Margret Rasfeld

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.

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".