Production school in Altona
| Production school in Altona | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1998 |
| address |
Leverkusenstrasse 13 |
| place | Hamburg |
| country | Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 33 '58 " N , 9 ° 55' 43" E |
| student | 22 (July 8, 2013) |
| management | Martin Krinke |
| Website | produktionsschule-altona.de |
The Production School Altona is an educational institution in Hamburg where school-age young people are prepared for an apprenticeship and professional life.
With a special pedagogical concept of combining work and learning, the Altona Production School pursues the goal of sustainably supporting young people in the transition from school to work.
The Altona Production School is funded as a model project by the School and Vocational Training Authority.
history
The origins of the production school discussion in Germany go back to the 20s of the last century. Pedagogues in the “ Bund decided school reformers ” around Paul Oestreich discussed the production schools at the Reich School Conference in 1920 . They wanted a new school in a new society. They propagated the “elastic unified school” as a vision of a democratic school and turned against the previous learning school with its one-sided “knowledge formation”. The new school should "equally evaluate and promote the intellectual, technical, active and artistic disposition." Unlike Paul Oestreich, Munich city school councilor Georg Kerschensteiner advocated the concept of a work school with an orientation towards the civic education of the pupils, towards an idea of a moral community in a national ideal. Both have in common the sharp criticism of the learning or book school on the one hand, and the emphasis on practical work in the workshops of the schools on the other.
Even if elements of the ideas discussed at the time can be found in the conception of the Altona Production School, a reference to this tradition is problematic. Although the production school approaches that exist today also represent a school criticism of the existing system, it does not seem advisable against the background of the political and social conditions of the imperial and Weimar schools of the time to invoke a resurrection of old reform concepts.
The current discussion about production schools is less ideological. This type of school is not intended to change society; the discussions are rather pragmatic about the relationship between education and economics, about political enforcement strategies and, more controversial, about whether production schools alone represent an instrument for promoting the disadvantaged or an educational principle that many young people use represents a suitable form of learning.
Nevertheless, the Altona Production School is not without a role model. But less with historical reference. Rather, it is based on the various examples of production schools in Denmark. The basic pedagogical principles according to which the schools in the neighboring country work can be found in different ways in the Altona production school.
concept
Based on the Danish model, the Altona Production School is an alternative to traditional vocational preparation at a vocational school . Goods are produced and services provided in the Altona Production School. The focus is on work, not on the commercial principle. The products meet professional quality requirements. They are not produced for personal use, but marketed. Behind every product there is a real customer as the client. The working hours of the young people as well as the instructors and teachers are based on the commercial working day. The Altona Production School is an all-day school. The young people receive a “wage”, the so-called student allowance.
Workshop work and teaching
The core of the Altona Production School consists of five workshops (carpentry, kitchen, painting, graphics and internet) in which the young people work and study for five hours a day. The production process is organized in such a way that space is left for written work and reflection phases. The acquisition of general educational and specialist theoretical content happens whenever possible in connection with the production. In addition, the students receive courses in the subjects of German, mathematics and English, which should enable them to obtain a school leaving certificate.
Place of work, study and life
As a place of work, learning and living, the Altona Production School creates structures that young people often lack due to socialization. This includes regular meals together in the school canteen as well as consultations with the workshop manager, who is also used as a reference person in case of personal crises.
target group
The production school Altona is intended for the visit of 60 students. These are young people with compulsory vocational school who have generally left general school without a school leaving certificate and who are expected to not accept any other school offer. The Altona Production School is not the last stop for all those who cannot go to school, but rather an integrative type of school attended by young people with very different learning requirements. Admission of young people is voluntary, i. H. no one is accepted or employed against their will. The common practice of assignments by the authorities and the labor administration is rather detrimental to a positive attitude towards learning opportunities. Schooling will take place at any time, provided places are available. Training is only given when a training, school or job has been found. As a result, the adolescents' average length of stay fluctuates between one and two years.
literature
- Rapp, Thomas: The heart of the school is production: The production school model test in Hamburg-Altona. A school portrait , 1st edition, wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936846-92-8 .
- Bullan, Klaus / Johanssen, Thomas / Schmidt-Mildner, Gerd K. / Schwarzbach, Dieter: Production School in Hamburg , 2nd edition, Hamburg 1992.
- Kipp, Martin / Rapp, Thomas: Production schools. Inventories and development prospects , 1st edition, Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 2004
- Roland Schöne (Ed.): Comparative study on the current state of development of production schools in Denmark, Austria and Germany . 1st edition. Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz 2004 (study commissioned by the BMBF ), ISBN 3-937487-05-0 .