Ricarda-Huch-Schule Gie

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Ricarda-Huch-Schule Gießen

• THE RICARDA HUCH SCHOOL IN GIESSEN
• Germany
• the school in the heart of Giessen

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• Outline of the Presentation
• 1. The location of the Ricarda-Huch-School in
  Giessen
• 2. The concept of the Ricarda-Huch-School
• 3. The students at the Ricarda-Huch-School
• 4. The Trialogue-Concept
• 5. Ideas for projects and a potential school
  partnership

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1. The location of the Ricarda-Huch-School in
Giessen
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1. The location of the Ricarda-Huch-School in
Giessen
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1. The location of the Ricarda-Huch-School in
Giessen

• Located in the heart of Giessen
• Easy to arrive by public transportation
• The biggest school library of the region is
  situated in our new building (with accessable
  computers and Internet)
• New building finished in 2007 which has a
  Cafeteria

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the Jugendstil is a special badge!

• The building A is constructed in the Jugendstil
• Logo of the school Ricarda school with
  Jugendstil

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the Jugendstil is a special badge!

• Hymn of the school
• Refrain Ricarda, Im Herzen der Stadt und am
  Puls der Zeit, Ricarda, Dein Lernziel ist die
  Menschlichkeit, die gute alte Tante mit
  Jugendstil, Ricarda, die weiß was Sie will
• Chorus Ricarda, in the heart of the city and at
  the pulse of time, Ricarda, your learning target
  is humanity, the good old auntie with Jugendstil,
  Ricarda, she knows what she wants

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2. General principles of the Ricarda-Huch-School
With each other of each other for each other"

• At the Ricarda we
• live and learn with each other at our school.
• offer chances for advancements and mobility
  between our types of school
• advance and challenge each other according to
  the individual ability.
•  communicate with respect with each other.

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2. General principles of the Ricarda-Huch-School
are living a liable, democratic behavior. 
are helping each other, on our personal way to
become a critical, independant and tolerant human
being.  are learning from each other, to use
our abilities for our way of life as best as
possible. ... we want to accompany each other
mutually to reach our goals just as well as we
show the willingness to reconsider them
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3. The students at the Ricarda-Huch-School
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3. The students at the Ricarda-Huch-School

• Demographics Analysis
• 1480 students
• from over 30 nations
• with over five different religious
  denominations and over 20
• different confessions
• We can estimate that at least one third of our
  students has a
• migrational background.

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3. The students at the Ricarda-Huch-School

• Migration and tolerance in our hymn
• 1. Strophe Kinder aller Länder fühlen sich wohl
  bei Dir, bei Dir ist jeden Tag, Tag der offenen
  Tür, Du verstehst viele Sprachen dieser Welt,
• 1st verse Children of all countries like to be
  at your side, at yours every day is open house,
  you understand many languages of the world,

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4. The Trialogue-Concept

• Definition The dialogue between the three
  monotheistic religions.
• At our school
• since 2005/2006 The Reichsprogromnacht from
  trialogic perspective
• Students developed in a project work and
  presentation an exhibition with the topic
  Disfranchisement and annihilation of the
  European Jews

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4. The Trialogue-Concept

• At our school
• The Trialogue of the cultures is
  organisational and with regards to contents
  anchored in our whole school life
• Vivid contact between the school and the society
  for Christian-Jewish cooperation
• Classes visit the synagogue, a mosque and a
  church in Giessen

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5. Ideas for projects and a potential
schoolpartnership

• The starting point as regards to contents should
  be the remembrance of the Shoah.
• But we should also have a vision for the present
  and future topics.
• Tolerance, cooperation and appreciation between
  Israeli and German teenagers should be the main
  aims.
• Music A perfomance of a composition of Israeli
  and German students together
• History Jerusalem city of three religions
• Politics Israel and Germany Two immigrant
  states. Advantages and challenges for the
  societies.
• Sports A Basketball tournament
• Religious Education. Workshop to develop
  understanding for the conception of owns own
  and the other religion from an Israeli and a
  German point of view.
• Field trip to Auschwitz.
• The Stolperstein project.

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5. Ideas for projects and a potential
schoolpartnership

• How can we start?
• Exchange of teachers delegations
• Exchange of students
• Build up teaching tandems of one Israeli and one
  German teacher in order to develop projects
• Build up a homepage to start communication and
  discussions

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Questions? Diskussion?
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RicardaHuchSchuleGiessen Dammstraße 26 35390
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