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
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!
We need to think big and be bold and to change some of the fundamental structures in the way the world works. Together with our Nigerian friend and good colleague Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, Lene Rachel Andersen has written the article ABCDEFG: What it means to be human. Here they list 8 challenges that we need to take into account if we … Read More
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
and an Ode to Joy! Europe needs an agenda for bildung, and at the European Bildung Day 2024 in Rotterdam we launched the European Bildung Manifesto! We also sang for the very first time ever Lene Rachel Andersen’s English translation of Friedrich Schiller’s Ode an die Freude. We hope that this singable version will help more Europeans appreciate the song.
