Education

Education is a key element for individual and societal development. It contributes to promoting equality of opportunity and enables citizens to actively participate in and shape society.

Here you will find current articles, publications, and thematic focuses on education.

Recent Articles on Education

School as a Battlefield: The Debate on Sexuality Education in Ukraine

Over the past decade, activists and CSOs have argued with conservative and religious groups in Ukraine over the introduction of the so-called “comprehensive sexuality education” in Ukrainian schools.

By Maryna Shevtsova

More devices, insufficient skills: Digital literacy gap adds to educational inequity in Germany

By Julia Gerick

Ein Schlüssel steckt in einem Türschloss, darunter eine schwarze Türklinke

Data protection versus functionality: the dilemma of German schools

Is data protection an obstacle to innovation? And is its easing in favor of digital educational opportunities inevitable? On the contrary!

By Nikolai Horn and Philipp Otto

Ein Kind sitzt mit auf den Händen aufgestütztem Kopf vor einem aufgeklappten Laptop

Quality, not speed, is what we need - A case for a sustainable transformation of digital education

German schools have been slower to embrace digital education than US schools over the past decade, due to concerns about the influence of commercial players and data protection. The Covid-19 pandemic has now significantly increased reform pressure in Germany.

By Sigrid Hartong

Ein Tablet auf einem Bücherstapel, daneben ein Apfel und ein Lautsprecher

Tinkering with tech: How the pandemic exposed the flaws of digital education

Schools in the United States have placed a lot of faith into the possibilities of education technology for improving both access and learning outcomes. But the pandemic has revealed that most technology is used to replicate traditional school routines.

By Justin Reich

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Thematic Focuses on Education

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Publications on Education

Introducing the Right to Food in University Curricula

While it is broadly recognised that hunger is a function of entitlements and not of food availability as such, there is still a vacuum in research and development education with regard to introducing a human rights and governance lens to teaching. This paper showes how this can be done.

By Isabella Rae, Anne Bellows, Stefanie Lemke, Frank Mischler and Daniela Nunez

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