EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: DIVERSITY, SUSTAINABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY
Crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, the unfolding climate emergency and ongoing and resurgent violent conflict have shown that progress towards a sustainable planet is fragile and reversible. Ensuing and ever-increasing inequality and injustice threaten progress towards the goal of equitable quality education and lifelong learning (including social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and creative aspects) for all by 2030 (SDG4) and require urgent remediation and mitigation. Education and learning among marginalised groups in particular must be prioritised as a shared global responsibility if the tide of widening inequalities and injustices is to be stemmed and in furtherance of global human rights. Moreover, equitable and sustainable progress require much more than ’business as usual’, calling not only for innovation but for transformation. Re-thinking conceptualisations of education and learning and spaces where they take place (diverse learning spaces such as home, community, religious spaces, among many others) is critical. Re-imagining relations between global North and South in education and learning is fundamental to addressing marginalisation and its root causes, including by ‘reversing the gaze’ to critically examine the role played by the North in education, learning, and development from the perspectives of the global majority.
This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners in the field of international education, training, and lifelong learning at this crucial half-way point on the timeline set for the SDGs in 2015, offering opportunity for diverse and critical dialogue and debate on ways forward in this crucial field of research and practice.
SUB-THEMES:
- Conflict, crisis, climate and migration
- Decolonisation, politics, knowledges and power
- Planning, finance, technology and data
- Rights, equity and inclusion
- Education systems including workforce and curricula
- Holistic learning processes and outcomes
The full programme is now available for the September 2023 UKFIET conference!
We are very pleased that the programme will provide an interesting, thought and discussion provoking conference.
7 September 2023
We have a packed first day of the conference which will be completely online. Dr Vandana Shiva will be opening the day.
12-14 September 2023
Moving to Oxford, there are three full days of parallel sessions, some of which are hybrid and will also be available to our online participants.
- Tuesday 12: The opening keynote will be from Dr Maria Balarin, GRADE (Group for the Analysis of Development), Peru.
- Wednesday 13: The BAICE Presidential address, will be delivered by Professor Nidhi Singal, President of BAICE and University of Cambridge.
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Thursday 14: Our closing plenary will bring together a fascinating group of people. They are activists, practitioners, and change-makers who are passionate about education and learning for everyone, including vulnerable groups in some of the most disadvantaged areas. This plenary will allow the delegates to learn about the important work done by our plenary speakers and have an opportunity to dialogue with them. In this plenary, we will also have a chance to highlight and discuss the insights collected throughout the four days of the conference.
ABOUT UKFIET
The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET) is committed to promoting and strengthening international education and development for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and other differences. It pursues this objective through:
- Sharing educational ideas, knowledge and expertise between members and across the wider community, in the UK and internationally, through conferences, seminars and other meetings;
- Encouraging the development of teaching, training, research and publication;
- Serving as a resource to policy makers in government, multi-lateral and non-government organisations, and in other institutions;
- Making representations and facilitating critical debate on issues of common interest.
Through our membership UKFIET constitutes a body of professional expertise that serves as a resource to policy-makers in multi-lateral, government, and non-government organisations, and to other institutions and agencies.
UKFIET is a non-profit organisation registered as a limited company in England No. 5725610 with Registered Charity No. 1116614. It has a Board of Trustees which oversees the Forum’s portfolio of activities. Also, the Forum has a volunteer Executive Committee which manages the delivery of the portfolio.
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