OPRYes
The Association of Russian Teachers in Switzerland (Russian OPRJaSch, scientific transliteration OPRJaŠ (Obščestvo prepodavatelej russkogo jazyka v Švejcarii)) primarily unites teachers at high school level. The association is a subsidiary of the Association of Swiss Gymnasium Teachers (VSG).
Organization history
The association was founded on October 26, 1969 at the Slavic Seminary of the University of Zurich by 12 Swiss and two Russians, 7 of whom were professors, university lecturers and high school teachers. The specific reason for founding the association was the first MAPRJaL (International Association of Russian Teachers' Association) in Moscow in August 1969 , at which Peter Brang (Professor of Slavic Philology) and Dr. Maria Bankoul (Russian editor) took part (UZH, Slavic Seminar).
Organization tasks
The association is an organization under Article 60 of the Civil Code . According to the statutes, it has the following tasks: 1. To promote the dissemination and improvement of Russian teaching in Switzerland; 2. Establishing and developing permanent contacts between teachers and other specialists in the Russian language, and 3. Ensuring the exchange of information and experience as well as the exchange of teaching materials and books between educational professionals. According to the statutes, all teachers of Russian as a foreign language at Swiss universities, grammar schools and other educational institutions (adult education centers and similar institutions) can be members of the association. The association is denominational and politically neutral.
Recent Activity
The association regularly organizes advanced training for teachers, advocates the preservation and popularization of the Russian language and culture, and is involved in the field of student and personal exchange.
The association currently has 98 members. Russian is taught as a major subject at 8 grammar schools and as a so-called optional subject at numerous grammar schools in German-speaking Switzerland. There are chairs that deal with Russia in the broadest sense at the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, Friborg and St. Gallen. Russian as a foreign language is offered at all universities. The organization is headed by Thomas Schmidt, Russian teacher at the canton school Enge Zurich , member of the executive committee of the international association MAPRJaL.
literature
- OPRYes. Statutes .
- Russian lessons. An ideological shudder in Swiss rooms . WOZ, No. 49/2009 of December 3, 2009
- Peter Brang, German Ritz, Sylvia Sasse , Daniel Weiss (eds.) Widen the view to the east . Fifty years of Slavic Seminar at the University of Zurich (1961–2011). Zurich: Chronos Verlag.
- Fond Russkii Mir .
- Russian language in Switzerland . Swissinfo. May 31, 2013
- Marina Ochrimovskaja: Pochemu oni uchat russkij? Schwingen, January 10, 2017