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Global Outlook

In Global Outlook we pause the world for a moment and ask: How did we end up here? Global Outlook is a class based on dialogue but also a class for detectives where we investigate the world and try to understand it a little better than before.

Understand the world

Come on a journey where we will explore the world as it is and as it could be.

It is connected. That's how simple it can be stated. The local is intertwined with the global, our personal lives are entwined with other's lives. We are shaped by the societies and cultures around us. In Global Outlook, we work on slowly unraveling the skein of yarn, so we can get a better understanding of how the threads are connected. We start with the close and use it as a basis to comprehend the broader contexts: international politics, global citizenship, cultural encounters, and identity politics in an open and playful manner.

oscar Holmbom

Global Outlook

Global Outlook is a subject where you immerse yourself in the world around you and discover how international your everyday life is. Whether the lesson is about bananas and South America or about the internet and our cell-phones, you learn while laughing and playing.

Yuka Ogata

Global Outlook

Through the class, we learned tips on understanding the world through different perspectives. We focus on different topics in various ways: we play LEGO to consider government forms and do role-play to explore cultural exchange. Now, I'm able to realize certain problems in everyday life that I had not even realized before.

Malthe Vesterlund

Global Outlook

Global Outlook is for anyone curious about the world around them and how it all fits together. For me, it has been truly enjoyable and fascinating to be a part of, both in terms of the topics we delve into and the teaching approach, where there is room for discussion, reflection, and play.

What will we be doing?

We will investigate the world in which we live in and how we should relate to it.

In a mix of interactive exercises, reflective discussions, and professional input, we will explore and challenge opinions and world perspectives which affects the global exercise of power. We will work with present conflicts, challenges, and movements which shape our world. For example: How could it be that Myanmar once again have converted into a military regime after years of democracy? How does the economic and population growth in Asian countries affect our understandings of democracy, climate change, and great power nations? And how do movements like MeToo and BlackLivesMatter evolve and spread? We will reflect, with curiosity, upon prejudices when learning to be a part of multicultural collaboration. We will learn to cope with future conflicts and in this way, you will generate a deeper understanding of the world and your role in it.

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Keywords of the subject

Overview of the subject components

Individual and community

Cultural encounters

Social justice

The local and the global

Teacher

Your teacher in Global Outlook is

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Mads Kruse

Awareness of our ability to make a difference in the world. Together, we will be wiser and, not least, ready to act when we, with both a local and global perspective, initiate the process as a concrete addition to society.

LÆRKE BRUHN ELMING

Nordfyns Folk High School is a sanctuary with room to explore the unknown, broaden one's horizons, gain insight into oneself, and see the world from new perspectives in the company of others