Educational materials for a socio-ecological transformation

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.

4 reasons for degrowth

This digital educational unit is suitable as a short introduction to degrowth. It presents the benefits of degrowth as an alternative way of life. It uses short summaries and small illustrations to show how we can change our relationship with nature, labour, time and global justice. The method can generate hope and strengthen participants‘ ability to reflect on positive visions for the future.

You can also find this post on our social media.

Tips for instructors

The way we learn about societal developments is changing – and with it our educational media. Global Citizenship Education is increasingly taking place online, but how can transformative education be transferred to everyday formats such as social media? Teenagers and young adults in particular are progressively acquiring knowledge via social media channels such as Instagram, Twitter or Tiktok. This opens up a window of opportunity for Global learning: By engaging with the audience in their everyday lives, they gain low-threshold access to global approaches. Also, their own role and self-efficacy is emphasised.
As a result, we have transformed some of our methods into small, digital learning units: Memes, infographics and short videos on climate justice, global inequalities and distribution issues. They enable small learning increments that use playful and humorous elements to facilitate reflection and engagement with larger learning objectives. These so-called microlearnings can be used as a discussion starter for a workshop, given as a follow-up or recommended for independent research.