UNESCO Chair Seminar Series (1/3) – Decolonising Education for Sustainable Futures

Event Date : 10 February 2021

Event Time : 12:00 - 13:30 (UK)

This event is the first in a series of three 1.5 hour long online seminars and are run as part of the School of Education’s Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.

Co-hosted by the UNESCO Chair on Inclusive and Quality Education for All, with the Centre for International Research in Education, EdJAM – Education, Justice and Memory Network and Educational Futures Network, School of Education, University of Bristol.

Seminar 1. Connecting decolonial and sustainable futures in education

Convenors: Professor Leon Tikly (UNESCO Chair in inclusive, good quality education) and Dr Keith Holmes (UNESCO, Future of Learning and Innovation team) 

This will serve as an introductory session that will introduce the Futures of Education initiative and set out some of the theoretical and political connections between the decolonial and environmental justice agendas in education.

Video clip: Learning to Become

Panelists:

• Professor Noah Sobe (UNESCO, Future of Learning and Innovation team)
• Professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (Faculty of Education, Western University, Canada and Common Worlds Research Collective, and co-author of Learning to Become with the World: Education for Future Survival)
• Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers (Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa; Professor of Education, Gulu University, Uganda and author of Knowledge Production, Access and Governance: A Song from the South).
• Professor Leon Tikly (UNESCO Chair in Inclusive and Quality Education for All, University of Bristol)

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