Quinoa (education)
| Quinoa school | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Substitute school |
| School number | 01P49 |
| founding | 2014 |
| address |
Kühnemannstrasse 26 |
| place | Berlin-Wedding |
| Country | Germany |
| carrier | Montessori Foundation Berlin |
| student | 150 |
| Teachers | 28 plus 3 school social workers |
| management | Pantelis Pavlakidis, Menel Amamou and Fenna Eilers |
| Website | Quinoa school |
The Quinoa - Education for Excellent Life Perspectives non-profit GmbH is a social enterprise based in Berlin . The company, which operates under the short form Quinoa Bildung , founded the Quinoa School in Berlin in 2014.
Surname
The educational institution's decision to use the plant name quinoa - it is a gluten-free pseudo - grain - is based on the International Year of Quinoa , which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon proclaimed in 2013. According to the United Nations, the cultivated plant, which has been at home in the Andes for around five thousand years, has the potential to defeat world hunger . In the sense of a metaphor , the founders of Quinoa Bildung gGmbH see similar opportunities for socio-economically disadvantaged young people through their educational concepts .
Foundation and organization
The company was founded by the mathematician Fiona Brunk and the teacher Stefan Döring in 2013 as a start-up company with an entry in the commercial register at the Charlottenburg district court . The two founders were previously fellows of the non-profit educational initiative Teach First Germany and had worked at a school in Berlin-Wedding for two years.
The planning work began in 2012 and the start-up phase was financed by the Vodafone Foundation Germany and private donors.
The shareholders of Quinoa Education are Fiona Brunk, Stefan Döring, Walter Scheurle , Susanna Krüger, Faruk Tuncer and Bidjan Nashat. The advisory board includes Monika Wulf-Mathies , Michael Köhler, Ulf Matysiak and Christian CD Ludwig.
The aim of the social enterprise is to establish more equal opportunities in the German educational landscape in order to individually promote the respective skills and talents of socially disadvantaged young people.
Quinoa school
As a pilot project, Quinoa Bildung opened an integrated secondary school in the Berlin district of Wedding in the summer of 2014 under the name Quinoa School , which is officially recognized as a private substitute school . The following qualifications can be obtained at this school:
- Vocational qualification for children with an established support status
- Vocational qualification
- Extended vocational qualification
- Middle School graduation
- Middle school leaving certificate with entitlement to upper secondary school
For this school, the social enterprise Quinoa Bildung gGmbH developed and implemented the educational concept so that the future opportunities of young people from socio-economically disadvantaged living environments are not predetermined by their origins. The Quinoa School is sponsored by the Montessori Foundation Berlin.
Awards
- 2019: Roman Herzog Prize
- 2018: Deichmann sponsorship award for integration in the school preventive measures category
- 2016: Excellent place in the land of ideas
literature
- Authors' group education reporting : Education in Germany 2012. An indicator-based report with an analysis of cultural education in the life course. Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 2012, SBN 978-3-7639-0317-7. Online version.
- Béatrice Hecht-El Minshawi , Jürgen Engel: Living in cultural diversity. Managing Cultural Diversity. Going other ways - discovering new things. Foreword by Hans Koschnick . Kellner, Bremen / Boston 2006, ISBN 3-927155-51-9 .
- Matthias Hofmann : Past and present of free alternative schools. An introduction. Klemm u. Oelschläger, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-86281-057-4 .
- Matthias Schäfer, Anabel Ternès: Startups international: Founder stories around the globe. Success factors, motivations and personal backgrounds. 2nd edition, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-21721-1 , pp. 101-105. Online version of the interview by Joachim App and Stefan Döring.
Web links
- Homepage of Quinoa gGmbH.
- Departure - Impact Report 2017.
- 5 years - Impact report 2018.
- Waldorf Education - Waldorf Education Today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Quinoa Education: Aufbruch - Impact Report 2017. Berlin undated, p. 30.
- ↑ a b Quinoa School .
- ↑ Bolivia and the UN rely on quinoa plants. A herb has grown against capitalism . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 23, 2013.
- ^ Sven Jungtow: From Sansibar to Wedding. In: Waldorf Education Today.
- ↑ Matthias Schäfer, Anabel Ternès: Startups international: Founder stories around the globe. Success factors, motivations and personal backgrounds. 2nd edition, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018, pp. 101–105.
- ^ Save the Children Germany eV
- ^ Vodafone Foundation Germany: Quinoa - Education for excellent life prospects.
- ↑ Quinoa Education: Aufbruch - Impact Report 2017. Berlin undated, 2nd cover page
- ^ Montessori Foundation Berlin.
- ↑ Roman Herzog Prize 2019 goes to quinoa education. In: Quinoa Education. November 5, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Deichmann Prize 2018.
- ^ Quinoa - donation-financed private school. In: Germany - Land of Ideas . Retrieved December 5, 2019 .