Educate to democratize?
Discussion Series
Educate to democratize?!
Learnings form transnational communication.
Learning about politics, through democratic processes, political fights and inside political movements happens in diverse ways in different contexts. Therefore, the links between aspects of politics or democracy and education or learning are varying and variable. One could understand (pedagogical) reflection and (political) action as an iterative process or circle of one and the same thing as Paolo Freire did. Or one could highlight the role of education to sustain and preserve democratic society (or just democracy as a system?) as the EU concept of democratic citizenship education does. Or one could understand political education (civic education) as tool to extend the ability to criticize power relations (directed at the state and current democracies) and to prevent genocide and authoritarianism - as some German educators do as learning from their genocidal history. Or one can use it, as some social movements (e.g. feminist or civil rights movement) do, to empower followers, educate supporters or to spread/broadcast their goals and ideas. All understandings can have in common to educate/learn to democratize society and criticize hegemonic power structures (capitalism, racism, patriarchy, colonialism and so on).
Different understandings lead to different approaches and practices and also different academic perspectives on education and democracy. Nevertheless - or maybe precisely for this reason - we could learn a lot from one another, if there was a space to talk, debate and understand each other. For that goal, the project „Educate to democratize“ – organized from the researchs groups of the GGS - wants to organize digital transnational encounters to enable an enriching exchange of ideas and encounters outside the own professional bubble.
Join the Discussions:
How can we foster critical thinking in times of antidemocratic tendencies and Elon Musks?
19.11. @16:00 CET
Fetiye Erbil (Istanbul), Valerio Ferrero (Turin)
03.12. @16:00 CET
Katja Lihtenvalner (Ljubljana), Nele Rathke (Berlin)
How can we foster a critical basis for collective action and political/civic/citizenship education in the future?
Directly to our online Meetings:
https://uni-giessen.zoom-x.de/j/65594987249?pwd=bGkIBZIyu2yblTLJHtCO09eNrscUKi.1
Meeting-ID: 655 9498 7249
Kenncode: 136386
Organized by the research groups "political education", "Transnational and Intersectional Critiques of Power" and "Educational Governance"