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Competence - must be maintained
The responsibility for maintaining and developing competence one has acquired and cultivated at school, within the family, or in the local community lies with the individual. This may seem harsh, but nobody else has a responsibility for one's life.
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Dec 12, 20254 min read


Children's Special Needs
Credit to aleserralvo published on Pixabay Rather than diving directly into pedagogy and the role of schools, this text takes a different approach. Pedagogy and its renewal will be the theme of a later text. This text starts from the premise of school as a safe place to be, as well as a space where focus is entirely on learning. This applies at all levels within the school system. For children and young people to maximise their learning during their time at school, it must be
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Nov 26, 20253 min read


Special Children’s Needs
Something we don’t talk about openly is the needs of children with special requirements. Children with a wide range of challenges that manifest in different ways. Some challenges are purely physical or motor-related, others are, from society’s perspective, mental or cognitive challenges.
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Nov 13, 20254 min read


A place for conformity or a place for thinking and creativity?
The first part of the title may sound frightening, right? But perhaps it is not entirely misleading considering how the school as an institution functions. Quite strict regarding what age one starts and in which classes one goes when a certain age is reached. A static structure in a world that is increasingly becoming more dynamic and complicated.
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Sep 23, 20253 min read


Society based on Co-creation
We live in a time when the majority of humanity, or at least a large part, lives in a world based on Charles Darwin's principles. Or perhaps according to the way that has been highlighted as his principles. The strong and the best are the ones who get to pass on their genes. Competition is the leading method, which also applies to the view of business, the extraction of natural resources, the self-image of countries, and more.
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Sep 2, 20252 min read


Artificial Intelligence for the Good of the Planet
Is it a good thing to let the development of artificial intelligence continue without any discussions of both the benefits but also the more dark side of the systems developed today?
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Jun 10, 20253 min read


Clues from Tao
What wisdom can be found in ancient texts that still could be valid today? I have interpreted two verses from the Tao Te Ching to illustrate
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Apr 3, 20252 min read


Lost Connection
We are all the same. We are all connected. We grow by collaboration.
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Feb 28, 20253 min read


Save the children
It may sound like an exaggeration. Our children don't need to be saved from anything, do they? However, the expression deserves closer exami
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Dec 9, 20244 min read


School 2050
Children, young people, young adults and adults need to be given the opportunity to deal with the increasingly complex and complicated envir
Ulf A Kurkiewicz
Nov 8, 20245 min read
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