Conference content – NOKSA2024-konferencen

Conference content

In mid-April, UCL hosted the NOKSA 2024 – Nordic Conference on Social Education. The conference aims to discuss the role of social science in creating informed human beings, who can navigate in a world characterized by uncertainty.

If you did not attend the conference – or just want to revisit the debates and discussions – you can find materials from the conference on this page.

 

Keynote speaker I: Thorsten Bøgh Thomsen

Romantic Aesthetics and Climate Change

Lector and leader of The Hans Christian Andersen Center at University of Southern Denmark, Thorsten Bøgh Thomsen, initiated a discussion based on the novel “A Journey on Foot” (Fodreise) by Hans Christian Andersen. In the novel, the author criticizes the arrogance of man when meeting the inanimate. Based herein, Thorsten discussed how romantic aesthetics and climate change affect each other and what the role of the didactics of social sciences might be.

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(The images in the presentation are removed due to copyright. See the presentation video for images.).

Watch the presentation (60 min.)

 

Keynote speaker II: May Jehle

Current Challenges in “Politische Bildung” in Germany in Light of the Historic Development

May Jehle, Vertretung der Professur für Didaktik der politischen Bildung an der Technischen Universität Dresden, commenced a debate on how civic education always is connected to the current and future society and its political system. May also discussed how the concept “Bildung” can be used in a broader context in social sciences.

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Watch the presentation (55 min.)

 

In the following videos, you can watch the presentation’s three main themes:

Theme 1: Contemporary Diagnoses of Society: Times of Crises and Polarization –and a Call for “Politische Bildung”

 

Theme 2: The Historical Development of “PolitischeBildung“

 

Theme 3: What is to be done? –Strategies and Considerations at Various Levels

 

Also, you can read more about the  NOKSA2024-conference here.