Universität Jena, Am Planetarium 4
07737 Jena
Germany
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
Research and teaching of the "Institut für Bildung und Kultur" is closey associated with the Research Centre Laboratory Enlightenment at the University of Jena. It concentrates on systematic, historic and comparative investigations in the interdependencies of culture, civilisation and education in past and present in national and inter- or transnational perspectives and global contexts. Assuming that Bildung (education) is one of the core concepts of the modern world since the Enlightenment, the "Institut für Bildung und Kultur" analyses the theoretical and practical framework in which humans are empowered or restrained to live their life in autonomy and self-determination by a variety of factors. Kultur (culture and civilization) so becomes the origin and the result of a multiplicity of processes of political, social, economic and aesthetic Bildung (education) and is therefore to be examined in terms of these processes.
The project of the analysis of Bildung (education) and Kultur (culture and civilization) in the broadest sense is the concern of miscellaneous activities that range from research projects concerning e.g. the United Nations and its role within the context of globalisation, the relevance of the pedagogy of Johann Friedrich Herbart, the specific challenges of adult education or the role of education in children’s homes to the organisation of the International Congress of the Froebel Society 2010, the support of the Doctoral School Laboratory Enlightenment at the University of Jena, the development of a new study course United Nations Studies or the participation in the international Socrates/Erasmus Network on Comparative Education.