The Herbert Hoover High School in the Berlin district of Wedding replaced this year with prize money of 75,000 euros for the German National Prize. Students, teachers and parents of junior high school are honored for their joint decision taken to supplement the school rules to the requirement that students in the immediate scope of the school to talk generally German. According to the National Foundation emphasize "this initiative the school the importance of language as a precondition for integration, without altering the cultural roots of the people involved." That obligation was therefore the purpose of developing a "common, no negative School life and future career prospects to promote. "
known, the Herbert Hoover High School at the beginning of the year was 2006, when she was two weeks in the critical light of public opinion. With the popularizing of certain interest groups charge that they would as a public institution, the language self-determination of students' non-German language "injured, and below that of the mass media as" compulsory German in the playground "titled subject, they penetrated into the collective Bewusstein which is to inform people .
stumbling block was a rule in the school rules which states explicitly that German is the exclusive language of instruction of the Herbert Hoover High School and all its member students are required to "in the scope of the rules of the house to only communicate in this language." Had from teachers, parents and students with equal representation from General Conference adopted this rule in a democratic process in February 2005 after their purpose and object of all 14 classes had been discussed. The application of this obligation, which is rather symbolic and regulate was therefore already been implemented for a year, as public opinion in this began to interest.
The motive to extend the existing school rules with the passage arose from the person responsible for the intolerable situation which had become, verbal and physical violence between students is simply no longer able to. A mediating understanding, based on linguistic equality among the speakers were two obstacles: one hand the students their native language served as a tool for discriminatory conduct, and recognize the mediator inside was due to their insufficient language skills a direct access to the respective parties denied.
order a conflict reduction and positive dependence within and between the various (linguistic) to reach groups at the Hoover School, discussed in the fall of 2004, the parties to the General Conference Committees on possibilities for a sustainable reduction of prevailing at this time "massive violence problem ". This led to the concept of the German duty with the school working towards a fundamental change in the attitudes and behaviors of their students. The mandatory use of the German language is to prevent future exclusion processes within the student body and the common interest, strengthen a friendly and cooperative behavior between the (language) to bring groups.
This common interest is the only common intention of all reach students learn the target language German. This results inter alia from the knowledge that the school is for most of the 336 students not only the language of German origin (public) space where they can practice and develop their language skills.
Furthermore, it is in the interest of all students (and teachers'), in the interactions to be recognized as individuals. In Core means a just social communication, respectively, which are used by most students still have only grown. The parties to the joint working groups realized the power and communication problem has certainly meant that the students could identify with the German idea of duty and a normative control a majority agreed.
According to the German National Foundation, this common action is "on its own responsibility to address pragmatic language problems that arise from the growing number of people with non-native German language," exemplary. "The process is far beyond Berlin's borders to their own interests respecting an example as part of an active civil society has become, "it says in its statement.
According to the German National Foundation, this common action is "on its own responsibility to address pragmatic language problems that arise from the growing number of people with non-native German language," exemplary. "The process is far beyond Berlin's borders to their own interests respecting an example as part of an active civil society has become, "it says in its statement.
by the award of the National Award on 27 June at 11 clock in the French city of Frederick Church Gendarmenmarkt instead. The eulogy will keep the Bundestag President Norbert Lammert (CDU).
information German National Foundation at: http://www.nationalstiftung.de/
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