• Academic Freedom: Ivory Tower Privilege or Model for Education? 

      Bigell, Werner (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      This article argues that the idea of academic freedom provides a conceptual angle for a critique of the ongoing educational reforms in Norway and in other countries, driven by economically oriented quality management (efficiency, standardization) and labor market orientation. A critique requires to make visible the price for the reforms, in particular the loss of freedom; here Hannah Arendt’s ...
    • Encounters in and with Summer Camps—Happy Childhood, Alternative Bildung, or What? 

      Afonkina, Iuliia; Bigell, Werner; Chernik, Valerii; Granstrøm Ekeland, Torun; Kuzmicheva, Tatiana; Stien, Kirsten Elisabeth; Zoglowek, Herbert (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-23)
      Although they commonly are associated with recreation, summer camps for children can be seen as educational arenas that both supplement and challenge school education. Summer camps provide education in a broad sense of bildung. The article aims at describing what is experienced in summer camps and proposes various theoretical frames for these bildung processes. The main focus is on summer camps ...
    • Introduction: Northern Nature 

      Bigell, Werner (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)