Educational Concepts in Germany

In December 2001, Germany was shaken to its core by the first PISA study. Not only has a great deal been done since then in schools – the value attached to education in early childhood has also increased.More ...

Media journalist Michael Maier is convinced that the Internet could revolutionize our education and restructure our sciences.More ...

Nowadays, more and more academic lectures are being recorded and archived online as multimedia “performances”. They are a useful method of self-marketing, and a digital laboratory.More ...

One in seven adults in Germany cannot read or write properly. Libraries are now offering special programmes to promote literacy.More ...

“To stimulate children’s natural curiosity about art” and “teach them more about art and culture”: these are the aims of “Culture Agents for Creative Schools”, a model programme.More ...

Philosophising cannot begin early enough, says the Hamburg educationalist Barbara Brüning. To Goethe.de, she spoke about child-like curiosity.More ...

“Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World” was the motto of the European Global Education Week, which from November 13 to 21 was also observed in Germany.More ...

Digital media require discerning users – and that from the outset. There is still much to be done, says education expert Heidi Schelhowe.More ...

How can education help to preserve the natural and social foundations? At the conference “Rethinking Education” winners of the Alternative Nobel Prize debated this question.More ...

The new training program in “Education for the Blind and Visually Impaired” starts in autumn 2010 at the University of Marburg. One of its co-developers was Professor Dr. Sven Degenhardt.More ...

Ten minutes for the presentation of a scientific subject? In “science slam”, speakers succeed in explaining their research results and projects to a diverse audience in an all comprehensible way.More ...