Prof. Dr. Uta Hauck-Thum and Micha Pallesche | Teaching and learning for the future - school transformation processes in the context of cultural sustainability

Personal details

Uta Hauck-Thum is a professor of elementary school pedagogy and didactics at LMU in Munich. She teaches and does research at the Unilernhaus, an elementary school where children, students, and teachers work together to develop projects in the context of cultural sustainability.

Micha Pallesche is principal of the multiple award-winning "Ernst-Reuter-Gemeinschaftsschule" in Karlsruhe. There the education for sustainable development lies at the core of the school's transformation.

About the presentation

The Anthropocene's challenges can only be faced in the education sector in form of fundamental transformation processes. These processes of transformation go far beyond questions of content and aspects of the equipment of schools and aim at a fundamental transformation of organizational structures, teaching and learning processes, topics and places of learning in the context of cultural sustainability.

Teaching and learning processes no longer take place in an isolated manner that can be regulated, but rather grow out of the collaborative examination of topics that are relevant to the future. Digital media are not used instrumentally, but give children and young people new insights into themselves within the framework of creative experience processing and aesthetic perception processes, encourage them to think about the environment, stimulate critical reflection and promote communicative exchange. School opens up and enables the way into the neighborhood, but at the same time brings people from outside into the school. This happens in both analog and digital form. The stakeholders meet in sufficient critical mass and learn from and with each other.

The lecture shows perspectives on how future-oriented educational concepts can be implemented from primary to high school, which contribute to sharpening perception processes and encourage people to take responsibility right from the start.