Currents 043: Lene Rachel Andersen on Bildung

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Lene Rachel Andersen & Jim have a wide-ranging talk about the meaning of Bildung & the growing Bildung movement, inspired by last week’s Global Bildung Festival…

Lene Rachel Andersen & Jim have a wide-ranging talk about the meaning of Bildung & the growing Bildung movement, inspired by last week’s Global Bildung Festival. They discuss easily transferable “horizontal” knowledge vs. emotional, social, & bodily development, the need to confront exponentially increasing rates of change, appropriate learning for appropriate ages, the wasted effort of teaching math to young children, participatory knowing in childhood play, how to expand our sense of responsibility, ten concentric circles of belonging, humans as a custodial species, applying Kant’s categorical imperative to food choices, highlights of the Bildung Festival, and more.

Episode Transcript
Bildung: Keep Growing by Lene Rachel Andersen
The Nordic Secret by Lene Rachel Andersen and Tomas Björkman
JRS: EP67 Tomas Björkman on The Nordic Secret
John Vervaeke, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (lecture series)
Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Many of the lectures mentioned are available on the Global Bildung Network YouTube page.
Further reading:

Lene Rachel Andersen is an economist, author, futurist, philosopher and Bildung activist. She heads the think tank Nordic Bildung in Copenhagen and is a member of the Club of Rome. After studying business economy for three years, she worked as a temp teacher before studying theology. During her studies, she wrote entertainment for Danish television until she decided to quit theology, become a full-time writer, and focus on technological development, big history, and the future of humanity. Since 2005, she has written 18 books and received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012). Among her books are The Nordic Secret (2017), co-developed and edited by Club of Rome member Tomas Björkman, Metamodernity (2019), and Bildung (2020).