!!!Einheitsschule

Comprehensive School (Einheitsschule the introduction of a 
comprehensive school has called for ) since the 2%%sup nd/%  half of 
the 19%%sup th/%  century to stop the growing diversification of the 
educational system. In isolated cases, this demand was realised by 
merging the Unterstufe (the first four years at Austrian Gymnasium 
schools) and Realschule, the result was "partielle 
Einheitsmittelschule" (partial comprehensive schools, which were 
turned into the Gymnasium-school type Real-Gymnasium in 1864), later 
the Einheitsschule was introduced as an additional school type under 
the name "Gesamt-Mittelschule" (intermediate comprehensive school) 
combining arts and science curriculum requirements (became 
Realgymnasium in 1908), the Einheitsschule was also the core of the 
education reforms promulgated by the Social Democrat O.  Gloeckel 
(guidelines of 1920), which aimed at a comprehensive school for all 
children between 10 and 14 years ( Allgemeine Mittelschule). Today, 
the Einheitsschule is still one of the main points of controversy in 
the field of education policy between the Social Democrats and the 
conservatives ( Gesamtschule).

!Literature
H. Engelbrecht, Der Einheitsschulgedanke in Oesterreich im 
19. Jahrhundert, in Oesterreich in Geschichte und Literatur 15 
(1971); idem: Die Diskussion um die Einheitsschule in Oesterreich 
zwischen 1897 und 1919, ibid.


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