Reforms

Schooling for girls? Report cards without grades? Computers in classrooms? These reform ideas shook up the status quo. Today, many of these ideas are taken for granted. Yet schooling is not a universal good. It lacks equal opportunity and inclusion.

A person is standing on a stone floor. Only the legs below the knees are visible. The person is wearing black jeans and black bathing slippers and red nail polish. On one shoe in large white letters is the English word Why. On the other shoe in the same letters So the writing is Why Not — © büro eta boeklund

In its numerous collaborations, Cultural Education explores past reform ideas and designs new ones. Democratic processes are tested via social media, playgrounds are subjected to a closer look, outdated notions of education are dissected or new forms of presentation are tried out. Repeat after me asks guests to enter an old telephone booth to talk with AI on the phone. Who has the last word, human or algorithm?

Zahlreiche Fragesätze in weißer Farbe stehen auf hellbraunem Hintergrund. Am prominentesten ist die Frage Wie viel müssen wir wissen? abgebildet. Zudem sind etwa Fragen wie Was hättest du lieber gelernt? und Wie und wo entstehen Gewohnheiten? zu lesen — © Joachim Loch

Projects such as Schools of Tomorrow or Education in Concrete not only design new forms of learning, but also formulate tangible action recommendations for teachers and politicians.

Reforms

Further Reading

Further reading