Regional Learning and Learning Localities: Old Town Osnabrück and the Noller Ravine

Abstract

While before, regional learning primarily concerned the school [the first part of this article appeared in Grundschule, no. 3, 1989], people of all ages now are becoming concerned with the topic of "learning localities."1I am consciously drawing a distinction between the current term learning site and the term learning locality. As the name suggests, learning sites are sites or places in which something can be learned. Hence any place can become a place of learning in association with the described courses of instruction, excursions, or school hikes. The woods, the meadows, the brook, the handicraft shop, the hospital, a shopping center, etc., can be places of learning if the experiences acquired there can be linked to classroom instruction.