The Folkhighschoolsystem Compared the danish and the hungarian

The Folkhighschoolsystem Compared the danish and the hungarian folkhighschools

Danish Folkhighschool

What is the Folkhighschool like? -Non-formal education No exam -Classes are based on dialogue Mutual learning between teachers and students

What is the spirit of Folkhighschool? The main focus is to discover and strengthen the unique skills of each students They want to challenge, provoke and astonish you Make various contributions (updates political) Converges with intellectual challenges Your active participation is required Based on the college`s core values like community and world citizenship Sport events for everyone

Subjects in Folkhighschool Typical subjects: music, arts, design, writing, journalism, pshycholigy, philosophy and literature Focus on enlightement, ethics, morality and democracy All the folkhighschool are residential schools Main categories of schools: christian or spiritual schools; general andt grundtvigian schools (traditional folkhighschool with many disciplines); gymnastics and sport schools (special focus on phisical education); lifestyle schools (diet, exersises and personal development), school of senior citizens (target an older audience), specialized schools (to focus on single discipline), youth folk high school (16 to 19 years) Singing together is deeply rooted in the culture at the folk high school (Grundtvig wrote 1585 psalms)

The lifestyle in Folkhighschool -Share room with another students (opportunity to share room another students from abroad) - You take part in common activities - There is weekly housemeeting -You and your roommate are responsible for keeping your room clean and tidy -They assume that you are attending our college because you want to be with another students

Short history Nikolaj Grundtvig (1783 -1872) poet, politician…. Need of enlightening The idea contains collegial atmosphere and the mutual respect between the teaching staff and the students – more democratic education First school 1844 Rodding South Denmark The national romanticism strenghten the movement after the 1864 Spread the Nordic area

The Grundtvig idea People`s enlightement and Art of freedom empowerment Education for life: ”not for the school for the life” To make the better human being and the better citizens who is well equipped to participate in the society around him You get by attending a highschool is a fabulous time, you get new skills

Basic concepts Every human is unique and created into this world as an experiment of spririt Human beings can find the unique inside themselves True learning, the students feel good Learn must contcentrate on the whole human being Teacher and students are interrelated equally

Two folkhighschool in Denmark Nordfyns Folkhighschool Brenderup Folkhighschool Take the Future Philosophy and worldcitizenship Artistic building General class Handicapp class Diet class Sosu class The intercultural exchange Global understanding and world issues at debate Artistic building (handicraft) Travel class (Nepal) Reciclyng design Global music Danish language and culture Sport and recreation class

Hungarian folkhighschool

Project of Lakitelek -Founded in 1991 : after the system – change -4000 m 2, 4 km 2 - before: christian (katholic and protestant) folkhighschools (Kalot) in the countryside (from 1920) - 1948 : the shameful communists prohibit -From 1991 continuously build, 14 buildings: -Kitchen, tennis court, swimming-pool, training camp, open air theather, restaurant, chapel etc.

Pictures of the daily life

Political policy

The programs - Important guests: Lech Walesa (Poland), Vitautas Landsbergis (Lithuania) - The political policy is partly christian and anticommunists -The communist were materialism, they refused the spiritual aspect and the enlightement - Active religious life, tradition-saver programs -Focus on the developing of farmerculture -Gastronomical masterpieces

The history in the center -Archivum of the system -changing: magazins and papers from the time of resistance -Collection of the political exile (emigration): library and audio visual collection (1948 -1990) - Pantheon of the crhistian martyrs (Mindszenty Jozsef 1956)

International cooperation -The Lakitelek Folkhighschool and the Fudan University (Sanghaj): mutual scholarship for 1 year -Traditionally good relationships with turkish folks: Kirgizisztan, Kazahsztan (Kurultaj)

Special programs Hungarikum competition Fudan University

Public life in Lakitelek (educational forum) Hungarikum competition for secondary schools and the elemantary schools

College training -Szent-Györgyi Albert (Nobel-prize): -Focus on the science and the scientific life -Hungarian results in the scientific life -(Neumann, Szentgyörgyi, Teller, Wigner, Gábor Dénes etc. ) -12 scientist -1 writer

Translations and cultural understanding -Translation of Ebbe Klovedal Reich´s book -”Sunshine and thunderclap”: Grundtvig´s life in hungarian Ervin Lázár

Cultural understanding -20 american arrive in every year to Lakitelek -They are teaching the english language for hungarians and expose the american culture -Danish Cultural Institution in Kecskemét

In my opinion… Hungarian Folkhighschool Danish Folkhighschool Need more discuss ”if you go, you have to listen the lecture” No real dispute But the spirit progress and lead the discuss nowadays More discipline ”The participating is at pleasure” More serious subject But amusing