Wij zijn leerlingen, leraren en museumdocenten in Leiden en omgeving die samen debatten en design thinking challenges voor jongeren organiseren en uitvoeren binnen de Sustainable Development Goals. Meld je hier aan als school of debatteam. We are students and (museum) teachers primary and secondary education in Leiden who co-organise Museum Debates and Design Thinking Challenges with Museum Educators for Euroscience Open Forum in 2022. We work on the Sustainable Development Goals! Are you a debating or design thinking team from The Netherlands or abroad and do you wish to join? Contact us here.
Meet the teachers…
Bjørn Klinkenberg: I teach social sciences at A-level at the Rijnlands Lyceum in Oegstgeest, a small village in the vicinity of the historical city of Leiden. The main content of social sciences deals with differences in culture, identity and equality within and between nation states. Both sociology and political science are used to analyze different contexts, from the development of the modern western welfare state to the unequal distribution of wealth, status and power in the current geopolitical arena. Students learn to use specific concepts to explain what the mechanism is that leads to many forms of discrimination, within a country and worldwide. In former Erasmus+ school projects I worked together with teachers from many countries in Europe on topics such as violence against women, homophobia and online learning.
Marleen Spierings: As an English teacher, I started doing international projects back in 2005, was at the start of eTwinning, active in iEarn, and I was what was called Springday Pedagogical Advisor of The Netherlands back then. I am a fulltime teacher of English at RLO, my school. I like to work with my students, learning IT-skills from them, and together, we all work on our global competences. So, I set up some projects within the Leiden Education Innovation Network. I am now trying to coordinate them to the benefit of our students. One is the Museum Debate Project, another is Digital Literacy in the English-Dutch curriculum, and yet another is Design Thinking and Challenging Perspectives. I strongly believe that facilitating direct contact for my students teaches them most in terms of critical thinking and collaborative skills. My aim is to enable them to become awesome science communicators, and to take social responsibility in their futures. In short, my job is to prepare our students for University and global citizenship, and I work within the English department Bilingual Track at my school.
Miranda Verhaar: I’m proud to work at The National Archive where we have 142 kilometer of documents, 300.000 cards and drawings, and 15 million pictures that tell us who we are and where we come from. These contain resources of the Dutch Government, companies and civil society organizations as well as family and personal resources that are important for our national and international history. We are part of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and it’s our duty to make history available for everyone. Therefore, we have developed beautiful interactive educational programs for primary and secondary classes. I’m also a researcher and designer of objects who creates object-based learning programs for pupils and students called: Objectwise. Objectwise contains critical observation and multi-perspective thinking. Before we get there, we must create space. For this we use objects. To be curious, to discover, to know that it’s not just facts but also interpretations and meanings that form our society. With this in mind, Objectwise offers a starting point that we translate into future scenarios and objects by using imagineering, speculative design and design thinking strategies as well as working together with partners like Museum Debate. It’s my mission to give meaning to and interact with the world around us by looking closer at objects, the stories they tell and the (possible) future they create with us. Together with other disciplines we are The Creators of Tomorrow.