Since September, 18 pupils of the Alfred Nobel School have been working in the aviation workshop three days a week. The so-called Praxislerngruppe consists of 9th and 10th graders, who are given the chance to get a different way to the successful school leaving certificate, because the regular retraining for these young people for various reasons does not lead to success.
At the beginning of each school year it is difficult for the pupils to see this out-of-school place as an opportunity: they feel rather deprecated than valued. Each individual has a potential to discover. The aviation workshop offers them a space of experience to develop self-confidence and self-esteem, which is promoted by successful work with a visible result.
The small picture gallery shows the “everyday life” in the aviation workshop, which is geared to the needs of the young people. The participation system, which also grants each young person a share of the sales proceeds of manufactured products and work, is a new feature, depending on the proportion of work involved. The transparency of one’s own share of the overall result promotes the assumption of responsibility for one’s own actions. For all to cook is just as valuable as the production of a mill game, which can be sold at the end on the market. Playing together is just as valuable as concentrated individual work.
