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Margret Rasfeld
Rasfeld in 2016
Born1951 (age 72–73)
NationalityGerman
Occupations
  • Author
  • Activist
AwardsSee Awards
WebsitePersonal website (in German)

Margret Rasfeld (born 1951) is a German author, activist and headmistress in active retirement. She is the co-founder and current managing director of the initiative Schule im Aufbruch [de] (school on the move) and has been elected Ashoka Fellow since 2015.[1] Rasfeld advocates a reorientation of school education according to the guidelines of the UNESCO campaign Education for sustainable development (ESD).[2]

Life

Margret Rasfeld was born in 1951 in Gladbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.[3] From 1976 to 1992, she was a teacher at a Gymnasium in biology and chemistry. From 1992 to 1997, she was involved in setting up the Borbeck comprehensive school in Essen as a didactic director. From 1997 to 2007, Rasfeld built the Holsterhausen Comprehensive School, which has received many high-ranking awards for its activities in education for sustainable development.[4]

From 2007 to 2016 she headed the Evangelical School Berlin Zentrum, which is now recognized internationally as a model for an approach "transformative education".[citation needed] As a result of these activities, she became a sought-after consultant and speaker in the fields of education and new work at home and abroad, as well as a consultant and trainer for teachers and school administrators.[citation needed]

Further activities

Awards

Publications

Books

Essays in non-fiction books (selection)

Essays in journals (selection):

References

  1. ^ "Margret Rasfeld | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". www.ashoka.org. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  2. ^ "Margret Rasfeld". Bildung für globales Bewusstsein (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  3. ^ https://www.stiftung-naturschutz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Presse/Portrait_rasfeld.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ https://www.gesamtschule-essen-holsterhausen.de/auszeichnungen.html
  5. ^ Merkel, Angela: . Murmann, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-187-3
  6. ^ "Naturschutzpreis 2011 - Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin". www.stiftung-naturschutz.de. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  7. ^ "Vision Award 2012 - Projektfabrik". www.projektfabrik.org. Retrieved 2020-11-14.