From Lene’s personal website:
I am an economist, author, futurist, philosopher and Bildung activist. After studying business economy for three years, I worked as a temp teacher before I studied theology. During my studies, I wrote entertainment for Danish television until I decided to quit theology, become a fulltime writer and focus on technological development, big history and the future of humanity.
Since 2005, I have written 15 books and received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012).
Among my books are The Nordic Secret (2017), co-authored by Club of Rome member Tomas Björkman Metamodernity (2019) and Bildung (2020).
I am a full member of the Club of Rome and one of the co-founders of the Copenhagen based think tank Nordic Bildung and the European Bildung Network.
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Nordic Bildung has five tasks:
- To develop new models, ideas and visions for societies and the globe of the future.
- To share these with as many people as possible in order for them to challenge our thinking and come up with better solutions.
- To provide knowledge and venues that can empower people in order for them to make the best possible changes and adjustments in their own lives, in their societies and for the globe as a whole.
- To reach people in all walks of life.
- To contribute to a flourishing planet, flourishing societies and circumstances that allow individuals to flourish too.
Nordic Bildung is the combination of future studies, a think tank and folk-bildung.
In order to handle the technological development and planetary challenges wisely, we need a deeper understanding of ourselves and our inventions throughout our societies.
Nordic Bildung is about civic empowerment and a humane future, and Nordic Bildung builds on the Scandinavian folk-bildung tradition that lifts society from the bottom.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Libertism 4 Danish Parliament
Published on: 1 Mar 23 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Future Academy: Spring 2023
Published on: 29 Nov 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Future Academy: Spring 2023
Published on: 29 Nov 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Videos
Published on: 24 Nov 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Libertism
Published on: 7 Jun 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Nordic Metamodern
Published on: 2 May 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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GBF2022 Videos now Online
Published on: 2 May 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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New Book: Libertism
Published on: 8 Apr 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Network Now Online
Published on: 1 Apr 22 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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European Bildung Day May 6-9
Published on: 1 Nov 21 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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What is Bildung?
Published on: 30 Sep 21 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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The Club of Rome Global Youth Summit
Published on: 4 Oct 20 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
by Lene Rachel Andersen
Bildung and The Bildung Rose introduced at Humanistic Management International
Published on: 27 Sep 20 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
by Lene Rachel Andersen
The Bildung Rose finally has a website of its own
Published on: 24 Sep 20 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
by Lene Rachel Andersen
Bildung
Published on: 25 Jun 20 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
by Nordic Bildung
Metamodernity
Published on: 10 Mar 20 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Metamodernity
Published on: 10 Mar 20 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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The Bildung Rose
Published on: 19 Oct 19 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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Metamodernity
Published on: 20 Jun 19 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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The Nordic Secret
Published on: 27 Nov 17 in Lene Rachel Andersen – Website
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How do societies go through major technological, economic and structural changes peacefully? The Nordic Secret explores how Denmark, Norway and Sweden went from poor feudal agricultural societies to rich industrialized democracies thanks to the German educational concept of Bildung. The book also investigates the close relationship between Bildung and contemporary developmental psychology, i.e. the concepts of “ego-development” and “transformative learning”. The Nordic Secret concludes with a discussion about what we can learn from this positive transformation and how to apply it in the current global crises.
Bildung is moral and emotional maturity. Bildung is also to have the education and knowledge necessary to thrive in your society; bildung is to be deeply embedded in culture and community while having the autonomy to carve your own path in life. Bildung is always personal and unique.Bildung is a German word that has no word in English. Beginning in the 1770s, German philosophers explored bildung as a secular form of inner development and it became popular among the bourgeoisie.In Denmark, a pastor realized in the 1830s that the peasants needed bildung too, and he envisioned a new kind of school: the folk-high-school. In 1851, a Danish teacher, Christen Kold, figured out how to teach in such a way that young farmhands learned to think for themselves: he told them moving stories and let them ask questions. Once he had their attention, he could teach them new farming techniques, science, philosophy, history, religion, literature, art, economic theory, and political science. Norway, Sweden and Finland copied the folk-high-school concept in the 1860s and by 1900, a critical mass of youngsters in the Nordic countries had upgraded their skills and their thinking, and the Nordics had gone from being among the poorest countries in Europe to being among the richest. This development and the bildung that carried it also meant that the Nordics made the transition from agricultural feudal societies to modern, democratic, industrialized nation-states peacefully.As we are facing new challenges from digitization, globalization, a pandemic and environmental changes we need bildung for the 21st century and the book concludes by exploring what that might look like.
Technological development, climate change and globalization are challenging the national institutions and modes of governance we created during the industrial era. Our old knowledge and general understanding of the world do not provide sufficient answers anymore. In order to maintain meaningful lives, social calm and liberal democracy, we need to upgrade our meaning-making to match the complexity of the world we are creating. Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it. Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a much more complex way. It contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, religion, science, and self-exploration, all at the same time. It is a way of strengthening local, national, continental, and global cultural heritage among all and thus has the potential to dismantle the fear of losing one’s culture as the economy as well as the internet and exponential technologies are disrupting our current modes of societal organization and governance. Metamodernity will thus allow us to be meaning-making at a deeper emotional level and a higher intellectual level compared to today; it will allow us more complex understanding, which may match the complexity of the problems we need to solve. Appropriate meaning-making is the best prevention against the frustrations that generally lead to authoritarian ideologies and societal instability. Using metamodernity as the filter through which we see the world and as a template, we can create, among other things, new and appropriate education, politics and institutions for our societies of the 21st century. A vision such as this may even give hope.
Tuesday, February 14th 2023 was not just the day we published Lene Rachel Andersen’s book Libertism in Danish in Denmark, we also donated a copy of the book to all
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We are now officially launching the Nordic Bildung Future Academy online. More info and sign-up below. Nordic Bildung Future Academy: more info and sign-up
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We are now officially launching the Nordic Bildung Future Academy online. More info and sign-up below. Nordic Bildung Future Academy: more info and sign-up
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The Nordic Metamodern Youtube channel: In pursuit of an achievable utopia: Conversations about how we can create a metamodern future, inspired by bildung from around the globe and best practices
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Libertism will be out on June 23rd 2022 Lene Rachel Andersen’s books are crucial; her extensive knowledge and lucid writing open our eyes to new opportunities and allow us to
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Our YouTube channel Nordic Metamodern will premiere officially in September as both a video series and a podcast. Three intro videos have been uploaded plus the first full episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCETXhGEAerO1JSFBXeS5GLQ
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The videos from Global Bildung Festival 2022 in March are now all online here: https://www.globalbildung.net/global-bildung-festival-21-22-march-2022/
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Libertism Grasping the 21st Century New book by Lene Rachel Andersen From the Solar system to the interaction of atoms and molecules, and from the cells in our body to
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The Global Bildung Network now has its own social medium, and we are looking very much forward to meeting you in there: https://network.globalbildung.net/
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It is the fourth time that we organize European Bildung Day on and around Europe Day, May 9th. After two years on line, this year the exploration of bildung in
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An introduction to bildung. The Erasmus+ project BILDUNG explores bildung in adult education across Europe 2020-2021. Read the booklet online and learn more about the project here: https://eaea.org/project/bildung/?pid=15007. There is
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Keep Growing Book by Lene Rachel Andersen Did you ever wonder why the Nordic countries are so prosperous, peaceful, good for business, and happy? They have a secret and it
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Metamodernity Paper by Lene Rachel Andersen Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it.
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Metamodernity Paper by Lene Rachel Andersen Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it.
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The Bildung Rose Paper by Lene Rachel Andersen The Bildung Rose is a description of society and an educational model for connecting our inner worlds to the society in which
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Meaning and Hope in a Complex World Book by Lene Rachel Andersen The world is changing and becoming more complex. Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and
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This book was not published by Nordic Bildung, but it is the theoretical foundation under the organization. The Nordic Secret explores how bildung transformed the Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland
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This is insane How big a percentage of American university students are so mentally unstable they cannot hear a viewpoint they disagree with? https://twitter.com/olilondontv/status/1644291678692335616
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RT @KemiBadenoch: Couldn’t have said it better @jennirsl https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/starmer-is-taking-99-9-of-women-for-fools-flh5zf237
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#triggerwarnings cause #fragility (no shit #Sherlock!) #bildung comes from pushbacks https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1602430597221306370
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RT @harari_yuval: The danger is that if we invest too much in developing Al and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans.
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RT @christianevejlo: Premien for absolut mest bizarre udtalelse. Vermund er sur over vindmøller i Vadehavet. Hun mener ikke vi skal ødelægge vores natur for at redde klimaet. Hvad er det mon hun tror der sker med naturen hvis vi ikke redder klimaet? #dkpol
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RT @NotScottNewgent: Must watch & please give a retweet! The trans ‘Hero’ in Matt Walsh’s documentary ‘What is a woman’ silences an entire room of reporters in a live press conference about ‘medically transitioning children!” @AlissaWalsh21 @ladykennington @againstgrmrs @OfficialAbelG @catcattinson… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634682798903635970 https://t.co/qnGUaqGS18
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RT @ZelenskyyUa: The war in 🇺🇦 is one of the largest armed conflicts since WW2. The active frontline is 1,500 km. Battles are in fields, forests, on water, in the sky & cities. We continue fighting for our native land. The liberation of all occupied territories is ahead. 🇺🇦 will definitely do it. https://t.co/oLDHquScjw
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RT @ProjectLincoln: “You know, I analogize [Putin] to basically an authoritarian gas-station attendant,”— @GovRonDeSantis DeSantis isn’t looking away from this. He’s promoting it. https://t.co/25wmI5dSKd
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RT @alexandrakuri: women making fun of podcast bros is my favourite genre https://t.co/i2DzZLRK7z
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RT @jordanbpeterson: A brand new ChatGPT session. First two questions. Absolutely stunning.
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Wanna join a global conversation? https://twitter.com/BildungNetwork/status/1635755665862938626
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RT @rickygervais: I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. Men worked hard. Women worked miracles. But education was free. As was the local library. I knew books were my passport to a better life. Happy #WorldBookDay
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Do these young #women expect to be able to keep their civic and human rights if they cannot even say what they are? https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1634705381804081153
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RT @BildungNetwork: How do we live together as people in a globalizing world? How is it different to being in person? Can we even live in a globalized world? Join the Global Bildung day event on the 21st march. Click the link to learn more and sign up. https://www.globalbildung.net/gbd2023-march-21/
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this cannot be good for anybody https://twitter.com/rex_woodbury/status/1633900583726792719
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RT @saintjavelin: Tbilisi right now.
RT @IoniaScience: Let’s dispel any flat-Earth myths. In this video Carl Sagan explains how Eratosthenes of ancient Greece calculated the circumference of the Earth 2000 years ago. I included an animation with the math/geometry in the next tweet for those interested. (1/2) https://t.co/FomTwK3UM1
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RT @Euan_MacDonald: The images of massed ranks of Georgian riot police are very reminiscent of the scenes in Kyiv in late 2013 and early 2014, when members of the Ukrainian public faced off the brutal Berkut riot police of wannabe-dictator (and later runaway-president) Viktor Yanukovych. https://t.co/9QUdMo8YSr
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