Meet the World
About the Course
We examine the small and large worlds around us. We look at agriculture, asylum, nationalism, nature and social organization and we go on lots of trips and visits.
We plan an excursion approximately every two weeks and a three-day mini-study tour.
We are going to a conventional pig barn and meet a local farmer. We will visit hand-operated micro-farms and young people who have moved to the countryside and are organizing collectively.
At the deportation camp, Kærshovedgård, we meet rejected asylum seekers. In other words, we seek out the locals and those with delusions of grandeur, those who struggle and organize, those who challenge the conventional answers, and those who don't just talk about change but already live it out.
When we are not on tour, we tackle global issues at home from the classroom. It can be about climate, migration, gender and power or deep dives into specific topics elsewhere.
Topics and themes:
Climate/agriculture.
Nature, biodiversity
Activism
Gender, body,
Consent
Racism/rights of indigenous peoples,
Extractivism and post-colonialism
Culture
The asylum system in Denmark
Self-sufficiency
Collective organization and alternative lifestyles
Small local communities and rural life
Your teacher
Magnus Stein
"My name is Magnus. I hold a ba. in anthropology, but primarily I've learned stuff about the world through living in the country and working with self-sufficiency.
When I was a højskole student myself, we built an entire house in the class I was in. Even though most of us had hardly held a hammer before. It was a totally mind-blowing experience to go out every day and do things none of us thought we could. That's peak Højskole for me.
I've previously been teaching horticulture, self-sustainability, music and politics and different Højskoler; been involved with climate and asylum acitivism; worked with indigenous movements in Latin America, and played in a punk band."
