Outside school learning environments and manual activities in connection with the memory year of Otto Herman

Abstract

We have to cope with various locations and situations in our entire lives, and in parallel we can always learn something anywhere. The foundation of this openness, the endeavour of useful knowledge already becomes a social claim in childhood. However, the fact, that knowledge and conditions of learning tie together, stands in the way. The education system has got a problem to be solved: to mediate knowledge between different educational situations and unknown tasks. This is helped by active learning and self-study supporting methods. Widening the learning environment gives lots of possibilities. I present one of them, an entry, which shows the diversity and the knowledge linked, remembering at the same time to Ottó Hermán, on his lOOth death anniversary. His life, his work and versatility really exempla-ry for all of u