Establishing Lernfreiheit and Lehrfreiheit Culture: Challenging Fear and False Expertise

The Chapter Two explores the five fear generators and applies examples of how fear can negatively affect an established academic culture of lehrfreiheit and lernfreiheit. The author will conclude with a final discussion explaining why both teachers and students should establish a culture of lernfreiheit and lehrfreiheit and include strategies to develop a culture of free learning and teaching. Lehrfreiheit and lernfreiheit became popular throughout the world and the foundational basis for academic freedom. Most students welcome the freedom to learn while most academics welcome the freedom to teach. However, the author alerts the reader to two specific dangers threatening both freedoms to teach and the freedom to learn. Therefore, in order to establish an academic culture based on lernfreiheit and lehrfreiheit, it is necessary to challenge false expertise and fear generators.