Sorbian Institute for Teacher Education

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The Sorbian Institute for Teacher Education " Karl Jannack " ( Upper Sorbian Serbski wučerski wustaw "Korla Janak" , SWW ) was a teacher training institute opened on January 6, 1946 with the primary goal of training teachers and educators for Sorbian lessons in order to create the first state-supported Sorbian school network to provide the necessary teachers.

Radibor Castle

From 1946 to 1959, the institute was housed in Radibor Castle and in Kleinwelka , until it moved into the former Catholic teachers' college on Friedrich-List-Straße in Bautzen .

After the political change and the reunification of Germany , the institute was dissolved in 1991. Teacher training will be held today at the Institute of Sorbian Studies of the University of Leipzig instead.

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In the institute, teachers were prepared for their work in the German-Sorbian area in a four-year course; this meant that everyone had to acquire at least elementary knowledge of Sorbian . The training consisted of the usual subjects such as Marxism-Leninism (here in particular Lenin's nationality policy), educational sciences , German, mathematics, methodology, etc. In addition, one could be trained for the subject Sorbian or for music and art education.

Furthermore, prospective kindergarten teachers who worked in the catchment area of ​​Sorbian high schools studied here in order to prepare the children for their Sorbian school career.

The institute also held special courses and special events that served to further educate after-school teachers, directors, specialist advisors, etc.

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