“The crisis of the university is intellectual.” Based on this premise the curriculum reform initiative grew out of a working group of scholars that met at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin during the academic year 2009/10. The group sees curricula as the core mission of universities in educating the global citizen of the 21st century. To this end it initiated a broad discussion of both guiding principles for curricula design and specific experiments that aim to implement these principles in specific local contexts worldwide. The principles of the Manifesto so far have been endorsed in principle by three universities that will try out specific curricula on the basis of these principles; these are:
This website is designed to support these efforts by:
- Making the ideas expressed in the “Curriculum Reform Manifesto“ available to a global audience
- Building a knowledge database that provides links, references and documents and allows users to access/share such information
- Presenting and evaluating experiments in curricula reform
- Providing a platform for an open stakeholder discussion on the content of the manifesto, curricular reform in general as well as specific curricular design experiments and teaching initiatives
- Facilitating networking and user interaction
- Enabling users to collaborate on evolving documents
The signatories of the manifesto invite their colleagues around the world to join in this effort of re-thinking and re-shaping teaching and learning for the university of the future.
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Aknowledgement: We would like to express our special thanks to Basti Hirsch, Joachim Nettelbeck, Robert Page and Sascha Spoun who provided us with valuable advice and support.
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