Free time as a luxury?

This short educational unit serves as an introduction to feminist perspectives on time prosperity. Using a meme, the microlearning highlights the imbalance in societal recognition between care work and wage labor. Additionally, it points out the challenge of fitting hobbies, sleep, wage labor, and care work into a 24-hour day.

As an alternative, the microlearning introduces the 4-in-1 perspective of feminist economist Frigga Haug: The four areas of societal work—wage labor, care work, personal development, and political engagement—are explained with the help of small illustrations.

This microlearning serves as a starting point for the “Who Cares” method, which explores the 4-in-1 perspective in greater depth. It can also be found on our instagram (swipe left for English translation).

Tips for instructors

The way we learn about social processes is changing—and so are our educational media. Global learning is increasingly taking place in digital spaces, but how can power-critical education make the leap into everyday formats like social media?

Young people and young adults are increasingly acquiring knowledge through social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok. This opens up an opportunity for global learning: By engaging learners in their everyday environments, access to global perspectives becomes more inclusive, and individuals gain a clearer sense of their role and agency.

For this reason, we have adapted some of our methods into small, digital learning units: memes, infographics, and short videos on climate justice, global inequalities, and distribution issues. These microlearnings allow for small learning steps that, through playful and humorous elements, encourage reflection and engagement with broader educational goals. They can serve as discussion starters for workshops, as follow-up materials, or as inspiration for independent research.