Niklas Luhmann High School
| Niklas Luhmann High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 168907 |
| founding | 1857 |
| address |
Ravensberger Strasse 11 |
| place | Oerlinghausen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 57 '44 " N , 8 ° 39' 35" E |
| student | 716 (Oct 15, 2015) |
| Teachers | 55 (Oct 15, 2015) |
| management | Katrin Tebben |
| Website | www.niklas-luhmann-gymnasium.de |
The Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium is a public school in Oerlinghausen , Lippe district , in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Surname
The municipal high school in Oerlinghausen was renamed the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium in 2000 . Niklas Luhmann , who lived in Oerlinghausen for around thirty years, was a German sociologist and social theorist . As one of the founders of sociological systems theory, Luhmann is one of the outstanding classics of the social sciences in the 20th century.
history
The principal school
The founding year of the first secondary school in Oerlinghausen was given by the founder, Pastor Wilhelm Weerth , as 1857. In the confirmation register of the parish in 1862, the names of students from a so-called rector school appeared for the first time . Rector schools are to be understood as private schools founded and maintained by citizens . The lessons took place in an extension of the Alexander Church , which was called Gertkammer . The first rector was the theologian Gerstung . The new school soon became very popular, not only from Oerlinghausen, but also from the wider area. At Easter 1878, the move from the Gertkammer to a new building with several rooms on the church square.
Initially, only one room on the ground floor was used for teaching, while the rooms on the upper floor were occupied by the respective teacher. When the number of students continued to increase later, all rooms were needed for teaching purposes. A second teacher had to be employed full-time and elementary school teachers , sometimes supported by the pastor and sexton , took on additional lessons. Between 40 and 60 students attended the private school annually around the turn of the century and a total of around 1,000 were there until it was closed in 1949. The student directory from 1925 shows that the majority of the students came from the upper and middle classes of the population. The parents were manufacturers, merchants, master craftsmen, civil servants and farmers, while just under ten percent came from working-class families.
The economic situation of the private school was increasingly tense in the 1930s. The school fee of 25 Reichsmarks for each student was often not paid on time. The amount corresponded roughly to the weekly wages of a carpenter at that time. Often the teachers had to wait for their salaries to be paid, which were also lower than those of the teachers in state or church schools. This situation led to a high turnover rate among teachers in the private school. The city had no interest in closing the school and therefore took it over into city sponsorship in 1936 after lengthy negotiations . The school was now called the Municipal Rector School and was subordinate to the director of the Leopoldinum . A visit from the director was positive and the teaching result was quite satisfactory .
During the Second World War , many teachers were called up for military service. Another problem was the large number of students from evacuated families in large cities threatened by the air. In the fall of 1943, for example, 96 students were taught by a single teacher for a time. After the war ended in 1945, the school had to close for more than half a year.
The Progymnasium
In 1947 the previous Rector's School was renamed Oberschule . On October 1, 1948, there was an increase in classes 9 and 10, then called Obertertia and Untersekunda . There were again acute problems with space due to the sharp increase in the number of students. To relieve the burden, the city council decided in 1949 to add an extension to the existing elementary school (now the town hall). From 1950 the school was called the Municipal Mathematical and Natural Science Progymnasium for boys and girls . The number of students continued to grow and in the same year 12 teachers taught a total of 250 students. There were considerable space problems, so that sometimes lessons had to be given in the city hotel and in the hall of the Jägerkrug . The situation only improved in 1958, when the elementary school got a new building in Werthstrasse and the entire rooms of today's town hall were now available to the Progymnasium . There were now six classes with 180 students and 10 teachers.
The high school
As early as 1957, the Oerlinghauser city council discussed the expansion of the Progymnasium into a complete grammar school. On December 19, 1963, the city council finally decided to expand the school into a high school with grades 5 to 13. From 1966 pupils in Oerlinghausen could take their Abitur on site. Head of Studies Günther Winter became the first head of the new Oerlinghauser Gymnasium. Again, increasing numbers of students was to be expected. A new building was necessary because, above all, the necessary specialist rooms were missing. On March 20, 1973, the foundation stone was finally laid for the new grammar school on Ravensbergerstrasse , which was inaugurated on June 20, 1975. An extension for eight classrooms was necessary as early as 1979, as the number of students had increased to 1,165. In the school year 1981/82 the highest level was reached with 1318 students with 83 teachers. With the establishment of new secondary schools in the neighboring communities, such as Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock and Leopoldshöhe , the number of pupils gradually declined. In 1982 the Oerlinghauser Gymnasium celebrated its 125th birthday with a big school festival.
The Oerlinghauser Gymnasium developed into a cultural center for the city and the surrounding area. Theater and music performances take place in the auditorium, and there are adult education courses and lectures in classrooms and subject rooms .
In 2000 the name was changed to Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium . In addition to the scientific relevance of Luhmann, one of the main reasons for the renaming was the fact that he lived in Oerlinghausen for the last twenty years of his life, from 1977 to 1998.
In 2007 the school celebrated its 150th birthday. The motto of the festival was a school with a future . Around 900 students for a week long involved in corresponding projects and then presented the results, such as about Central High School , school time reduction , all-day school and cooperation between schools and business.
Projects
AIDS prevention
In the last week of the school year there is a project day with the topic of partnership and AIDS . The event should take place in a room outside the school. As part of the project, in addition to sex education classes, students are given information on AIDS. The conference is led by experts working with young people, such as the AWO , Pro Familia , drug advice Lippe, the Diakonisches Werk , the health department and the AIDS-Hilfe Bielefeld. The basis of every AIDS preventive activity is the communication of information about the disease. Particular attention should be paid to the risk of infection, transmission routes and protective measures.
Operating experience
The internship is intended to give a general insight into professional life and is prepared, accompanied and followed up in class 10. It usually takes two weeks and at the end the pupil has to write an internship report, which at the same time represents a preparation for the due technical work in the upper school .
The internship mainly serves as a career orientation and less as a search for a suitable profession. The students get the opportunity to get to know requirements and processes in the world of work. If necessary, you can apply knowledge acquired in class during the internship. The selection of the internship is almost free and includes all currently known professions in industry, craft, trade, administration, justice, social institutions and other sectors. The Federal Employment Agency in Detmold or Bielefeld is the preferred place to help in finding an internship .
Library
The school library of the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium emerged from a teachers' initiative and comprises around 11,000 media . The library is intended to function as a self-learning center through which pupils can work on certain projects outside of class with the help of media and computers.
Library project
In order to prepare for a technical paper , the pupils should be introduced to library research . The literature found is then assessed or annotated with regard to its suitability. Thirdly, a list of references for a specialist paper is created, the so-called bibliography .
The specialist staff at Bielefeld University give detailed instructions on the research and guide the students through the university library. They then independently select five titles according to the topic of their specialist thesis and record them bibliographically. Two of the selected titles should be annotated with regard to their suitability. The next step is to do an internet research on the topic. The texts found are also evaluated and bibliographically recorded. To prepare for the thesis, a total of three literature lists with annotations are created.
Wind classes
Fifth grade students can learn to play a wind instrument as part of regular music lessons . The aim of this offer is to introduce as many children as possible to active use of music. Theoretical knowledge such as reading music, rhythm and breathing technique is the basis for playing numerous instruments. According to a scientific study by Professor Hans Günter Bastian in Berlin, social learning within an instrumental class has positive effects on the entire learning process. In addition, the ability to concentrate and stamina is trained. The wind instruments are made available to the students on loan for a period of two years in the test level (grades five and six).
There are currently more than 1000 wind classes in Germany. At the end of the two-year music course, the participants can take part in the ensembles of the grammar school, for example in the junior big band and the Oerlinghausen orchestra . During the last ten years around half of all students at the Niklas Luhmann Gymnasium have attended a wind class. Today they enrich the cultural life of the city of Oerlinghausen with their skills in various performances.
Lions Quest
Lions-Quest is a cooperation between Lions Clubs International and Quest International and aims to support students between the ages of 10 and 15 by promoting social skills as they grow up. The project has been part of the school program of the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium since 1999. Lions Quest wants to help young people to make and implement decisions independently, to cope with conflict situations in everyday life and to find solutions to problems.
At the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium there are currently around twenty trained Lions-Quest teachers who are preferred in grades five and six. There is one Lions Quest lesson per week and a Lions Quest project in the seventh grade .
Come with me - encourage instead of staying seated
The aim of this project, initiated by the Ministry of Education , is to sustainably and systematically reduce the number of people left sitting . At the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium an individual support program consisting of four fields was developed:
- binding individual learning advice
- Promotion of motivation to learn
- individual supervision for the re- examination of admitted unrelated students
- Learning support project Students help students .
The project is scientifically supported by the University of Cologne .
Communication training
The school offers three-day communication training for students in the ninth grade . The quality of teaching and learning success depend to a large extent on the communicative skills of students and teachers, namely speaking and listening, speaking , arguing and discussing . Communication skills are also important for studies and work, because most problems can only be solved through constructive cooperation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niklas Luhmann , accessed on July 20, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e City of Oerlinghausen (Hrsg.): Oerlinghausen - history and stories: From the upscale private school to the high school. 1984.
- ↑ a b c d History of the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium , accessed on July 20, 2012.
- ↑ AIDS Prevention , accessed July 22, 2012.
- ↑ internship , accessed on 22 July 2012 found.
- ^ Library , accessed July 22, 2012.
- ↑ a b library project , accessed on July 22, 2012.
- ↑ a b wind class , accessed on July 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b Lions Quest , accessed July 23, 2012.
- ↑ Come with me - support instead of staying seated , accessed on July 23, 2012.
- ↑ Communication training , accessed on July 24, 2012.
literature
- City of Oerlinghausen (ed.): Oerlinghausen - history and stories . 1984.
- City of Oerlinghausen (ed.): Oerlinghausen school center 1975, commemorative publication for the inauguration. 1975.
- Katharina Korell: leaps in time-Oerlinghausen . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 .