Speaker information

Darius Radkevicius

Lithuania

Darius Radkevicius is a Member of the Vilnius City Council, Education and Culture Committee, expert of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Mr. Radkevicius graduated in medicine, after which he studied system management and worked as the senior expert of assessment of business system implementation in Lithuanian companies at the Lithuanian Business Support Agency. Mr. Radkevicius is a certified expert of the International Organization for Theory of Constraints (E. Goldratt), the owner of the consulting business and publishing house UAB Rgrupe in Lithuania, specializing in business books. He is also the author of 3 creative book projects: “God, Quantum Physics, Organizational Structure and Management Style”; “Waiting for the Golden Age” (about yoga and the search for meaning); “Style as a Mirror of Archetype” and a series of interviews with leading visionaries in children’s education entitled “School of the Future and / or Happiness”.

 

Speaker presentations

 

Date: 11.11

Time:

15:45 – 16:30
Nur-Sultan time

Master-class

School at the heart of the community

For a long time, the school performed a rather isolated function of teaching and upbringing. Parents also have an educating and nurturing responsibility, although due to lack of time, few of the parents are seriously engaged in this.

To guarantee children’s safety, schools used to be fenced off and became like secluded islands. But times have changed: society is becoming more open, new technological solutions are emerging, and a personalized approach to education is spreading. Within blended or hybrid learning, school is considered as a place for team projects, rather than the place of knowledge acquisition.

It turns out that we are repeating the phenomenon of “church”. The real church is not a building but a community. So is school: with the time passing it is less associated with the building – it is more about the community around it.

How can we change the role of the school? How to make the school the heart of the community? Is it worth doing at all?

How to fulfil parents’ dreams who would like their child to be treated not as another one in the classroom but as an individual taught personally?