Name: HYBRID: Education for a sustainable society; Students’ questions and educational responses – today and tomorrow
Start: 2024-05-13T10:00:00+0200
End: 2024-05-14T14:00:00+0200

SASUF Satellite Events 13-14 May 2024

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HYBRID: Education for a sustainable society; Students’ questions and educational responses – today and tomorrow

Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/e/qgcDqyD0s6
Final registration date: 2024-05-10

2-DAY event
13 May: 10:00-19:00
14 May: 09:00-14:00

The aim of this event is to develop new insights through reviewing newly published and ongoing research concerning education and sustainability, as an existential and ethical question, especially focussing on the kinds of questions that students ask and the kind of educational responses that are provided by education and curriculum today but also such responses imagined for a possible tomorrow. As sustainability can be regarded as a multidisciplinary issue, the event will pay attention to educational responses from both social sciences and natural sciences. The possibilities to develop new insights will increase due to the mixed scientific focuses and experiences from both Sweden and South Africa. The understandings gained will inform teacher education practice and have a potential impact on both practice and theory since it will encourage new research collaboration and publications.

The event will take its departure from what we know about crucial existential questions of students. Among the researchers that will participate in the event, a larger research project, funded by the Swedish national research council, has been directed towards existential issues of children in middle school (including a focus on educational responses). From the findings of this project and other projects, we know that some of the frequent questions have included children’s concerns of social exclusion, achievement requirements and stress, and that issues concerning climate change are also starting to surface. All these issues can be understood as sustainability questions, that invoke sustainability in all of its dimensions: environmentally, socially and economically.

The main part of the event will focus on what kind of curriculum responses – interpreted as including different levels such as institutional, instructional and experiential levels of curriculum related to policy, teachers and students –can be identified in previous and ongoing research . The presenters will focus on research related to one or more of the three mentioned curriculum levels and the session will thereby capture both policy documents and teachers’ priorities as well as practices of classrooms and students’ experienced perspectives and relate this to Swedish and South African contexts.

The conclusions will be shaped in relation to teacher education practices and for instance in the form of new identified research questions that could lead to new collaborations, projects and publications.

Day 1: ORIENTING TO THE THEMATIC FOCUS

10:00 - 11:00 - Introduction and shared research interests
11:00 - 12:30 - What we know from previous and ongoing research concerning students’ existential and ethical issues and questions concerning sustainability
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00 - What we know from previous and ongoing research concerning institutional, instructional and experiential levels of curriculum responses related to policy, teacher perspectives, student perspectives and classroom observations. Short presentations by participants.
16:00 - 17:00 - Campus tour
18:00 - 19:00 - Public Lecture on the thematic area for university staff, students and school teachers (Shan Simmonds, Washington Takawira Dudu, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Demaine Solomons, Annika Lilja, Karin Sporre, Miranda Rocksén)

Day 2: DRAWING THE OVERVIEW AND THEMATIC AREAS – NEW KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHTS FOR TEACHER EDUCATION COURSES, PRACTICES AND FURTHER RESEARCH

9:00 - 10:30 - Identifying new knowledge and critical thematic areas that are of interest and relevance based on yesterday’s discussions
11:30 - 11:00 - Break
11:00 - 12:00 - What concrete conclusions for teacher education courses, practices and further educational research can be drawn in relation to the identified new knowledge and critical thematic areas of interest
12:00 - 14:00 - Light lunch and visit to some local schools for international visitors
Departure for Malmö/Lund

Registration
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/e/qgcDqyD0s6
Final registration date: 2024-05-10

Contact for inquiries:
Christina.Osbeck@gu.se

HYRBRID
Unlimited number of participants in this hybrid event:
https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/68319811063

Speakers

Shan Simmonds

Professor of Curriculum Studies, North West University

Shan Simmonds is a professor of curriculum studies and a member of the Edu-HRight Research Unit (Education and Human Rights in Diversity) at North-West University, South Africa. She is an NRF-rated researcher in curriculum studies, higher education and human rights education and regularly... Read More →

Eva Knekta

Postdoctoral researcher, Umeå University

I am is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of science and mathematics education at Umeå University. I have a degree of Master of Education, a Master of Science in Biology and Ph.D. in Educational Measurement. My Ph.D. focused on motivational aspect of test-taking and gave... Read More →

Miranda Rocksén

Senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg

Annika Manni

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University

Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Distinguished Professor SARChI Chair: Global Change and Social Learning Systems, Environmental Learning Research Centre,, Rhodes University

I am Heila Lotz-Sisitka, in love with teaching, and worker at the university-currently-known as Rhodes University in the global South. Here I try to do the humble, always fallible work of being an uncertain professor of environmental education, with a reflexive passion for education... Read More →

Karin Sporre

Professor in Educational Work, with a focus on values, gender and diversity. Associate Professor (Docent) in Ethics, Dep, Umeå University

My recent research focuses on ethics education, and existential questions and ethical concerns of children and young people. Through international comparative curricular studies and in research cooperation with South African colleagues I have reflected on and addressed global aspects... Read More →

Katarina Kärnebro

Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Umeå University

Christina Osbeck

Professor at the department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg

In my research , I am especially focussed on religious education, ethics education and existential questions of young people, their life interpretations and life views.

Annika Lilja

Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg

Zama Simamane

Lecturer, Geography and Environmental Education, North West University

John Bhurekeni

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rhodes University

John Bhurekeni is a post-doctoral fellow and curriculum innovation scholar in the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Department of Post-Secondary Education at Rhodes University. His research interest is in the fields of philosophy for children & ethics education, global citizenship... Read More →