As of: February 29, 2024, 6:00 p.m
By: Markus Thiel
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The planned reduction in primary school hours for art, music and crafts in Bavaria is a fatal mistake, comments Markus Thiel.
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The importance of the arts subjects is underestimated by those responsible.
Restructuring teaching in Bavaria's primary schools to the detriment of music, art and works is a false conclusion.
A comment from Markus Thiel.
First of all: It's not about cultivating subscribers for the Bavarian State Opera or the Munich Philharmonic, but about something more fundamental.
Nobody disputes that, according to the PISA study, Germany is only middle class.
But to condense music, art and craft lessons into a Bavarian elementary school petite is a fatal mistake.
Especially in the arts, the foundations for crucial things are laid - apart from cramming facts.
For social skills, for creativity and imagination, for thinking about connections, for emotional (self-) awareness, for coexistence in a world that has long since been based solely on competitive pressure.
And by the way, so much for the high proportion of non-Germans in the classes, with almost no language barriers.
The fact that one teacher should be responsible for three subjects poses another danger.
If the person at the blackboard does not feel competent enough for music and art, but “just” for making work, music is in danger of disappearing from the classroom altogether.
Apart from the fact that Bavaria still defines itself as a cultural state according to the constitution: the planned restructuring of teaching is counterproductive for the development of children and therefore short-sighted.
Brain researchers seem to be further ahead than those responsible for schools in the Free State.
Markus Thiel