Tuesday, 19 November 2024 | European Parliament | In the frame of the Lifelong Learning Week 2024
Hosted by:
- MEP Ana Catarina Mendes (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)
With:
- Georg Pirker (moderation, Association of German Educational Organizations AdB, DE)
- Sylvia Tyriaki (DARE Network Board member, Slovak Helsinki Committee, SK)
- Balint Josa (Generation Europe, HU)
- Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (Association of German Educational Organizations AdB, DE)
- Tamar Shuali Trachtenberg (Senior Researcher Theory of Education, Catholic University of Valencia “San Vicente Martir”, ES)
The topic:
Are civil society actors polarizing and partial? Do Educators indoctrinate their learners and should stay in a position of neutrality, also towards the democratic political process, towards democratically elected political positions. What conflicts arise for the education profession? Is the claim for neutrality reasoned? Are these claims an agenda against democratic engagement and education? The event hits the core of teaching and learning in our democracies. We try to bring on the table the manifold political strategies of democratically elected non-democrats (and of undemocratic movements) and their pressure groups to put the LLL fields under pressure.
In this panel discussion we want to share experiences, have a look at how far the claim for neutrality is an attempt to silence down education and educators. What are the strategies, against whom are these applied, and what are traps and pitfalls?