Unionized education work is adult education by trade unions is carried out. Unionized education work, when understood part of the organization work, aims at the extension of the personal, operational and social capacity to act.

In Germany the unionized education work is organized by the DGB and its regional federations and by the single trade unions. Also the institution work and life carries out unionized education work.

Unionized education work in Germany

History of the unionized education work

In the beginnings of the workers' movement worker formation was education work in the sense of a general education and a training of class consciousness. Starting from 1919 the unionized education work of the general German trade union federation (ADGB) is removed.

DGB education work

After own data the DGB education work orders than 250 concerning 200 woman employees and coworkers, more specializedadviser inside, coach inside, team gutters and TutorInnen. Annually nearly 70,000 participant days in over 600 week meetings, seminars, training courses and conferences are realized.

The non-profit education work of the German trade union federation (DGB) has its seat in Duesseldorf and operates five education centers at the locations Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Hattingen and Starnberg.

It is active in

• Political education
• Unionized youth formation
• Development co-operation
• Migration and integration politics

Structure of the education formation of the trade unions

In Germany the unionized education work in function training and general education konzentriete itself, since the workers' movement was partly integrated into systems of the maintenance of stock of the state. The task spectrum of unionized education work therefore covers two aspects:

• the fulfilment of interests of member after general and specific education
• the fulfilment of interests of organization:

Multiplicators and multiplicator inside unionized policy moblisieren

Integration of diverging member opinions

Mobilization of political consciousness.

The theory practice structure shows itself in the following chart:

Theoretical beginnings of the unionized education work

For the unionized education work two theoretical beginnings exist:

• Oskar Negt: Sociological fantasy and exemplary learning
• Bammert/Gerlach/trusting wine: Learn in the trade union

Sociological fantasy and exemplary learning

Oskar Negts work, which he submitted to in the middle of the 60's as discussion version, assumed that that a form of the worker formation was to be developed as unionized work, in which the workers and female workers of subjects of the learning work is. From inhatlichen problems, class-specific Sprachsturkturen, conceptions and society pictures, which historical goals of the workers' movement and the objective possibility of the existing society principles of an educating method should are developed, which applies first only to workers and female workers.

As the first step itself one should sociologically and politically obtained elementary formation to intersperse, this however not as proletarian imitation of a civil half formation in the unionized education work. The underestimation of the education in the trade unions led to which by increasing the layer of the employees along-caused and by the educational system always on new reproduced smallcivil and medium-size ideologies, in which authoritarian consciousness potential unfolds without effective counter acting forces into the unionized education work penetrate can.

There is the danger that thereby the trade unions appear as order-keeping power opposite the workers.

Unionized education work must refer therefore after its contents and its method an autonomous position opposite the civil educational facilities. Therefore a beginning must be developed, which directly sets social conflicts at the experiences of the workers and with the exemplary treatment in the enterprise and everyday life on those class-specifically feeling, thinking and language structures to be received has. These are to be linked with the historical events.

It does not concern here thus knowledge transfer, but around the use of sociological fantasy ability of workers and female workers within their except-scientific ways of thinking and speaking, with which they arrive at a processing of practice.

Learn in the trade union

Literature

• Adolf into break, Hans's Dieter Mueller, Oskar Negt (Hrsg.): Worker formation. Sociological Phantsaie and exemplary learning in theory, criticism and practice Reinbek with Hamburg September 1978 ISBN 349917250 X
• Oskar Negt: Sociological fantasy and exemplary learning. To the theory of the worker formation. Frankfurt A.M. 1968
• Annette Rehbock: Sociological knowledge and unionized organization. Unionized education work in the 70's, 1989 ISBN 3-924550-33-6

Related links

• DGB education work
• Unionized education formation of the GEW

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