Roger Willemsen criticises the standardisation of cultural education
By standardising the educational system, one required knowledge but killed education. Roger Willemsen criticises these points about the current educational system. Within the framework of "Mehr Licht" by Gerd Herholz, the author talks to 2010LAB.tv.
The professor of honors Willemsen criticises the tendency of the current educational system. The students were robbed of their opportunity to work out their own points of interest and identity during their studies.
This is partially due to the Bologna process which entails a political view of creating a common European higher education system by 2010.
Student organisations and societies and people in charge at universities particulary denounce the bachelor studies which were created in the course of the Bologna process.
It is obvious that the shortened course of study shows deficiencies in the following areas:
Information centres and university psychologists report an increase in psychological pressure, an overly high workload and frustration.
Due to the tightened form of education and the predefined curriculum, the students lose their chance to contribute on a scientific-experimential level. Instead, the studies were much reduced to economic and practical criteria and only focused in the job market qualification and the economic interest of the market. At the same time, the different social groups lack equal opportunity because of the new financing system for studies. The advantage of mobility is only used by a very small portion of the students.
Deficiencies when it comes to reading and writing
The literary-philosophical series of episodes "Mehr Licht!" deal with the declining cultural education in Europe. The project makes the jeopardised enlightenment as central heritage of a humanistic Europe a topic of discussion. The endangerment relates to people's, women's and worker's rights, leads to prohibition of thinking, loss of language, education and historic memories, great deficits in reading and writing culture.
The literature office Ruhr meets this disappearance of free spaces as spaces of freedom with dissenting voices. In the best sense of Kant, every responsible adult shall remember his/her capability of using his/her brain without being led by somebody else.
Photos: Anita Affentranger
The professor of honors Willemsen criticises the tendency of the current educational system. The students were robbed of their opportunity to work out their own points of interest and identity during their studies. This is partially due to the Bologna process which entails a political view of creating a common European higher education system by 2010.
Criticising the bachelor studies
Student organisations and societies and people in charge at universities particulary denounce the bachelor studies which were created in the course of the Bologna process.
It is obvious that the shortened course of study shows deficiencies in the following areas:
Information centres and university psychologists report an increase in psychological pressure, an overly high workload and frustration.
Due to the tightened form of education and the predefined curriculum, the students lose their chance to contribute on a scientific-experimential level. Instead, the studies were much reduced to economic and practical criteria and only focused in the job market qualification and the economic interest of the market. At the same time, the different social groups lack equal opportunity because of the new financing system for studies. The advantage of mobility is only used by a very small portion of the students.
Deficiencies when it comes to reading and writing
The literary-philosophical series of episodes "Mehr Licht!" deal with the declining cultural education in Europe. The project makes the jeopardised enlightenment as central heritage of a humanistic Europe a topic of discussion. The endangerment relates to people's, women's and worker's rights, leads to prohibition of thinking, loss of language, education and historic memories, great deficits in reading and writing culture. The literature office Ruhr meets this disappearance of free spaces as spaces of freedom with dissenting voices. In the best sense of Kant, every responsible adult shall remember his/her capability of using his/her brain without being led by somebody else.
Photos: Anita Affentranger
Thu, 21.10.2010
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These days, more than 5 million inhabitants do experience the transformation of their post- industrial Ruhr area in the western part of Germany to an exciting European „place to be“, a budding metropolis in a post-Capital of Culture 2010 identification process with its industrial culture as part of a collective memory being a characteristic feature – and an orchestrated mass event.
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