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Vocational College

Business and Administration

A journey in time – History of the EGB

Contents

The history of Erich-Gutenberg-Berufskolleg

1. From the beginnings to World War I2. 1918-19453. After 1945

History of vocational education in Buende

1884 Start of business training in Buende by Mr Heinrich Rumbke:• 2 evenings per week• Target group: employees of the

predominant cigar-making industry• Subjects: bookkeeping, customs formalities

1893 General introduction of schools for further education in Germany• Target group: young people at the age of 14 – 18

years• Reason: keeping young people away from socialist

ideas between leaving school and military service• Aim: youths should become

the „emperor‘s willing subjects“

From the beginnings to World War I


1893 Schools of further education (continued)

• Supported by local merchants• Subjects: German, arithmetics, handwriting,

shorthand,

bookkeeping• 6 lessons per week• 3 consecutive years• Teachers: ordinary teachers with further

training• Method: reading aloud from the book and

talking about it



1905 School of further education became obligatory for males

under 18 yearsmany employers tried to get round the

compulsoryschool attendance of their young

employees

1908 Foreign languages and bills of exchange became part of the syllabus

Students‘ activities like presentations and independent work are an increasingly important aspect of the lessons

1914 – 1918 Paramilitary exercises in lessons



Schoolfounder Rumbke and a class at about 1900



1921 Introduction of compulsory vocational school attendance for female employees

1929 Subjects: economics, arithmetics, office organisation including special economics of the cigar-making industry and customs formalities, typing, handwriting, domestic science and home economics, gymnastics, politicsMethod: orientation towards a firm‘s procedures

1932 General education and vocational education are accepted as of equal value: The GSCE can be obtained at vocational schools

Technological develepment and increasing division of labour make greater demands on vocational education

Period between 1918 - 1945


1933 After the seizure of power by the National Socialistsfreedom and individuality were replaced by the ideal of

„serving people who subordinate to public necessities“Focus of the lessons switched to racial hatred and the aim of conveying the NS-ideology

School did not only become a place for plain propaganda, but for the subtle influence on students

Besides that there were no special NS-methods of teaching



1938 Introduction of a compulsory vocational school attendance for apprentices

1941 First nationwide standardized syllabus for shop assistants

Introduction of nationwide vocational competitions

Aims: political control of schools and marketing NS-ideas





Typewriters of the 20th century

Our present school was built in 1950s and 1960sThis is the school building in 1965:

After 1945 A journey in time – History of the EGB

Lessons in typing in the 1970s:


Students in the 1970s:


Simulation of a dental treatment in the 1970s:


Medical assistants at work in school in the 1970s


After 1945 - today A journey in time – History of the EGB

Today: division of vocational education into 2 parts

Full-time students aiming for a higher degree

and after that for an apprenticeship or a place at

university

Part-time students who serve an apprenticeship

with a company and who attend our school just

for about 12 lessons a week in order to pass

their final exams

Recent developments (since 1995):

•School development guided by a special group of

teachers

•External school inspections

•International projects (Leonardo, Comenius)

•IT: 8 networked computer rooms, plus 200 laptop

computers

•Individual learning support

•Health management

•Self-organized learning (SOL)

Today A journey in time – History of the EGB

Self-organized learning (SOL):

•Students are given fixed aims and prepared materials•Teachers organize the learning arrangements and change their role into learning advisors•Students work according to their individual needs and at their individual speed•No 45-minute lessons in German, economics, English, maths (plus others)•Regular alternation of individual work, pair work, and group work•Opening of the new SOL-storey of our school


Our new SOL-storey


Our new SOL-storey

Zeit von 1945 bis heute A journey in time – History of the EGB

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