Frauke Godat - "Future@School"
Curriculum Vitae:
Frauke Godat has studied political science and international relations in Berlin and at the London School of Economics. After graduating with a master's degree from the Free University in Berlin, she was on the national board of AIESEC in Germany in 2002-03. Having worked in a grassroots NGO in India for 11 months afterwards, she has been with Greenpeace International in Amsterdam between March 2004 and September 2006. Since 2000, she has been active as a freelance and volunteer trainer for social change and leadership in international networks such as AIESEC, Pioneers of Change, the START programme of the German Hertie Foundation, and We are What We Do. Since 2007 Frauke has been involved with the selfHUB in Berlin.
Contact: f.godat@self-germany.de
Project Description:
The project "Future@School" is an international dialogue campaign to establish "Future" as a school subject in schools across the world. History as a subject in school is a tradition. However, the current society is facing important questions for the future that need to be addressed at an early stage (at school!) in order to solve them. These are questions like: how do we live without oil? What is the work of the future? How do we turn into life entrepreneurs? How can we solve these questions together? What competencies do the citizens of the future need? How can we design the future together?
The dialogue campaign is based on regional workshop to train local change agents (teachers, parents, students, and representatives from politics and business) in the concept and giving them a toolkit on how to start dialogues around this issue in their countries. These change agents are connected world-wide through the internet/wiki t o share experience and knowledge. The concept of the local groups is based on the theory by M. Wheatley to turn networks (of change agents) into communities of practice (local groups of change agents connected through the internet) to create systems of influence (“Future” as a subject at school).
