Beskrivelse av organisasjon

The Vulkanschule is a primary and secondary school for pupils aged 6–14. It is a small school, with all together 45 pupils, situated in the countryside in South-Eastern Austria. The Vulkanschule is a private school with „Öffentlichkeitsrecht“, which means that we are legally like any other public school, with the only exception that the association financially sustaining the school is private: a registered society, „Verein“. We are a parents` initiative, and, not only financially dependent on the involvement and honorary participation of the parents.

The Vulkanschule is the only school following a reformist education in the region of Feldbach. We teach according to Maria Montessori and Peter Petersen`s Jenaplan principles. Central ideas of our pedagogy are a holistic, project-oriented, interdisciplinary and mixed-age education, learner-centered, action-oriented and eager to keep up the joy of learning.
Our main task is to provide the children with help and opportunities to become critical, decision-making, self-confident and responsible persons. We focus on exercise, experience in all phases of development.
This is done through the following pedagogical principles:
• Strengthening of self-confidence and self-worth in one appreciative social environment;
• Transfer of responsibility; Building personal responsibility for work materials, work posture, personal well-being and Wellbeing of others;
• Developing talents in a learning environment without pressure
• Individual learning support
• Developing problem-solving strategies in the sense of “nonviolent communication"
• Respectful and attentive treatment of fellow persons and of environment
• Environmentally conscious thinking and acting with regard to the sustainability and the ecological footprint
• Healthy diet and lifestyle

At the same time, we would like to fulfil our educational mission: We as a school aim to foster a child's development, so that he/she can become a free, self-confident and responsible person, who is able to take care about himself/herself, other people and environment.

Inkluderingstemaer

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Cultural differences
• Geographical obstacles
• Social obstacles