Kosmopolitisches Denken und Gestalten - ein Gelände europäischer Bildung. Künstlerisches Arbeiten mit dem geistigen Erbe von Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) in der Idee der Sozialen Plastik.
Kosmopolitisches Denken und Gestalten - ein Geländ..
Kosmopolitisches Denken und Gestalten - ein Gelände europäischer Bildung. Künstlerisches Arbeiten mit dem geistigen Erbe von Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) in der Idee der Sozialen Plastik.
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
This training is positioned in the context of civic education and Social Sculpture and explores the relation of Dag Hammarskjöld’s thinking and value in and for the sphere of a European dimension of education. It also explores what his ideas toward the shaping of a humane and viable community have in common with core ideas in the field of social sculpture and how they can be taken forward by such understandings. Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) who was the Second Secretary-General of the United Nations dedicated himself 1951 to a european mindset (Dag Hammarskjöld: "Att välja Europa", in Tiden 1951) and he bridged some habitually maintained contradictions by an elegant cosmopolitan point: „The question is not either the nation or the world. It is rather how to serve the world by service to our nation, and how to serve the nation by service to the world“. Qualification in this field doesn´t mean to define the term European Dimension nor to missuse it in the way of a semantic space shuttle for whatever; it is rather about giving guidance to sources of european and cosmopolitan thinking and to learn how to sculpture it in local and international context. The idea of Social Sculpture relates to an expanded term of art which bases the modelling of social processes on individual spirituality, world-openness, creativity and fantasy.
The participants in the training are employed resp. free collaborators of Europahaus Burgenland who often contribute to exhibitions, conferences, the construcion of a cosmopolitan library and encyklopedia as well as to the cosmopolitan garden. On both trainings - in Oxford and Sweden - 2 people participated.
Field trip / continued training in Oxford and London in September 2014
- Seminar "Social Sculpture" with Shelley Sacks, director of the Social Sculpture Research Unit der Oxfrod Brookes University and other experts.
- Excursion to the Oxford Botanic Garden; studying the project "Merton Borders - Seeds of Change" (developed by Prof. James Hitchmough).
- Excursion to the Bodleian Library in Oxford
- Excursions to London with practical examples of intercultural and inter-faitch projects with migrants. Led by: David Rayner, Senior Policy Advisor with responsibility for policies and programmes for inter-faith relations and civil society.
Field trip / continued training in Schweden, im September 2015
- Tollare Folkhögskola - presentation of the school and a colloquium with the topic the idea of Swedish folk high schools and the history of the Swedish popular movements
- Seminar / Colloquium on the Tollare Folkhögskola with the content of the idea and practice of Global Education in the Swedish adult education - having links with Swedish traditions and strategies in the development and migration policies.
- Excursions to Hammarskjöld Memorial places in Svedish Academy - where all the nobel prizes, except to the nobel prize for peace are awarded. Hammarskjöld member of the Academy and this is the place where some of his writings are stored.
- Excursion to libraries in Stockholm: Kista bibliotek. Kista is a suburb of Stockholm. The International Federation of Library IFLA has the Kista Public Library awarded the International Library of the Year, 2015.
Stockholm International Library - belongs to the Stockholm City Library and offers collections and activities in many languages as a special offer for immigrants and cosmopolitan prospects.
- Excursion to the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala.
- Seminar with Henning Melber, longtime head of the foundation, an expert on development and human rights issues and Global Citizenship Education.
- Guide to Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial places in Uppsala.
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