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The profound damage that humans are inflicting on the environment and climate is impacting the lives of future generations on planet Earth. This realization is increasingly entering the public consciousness, yet too little action is still being taken. The seminar "Getting Involved: How Do We Want to Live Together on This Planet?", held from August 29th to September 2nd, 2022, focused on student participation and political engagement regarding environmental protection, sustainability, and global learning. Students from the Max-von-Laue-Oberschule, the Nelson-Mandela-Schule, the Melanchthon-Gymnasium, and the Herder-Gymnasium explored questions such as: Who is responsible for climate change? Who is most affected by the consequences of climate change? How can schools become more sustainable? And how can student government contribute to this?
The substantive discussions largely took place in parallel workshops led by experienced artists. Divided into four workshops—film, posters, rap, and theater—the students developed artistic projects on the theme of sustainability, which were presented to the entire group and guests at the end of the seminar.
The seminar successfully engaged the student councils of the four participating schools and raised their awareness of co-determination and sustainability. Feedback from participants, accompanying teachers, and instructors was overwhelmingly positive. Social skills were strengthened both within the school groups and through interaction with the other schools. A particular focus was placed on the topics of classism, global justice, and intergenerational justice in the context of the climate and sustainability crisis. For example, it became clear that the participating secondary school, compared to the other schools, has significantly greater difficulty establishing sustainability as a core element of daily school life. The seminar explored the reasons for this, which, among other things, point to the connections between sustainability and social justice, as well as classism, within the sustainability debate.
The seminar results included a play, various posters and placards, a rap song and two films.
The seminar was funded by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family and took place in cooperation with EPIZ – Center for Global Learning in Berlin eV .
