Heinrich Rombach's structural pedagogy and how technology can help to transform the school system into a school structure
Abstract
After German philosopher Heinrich Rombach had presented his spanning work "Substanz, System, Struktur" (1965/66, 22010) he subsequently developed his structural pedagogy in which he presented new ways of teaching which complies with the needs of the learner and facilitates genuine and veritable learning. Concerning the crisis in the German school system Rombach's ideas are helpful to find a new approach and might even be a working basis when thinking about a transition from a school system to a school structure.
However, his structural pedagogy is quite conceptional and waiting to be applied in a practical context. Modern teaching and learning concepts like Flipped Classroom or file sharing like cloud based apps (Dropbox, Evernote etc.) in a digital classroom are a means of applying the theory of the structural pedagogy in modern educational institutions.
Changes like that are very urgently called for to transform institutions for learning environments for human beings with all their diversity, talents and aptitudes who mustn't be pigeon-holed any longer to serve the institution.