Disruptions as learning opportunities

The Corona pandemic challenges educational institutions to be flexible and introduce changes and supporting rhythms to the learning culture.

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, schools around the world are facing disruption and new challenges. The need to keep changing and adapting the supporting rhythms and structures of everyday school life continues to provoke intense polarization. Differences in attitude to teaching and collegial cooperation that used to be carried by the school organism are now rising to the surface and demand a new culture of dialogue and trust-building from everyone involved.

The aim of education, which is to bring up young people with respect for their spiritual and individual dignity, is ‘tested’ by the necessity to be flexible in dealing with ever new regulations. As a result new experiences and possibilities emerge wherever the educational initiative is carried through despite the external obstacles: the question as to the true essence of education and the meaning of a trustful community with the parents is experienced more consciously. For all age groups, a new light is cast on the importance of the person-to-person learning encounter. In-person learning is a human right. Wherever there is space, new ways of outdoor teaching are being developed: physics and chemistry in the open air! As the provision of online teaching increases exponentially, students and teachers describe both the partial feasibility and the obvious human limitations of this kind of learning.