On 24 January 2024 we at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, are marking the sixth International Day of Education.
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1/23/2024
This video accompanies the latest ASPIRTES Research Spotlight, "Make it more relevant and practical": Young people's vision for school science in England.
The report explore the views of young people who have been participants in the ASPIRES study.
In the video, ASPIRES Summer Placement Student, Princess Emeanuwa explains the importance of the report from the point of view of a young person who is of a similar age to the study participants.
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11/29/2022
Douglas Bourn, Professor of Development Education at UCL, has authored a new book on education for social change.
The book introduces debates about education for social change, including a review of historical themes around democracy, liberation and socialism.
Key theorists are introduced throughout the book including bell hooks, Dewey, Giroux, Gramsci, and Freire.
To mark the publication of this new work, Doug Bourn leads a discussion that will explore the themes covered in the book.
Discussants:
Professor Tania Ramalho (State University of New York)
Dr Namrata Sharma (State University of New York)
Susan Kambalu (CAFOD)
Alison Hooper (Egerton Primary School)
The event is chaired by Liam Wegimont, Director of Global Education Network Europe.
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2/10/2022
Anne Marie Kavanagh, Fionnuala Waldron, Benjamin Mallon and Annie Ó Breacháin (Institute of Education, Dublin City University) discuss their new book examining social justice education and education for sustainable development at primary level.
The event will be Chaired by DERC's Director, Professor Doug Bourn.
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6/23/2021
Claire Arnott and Joanna Milis (Fairtrade Foundation) share insights into how they have adapted their educational offer throughout 2020/2021 to engage young people with global issues.
This seminar session will look at the relevance of Fairtrade and global learning in a current global context that compels schools to explore global issues such as global health and climate change more urgently than ever.
We will also be joined by Fiona McKeown, a teacher who has been directly involved in the Fairtrade Schools programme throughout periods of school closure, who will shed light on how these new approaches have played out in practice.
Dr Adam Unwin (UCL Institute of Education) will then provide an academic response and commentary, drawing on his expertise in global development education.
The session will be Chaired by Professor Douglas Bourn, Director of the Development Education Research Centre (DERC) and Professor of Development Education at UCL Institute of Education
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3/31/2021
CEID book launch of Professor Marie Lall's: Myanmar's Education Reforms - a pathway to social justice? (UCL Press) The webinar featured Dr Jérémie Sanchez (Fribourg), Dr Khaing Phyu (FCDO, Yangon) and Prof Marie Lall (UCL). The panel commented on the Myanmar 2020 elections as well as on the reforms.
The book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serves as a case study on how the reform programme has evolved. Drawing on over 15 years of field research carried out across Myanmar, the book offers a cohesive inquiry into how the transition has played out across schools, universities and wider society. In so doing, it gives voice to those most affected by the changing landscape of Myanmar’s education and wider reform process.
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1/26/2021
In this seminar, the Development Education Research Centre's Director Professor Douglas Bourn will discuss themes from his forthcoming book which outlines a distinctive pedagogical approach for education for social change.
Reference will be made to historical debates regarding education for democracy, socialism and liberation.
The main focus of the talk will however be on an approach to learning that brings in themes of social justice, transformation and impact of globalisation. Examples in the talk will be given from formal and higher education and youth work.
>>> Speaker biography
Douglas Bourn is Professor of Development Education at UCL Institute of Education and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre. He is the author of Theory and Practice of Development Education (2014) and Understanding Global Skills (2018) and editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Education and Learning (2020).
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11/20/2020
Identities, Inequalities & Education: Sociology for social justice with youth in (and out of) school
Identities, Inequalities & Education: Sociology for social justice with youth in (and out of) school
Thursday 16th May 2019
Speaker: Louise Archer, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, IOE
Chair: Professor Becky Francis, Director, IOE
Respondent: Katherine Mathieson, Chief Executive, British Science Association (BSA)
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5/21/2019