Schulfernsehen (school TV) mainly means TV broadcasts of educational series.
Teachers used TV sets in classrooms. With the help of video cassette recorders in school, around 1976, they are not limited to airing schedules. Teachers could record series before and play parts to the students.
There was often additional material like books. The first English learning series in Germany with the help of a VCR was Speak Out (concept 1973). International, earlier broadcast and entries here date back to the late 1950s. (See Category:Decades.) And the Chronological list.
In Germany, Schulfernsehen was introduced in 1964 first in Bavaria, channel BR. (Bayerischer Rundfunk). In the different states within Germany there are different curriculums. So each state has their own goals.
As of today (2020), there are next to Bavaria (now channel ARD-alpha) only Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW) with channel WDR and Rhineland-Palatinate (RP) and Baden-Württemberg (BW) with their channel SWR clearly calls their broadcasts Schulfernsehen.
There are also other countries having school TV, some with other concepts, but this blog is mainly about German TV. (Other countries: USA 1948, UK 1957, Japan ~1954).
Before TV, teachers might have used radio (in Germany: Schulfunk), audio recordings (cassettes and vinyl), 8/16 mm films, slide or overhead projectors, or traditional ways like the board, sheets, books etc. Also language labs in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I later added some (A-Z list non-audio or categories).
More infos on Wikipedia, but mainly focus on German and German speaking countries.
Praxis Schulfernsehen is a magazine for teachers.
There were some pioneering key people, mainly for the concept and studies
Hermann J. Weiand, (Prof Dr. Hermann Josef Weiand)
Ludwig Graf, first teacher on German TV, first in maths. March 1, 1974 (SWR). pictured in 1976
Concepts, mainly for English
Dieter Buttjes and Cornelia Strack
Sources and resources:
There are few good sources. That's why I created this blog.
The series are no longer being broadcasted (except for some later ones, I also have here). VHS or other media are very rare. Teachers had to delete them after the school year. Some VHS might be available at few universities or a "Landesmedienzentrum" but mainly for teachers.
Some broadcasters might sell DVDs as "Mitschnittservice" but most even stopped that service and they are very expensive.
Research on the Web is also difficult. Most series missing on IMDb. Few sites on the web with complete infos. Best sources are books and library databases, especially worldcat.org.
Planet-Schule mainly focus on recent series (maybe more via archive.org). Only basic information for vintage ones. Good infos on fachportal-paedagogik.
I try to find the original year of production/broadcasting (and book publishing), but often it's unclear. Same for the school grades, especially when not aired/produced in Germany. So many have no grade tags.
I first started this as a wiki on wiki-site but there are some issues (old TLS, can currently be enabled manually in firefox, captchas etc). Some links currently link to that wiki.
http://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page
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