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How the Film Catalogue \u2018Open Project Education\u2019 originated<\/h1>\n

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1973 a group of teachers started working together on a special educational reform: \u2018Open Project Education\u2019. We were all teachers at the Wagenings Lyceum and had earned our spurs in the traditional teaching of subjects: our pupils had good marks for their final exams and we could have left things the way they were. But we felt, some more than others, that we had short-changed our pupils in the way we taught them. The consumptive methods used in education, with us in front of the class and pupils at their desks, lesson after lesson, did not teach them how they could research the world for themselves and did not teach them at all to work together.<\/p>\n

We decided to start participating in each other\u2019s lessons and, step-by-step, we created an educational practice in which we supervised the pupils in their own chosen research which they did in groups they had selected themselves as well. And once we had gained a certain amount of experience in this way of teaching each other and our pupils, we started spreading our methods to other schools. Especially to schools with pupils from the less privileged echelons of society.<\/p>\n

The development of this \u2018Open Project Education\u2019 lasted until 1989 and in the sixteen years since the beginning, numerous films were made in which you can see how pupils went to work and how we teachers supervised them. But all these films \u2013 recorded on large Umatic cassettes which were commonly used at the time \u2013 were lost in later years. Until 2005, when former vice principle, maths teacher Johan Marteijn, who had always enthusiastically taken part in the projects, found them again during the preparation for a new building for the Het Wagenings Lyceum. And now they are accessible digitally via the website of the International Institute for Social History (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG)).<\/p>\n

Since 2005, we have been busy providing the film recordings with text and explanations, with support from the International Institute of Social History, so that they can be used by the education reformers of today, for instance as part of \u2018New Learning\u2019 or \u2018Learning Naturally\u2019. https:\/\/socialhistory.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Inspired by the film recordings, we have also updated and optimized slide sound images from the Open Project Education period. In this way, three renewed DVD\u2019s have been created:<\/p>\n