Thursday 17 October 1:00 – 3:00 Friends House, Euston Road, London
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Join us for the inaugural UKFIET Chair’s event.
A panel event with a facilitated roundtable discussion, the focus of the discussion will be on ‘disruption’ and what it might look like and how we might use our power to do things differently in our own practice.
Aims and objectives
- To provide a platform for disrupters in international education.
- To consider how the UK international education and training community can reflect on the practice in our own organisations
- To share our learning with our spheres of influence
Background
This is the inaugural UKFIET Chair’s Event, prepared by Yvette Hutchinson, Chair of the UKFIET Executive Committee.
“Over the last few years, I have been involved in work around decolonisation, reparative futures, anti-racism, girls’ education and the issue of boys’ education in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In all of these areas of work, there have been a few recurring themes around justice, equity, and widening our understanding of epistemologies and ontologies.
In this first, UKFIET Chair’s event, I would like to reflect on discourse and actions relating to equitable transboundary partnerships, the generation of knowledge and the recognition of other and othered ways of knowing and doing. I would also like to provide a platform for those working to bring diverse knowledge systems into current international education praxis.”
- Whose are the main voices in international education?
- What are the processes that maintain this status quo?
- What might disruption look like?
- Whose might be the new voices and how do we amplify them?
- What can we do differently from today in our own organisations and spheres of influence?
Panellists
Sharon Walker is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the discursive and material processes which reproduce racist thinking and outcomes in education systems. She has explored this in UK education policy and the field of comparative and international education. She also works with teachers and grassroots organisations on anti-racist educational approaches in school settings. While interested in issues of race more broadly, she is particularly interested in interrogating local and global understandings of ‘Blackness’.
Samuel Asare is Education Researcher and a Senior Research Manager for Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA). He is also an Associate Member at the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. He is passionate about using context-relevant data and evidence to improve learning outcomes for children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Esther Priyadharshini is Professor of Educational Futures, at the School of Education & Lifelong Learning, UEA. Her research combines futures studies, youth studies and education. She is interested in how processes of education, learning and research can be made to respond to social/global challenges and support the making of more desirable, just futures. Esther draws on post-humanist, feminist and post-colonial perspectives for her work. She is interested in experimental approaches to research methodology that expand the recognition of diverse knowledge generation practices.
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