Learning from Bildung Climate Schools - A Conversation with Ginie Servant-Miklos and Rutger Engels

We need to ask ourselves some really tough questions about what
our education systems are really doing to support young people to
live in a climate changed world of at least 2 degrees of warming.
What are the hands-on skills that they will need, but also how
are we supporting them to regulate difficult emotions, and build
community as we relocalise. This week, Ginie Servant-Miklos is
returning to the podcast, this time with her colleague Rutger
Engels, to talk about what they are learning through their work
implementing critically important ideas in their Bildung Climate
School pilots with young people across Rotterdam. 


You can find out more about the Bildung Climate School here:
https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2024/05/29/students-of-all-levels-learn-how-to-deal-with-climate-change-challenges-through-dance-and-philosophy/


https://www.instagram.com/bildung_climate_school/


You can also see an overview of the programme here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vS97am09X7bwtKLZfXZrfq-6LuS59W5E/view?usp=sharing


For further details on Bildung, go to Lene Rachel Andersen's
Nordic Bildung: https://www.nordicbildung.org/


And check out previous episodes with Ginie and Lene on the
podcast channel.


Ginie Servant-Miklos is Assistant Professor at Erasmus
School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands. Previously she was a Senior Lecturer in the
Humanities Department of Erasmus University College and held a
visiting professorship in experimental pedagogics at Tyumen
University, Russia. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at
Aalborg University’s Centre for Problem-based Learning in
Engineering Education and Sustainability under the auspices of
UNESCO. Her research focuses on the intersection between
pedagogy, identity and sustainability issues. Her forthcoming
book, 'Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for The End of
The World as We Know It' is released on November 28th 2024:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pedagogies-of-collapse-9781350400498/.
She is also the founder and Chair of the Board of
the FairFight Foundation, a charity that aims to empower
girls and women from underprivileged backgrounds through martial
arts.


Rutger Engels is professor in Developmental Psychopathology, at
the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He received his MA in
Psychology at the University of Groningen, his PhD at the Faculty
of Medicine at the University of Maastricht and did a post-doc at
Utrecht University. In 2001, at the age of 32, he was appointed
as a full professor in Nijmegen. From 2014-2018, he was CEO of
the Trimbos Institute, the national institute for mental health
and addictions, and distinguished professor in Developmental
Psychopathology at Utrecht University in the period 2016-2018.
From 2018-2021 he was rector magnificus of the Erasmus University
Rotterdam.


His fundamental and applied research focuses on early stages of
substance use, depression and anxiety in children, adolescents
and young adults. In 2011, he received the Huibregtsen Prize, the
annual national award, by NWO and Dutch Academy of Sciences
(KNAW) for outstanding research with evident societal impact. In
2012, he won the Radboud Science Award for top research of the
university. He is passionate about taking science to the
frontline where it matters most, and developing state-of-the-art
prevention programs that will have a far-reaching, international
impact on policy and practice.


Contacts


LinkedIn: @rutgerengels -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rutgerengels


@ginie-servant-miklos -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginie-servant-miklos/


Email: rutger.engels@essb.eur.nl; servant@essb.eur.nl