Summer School Education for Social Change

A unique opportunity

The course is given in person by Ginie Servant-Miklos. It consists of four consecutive days in Rotterdam and is taught in English. This course is for you if you want to empower students to generate meaningful societal impact and you want to expand your practice of transformative education.

Learn from Ginie Servant-Miklos, educator and author of Pedagogies of Collapse. This book explores how to teach young people about global crises without triggering denial or despair. Ginie advocates for an honest, trauma-informed approach to learning that blends hope with hard truths. Through personal insights and accessible explanations, she offers a thoughtful path forward in addressing today’s most pressing challenges. 

You will learn about Experimental Pedagogics: a powerful and adaptable framework for designing transformative, sustainable education. You’ll also learn how this was used in the context of the Bildung Climate School, the first combined vocational-university education program in the Netherlands. It’s a hands-on course: you’re going to come out of this summer school with an inspiring and fun plan that you can implement in your classroom right away and ideas on how to reach across to types of education you might not normally work with.

What will you gain in this course?

During the course you will:

• learn how education can help address today’s societal and global challenges; 

• explore the principles of experimental pedagogics and how to implement them; 

• design your own educational activity for social change; 

• experience the power of alternative pedagogical methods, including serious games and embodied learning; 

• reflect on the process of learning, your own and your students’; 

• connect with inspiring international peers to exchange knowledge and experiences;
• how to build educational activities that cut across vocational, applied and scientific education.

Who is this course for?

The summer school is designed for teachers at various educational levels, from secondary schools to vocational and higher education, as well as other professionals working in the field of education and pedagogy. 

Costs

The costs for participation are €975 (exempt from VAT).

The course fee includes study materials and catering. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be granted a certificate from DRIFT Transition Academy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.