Learning for Life
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| Free of Charge |
| max. 99 Personen |
| Duration: 90 min |
| English, German, Spanish |
| Foyer |
| Belongs to: 24h OPEN |
Instead of cramming for exams, in indigenous communities people learn practically through the passing on of stories and the experiences of elders. The example of cruel stories of boarding schools and similar institutions shows how the European colonisers tried to force indigenous communities to adopt Western thinking and learning structures. Because of this, diverse knowledge based on experience and traditions was destroyed. Today, many indigenous practices and types of knowledge belong to the non-material UNESCO world culture inheritance and the view of indigenous knowledge and concepts for the coexistence between human beings and nature has been given a new focus. Learning for Life is a Round Table about the future of education. We change the perspective and talk with partners of the Humboldt Forum from Tanzania, Amazonia and Papua New Guinea about what we can learn from them and what is needed to make centuries of old knowledge visible again.
chaired by Carolina Chimoy
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Carolina Chimoy is currently a US Correspondent in DW’s Washington Bureau.
She anchored the prime-time news programme for DW German and DW Spanish and used to be an international correspondent in Berlin, as well as the host of the international talk show “To the point” (“A Fondo”). As Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Patricia Espinosa interviewed heads of state from different parts of the world ranging from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to international figures.
Carolina has also chaired several panels on international affairs for the German Federal Foreign Office, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and the German Marshall Fund in Brussels and Morocco.
For the Roundtable Discussions, she accompanies the workshops with international partners of the Humboldt Forums during the opening week.