IMAGINE THAT...

Who are you? What do you do? Who are your loved ones? What kind of relationships do you have with different people? How do you communicate? What different technologies do you use? What does your typical day look like? What is important to you? What is important to other people? What do you need to know, be aware of, be skilled at? How do you learn? How do children learn in 2040?

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INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND SOCIETY

„Positive changes will only occur when we become aware of where we have ended up, and when we join our forces and start doing things differently. Everyone says to start with oneself, but no one is doing it.“

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CHILD AND CHILDHOOD

„No one listens to us. It is good that at least you are listening.“

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EARLY CARE

„You cannot hug a tablet.“

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PRIMARY EDUCATION

„My first child is of school age and has been struggling already for 4 years. It is incredible that what I myself went through in school has remained unchanged. I was not expecting that.“

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PREPARATION FOR OCCUPATIONS

„The school could be like a buffet, first letting children to taste of the various options so they themselves can later make the choice of what they want.“

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THE WORLD OF WORK

„When new technologies invade the world of education, we as teachers will become redundant for a while but eventually it will turn out that we still have place in education.“

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VALUES AND IDENTITY

„When you ask people what they value in others, they answer they value when people are nice, friendly, sensitive, or reliable. No one tells you that they value others for being geologists, physicists, or economists. Yet, for a long time we have been teaching children to be geologists, physicists and economists first, and we have neglected the above-mentioned qualities.“

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LIFESTYLE

„When teachers see us do something outside the school that they dislike, they deal with it in school as if we had killed someone. In our free time, they should let us be.“

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DEMOCRACY, CITIZENSHIP AND THE RULE OF LAW

„In the current system, someone else makes decisions for me all the time and all of a sudden, they want me to make life choices myself.“

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STAKEHOLDERS IN EDUCATION

„Learning is not just about school, we also learn from people other than teachers.“

WHAT NEXT?

With this Atlas of Ideas, we want to contribute to changing the current way of thinking about education. The Atlas offers the opportunity to examine what education can look like and what we want it to be from a wider and higher perspective.