Institut für Bildung und Kultur

National Network
Germany
Address

Universität Jena, Am Planetarium 4
07737 Jena
Germany

Telephone
0049-3641-945335
Telephone (other)
0049-3641-944987
Fax
0049-3641-944982
E-Mail
Annika.Blichmann@uni-jena.de
Website
http://www.ibk.uni-jena.de/
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Research
  3. Youth and education
General Information
The "Institut für Bildung und Kultur" (Institute for Education, Culture and Civilisation) is an integral part of the University of Jena. It was founded in 2008 as an interdisciplinary and international centre for research and knowledge transfer in all fields of Education. As a co-operation of 5 professors (Philosophy of Education and Theory of Social Pedagogy, History of Education, Adult Education, International Organisations and Globalisation, Comparative Education) and their assistants, the Institute’s work focuses upon the development and organisation of undergraduate degree programmes (Educational Science) and interdisciplinary wide ranged postgraduate degree programmes (e.g. "Master Bildung – Kultur – Anthropologie"/ "Master Education – Culture and Civilisation – Anthropology"). Research and dissemination of knowledge are conducted through seminars or lectures and variably funded projects and congresses and through international and local knowledge transfer alliances, networks and partnerships within the fields of education, culture, economy and politics.
Mission and Objectives

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.

Main Projects / Activities

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.

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Annika Blichmann
Head of the organisation
Prof. Micheal Winkler