Schwerin (dpa / mv) – The introduction of the controversial school subject social sciences in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is being postponed. The reason given by the Ministry of Education in Schwerin on Tuesday was the corona pandemic and the coalition negotiations in autumn 2021.
The subject is to be introduced as a model project in the 2023/2024 school year. It was said that innovations needed social acceptance and this needed time and communication. The NDR had previously reported.
The plan to introduce the new school subject in grades five and six came from Bettina Martin (SPD), the predecessor of the current Education Minister Simone Oldenburg (left). The new subject is to summarize history, geography and work-economy-technology (AWT) and be expanded to include aspects of political education. In the summer of 2021, the project was criticized from many quarters, for example from the CDU and the AfD. The economy also warned.
Oldenburg, the then parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the state parliament, pointed out: “Political education is important and must be integrated into the classroom as early as possible, but it must not be at the expense of imparting knowledge in the individual subjects.” The SPD and the German Association for Civic Education in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania rated the plan for the new school subject positively.
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