Felix Hring, the new director of the Center for Adult Education in Northern Breisgau, would like to have an ear near to the folks.
. Due to the fact the beginning of August Felix Hring has headed the North Breisgau Adult Education Heart. The 45-12 months-previous was born and lifted in Breisach, attended college there and in Freiburg and studied to grow to be a instructor for major and secondary colleges at the Pedagogical College. English and technology had been his topics formerly he labored in strength offer.
Right after his legal coaching, he taught at the Alemannenschule in Hartheim from 2006 to 2010. He then moved to the Westlicher Kaiserstuhl / Tuniberg adult education heart in Breisach. “I located the VHS construction, the breadth of provide and the networking, which is my passion, enjoyable,” suggests Hring. As a baby and teen, he took craft lessons at VHS, realized to form, and developed a wood lectern.
Breisach was a compact neighborhood college, but Hring wished to keep there. But he experienced taken on this activity as component of the so-known as instructing system and the regional council experienced urged him to return to instructing. So a 12 months ago he returned to Hartheim’s Alemannenschule, this time as vice principal. And I observed the occupation posting for the VHS supervisor in Emmendingen. “You do not have a prospect like this every single yr, it would not come back,” he says. Emmendingen has just about six occasions as numerous instructing units as Breisach (there had been all around 7,000). And it is also the way he works that has brought him back to grownup training: he thinks that collaboration inside and amongst grownup education and learning centers is outstanding: “At school, you are extra of a lone wolf.” He misplaced the trade.
In Emmendingen he is however mastering about buildings. As office head, he will comply with in the footsteps of his predecessor Ralf Karl Oenning, who retired at the close of July, and will acquire over the area of society and common education and learning. The crew labored out the autumn software with its predecessor. Their focal points are identical, for instance when it will come to issues linked to local climate protection and sustainability, a matter that Hring also specials personally with.
Hring has a penchant for IT and languages. Particularly essential for him have been the integration programs, which he arranged in Breisach, not only for refugees, but also for immigrants from other European international locations. Construction took a long time, he recollects but also of fulfillment when he later satisfied the training course individuals in the village and listened to what they are doing now.
Integration programs also play an important function in Emmendingen, as does the function of VHS in better education, the vital phrase for lifelong understanding. VHS should pay attention to individuals, serve “what is burning appropriate now”, suggests Hring, naming languages, data know-how and the digitization of the specialist world, of operate and well being, but also of political schooling. VHS really should continue to be up to day in conditions of written content and assistance people navigate a fast altering entire world.
And they will have to existing their qualities on all channels: social, newspapers, the Web, the method booklet in the mailboxes. The lessons are already normally held in hybrid sort, so they are also obtainable online Owing to the pandemic, this format was promoted, which Hring also wants to preserve. She could also picture podcasts on certain matters that she could listen to on her way to operate, for case in point. But she also suggests: “VHS is a make a difference of existence, a put wherever like-minded individuals satisfy, a explanation to leave the household”. The electronic give continues to be essential, it is turning out to be more and much more essential, but individuals crave make contact with.
He himself is involved in a number of volunteer activities in Breisach: in the hearth brigade, in the municipal cinema, as a councilor for the Munster building association. All this will now have to acquire a again seat. Hring’s hobbies are rowing and participating in tuba in the tunes club. He life there in his parents’ house with his wife and four children, who go to college in Breisach. He likes to read through historic and detective novels and he likes to cook dinner down to earth, as he places it, “sad to say not often more than enough, but if there is a festive roast, I’m booked”. If time permits, he will also acquire gain of the programs provided in his “new” VHS, particularly on sustainability matters, for instance in the Vrstetten character backyard garden and facts on photovoltaics, in which he is also intrigued as a personal home owner.
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