Summer School - Education: The Future of School, 2022, Prague Summer School, Czech Republic

Publish Date: Mar 11, 2022

Deadline: Mar 31, 2022

Event Dates: from Jul 01, 2022 12:00 to Jul 08, 2022 12:00

The Summer School invites students to discuss the current issues and potential new approaches to education with academics, researchers, professionals, as well as with fellow students of various academic and cultural backgrounds.
Surrounded by the beauty of Prague, we will exchange ideas and seek answers to the questions:

  • What is the main purpose of education in the modern world?
  • What are the main characteristics of the modern approach to education?
  • What is the role of the teacher in modern educational system?
  • What skills are to be taught in today’s rapidly changing world?
  • How can schools adapt to the rapid technological advances, structural changes of the economy and shakeups of political and social systems?

WHY?

  • To gain a critical perspective on how the future of education should develop
  • To further engage in the academic debate on how should the modern education system look like and what would its main characteristics be
  • To meet new friends from different parts of the world and explore the magnificence of Prague, one of the most beautiful cultural and historical capitals in Europe

Introduction
“The purpose of education is not creating solutions, but creating movement in education in which people develop their own solutions with external support based on the personalized curriculum.“
Ken Robinson, Internationally Acclaimed Expert on Creativity and Innovation

Education was and still continues to be the mediator to a better life: wealth, equality, humanity, and peace. Achieving education is believed to promote integration and emancipation, end discrimination and prejudice, and solve the challenges of the future.
However, the current political, economic and social developments of the world have proven that current education is not powerful enough to guarantee the happiness for all and every one of us. Moreover, the education system itself has been constantly changing.  Educational institutions found themselves in permanent reforms trying to catch up with the rapidly changing world.
In educational circles, some question the relevance of current approaches. When the internet offers information at the click of a mouse, what’s the point of education and pedagogy? Under the pressure of maintaining high performance, education has been reduced to securing tested skills as an end in itself. Education is no longer for the purpose of developing a vision of ourselves and of the society we would like to live in.
To redress the balance a bit, this Summer School proposes a vision of education capable of promoting young people’s distinctive powers of thought and action, a platform for a robust exchange of views on some of the biggest issues (e.g. How to effectively help those most vulnerable.) facing our world at a time when it is desperately needed.
The sessions will enable students to learn key concepts and issues surrounding the educational topics and give them a broad and international perspective on education.
The Summer School builds upon robust continental European intellectual traditions of encouraging young people to espouse ideas and embrace their role as public intellectuals.

Program History
Since 2003 Prague Summer Schools brought to Prague more than a thousand outstanding students from all over the World for an intensive academic week to learn and discuss various topics. The Prague Summer School on Education: The Future of School was launched in 2013. Witnessing that the World is changing much more faster than the formal educational system we decided it is worthy to address the issue in much more detail and enable interested students to discuss the future of school. Since its foundation the Summer School has attracted several dozens of students to Prague.

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Disciplines

Culture

Education

Political Sciences

Social Sciences

Study Levels

Graduate

Master’s

PhD

Research

Eligible Countries

International

Host Countries

Czech Republic