KN Andersen

Lene Rachel Andersen (Club of Rome, Kopenhagen)

Teaching for the job market or for citizenship and a meaningful life?

Once upon a time, Wilhelm von Humboldt invented the modern university: An intellectual hot spot that provided both academic excellence and rounded Bildung of the heart and mind. That was then. In the meantime, tertiary (and primary and secondary) education has increasingly become a pipeline for the job market. What did we lose, and can tertiary education become education for the whole person, for good citizenship, and a meaningful life? And what will happen, if we do not broaden and deepen the scope of education as we are facing the complexities and wicked problems of the 21st Century? In this keynote, I will introduce the Bildung Rose that may serve as a tool for re-inventing a broader and more complex tertiary education.