On the Futures of Education: Civic Responsibility, Pedagogy, & Textbooks in a Time of Rapid Change

On the Futures of Education: Civic Responsibility, Pedagogy, & Textbooks in a Time of Rapid Change

When

11 Dec 2020    
1:00pm - 2:30pm

Event Type

Webinar

This webinar is organised by Columbia University’s Teachers College and NISSEM, in partnership with UNESCO’s Futures of Education.

The Futures of Education initiative aims to rethink education and shape the future in a world of rapid change and increasing complexity.

This webinar explores the following ideas:

  1. How can we prepare for change and complexity?
  2. How is ‘change’ different in different parts of the world?
  3. Should we profoundly rethink ‘education’, and what would this mean for curriculum, pedagogy, and textbooks?

The webinar will present key points from three of the background papers commissioned by the initiative and will invite audience participation in lively conversation.

More information about how to register is available here

Abstracts for the papers are available here

Presenters

Helen Haste (University of Bath) & Vidur Chopra (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Michele Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow)

Andy Smart & Aaron Benavot (University at Albany – State University New York) (NISSEM co-conveners)

Moderator

Noah Sobe (UNESCO & Loyola University Chicago)

Discussant

Mahboob Morshed (BRAC IED)