Mission

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One of the aims of school education and training is to provide holistic learning by examining authentic and sometimes complex topics in the students' living environment. Schools cannot adequately meet this goal due to spatial boundaries and separate subjects. Therefore, extracurricular and interdisciplinary teaching and learning are promising additions to everyday school instruction. The integration of extracurricular learning spaces into everyday school life can be challenging when it comes to finding and developing them in a targeted manner and to integrating subject-specific and interdisciplinary topics and their connections.

The location of Dresden and especially "the learning path to commemorate February 13th, 1945 in Dresden" (working title) identify learning locations outside of the classroom that can be viewed by teachers and students and accessed in a suitable and appropriate manner. Important considerations should be which forms of remembrance and commemoration of the Nazi dictatorship and WW2, as well as the related concrete regional and supra-regional historical events, are effective for learning, especially for a generation that has almost no personal experience of the times and events.

The concept of "the learning path to commemorate February 13th, 1945 in Dresden" is an offer for teachers and students that can be designed and implemented in many different ways. The provision of materials, for example texts and illustrations for the memorial trail on 13th February 1945, our website, apps and task sheets, are aimed at young people from Grade 8 onwards. The didactic guidelines should contain multiple perspectives, be controversial, reference the present and everyday life, problem and action oriented and promote historical competence, as well as the ability to be methodological and make informed judgements.