Decolonising Data Summit

4 April, 13:00-17:00 BST

Together with the Laboratory for International Assessment Studies, Deakin University’s strategic research and innovation centre, the Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI), and the Deakin Science and Society Network, NORRAG is pleased to invite you to the Decolonising Data Summit.

The Decolonising Data Summit brings together a diverse range of scholars to explore how coloniality is implicated in the project of datafication in education and international development. The Summit aims to address issues such as global hierarchies of data production, the creep of privatisation through Ed-Tech, and the dangers related to surveillance and data harvesting. It will encourage a reconsideration of the dominant epistemologies and practices of conceptualising, producing, sharing and storing education data.

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Programme

14:00 – 15:15 CEST – Keynote: “A New World? Transformational Knowledge and Decolonisation”

Crain Soudien, Professor Emeritus of Education and African Studies and former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa

15:30 – 16:30 CEST – Panel 1: Decolonising International Assessment

To what extent are international comparative assessments appropriate and useful, particularly to nations in the global south? Are the needs of global south contexts understood and honoured in these global projects? What alternatives might evolve if Indigenous and local knowledges took the lead in assessment?

• Moderator: Leon Tikly, Professor in Education, UNESCO Chair in Inclusive, Good Quality Education and Global Chair in Education, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
• César Guadalupe, Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, and member of the Universidad del Pacífico Research Center, Peru
• Therese Hopfenbeck, Professor and Director, Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Baela Jamil, Chief Executive Officer, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi, Pakistan
• Sylvia Schmelkes, Sociologist and Professor of Educational Research and Development, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico

16:45 – 17:45 CEST – Panel 2: Decolonising Ed-Tech

Is EdTech the panacea that will dramatically increase access and quality, or a colonising force that compromises education as a project of building social cohesion? What philosophies and understandings underpin these technologies, and the companies that own them? How ought we to respond to the proliferation of technologies, particularly in the global south?

• Moderator: Kathryn Moeller, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Taskeen Adam, Associate Manager, OpenDevEd
• Marina Avelar, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Priscila Gonsales, Researcher, UNESCO Chair in EaD, University of Brasília, Brazil, and Co-fonder and director Instituto Educadigital
• Siddhi Gupta, Research Lead, FemLab.co

17:45 – 18:00 CEST – Closing

Each session will include a Q&A with the audience.