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We are a group of teachers and researchers at VIA University College, Denmark, who are interested in reviving the spirit of Klafki’s idea about a critical-constructive approach to didactics and pedagogy in the 21^st century.

In other words, we think (like Klafki), that

- some of the fundamental values in general education - and education in general - also in 21^st century has to do with self-determination, codetermination and solidarity

-  that general education - and education in general -  should address core problems of the modern world as for example peace, environmental issues, socially created inequalities, effects of new technologies/intercultural education, I-You-relations

- that general education - and education in general - should do this in a way,, which both respect the knowledge in different disciplines and a the same transcend these disciplines, when neccessary in a constructie multidisciplinarity.

However, one could argue that the horizon for asking these problems has changed since Klafi articulated them, as we now are aware that we live in the epoch of the Anthropocene. While humanity on one hand is recognized as the most important geological factor on earth, then at the other hand it has become impossible to consider nature as primarily a dumb resource for humanity’s creation of values.  Nature has returned as “value-in-itself”, and as “other” and this asks profound questions about fundamental ideas:  what it means to be human, the distinction between nature and culture, and the distinction between humans and non-human agency.