Demokratische Schulkultur
Dichotome Perzeption und ihre Funktionalisierung im deutschen Schulreformdiskurs der 1960er-Jahre
Thomas Koinzer
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Thomas Koinzer, Demokratische Schulkultur (2009), Beltz Juventa, 69469 Weinheim, ISSN: 0044-3247, 2009 #03, S.357
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Zusammenfassung: Die Implementierung einer ‚demokratischen Schulkultur´ bildete angesichts wahrgenommener Demokratie-Defizite in der Gesellschaft und speziell in der nachwachsenden Generation ein zentrales Anliegen westdeutscher Schulreformbestrebungen der 1960er-Jahre. Internationale Schulsystemvergleiche und die positive Bezugnahme auf die Schulorganisation, die Partizipationsmöglichkeiten und das Lehr-Lern-Klima in Schulen des Auslands spielten dabei eine prominente Rolle. Am Beispiel der Studienreisen deutscher Bildungsexperten in die USA sucht der Beitrag die Mechanismen und Risiken aufzuzeigen, die derartigen Vergleichen und Rezeptionsprozessen inne wohnen: die Neigung zu dichotomen Konstruktionen und zur diskursiven Funktionalisierung ´des Auslands´ wie die in der realen Begegnung sich einstellende Ambivalenz des Urteils.
Stichwörter: Demokratie, politische Bildung, Rezeption, Schulkultur, Schulreform, USA
Abstract: In view of the perceived deficit in democracy within society and especially among the younger generation, the implementation of a "democratic school culture" constituted a central request of West German attempts at a school reform during the 1960s. International comparisons of school systems and the positive reference to the school organization, the possibilities of participation, and the teaching-learning-climate at schools in foreign countries played an important role in this. Taking study trips by German educational experts to the United States as an example, the author reveals the mechanisms and risks inherent in such comparisons and processes of reception: namely, the proneness to dichotomic constructions and to a discursive functionalization of "the foreign countries" as well as the ambivalence of the judgement, which becomes apparent in the actual encounter.
Key words: Reception, Political education, School culture, Democracy
Stichwörter: Demokratie, politische Bildung, Rezeption, Schulkultur, Schulreform, USA
Abstract: In view of the perceived deficit in democracy within society and especially among the younger generation, the implementation of a "democratic school culture" constituted a central request of West German attempts at a school reform during the 1960s. International comparisons of school systems and the positive reference to the school organization, the possibilities of participation, and the teaching-learning-climate at schools in foreign countries played an important role in this. Taking study trips by German educational experts to the United States as an example, the author reveals the mechanisms and risks inherent in such comparisons and processes of reception: namely, the proneness to dichotomic constructions and to a discursive functionalization of "the foreign countries" as well as the ambivalence of the judgement, which becomes apparent in the actual encounter.
Key words: Reception, Political education, School culture, Democracy