Democracy and Me

Who am I? What is important to me in life? What have been democratic and undemocratic moments in my life? How do I perceive myself and the world? Why do I see things this way and not differently? What is democracy? What threatens it? What do we need to improve it? What should people in a democracy know and be able to do? How do we want to learn about it and live in a democracy that doesn't yet exist?

Democracy invites us to ask ourselves these and similar questions and to explore them together with others. 

Democracy is not only a form of government but also a form of society, a way of life, and a form of experimentation. After all, democracies are always also undemocratic and must become developed further.

The history of democracy is one of privilege and discrimination. People are repeatedly excluded. Yet, democracy carries the promise, that everything that isn't good, can be improved – whether in families, among friends, at work, or society as a whole. What is democratic? What is undemocratic? What could be more democratic? These are important questions for reflection in our personal, professional, and political lives.

The seminar offers inspiration for engaging with these questions, opens up a space for the diversity of perspectives, and offers practical exercises for exploring democracy.

Registration and further information: joost.kleuters@hochschule-rhein-waal.de

The workshop is offered as part of „HSRW Voices: International Campus in a Turbulent World Programm“ and is open for all members of HSRW

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