013), pp. 253–289
- ↑ Media education laboratory school in Flensburg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
