Important, True, and Meningful is Lene Rachel Andersen’s 21st book about the human predicament and our future as a species. The book will be released in Danish on April 30, 2025. An English version may be due later this year. Read more about then new release in Danish here: https://www.nordicbildung.org/da/det-vigtige-det-egentlige-og-meningen-med-det-hele/
Now we will also start a Nordic Bildung Network and host meetings, conferences, and other activities about bildung in the Nordics. Its Nordic name is a mix of Scandinavian, Finnish, and Icelandic: Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkið. The first conference was just this Thursday and Friday, March 6-7, at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in Kungälv, just north of Gothenburg, Sweden. 35 people participated, and … Read More
It has been some extremely inspiring 8 months as we have researched for and prepared a pan-Nordic survey about bildung. The goal is to find out how educators across the Nordics, from kindergarten to university, and from formal to non-formal educaction experience and work with bildung. Thus we have had four goals with the pre-project: After talking to educators, union … Read More
The next Global Meeting on Equinox will be on March 22! We used to host the Global Bildung Day — which we then renamed the Global Meeting on Equinox — on March 21 and September 21, but in September 2024 our online event had more participants than ever before and we figured that it might be because it was a … Read More
Lene Rachel Andersen has published a statement about her book The Nordic Secret and how it is being used by some Swedish business consultants to promote what they call the “Inner Development Goals.” You can watch the video and read the full statement on Lene’s personal website: https://www.lenerachelandersen.com/
Lene Rachel Andersen and Nordic Bildung’s book Bildung: Keep Growing was just published in Ukraine: https://nashformat.ua/products/zrostannya-lyudyny-i-suspilstva.-nordychna-kontseptsiya-bildungu-709738 The Nordic Secret is also available in Ukrainian: https://nashformat.ua/products/ebook-bildung.-nordychnyj-sekret-krasy-i-svobody-622124, which has already sparked a bildung movement in Ukraine and inspired a folk high school based on Nordic principles: https://bildung.in.ua/in-english/ Please tell your Ukrainian friends!
Save the dates! And look forward to a bildung blast in Norway with colleagues from all over Europe! For the first time ever, we are ready to announce the next European Bildung Days more than 10 months in advance, so please go ahead and book May 8-10. We had some fantastic days in Rotterdam, and though we initially announced that … Read More
Global Bildung Day has a new name: The Global Meeting on Equinox: What it Means to Be Human. We had great success with the title What it Means to Be Human on Global Bildung Day, March 21, 2024, which was named after the book What it Means to Be Human. We also decided right away that What it means to … Read More
Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkið / Nordic Bildung Network The Future of Bildung in the Nordics / Bildningens Framtid i Norden / Dannelsens Fremtid i Norden / Danningens Fremtid i Norden For Nordic educators, policy makers, researchers, and bildung professionals, semi-professionals, and volunteers of all kinds. March 6-7, 2025, på Nordiska Folkhögskolan i Kungälv, just north of Gothenburg, Sverige Read more about … Read More
Together with bildung people from across the Nordics, we are now working towards establishing a Nordic network that focuses on bildung in the Nordics. The agenda is two-fold: To strengthen bildung in the Nordics today, including strengthening the awareness about our bildung history and bildung tradition. And to share knowledge about bildung and bildung methods with educators and decision makers … Read More
