Blog #27 ​​​​​​​Knowledge production, knowledge mobilisation and knowledge transfer for the development of science and practice.

On Friday, 28 October 2022, the annual section meeting of the Commission for Educational Planning, Organisation and Law (KBBB) of the German Society for Educational Sciences (DGFE) took place online this year. Under the theme "Knowledge Production, Knowledge Mobilisation and Knowledge Transfer for the Development of Academia and Practice. Chances and limitations", the local planning committee (this year in Zürich) designed an exciting day of panel discussions, lectures, and inspiring debates. Martina Krieg, Volksschulentwicklung Luzern, Dr. Anika Duveneck, FU Berlin, and Micha Pallesche, Ernst-Reuter-Schule Karlsruhe, shared their perspectives and experiences on the topic of "transfer" and cooperation between the various actors from academia, educational practice, and educational administration. The speakers emphasised the importance of the two-way street of transfer. This implies both a joint reflection of expectations and needs as well as the joint development of goals and processes. A mutual openness and availability are central prerequisites, but also challenges, for various actors. While the wish to for cooperation is usually present, the structural conditions are not always given. 

In the following individual presentations, Dr. Luise Fischer, MetaKLuB, spoke on a joint paper with Professor Nina Kolleck entitled "Dialogue between academia, society and practice. New Ways (in Arts Education) in Times of the Anthropocene." Ms Fischer once again addressed the (often underrecognized) potentials of cultural/arts education (in rural areas): personality and community development, mental and physical health as well as the development of belonging and local identiy. She then discussed the importance of dialogue – interpersonally as well as posthumanly. If meeting and working together at am eye level is meant to happen, we need to embrace the conditions for such dialogue, Ms Fischer said: openness to change, an engagement with the other(s) as well as with all discursive material influences and entities. If we succeed in recognising the self-created boundaries and identities (as "acadmics", as "cultural practitioners") as constructed, possibilities for conscious change and, thus, new forms of collaboration or cooperation can emerge. In conclusion, Luise Fischer called for more experimental spaces for (research) projects at eye level.

We look forward to the next KBBB conference in Potsdam next year (2023).

Created by: Dr. Luise Fischer