Learning workshop

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In modern pedagogy, a learning workshop is a material- rich learning environment for school and extracurricular learning , the focus of which is practical and self-active learning as well as learning through personal experience.

History and Concepts

Learning workshops have different concepts. The main concern is to offer (surrounding) schools a place of learning where e.g. B. Teachers can be given competent pedagogical advice within the framework of further training and enable them to experience in the sense of self-active 'learning by doing'. The first learning workshops emerged in the reform schools of the early 20th century, later also in advanced training centers and universities. First approaches to experiential learning were developed by John Dewey . The occupational education at the beginning of the 20th century has an important impetus on the side of practical learning ( Georg Kerschensteiner ) and learning in schools with differentiated learning environments ( Ellen Key developed). In more recent times, Célestin Freinet has developed significant impulses for subject teaching and school pedagogy in general. In his writings, the learning workshop is referred to as the studio. The open curricula of the English primary schools in the 1970s were also characterized by differentiated test suggestions in the sense of the concept of learning workshops.

The learning workshop Rösa at the University of Oldenburg (regional environmental science and social studies workshop) has to process the approach recycled material to enable concrete acting learning. Other learning workshops see it as the place of work for teachers or children (Lernwerkstatt Kassel, Lernwerkstatt Bremen), a place for teacher training (Lernwerkstatt Bielefeld) or multimedia training and further education (Lernwerkstatt Würzburg).

Perspectives

In the meantime, learning workshops have become a positive term from an educational point of view and are still defined differently. The learning workshop movement in Germany organizes various forms of communication for mutual exchange. Learning workshops are now also being set up in day-care centers. The approach of day care centers is to develop precursor skills in order to facilitate the transition between day care center and elementary school for the children. Since the spread of Internet access, there have also been virtual learning workshops in which materials are presented online.

literature

  • Ingo Nickel: From Kerschensteiner to the learning workshop. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2005, ISBN 3-89676-981-2 .
  • Angela Bolland: Learning workshops and teaching. In: Astrid Kaiser , Detlef Pech (Hrsg.): History and historical conceptions of general teaching. Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2004, ISBN 3-89676-860-3 , pp. 177-186.
  • Christel van Dieken: Learning workshops and research rooms in day care and kindergarten Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-28325-5 .
  • Katharina Flick: The AOL learning workshop book. 25 building blocks for other learning in primary school. With a complete water learning workshop. AOL, Lichtenau 2002, ISBN 3-89111-323-4 .
  • Gisela Lück : Handbook of natural science education: theory and practice for work in day-care centers. Verlag Herder 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-32333-1 .

documentary

  • Christel van Dieken (director), Julian van Dieken (director), Arnim Jepsen, Colin Wernicke: learning workshop work in daycare centers. Verlag das Netz, Kiliansroda 2011, ISBN 978-3-86892-058-1 - DVD with booklet.

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