Friday, November 2, 2012

Coffee beans between bookshelves


Gymnasium students learn to "Brebit" interdisciplinary in the library on global issues
JÜTERBOG - For the ninth time in these days in many schools instead of the annual "Brandenburg development education days" (Brebit). With a total of 170 experts give lectures on the project days to know about current world events and topics that are not part of the core curriculum.



"This year is the long way of food and our world between hunger and abundance, the main issue," said the provincial coordinator Michaela Blaske. They set themselves for years to ensure that interdisciplinary instruction takes place reinforced. "Until these issues are much too strict taught separately for subjects," she said. "You can not teach much longer only in geography lessons from a geographic perspective. Large developments are closely linked. When it comes to fair trade coffee, hunger or climate change, just play biology, history, economics, politics and even math a big role. "

The project days offer hands-on lectures for students to impart knowledge effectively. The offer is aimed at all types of schools and classes. From a catalog of more than 90 lectures, teachers can choose the topics about which an expert working with the students.

In the 9th High School Class of Jüterboger interest was a day coffee and fair trade. Taught was this time in the library Jüterboger, "break up the usual, rigorous learning environment and to promote the interest of the students," said her teacher Wilfried Langer. The concept is. How laborious it is to peel a coffee cherry to have to come to the bean test the students. Between bookshelves and even boiled milk with coffee, they learned almost as an afterthought, what should be taught at a fair trade coffee.

"I book the project regularly for five years for my students, which revives the lessons very much," said Langer. He wishes that more fellow teachers would use the service regularly and confirmed: "The children in this way is much more fun to learn and get more." (By Kathrin Burghardt)

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