Today, at around 8, my friend and colleague Matthias and I are welcoming our students to our class in “E-Democracy – Opportunities for Participatory Democracy?“.
We look forward to learning (and so much more …) with them for the next two and a half months, here at Deutsche SchülerAkademie in Brunswick. For me, it’s the mother of all summer schools.
Here’s the teaser with which we’re beginning our teaching tonight.
Learn more about our course here.
This summer, I look forward to going back to Deutschen SchülerAkademie, for me, the mother of all summer schools.
(Imagefilm von Bildung & Begabung e.V. dem Träger der Akademien seit 1988.)
My friend and colleague Matthias Bröcheler and I are offering a course on “E-Democracy – An Opportunity for Participatory Democracy?”. Together with 16 students, we will look into computer science, sociological, mathematical, political science and statistical perspectives on the essential question of how to organize postindustrial, liberal democracy , “unity in diversity”. At the intersection of our interests and academic disciplines, politics and IT, social and computer science, we look forward to taking our students on a transcdisciplinary adventure.
Spiegel Online on Winnenden School Shooting
Today, 17 year-old Tim K., armed with a Baretta, shot and killed fifteen people in and around his former Albertville high school in Winnenden, Germany. He eventually shot himself in a gunfight with police.
The media hype and political debate that ensues now, is missing the most dramatic aspect of this tragedy, I think: No one is born wanting to do this.
Sociology 69: The Sociology of Sexuality, November 1, 2007. Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, University of California, Irvine (United States)
Tonight, it was again time for my favorite class at UCI, the “Sociology of Sexuality”, a lower-division undergraduate class, I have decided to audit.
