School magazines. Participation and democratization in West German school culture during the 1950s and 1960s.

Autor/inn/en	Scholz, Joachim; Gippert, Markus
Titel	School magazines. Participation and democratization in West German school culture during the 1950s and 1960s.
Quelle	Aus: History of schooling. Frankfurt, Main: Peter Lang (2014) S. 251-270 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-631-63367-0; 978-3-653-04743-1
DOI	10.3726/978-3-653-04743-1
Schlagwörter	Kommunikation; Medien; Presse (Publizistik); Bildungspolitik; Demokratie; Deutschland; Kommunikation; Schülerzeitung; Schule; Lehrmittel; Bildungspolitik; Medien; Schule; Schülerzeitung; Lehrmittel; Geschichte (Histor); Demokratie; Deutschland
Abstract	When the editorial team of West Berlin's oldest school magazine Hornisse (The Hornet) alternated in 1959, the new editors desired to transform the unsophisticated and school-loyal newsletter into a vivid organ of political debate. Thus, in a number of articles, they asked their fellow students to contribute to the Hornisse. They argued that, in order to become a full citizen, one had to develop early democratic thinking and acting skills, for which they considered the school magazine to be the right platform. To support this point, the leading article of the April edition tells the fairy tale of a king who acknowledges the injustice of the absolutist order and introduces democracy in his state. Becoming the first chancellor, he not only founds schools so that the people could be taught in every science, but also school magazines in order to teach the people to think and act independently. Behind this high regard of school magazines, one can see the commitment to the harmonistic ideologies in West Germany during the 1950s and 1960s. In this chapter, we examine the making of school magazines and their role in producing and reproducing the school culture at West German schools during this period. We also discuss what significance the participation in school magazine had for students in the conservative political climate of the 1950s and early 1960s, particularly in relation to their chances for participation and the democratization of school cultures.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2023/1