Kunskapsskolan education can be found all over the world. With ties across borders and contact between educators and students alike. KED Talk wants to build on that network, by creating a number of country portraits. In earlier episodes we travelled to India, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, the UK and the US. But in this KED Talk we return to where is has all started: Sweden. Not solely to revisit the roots, but more to investigate what lessons learned we can pick up on. And what our most...
What if schools wanted to support students to develop a sense of purpose, grow holistically, make a positive change in their community, explore their identity, curiosities, and passions and set goals and make choices about their learning? Well, you create a new school offering students personalized education based on the Kunskapsskolan model. And that is exactly what Katie Hahn and DJ Hartigan have done in New Jersey in the United States. In this KED Talk we meet the both of them, as par...
Kunskapsskolan education can be found all over the world. With ties across borders and contact between educators and students alike. KED Talk wants to build on that network, by creating a number of country portraits. In earlier episodes we travelled to India, Saudi Arabia, and The Netherlands. In this KED Talk we visit the UK. Or more specific: we visit Shevington High School in Wigan. Where Headteacher Julian Grant and his team ensures that all pupils have a personalized journey to success. ...
In an earlier KED Talk episode, we zoomed in on 10 years of remarkable Kunskapsskolan development in India. After that, our KED Talk journey across the world brought us to Saudi Arabia. For the third episode in this series, we travel to The Netherlands. A small country on the map near the North Sea, where over the last eight years a very enthusiastic Kunskapsskolan community has emerged. Listen to how the Dutch have embraced personalized education. How they battle for equal opportunities and ...
Kunskapsskolan education can be found all over the world. With ties across borders and contact between educators and students alike. KED Talk wants to build on that network, by creating a number of country portraits. Before the summer break we had a close look into Kunskapsskolan India. In this episode, we shift our focus to Kunskapsskolan Saudi Arabia. To Nün Academy in Jeddah, to be exact. A school with over 900 students aiming to prepare its students – through bilingual education – fo...
‘How do we make sure that every human being gets access to good education’? ‘How do we give all humans a better start in life’? Fundamental questions that have driven Peje Emilsson - the educational visionary behind and founding father of Kunskapsskolan education – throughout his life. Being a successful serial entrepreneur at the same time seeking answers to the things that really matter. In this KED Talk we talk to Peje Emilsson himself. About the Kunskapsskolan initiative that has ove...
Kunskapsskolan India celebrates its tenth birthday. Having empowered many thousands of students with the knowledge and skills to meet the complex demands of a modern society in four schools in Gurgaon, Bengaluru, and Lucknow. With the KED model being vastly different from the traditional educational approach in India. In this KED Talk two educators who were part and parcel of the last ten years - Sunitha Nambiar, CEO and program director of Kunskapsskolan in India and Sabreena Talw...
Kunskapsskolan not only has an established educational model and elaborate quality management system. It also nurtures educational science, advised by a independent Scientific Board. In this KED Talk we hear from two distinguished members of this board - Anette Olin and Petri Partanen. How does the Board operate? What challenges do they see? We find out in an in-depth conversation, together with KED Talk host Christian Wetell - Director of Education within Kunskapsskolan.
Kunskapsskolan education is a global affair. With a vibrant community of professionals exchanging knowledge, experience and development on a daily basis. In this KED Talk we take a deep dive into this international network. How does it work, what does it take to develop, what added values are achieved. We explore this with two Kunskapsskolan specialists from Stockholm - Kenneth Nyman, Director International Operations of Kunskapsskolan, and Cecilia Aronsson, the KED Network Director - togethe...
India is a key partner in the world of Kunskapsskolan education. Since 2013 empowering many thousands of students with the knowledge and skills to meet the complex demands of a modern society as responsible individuals. But the presence of Kunskapsskolan in India is largely due to the vision and initiative of one man: Kunal Bhadoo. More than ten years ago, he saw the necessity and possibilities for personalized education in India, established the contact with Kunskapsskolan in Stockholm and i...
This KED Talk is about educational quality. With two very special guests: Kenneth Nyman and Christian Wetell, respectively Director International Operations of Kunskapsskolan and Director of Education of Kunskapsskolan in Stockholm. KED Talk had a frank and profound conversation with them about the essence and further development of the Kunskapsskolan EDucation program, about the quality of education and the transitions in schools in different parts of the world. Recorded during the Kunskapss...
In this KED Talk a conversation with two founders of Kunskapsskolan: Cecilia Carnefeldt and Torbjörn Bindekrans. The first is CEO of Kunskapsskolan worldwide and the second the very founder of KED EDucation program. A candid conversation – recorded during the Kunskapsskolan Community Event on October 7 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands - about their mutual experiences and challenges in developing Kunskapsskolan education over the past 20 years.This is the first KED Talk in a series of two. Also l...
Self-regulating learners, Personalized education, and Kunskapsskolan Education, seem familiar. Both from the perspective of the student and the teacher. But is this really the case? Not all teachers have a clear definition of personalized learning. Or what tools can be used to support students to take more ownership of their learning, to be more self-regulating. Recently, in a global UNESCO report, personalized education was labeled the best way forward for education and learning globall...
According to a recent UNESCO report, on which 300 experts from 45 countries have been working since 2019, most parents, teachers, and students in the world demand things from education that personalized learning can provide. The UNESCO report is a global attempt to identify a way forward for education and learning. Concluding that every student learns differently and thus receiving appropriate personalized education should be regarded as a human right. In this KED Talk we explore the rep...