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Bildung: Keep Growing Kindle Edition
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Bildung is moral and emotional maturity. Bildung is also to have the education and knowledge necessary to thrive in your society; bildung is to be deeply embedded in culture and community while having the autonomy to carve your own path in life. Bildung is always personal and unique.
Bildung is a German word that has no word in English. Beginning in the 1770s, German philosophers explored bildung as a secular form of inner development and it became popular among the bourgeoisie.
In Denmark, a pastor realized in the 1830s that the peasants needed bildung too, and he envisioned a new kind of school: the folk-high-school. In 1851, a Danish teacher, Christen Kold, figured out how to teach in such a way that young farmhands learned to think for themselves: he told them moving stories and let them ask questions. Once he had their attention, he could teach them new farming techniques, science, philosophy, history, religion, literature, art, economic theory, and political science.
Norway, Sweden and Finland copied the folk-high-school concept in the 1860s and by 1900, a critical mass of youngsters in the Nordic countries had upgraded their skills and their thinking, and the Nordics had gone from being among the poorest countries in Europe to being among the richest. This development and the bildung that carried it also meant that the Nordics made the transition from agricultural feudal societies to modern, democratic, industrialized nation-states peacefully.
As we are facing new challenges from digitization, globalization, a pandemic and environmental changes we need bildung for the 21st century and the book concludes by exploring what that might look like.
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Lene Rachel Andersen is an economist, author, futurist, and bildung activist. Since 2005, she has written 17 books and has received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012). Among her books are The Nordic Secret (2017), edited by Tomas Björkman, Metamodernity (2019), and Bildung (2020).
Andersen is a full member of the Club of Rome and one of the co-founders of the Copenhagen based think tank Nordic Bildung. She is also one of the initiators of European Bildung Day and the European Bildung Network.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for all students of educationReviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2020
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It is rare to find a very scholarly work written in such an accessible style for non-expert readers. This little book demonstrates how Nordic folk education theory is firmly based in mainstream developmental psychology. It deserves to be a much better known subject of study outside Scandinavia. Read this and you will want to know more.
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