Region

Karnitz

Out of so called Mecklenburg Switzerland, Germany, out of “Our Switzerland”, the educational landscape evolves. This points to the fact that in the past regional cultural communities developed in correspondence with their natural living conditions, which they knew, with which they acted and through which they developed a specific resilience capacity. Global economic orientations conceal this experience, displace regional capacities for action, and cause them to be forgotten. Obviously, however, the local “soil” or the regional territory is an essential basis for everyday routines, thus for survival. Moreover, the concrete manifestations of upheavals are always regionally unique, depending on nature as an actor, the structure of various actors in the region, the learning situations and cultural logics of action. But we are in an incredible dynamic of change with its conflicts and crises. And we need connectivist (intercultural) learning and acting.