Educational Reform and School Participation In the Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

Current features of educational reform and school conferences in the Federal Republic of Germany are much influenced by England and other European countries.
These countries have a tendency in educational policy to enrich decision-making in schools. This means that each school should have unique characteristics and have to be accountable. For that reason each school should have a decision-making organisation as a school conference. School conferences in the German Laender (states) usually consist of representatives of teachers, parents and students. In addition to a school conference, each school has a teacher-conference, a parents-conference and a students-conference.