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No Montessori school in Dorfen for the time being

2022-09-05T04:23:20.879Z


No Montessori school in Dorfen for the time being Created: 09/05/2022, 06:00 By: Michaele Heske Convinced of the Montessori pedagogy: Isabella Haider-Bart and Stephan Weindler. © Michaele Heske There will be no Montessori school on the site of the former Meindl brickworks in Dorfen. The government of Upper Bavaria has rejected the plans of the Hague association "Learn with joy" - for the time


No Montessori school in Dorfen for the time being

Created: 09/05/2022, 06:00

By: Michaele Heske

Convinced of the Montessori pedagogy: Isabella Haider-Bart and Stephan Weindler.

© Michaele Heske

There will be no Montessori school on the site of the former Meindl brickworks in Dorfen.

The government of Upper Bavaria has rejected the plans of the Hague association "Learn with joy" - for the time being.

Dorfen

– It is well known that visions take time before they become reality.

The planning for the Montessori school has been going on for almost four years.

The association "Learn with joy" submitted the application for approval for such a school, in which pupils in grades 5 and 6 should be taught from September, also in March to the government of Upper Bavaria by the deadline.

Now the decision came: rejected.

"But we have received tips and will incorporate these suggestions and create a new concept," says Stephan Weindler from the Montessori Dorfen management.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Erding newsletter.)

The initiators are not disappointed, and they will not give up either: "After all, not everyone can run a new school," says teacher Isabella Haider-Bart, who is supporting the founding of the new school.

After all, all the conditions have to be right.

The location in the newly emerging "Timber Town" district is in place, as is the financing, which is to be achieved not only through parental allowances but also through state support.

"We will also take the last hurdles," the villager is convinced.

The members of the local Montessori association in Taufkirchen failed because of the pedagogical concept.

There, however, they relied on wilderness education, and the applications were rejected in 2016 and 2018.

The Hague Association, which has around 40 members, half of whom come from Dorfen and the surrounding area, wants to establish a "Montessori School Plus".

This plus stands for the integration of classic Montessori pedagogy and the latest findings from learning research and neurosciences.

The educational principles of the Italian doctor, reform pedagogue and philosopher Maria Montessori, who ran her first children's home from 1907, are more popular than ever, says Haider-Bart.

More and more parents would oppose the pressure to perform in state educational institutions.

The leitmotif of Montessori pedagogy is "Help me to do it myself": "The promotion of independence and the preservation of the child's natural joy in learning are central," explains Haider-Bart.

"Dorfen is a white spot - Isenstadt is predestined for Montessori facilities," says Weindler.

A needs analysis showed that Dorfen had great potential.

The influx is considerable, the connection is good.

"The location is promising, the catchment area will reach from Munich to Mühldorf in accordance with the rail connection," explained Weindler.

Because the Montessori schools in Munich have long waiting lists, and in the district of Erding there is also only one state-approved Montessori school in Aufkirchen.

The children's home on the Tonwerk site, on the other hand, will start its second year with a new care team on Monday after initial teething problems (report to follow).

"It takes a lot of commitment and even more effort," says Haider-Bart.

"If everything is running smoothly in the children's home, we will put a lot of energy into founding the school and concentrating on a modified concept."

Source: merkur

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