The poetry of school.

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1 International Week 2015 The poetry of school. The pedagogy of transfers and transitions at the Lower Austrian University College of Teacher Education(PH NÖ) Andreas Bieringer

2 In M. Bernard s class, school fed a hunger for discovery. In their other classes, they were taught many things, but it was somewhat the way geese are stuffed: food was presented to them and they were asked to please swallow it. In M. Bernard s class, they felt for the first time that they existed and that they were the objects of the highest regard: they were judged worthy to discover the world. (Albert Camus, The First Man, p. 114)

3 The poetry of school. The pedagogy of transfers and transitions at the University College of Teacher Education(PH NÖ) (1) Albert Camus (2) Current Projects at PH NÖ (3) Pedagogy of Transitions

4 They were judged worthy to discover the world. The First Man Albert Camus ( ) School und University in Algiers 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature 1960 died in a car accident 1995 The First Man, published posthumously

5 Transition Padagogy at PH NÖ Preparation for an imminent transition Support during the transition Compensation for the consequences if the student fails to live up to the standards expected in the new environment

6 Research Projects at PH NÖ 25 projects Focus on transitions in the school context: (1) Preschool (2) Primary School (3) Secondary level (lower and upper level) (4) Tertiary level / World of work

7 Special Emphasis Primary school enrolment Transition to secondary school Fields: mathematics, language, gifted education Regional responsibility: networking between kindergartens und primary schools

8 Future Challenges Transitions from school to the world beyond Transitions between Austria s universities and the colleges of teacher education International networking

9 Terminology Seam Nahtstelle Transfer pedagogy Übertrittspädagogik Pedagogy of transitions Übergangspädagik institutional level personal level external, standardised subjective, individual

10 Components of a pedagogy of transitions Education as a voyage of discovery Education as awareness of history Education as moral awareness Education as articulacy Education as poetic experience

11 Education as a voyage of discovery All education begins with curiosity Learning on two levels: learning about the world and learning about learning Educated people have an idea of what precision means, and they are aware that education has very different meanings in the different areas of our knowledge map

12 Education as awareness of history Educated people want to know why we came to think, feel, talk, and live as we do It means letting go of the idea that one s own form of living is better even for other people than the form of living they espouse close link between interpreting the past, analysing the present, and forming expectations for the future

13 Education as moral awareness Moral awareness expresses itself in tolerance Education is the difficult art of keeping one s balance between acknowledging the foreign and upholding one s own moral ideas

14 Education as articulacy Educated people are readers Educated people know how to read books in such a way as to be changed by them Educated people are able to talk about the world and about themselves more articulately than people who reproduce phrases which they acquired by chance a long time ago

15 Education as poetic experience Education is an intrinsic good, like joy, love, and happiness The pedagogy of transitions strives to achieve a poetic structural depth that does not separate form and content