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Scientific paper • 2014

THE FETISHISM OF PEDAGOGY AND THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE

Abstract: Our society shares a deep faith, an unquestionable belief that education is something good by its very nature. What I want to "dialogize" is that the education systems around the world, and schools in todays Super-Capitalism are the (1) depositories and reproducers of the structural injustice (2) the instruments of institutionalized dehumanization and (3) the manifestations of the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Transforming Education in the Degrowth Society

By: Martina Wildau

Integrated education – human values – university as role-model – awareness – spirituality

Scientific paper • 2014

Learning and building knowledge for degrowth: communities of practice and peer production across scales and beyond roles

By: Gualter Barbas Baptista

communities of practice, nowtopias, peer production, postnormal science, open knowledge

Position paper • 2014

Children and Degrowth

By: Silvia Hable, Christiane Richard-Elstner

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Childhood.

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Consumption

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Consumption at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for the Transformation > Reformation of the standardization processes (p.e. ISO) so that marginalized (especially in the global south) are more effectively involved. > Create time and space to build communities (= alternatives to shopping). > Mainstreaming of critical...

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Learning for degrowth

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Learning for degrowth at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Contents – What to learn for Degrowth? > Learning should be more focused on skills an competences and less on theoretical knowledge. > Important skills to be strengthened in education are: critical thinking, creativity, self-consciousness, (non-violent) communication,...

Position paper • 2014

Education and/or Transformation?

By: Susanne Brehm

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Learning for degrowth.

Position paper • 2014

Subsistence and Sufficiency – Which skills support these attributes of a post-growth culture and how do we have to encourage and embed them further in the sector of education?

By: Robert Strauch

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Learning for degrowth.

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Technology and Production

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Technology and Production at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Can hightech be produced democratically & sustainably in a degrowth society? Vision > Open source learning spaces > > Open educational resources, open source software and open source hard ware in schools > > Tinkering & Do-It-Yourself learning...

Position paper • 2014

How to produce for degrowth? Rediscovering manual skills and peasantry

By: Sylvain Fischer

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Technology and Production.

Presentation • 2014

Dimensions of learning for a degrowth society

By: Helena Norberg-Hodge, Barbara Muraca, Bertr, Stern, Jeremias Herberg

Panel discussion at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Helena Norberg-Hodge, Bertrand Stern, Barbara Muraca Facilitation: Jeremias Herberg From the conference programme: On this panel people from different backgrounds discuss new concepts for education. The debate builds on the critique of the current...

Scientific paper • 2014

Rahmenbedingungen einer Postwachstumsökonomie

By: Steffen Lange

Herausgeber: Eine Wirtschaft jenseits des Wachstums bedarf grundlegender makroökonomischer Veränderungen. Sie betreffen das Steuersystem, die Unternehmensformen, die Verteilung des Wohlstands und die Arbeitszeiten. Doch auch Werbung und Bildung müssen sich wandeln.

Misc • 2014

Wie politische Bildung wirkt - Wirkungsstudie zur biographischen Nachhaltigkeit politischer Jugendbildung

By: Nadine Balzter, Yan Ristau, Achim Schröder

Mit der Wirkungsstudie wird erstmals empirisch belegt, wie sich politische Jugendbildung längerfristig auswirkt und in politischen Haltungen sowie politischen Aktivitäten von Teilnehmenden niederschlägt. Dazu haben die Forscher junge Erwachsene biographisch-narrativ interviewt, die etwa fünf Jahre zuvor an Veranstaltungen und Projekten der politischen Jugendbildung teilgenommen haben. Die...

Report • 2013

Alphabet

By: Erwin Wagenhofer

alphabet-film.com: . . . Denn neuerdings weht an den Schulen ein rauer Wind. „Leistung“ als Fetisch der Wettbewerbsgesellschaft ist weltweit zum unerbittlichen Maß aller Dinge geworden. Doch die einseitige Ausrichtung auf technokratische Lernziele und auf die fehlerfreie Wiedergabe isolierter Wissensinhalte lässt genau jene spielerische Kreativität verkümmern, die uns helfen könnte, ohne Angst...

Misc • 2013

Generation Globalisierung - Nachhaltigkeit im pädagogischen Alltag

By: Ute Gebhardt-Eßer

Die Welt, in der Kinder und Jugendliche heutzutage aufwachsen, ist eine völlig andere als die ihrer Eltern oder Großeltern. Wie jede Generation zuvor hat die „Generation Globalisierung“ ihre eigenen spezifischen Herausforderungen zu meistern. Ute Gebhardt-Eßer, die seit vielen Jahren mit Kindern und Jugendlichen arbeitet, plädiert dafür, ihnen die Diversität und Komplexität des Lebens...

Scientific paper • 2012

Compassionate Communities: A Breeding Ground for Innovation

By: Judy Nagy

Abstract: At the root of it all, what does the degrowth movement ask of us – the individual? In simple terms, it asks us to care about each other as living, breathing beings and to care about our habitat, Planet Earth, and then to act accordingly. It asks us to shift from a mentality of acquiring to one of sharing, or from selfishness to compassion, or even from worrying about one’s self to...

Interview • 2012

A Future for Education

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Michael M'Gonigle

[ Michael M'Gonigle // A Future for Education ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Michael M'Gonigle made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Michael M'Gonigle is talking about education, also university education and how it is economised. He is criticising that university is like a training ground for professionals while it should...

Educational paper • 2012

Wachstum ohne Ende

By: Martin Eiermann

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Themenblätter im Unterricht Nr. 92 bpb: Wachstum ist der Treibstoff unserer Wirtschaft. Löhne, Renten, Investitionen, Staatsausgaben – alles hängt von unserer Fähigkeit ab, immer mehr zu produzieren und zu konsumieren. Doch was tun, wenn Wachstum teuer wird und Ressourcen zur Neige gehen?

Scientific paper • 2012

Toward a new sustainable Degrowth: An integrated educational programme for the improvement of traditional earth construction in Emdibir-Gurage-Ethopia

By: Mauro Bertagnin

From the text: . . . Earthen architecture is the most original expression of the human ability to create an appropriate built environment with limited resources and the most sustainable and locally available material”. For these reasons earthen architecture can be considered the most appropriate solution for the housing in a perspective of “prosperity without growth”. . . . Contribution to the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Educatiom and happines - Education signifies providing tools. But tools for what?

By: Francesco Mele

From the text: The possible answers are virtually infinite. Here I’d like to suggest one that may appear simplistic: education signifies providing tools to make people live better. True, this means that any argument based only on quantity is instantly incomplete: the idea that education is a matter of accumulating notions and skills (“the more I know the better I’ll be”) risks being inadequate,...