Curriculum Reform Forum

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“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 guid... read more“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: read less

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