How do non educactors percieve education. Field trips in Styria/Austria and Northern Europe

1. NGO for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Education
We do not inherit the earth from our
ancestors; we borrow it from our chil-
dren. (Native American Proverb)
Learning in the 21st Century
Field Study of Edu on Tour 2011: Austria and Edu on Tour
2012: Northern Europe
Philippe Greier
2013-11-24
www.present-e.org
Philippe Greier
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1. Content
1. Executive Summary ..............................................................................................................................4
2. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................5
3. Edu on Tour as a disruptive Real Life Learning environment ...............................................................5
3.1. Starting Point of Edu on Tour or why do we run this craziness ........................................................5
3.2. What did we learn? Key Learning for other institutions ...................................................................9
3.2.1.
Requirement: Learning environment ............................................................................................9
3.2.2.
Social Factors .............................................................................................................................. 10
3.2.3.
Organizational Factors................................................................................................................ 11
3.2.4.
Institutional Factors.................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.5.
Collection of Methods and learning content of the next generation ........................................ 12
3.3. Edu on Tour 2011: Austria .............................................................................................................. 14
3.3.1.
VS Odilienschule ......................................................................................................................... 14
3.3.2.
VS Kalkleiten ............................................................................................................................... 14
3.3.3.
VS Holzer .................................................................................................................................... 15
3.3.4.
HS Grafendorf ............................................................................................................................. 15
3.3.5.
KLEX ............................................................................................................................................ 15
3.3.6.
VS/HS DaVinci ............................................................................................................................. 16
3.3.7.
HTL Kaindorf ............................................................................................................................... 16
3.3.8.
HTL Ortweinschule – Department for Media and Arts .............................................................. 16
3.3.9.
Akademisches Gymnasium......................................................................................................... 17
3.3.10. Regional meetings for exchanging knowledge and collaboration ............................................. 17
3.4. Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe .............................................................................................. 17
4. Who are we?...................................................................................................................................... 18
4.1. What are you doing? ...................................................................................................................... 18
4.2. presente! services and products .................................................................................................... 18
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1. Executive Summary
Existing education projects and foundations are working on same issues with different results. So the
team around presente! asked the question of how to set up a learning environment in our quickly
transforming world.
Our assignment has been to identify and present initiatives that are reinventing schools; using new curriculum designs and teaching methods; creating innovative learning environments; and are rethinking
their system through the use of technology more creatively and providing more personalized collaborative, creative, and problem-solving learning spaces.
We executed Edu on Tour 2011: Austria (EoT2011) in Styria, visited 10 schools and conducted 4 Creative
Edu Labs (CEL) gatherings during a process of 3 months. By doing so we could raise the awareness of
decision makers, link education institutions and develop our international activities.
In 2012 we run Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe. We visited 6 learning environments throughout
Northern Europe, organized 2 Creative Edu Labs live and ended the tour with a presentation at the Social Capital World Forum in Gothenborg.
What are our findings about the educators and institutions that we met on our way? There are some
characteristics that were significant in all learning environments. All institutions were built up by a vital
team of educators that are realizing their dream and bringing in their full person and personal interest
(like Permaculture, food, sports, music,…) with passion. Nearly all institutions had strong common vision
and were able to create a space where this vision was realized. Constraints of law or systematical structure were overcome with a good portion of courage and will to go the extra mile. Most of them activated a great bunch of social capital consisting of parents, local families, regional businesses and support of
the local governments like mayors and politicians.
This try out phase showed also desire for collaboration and collective solutions. At the same time individuals and organizations are overload with many problems through structural shortcomings of the eduplaymakers industries
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cation system. Besides that we realized that there is a great need to learn how to cooperate and collaborate.
However great parts of our society are still educated with old paradigms and have built up strong habits
of competition and separation and ask for more structured support and leadership in order to gain sustainable results.
2. Introduction
Education for the 21st century is challenged into adopting new paradigms, driven by an era of technology that has had a great impact on our society while providing unlimited possibilities for exciting new discoveries and developments. (Michael Noer/Forbes, 19.11.2012).
The architects of future educational systems need to learn how use creativity and non-conformity to
deal with lack of resources (funding, infrastructure, quality of educators) and diverse local challenges to
establish an effective educational system. (Compare: Stacy Childress; HBR, March 2012; Louis Soares;
Center of American Progress, June 7, 2012)
With our formal educational systems regarded as deficient presente!’s vision is built around the core
idea that a challenged system developed innovative solutions that can be cross-pollinized and shared.
presente! mobilizes the strengths of a dynamic and innovative part of educational systems and gains a
multiplier effect by bonding those institutions by organizing local and national events and establishing
the collaborative online space Reevo, a platform for exchange and co-creation.
3. Edu on Tour as a disruptive Real Life Learning environment
3.1. Starting Point of Edu on Tour or why do we run this craziness
Bringing 2 dimensions of learning together by experiencing new forms of education in schools, communities, universities and organization and running EoT as a mobile learning space might give us the opportunity to initiate societal transformations around schools and learning environments.
If we take a critical look on how learning in our existing education system is conducted and alternatives
in education are working (compare the research of John Hattie, short summary below) we might figure
out the path of how to deal with new paradigms and create new spaces also for organizations to learn.
There is a great need to learn how to work, learn and live with our new mindset of collaboration and
self-organization we set up EoT as a disruptive learning environment. We could identify opportunities
and difficulties of working and learning together as a group while sustaining and creating our living. We
experienced various forms of learning in communities while sustaining a fluid network.
EoT is virtually and the participants all meet together on the first day of the tour. We identified trust and
a shared vision as key success factors and experienced how hard it is to keep a personal vision and follow new forms of collaboration.
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playmakers industries
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playmakers industries
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8. Field Study EoT 1, 2
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playmakers industries
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3.2. What did we learn? Key Learning for other institutions
3.2.1. Requirement: Learning environment
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3.2.2. Social Factors
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3.2.3. Organizational Factors
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3.2.4. Institutional Factors
3.2.5. Collection of Methods and learning content of the next generation
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playmakers industries
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Austria
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3.3. Edu on Tour 2011: Austria
We visited 9 Styrian school projects from 03.11.2011 – 30.01.2012. The choice of schools was done with
Norbert Holzer (Pädagogische Hochschule Graz; Applied University for Education Graz) and is based on
ethics, success in transferring Kulturtechniken (writing, reading, calculating, media,..)
3.3.1. VS Odilienschule
Form
Private School
Contact
Agnes Nimmrichter
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Differentiation
Intergenerational projects
Rest home and school share the same building
Integration of school kids with special needs
Team teaching
Own kitchen
3.3.2. VS Kalkleiten
Form
Public school
Contact
Brigitta Hribernig
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Differentiation
Crises as starting point – school was saved shortly before closing it
Team teaching and mixing of age groups
open and free lessons
self-responsible students – personal learning goals
individualized teaching
big support by local city government
3.3.3. VS Holzer
Form
Private Grammar school
Contact
Sabine Höffert
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Differentiation
Small school with 25 students and 2 educators
Small financial contribution for students
Interesting educational approach and no separation
materials for teaching are made by the teachers
Good and open relationship between educators and parents
Individualized education
3.3.4. HS Grafendorf
Form
Public High-School
Contact
Alfred Schuch (retired)
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Differentiation
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Special Project: creating a healthy lifestyle
Large offer for movement of students (snooker table, wakeboards, table soccer)
success story of building up a healthy environment in a school
psychological support for students
3.3.5. KLEX
Form
Public High-School
Contact
Sabine Höffert
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Differentiation
School experiment supported by the government
open and friendly communication flow within the school
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autonomous learning goals
Students are integrated in the education process and organization of
school
self-responsibility and open learning environment
large offer (dancing pedagogy, nonviolent communication, Aikido)
Engaged and democratic team with a great peer support.
3.3.6. VS/HS DaVinci
Form
Private school with a department for higher education
Contact
Elke Sommer
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Differentiation
Separation of Administration and Education
Focus on business subjects
Bionic as a own subject
small classes
educators have jobs in the business world
3.3.7. HTL Kaindorf
Form
Public technical High-School
Contact
Günter Schweigler
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Differentiation
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Founding Team with the common vision to start a special school
Organization is build up like a company
Huge information flow within the organization
High technical standards of students
Extremely well connected to business world
high amount of training of educators (part of it are funded by the
teachers themselves)
Practical learning methods
3.3.8. HTL Ortweinschule – Department for Media and Arts
Form
Public technical High-School
Contact
Veronika Winkler
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Differentiation
Well connected to regional business world
Success example for design and media education
Critical and responsible Students
Many rewards and prices for applications of students
3.3.9. Akademisches Gymnasium
Form
Public High-School
Contact
Hildegard Kribitz
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Differentiation
open-minded headmaster
strong relationships and partnerships with local businesses
bad infrastructure – old building – progressive ideas and approach
strong student projects
3.3.10. Regional meetings for exchanging knowledge and collaboration
During this process we conducted 4 CEL gatherings and follow up meetings with around 30 participants
consisting of education pioneers, social entrepreneurs and multipliers. We faced great interest of creative minds and technic nerds to get in collaboration with those schools and bring real life learning opportunities to forward thinking schools. Results and Minutes of Meeting can be found at (mostly in
German): http://piratenpad.de/presente.
3.4. Edu on Tour 2012: Northern Europe
Out of our experience in Austria a 1-week program was coming out as a dynamic group learning process
with concrete results and a social impact. In November 2012 12 social entrepreneurs and education activists from all around the world met up to a social media campaign for making alternatives in education
visible.
The participants realized the tour within a self-organizing process from and met the first time in person
at the start in Amsterdam.
Among those were also the responsible stuff and founders of Nuestra Escuela (Puerto Rico; Stated funded school with democratic principles; http://www.nuestraescuela.org/) that is one of the driving forces
in the education transition in South America. During the Edu on Tour Styria we visited 5 alternative education institutions.
A traveling report of the EoT2012 can be found at: http://www.knowmads.nl/the-educationalrevolution/
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Knowmads Business School (Netherlands; Alternative Business School; 1 Year Full – Time Program) http://www.knowmads.nl/
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Neue Schule Hamburg (Germany; Democratic School) http://www.neue-schule-hamburg.org/,
Kinder entscheiden total frei über Lerninhalte werden von Erwachsenen nur beraten)
http://www.neue-schule-hamburg.org/
D&F Academy (Germany; 1 Year Change Maker Program, 6 weeks fulltime)
http://dfacademy.org/
KaosPilots (Denmark; Business school; official Bachelor degree possible)
http://www.kaospilot.dk/
YIP - International Youth Program (Sweden; 1 year Change Maker Program, Social Entrepreneurship) http://yip.se/
Nuestra Escuela (Regelschule mit demokratischen Prinzipien, Schüler entscheiden selbst über ihre persönliche Lernstrategie) http://www.nuestraescuela.org/
4. Who are we?
presente! is a global movement fostering free quality education with the goal to experiencing new forms
of socities. We created the legal structure in form of a NGO based in Austria. presente! – Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Education. Our main purpose is to bring creativity and a stronger participation
of our younger generations and local communities in the decision making processes.
4.1. What are you doing?
presente! establishes a strong network of supporters and contributors and prepares enables the connection and the exchange of innovative and successful education initiatives and institutions on a local
and global base. presente! increases social capital by collaboration and corporation and create a positive
momentum. presente! integrates interdisciplinary and international networks in a creative process and
pragmatic manner.
4.2. presente! services and products
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Developing and setting up Self Organized Learning Spaces & Education organizations like Natural
Learning Space
Setting up Social Media Campaigns and events like EduLab live
Conducting Learning Journeys like Edu on Tour
Organizing and establishing alternative education conferences and labs like Creative Edu Lab
Mobilizing a community of education activists for the collaborative online platform
www.reevo.org
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