The urgent necessary educational reform should be crucially advanced in 2009. But at the end of the year, there are hardly progress recognizable
"Future investment in education and research have highest priority for the Federal Government", explained the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the mid-past week. After the situation of things, this claim is roughly so believed as the insurance, you want the "Role", the education "In the case of innovation and competitiveness" a society games, absolute prioritat premises. With this commitment, Federal Minister Annette Schavan (CDU) had entered the public in January 2009, at the beginning of a year, in which education should not be different in terms of education, but much better.
In view of the dramatic deficits in all relevant areas from early education to university studies, far-reaching decisions must be taken to establish opportunity rights in education within Germany and to establish an international competitive system beyond. At the end of an eventful year in which KITA employee striked, Schuler and Students to the Strain went and politicians of all parties explained education to the central future topic, the breakthrough continues to wait.
Pilot project Hamburg?
In the Black-Grunen Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg also sit numerous people’s representatives, the topic education "highest priority" Immediate. From fundamental innovations, there was a speech and, in fact, Senatorin Christa Goetsch (Grune) brought an ambitious school reform on the way, which was not coordinated with the ideas of the parent or guardian. A burger initiative collected — instead of the required 61.835 signatures — over 180.000 "Vote", To enforce a folk decision. If the counterparties were not agreed at the beginning of 2010, the entire school reform tilted in the summer of 2010 and sturzen Ole von Beust’s governmental community into a substantial crisis.
But the schools form only part of the educational building sites. Also in the field of early childhood care, the Senate must have been criticized, which in turn is carried out by the parents — in this case by the national committee of children’s day care -.
"Education is the most important!"And" children are our future "- so it sounds in the speeches of politicians and the programs of parties and governments for years. The reality looks different: too high educator-child relations and rough groups hinder individual requirement. For prepayment and follow-up, parent, observations, documentation and training, ie the "indirectly educational work", the time is missing. At the same time lack of representation.
Landeltern Committee Children’s Day Support
The fact that the protesting parents who participated in the educational strike of students with their actions will be doubted. The Senate of the Hanseatic city must make drastic savings and wants to postpone the origin of the original in 2010 to a legal entitlement to children’s day care direction in 2013. Instead, there are new contributors for better earners and an increase in the food money of 60 cents on one euro. This maaking should also be socially staggered. After all, something, but a courageous step towards the Educational Republic probably looked different.
Even in the academic area, students and worked in vain for a liberation strike. The underfinanced, in many areas of refurbishment and nationally and internationally, comparatively meaningless university has long been an important center of the educational strike, but the strikers had to deal with resistance from their own rows. Until shortly before Christmas, according to the Prasidium over 700 students had turned to the university manager to a room of occupied audimax and overhead "To avoid further trap of courses and to resist a unobstructed teaching operation".
After months of quarrels and an opaque election procedure, Dieter Lenzen should now lead the university into a better future. The previous Prasident of Fu Berlin, Berlin’s Governing Burgerme Klaus Wowereit (SPD) with the words "Congratulations and good journey" said goodbye, is considered a protagonist of the revival of the German university landscape, stobbing the attempt that "Company University" Realitat, but regularly on bitter resistance and the comments of his own fan club, who has already set itself on the move from Berlin to Hamburg.
Way of burning cars, from social clays, away from Rotrot. Away from the stinking housekeeping scene, from the dog cakes, which carry the elite students with in the presence new Upperclasshorsal, away from Antifa, specialists and the whole student bagage that forms complies with.
After Dieter Lenzen the health resort Dahlem, the German Oxford in the green, so properly tackled and mediated the elite students a new view of life and studying, he is now dedicated to new challenges — Hamburg.
The Dieterlenzenfanzlub already packs suitcases and boxes to take a new ARA with tanning and trombone, with chinubollers and Bengalic fire. Dieter Lenzen is carried in a gentle to Hamburg — by students who want to earn additional money for their fields.
Dieterlenzenfanzlub
Federalism
Hamburg is only a city state, but here it already seems to be impossible to agree on the cornerstones of a substantially consistent and transparent educational reform, which takes into account the needs of comprehensive modernization and demonstrable efficiency at all levels and beyond the long-negotiated aspects social balance and general equal opportunities considered.
While the parental’s income situation is to be considered during the KITA area, and the school reform is attributable to the abolition of the tripartite school system, students are charged at colleges and citizenship positions with science managers who have made a name for themselves with explicitly neoliberal or at least economic reform ideas. Dieter Lenzen is undoubtedly the best example — and not for nothing a member of the Talking Association of "Initiative new social market economy".
Who highlights the situation in the free and Hanseatic city on the entirety of the Federal Standers quickly recognizes a central problem of German education policy. It is not lacking in terms of competence, good ideas or commitment, but very well on comprehensible decision-making channels, content contour and clear objectives that were comparable to land. This applies according to the folderism reform, which makes a consistent approach in the field of education policy almost impossible, more than ever.
For the affected schools or students, there is a source of advancing injustice and unequal treatment. Example Studies: With Hessen and the — just before Christmas still decision-making Saarland — it has succeeded in two federal stations to introduce the controversial campusmaut to and then back up again. The planning security of this kind could be pleased with the students in the current Bologna process. According to massive protests, demonstrations and occupations, the mandate carriers and scientific functionaries commissioned with education ies recognized very slowly and gradually, which — over them? — anyway everyone knew. On the 10th. December, the Cultural Ministers Conference then promised a reform of reform, which make the young academics more space for personal development and to enburatize the course of the study as a whole.
Whether the good intentions can be easily braided in the Foderal patchwork, is currently not foreseeable, and for the students who have already completed a frequent in many ways in recent years in many ways, the whole thing does not matter anyway anymore. Too bad that you have noticed your university entrance qualification just at a time when the state politicians arrived a reform that was not conceived faulty and overdue was poorly implemented. Only the hope that potential employers also do not see through the prepared chaos and do not put a highly driven value on the period in which studying has been completed.
The concept of education
If the success of an educational reform also depends on whether the protagonists can become intangible to common objectives, the previous failure of almost all restructuring attempts is no rough surprise. For the question of which educational concept should follow the reforms is rare in this country and hardly discussed at the level of the decision-maker. The roles are clearly distributed in the discussion about the art tasks of universities and colleges. While the one to enter the universities and convert the students to customers to adapt to the entire university landscape windcut to the ruling market mechanisms, the other for a concept of education is pladding, which is based on personal development, again and again to Wilhelm von Humboldt, but also can still be read in the DTV lexicon of 1997.
Education is the process and result of a spiritual formation of man, in which he is not fixed in the world as the instinct mabig, BES. with the held the culture, to the full realization of its humanity, to "Humanity" reaching; The underlying educational ideal is social-culturally conditional and historically convertible in its contents.
DTV-lexicon (1997), Volume 2, S. 266
An open discussion on the respective concept of education is not only overall, but as intimidated makes sense that it can hardly be expected with it in the coming years. Finally, such a discourse could clearly make personal motifs and decision-making facts that define counterparty ideas for pracisize and show clear alternatives to the art elections and electants. At the end of the year, however, hardly a party was seriously involved in a competition of the basic ideas and concepts — so they would like to socialize with the word horsse of "future topic education". Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier were not even excited for this purpose. With their meaningless television dual in almost every way, the former government partners had to discuss more important things.
Finances
12 billion euros wants to invest the black-yellow coalition in this legislative period in addition to the educational area. "This is a milestone on the path of Germany to the educational republic — to a country that allows the participation of all the modern knowledge society with the best education and fair start and advancement opportunities," says federal education minister Annete Schavan and is obviously wrong with this association.
Because a central problem of the German education system has nothing to do with the conceptual basics and content ideas that are just discussed. Also study history, general procedural questions or the creative potential of the participants play no role. It lacks simply on the money, and therefore tag the full-bodied contaminated 2. Educational Summit, on which Chancellor Merkel once again wanted to devote himself to the chief thing, in the last week to a billion-bazaar who even seemed embarrassed to the parties.
Ulrich Thone, Chairman of the Trade Union Education and Science, talked about a "in-stable, unworthy showcaked" and demanded a "national education strategy", which, in addition to the expansion of early education and continuation of the full-time school program, a departure from the selective school system and one "University Pact III" provides for. The GEST quantifies the quantities of investment in education to around 40 billion euros.
Germany must invest courageously in education for these goals in order to secure the future of the company. We need more and better trained educators, instructors and professors to connect and implement the urgently needed reforms in education.
Ulrich Thone, GEW
On appropriate activities you will have to wait for a long time. The participants of the educational bowl, which this time only a financial equalization between the federal government and countries was all over other affairs, want to be back together in mid-2010 to advise further steps. "We now have an idea of the task that lies in front of us," dear the Chancellor announced and experienced in the short-lively farm behind the scenes: "We have to work out now as we do that."Good possible or most likely that the education balance sheet 2010 will not fail much differently than in the end of 2009.