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The '''Laborschule Bielefeld''' is a school located in the city of [[Bielefeld]], Germany. It received a lot of media coverage because it is one of Germanys few democratic schools and also because on the [[Programme for International Student Assessment]]. |
The '''Laborschule Bielefeld''' is a school located in the city of [[Bielefeld]], Germany. It received a lot of media coverage because it is one of Germanys few democratic schools and also because on the [[Programme for International Student Assessment]] the students did very well. |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Revision as of 01:08, 13 December 2009
The Laborschule Bielefeld is a school located in the city of Bielefeld, Germany. It received a lot of media coverage because it is one of Germanys few democratic schools and also because on the Programme for International Student Assessment the students did very well.
History
The school was founded in 1974. It is a democratic school that was founded in the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. The school is based on the ideas of Hartmut von Hentig.
Studentbody
The school starts in 0th grade (preschool) and ends with 10th grade. It serves 660 students and enrolls 60 new students every year. When the school was founded it was supposed to be a "proletary school" ("Proletarierschule") and a "school for everybody". The school tried to persuade working class parents to enroll their children, but they were not successfull. In 2005 only 1,6 % of the kids had a father, who was an unskilled worker and only 3,2% had a father, who was a skilled worker. Many of the children have parents, who are college graduates. When trying to explain this the school said that the school was located near the University of Bielefeld and that there were not many workingclass-children living nearby. It also stated that democratic schools appeal to middleclass parents.[1]
References
- ^ Rainer Watermann, Susanne Thurn, Petra Stanat: "Die Laborschule im Spiegel ihrer PISA-Ergebnisse - Pädagogisch-didaktische Konzepte und empirische Evaluation reformpädagogischer Praxis" - Veröffentlicht von Juventa, 2005; p. 73, 77, 80