Dr. Nilda Inkermann

Research Assistant, Section: Didactics of Political Education

Inkermann, Nilda

Telephone: +49 561 804-3112
Email: inkermann[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

Website: Didactics of Political Education

Location: Nora-Platiel-Straße 5
34109 Kassel

Room: Nora-Platiel 5, Raum 2121

Consultation Hours: Tuesdays 2 - 3 p.m. (please register in advance by mail) and by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

Since 10.2017	PhD project on "Global Education in Transformation" in political science/political didactics.
12.2020	Passed subject change examination in political science, University of Kassel
10.2011 - 12.2013	M.A. Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (grade 1.2). Majors: Society and economy, social psychology and elementary forms of social life. Topic of the master thesis: "Global City Frankfurt? A sociological study on the concept of the 'Global City' with reference to Frankfurt".
10.2007 - 09.2011	B.A. Sociology, Ruprecht- Karls-University Heidelberg (Grade 2,0) Majors: Economy, market and organization; civil society and associationism. Topic of the bachelor thesis: "NGOs in peacebuilding processes
08.2003 - 07.2006	Georg-Christoph- Lichtenberg Comprehensive School, Göttingen, General qualification for university entrance (average grade 2,2)

Professional career

10.2017 - 04.2021	Research assistant at the University of Kassel in the graduate program "Ecologies of Social Cohesion".
05.2020 - 09.2020	Full-time program coordinator congress "Future for all" at Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V. Leipzig
07.2012 - 07.2019	Freelance education consultant at the Freiwilligendiensten der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart gGmbH Team leader of the socio-pedagogical accompanying seminars in the voluntary social year Main topics: critical consumption, climate change, human rights, nutrition, flight and migration.
01.2016 - 01.2017	Project assistant at medico international e.V. in Frankfurt am Main. Main activities: collaboration on the project "Elaboration of key points, health in humanitarian aid" funded by the German Federal Foreign Office
08.2015 - 02.2016	Education officer for global learning, One World Center Heidelberg. Main activities: Coordination and implementation of the project "Global Classroom".
Since 10.2015	Founding member and freelancer in the network "Mind Behaviour Gap"; further education offer from knowledge to action: www.mindbehaviourgap.de
	Further freelance activities in the field of global learning and political education with cooperation partners medico international e.V., Hessian Ministry for Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, University of Kassel, University of Hildesheim, Lernort Kulturkapelle Hamburg Main focus: Conception and implementation of seminars and workshops, event organization.
04. - 09.2011	Internship at the Milton-Erickson-Institute, Heidelberg Team coaching/organizational development Main focus: Seminar support/planning, org. activities
10.2010 - 02.2011	Tutor, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg Lecture "Introduction to Sociology", WiSe 2010/11
03. - 12.2009	Internship at Amnesty International, Vancouver (Canada) Main focus: Public relations, event organization, administrative support.
08. - 09.2008	Internship at the Protestant Development Service (EED), Latin America Department, Bonn (Germany) Main focus: Support in the administrative area, content-related elaborations on specialized topics, seminar evaluations.

Political and social engagement

Since October 2017	Active member of the I.L.A.-Collective Lectures, workshops on the imperial and solidarity way of life and production Development of a strategy brochure for social movements on the topic of socio-ecological transformation
11.2014 - 11.2017	"Teachers on the road" - German lessons for refugees
10.2010 - 09.2011	Member of the university group "Amnesty International Heidelberg
09.2006 - 08.2007	Voluntary social year, Escuela Comunidad Ecoactiva, Cochabamba, (Bolivia) Main focus: Collaboration in everyday school life and school teaching

Further education

10.2017 - 09.2018	Writing workshop "I.L.A. Workshop for Global Justice", Common Future, Berlin.
15. - 19.08.2016	Zeitwohlstand - theater workshop on mental infrastructure of acceleration, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Gollwitz.
08. - 09.07.2016	Anti-racism training at Phoenix e.V., Heidelberg
03. - 10.2015	Modular training: Trainer:innen for education and engagement in development contexts, Soziale Bildung e.V., Rostock.

Language skills

	English fluent in written and spoken
	Spanish fluent in written and spoken

Research Interests

Critical-emancipatory political education - especially global learning and education for sustainable development - in the context of the imperial way of life and production.
Social-ecological transformation as an educational task
Education critical of power and domination in cooperation between school and non-school actors
Practices of solidary ways of living and production and their educational and learning potentials

Publications

2021	Inkermann/Eicker: The Hegemony of the Imperial Way of Life as a Challenge for Political Education, In: Journal für politische Bildung, 4/2021, pp.32-37.
2021	Inkermann/Eicke/Lage (2021): Profiting from Solidarity, In: Hebel/Kaspar (eds.): Heile Welt: 32 Ideen für ein Leben nach Corona. Frankfurt/M.: Societäts-Verlag, pp.69-74.
2020	Inkermann/Sanders (2020): Fundamentally rethinking the world "Becoming with" as a compass for critical global learning from the perspective of New Materialisms, In: Eicker/Eis/ Holfelder/Jacobs/ Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie/ Yume (eds.): Bildung Macht Zukunft. Learning for the Social-Ecological Transformation? Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp.189-198.
2020	Inkermann/Kalt/Ritter (2020): From the balconies to the streets, In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 35, 4/2020, p. 9.
2019	I.L.A. Collective (2019): The Good Life for All. Munich: oekom Verlag.
2019	Blog Postgrowth - Are we transforming the science of transformation?!, available online at: www.postwachstum.de/transformieren-wir-die-wissenschaft-der-transformation-20191011
2017	Fröhlich/Inkermann (2017): Global learning - transformative impact with transformed multipliers. In: Emde/Jakubcyk/Kappes/Overwien (Eds.): Mit Bildung die Welt verändern? Global learning for sustainable development. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 265-275.

Lectures

2021	Conference Vienna: Solidary Citizens - Imperial Way of Life and Civic Education, Lecture: Global Learning in the Field of Conflict between Imperial and Solidary Way of Life, University of Vienna (Chairs: Didactics of Civic Education and International Politics and Democracy Center Vienna), 5.11.2021
2021	Panel discussion: Crisis, Struggles, Revolution, online conference on authoritarian communism, 29.5.2021
2020	Panel discussion: Strategic Approaches: an Overview, Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Strategies for Social-ecological Transformation, 30.5.2020
2020	Kick-off event "The Political Plant", Lecture: From Knowledge to Action, Tropical Greenhouse Witzenhausen, 14.1.2020
2019	Lecture series "The utopian space", lecture: On the way to a good life for all! medico international, Frankfurt, 19.12.2019
2019	Panel discussion "Strategies for social-ecological transformation", Feminist Future Festival, Essen, 14.9.2019
2019	Divided left? Communitarianism, cosmopolitanism and new internationalism - input to: solidarity lifestyle, Crossover Conference Politics of the Many, Institute for Solidarity Modernity, Berlin, 6/15/2019
2019	Panel discussion "Striking for climate protection - What am I willing to do?", Gut Karlshöhe Hamburg, 8.5.2019
2019	Book launch, "The good life for all - Pathways to a solidarity-based way of life," University of Kassel, Jan. 29, 2019
2019	Panel discussion, "Climate, capitalism, cooperation - climate protection between political will and economic calculation," Georg August University Göttingen, Jan. 24, 2019
2018	"From living at the expense of others, to a good life for all," attac Herbstratschlag, Frankfurt, Nov. 2, 2018

Workshops

2022	Teacher:in-service training as part of the certificate course "Education for Sustainable Development" Center Education for Sustainable Development, State Institute for Pedagogy and Media (LPM), Otzenhausen, Saarland, 26.04.2022
2021	"ESD in Transformation - Challenges of social transformation processes for the educational approach ESD", Multiplikator:innen Online-Workshop, BNE Netzwerk Nordhessen und Weltgarten Witzenhausen, 15.12.2021
2021	"From imperial to solidarity-based lifestyles: Welche Rolle spielt Bildung?", Multiplier:innen Online-Fortbildung, Hamburg mal fair/Mobile Bildung e.V., 12.11.2021
2021	"The concept of imperial way of life as part of critical political education? Critical reflection with regard to the category "class", among others", online conference: Dirty Capitalism - Political Economy (in) Civic Education, 3/13/2021.
2019	"From living at the expense of others to a good life for all!", Multiplier:innen advanced training, Dresden ArcheNova, 9.11.2019
2019	"Contours of the solidary way of life - Potentials of the concept of the way of life and production for the post-growth debate", Conference - Great Transformation? On the future of modern societies, Jena, Sept. 26, 2019.
2019	"From knowledge to action - learning in transformative processes", Multiplier*innen Fortbildung, EBD - Entwicklungsbezogene Bildung in Deutschland, Hamburg, 9.9.2019
2019	"Climate and the Imperial Way of Life", "Fridays for Future" summer congress, Dortmund, 1./2.8.2019
2019	"Mind the gap - on the discrepancy between knowledge and action", Conference - Education is a battlefield, Berlin, 6.7.2019
2019	"From imperial to solidarity lifestyles: What is the role of education?", conference BildungMachtZukunft, Kassel, 22.2.2019
2018	"Troubling Nature? Interdisciplinary Negotiations of Human-Environment Relations," PhD Workshop, University of Kassel, Oct. 18, 2018.
2018	"From imperial to solidarity-based living - finally, the good life for all!", Critical of Domination Summer University Kassel, July 24-26, 2018.

Hosted & Co-hosted Conferences

02/2019 Co-organization of the conference "Bildung Macht Zukunft - Lernen für die sozial-ökologische Transformation" at the University of Kassel in cooperation with Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie.
08/2021 Co-organization of the congress "Future for all - just. ecological. feasible" hybrid in Leipzig and as an online congress.

non-university activities

Since October 2017	Active member of the I.L.A. collective: ilawerkstatt.org Lectures, workshops on the imperial and solidarity way of life and production. Development of a strategy brochure for social movements on the topic of socio-ecological transformation
Since October 2015	Trainer in the Mind Behaviour Gap network: www.mindbehaviourgap.de