Open Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Education - Meeting the Challenges of Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development
Time
19.9.2024 at 13.15 - 14.45
Driven largely by new technologies, the world is experiencing wide-ranging social, economic, and political transformations. The speed, intensity and reach of changes are unprecedent, affecting most aspects of our lives, including education. In education, major challenges have emerged at the level not only of policy and governance but also with learning, teaching, and assessment.
In this series of seminars, Visting Professor Fazal Rizvi will hold critical conversations with a range of scholars at the University of Turku, focusing on such issues as the changing nature of work, artificial intelligence, environmental crisis, shifting youth cultures and populism and their challenges for educational policy and practice, and the ways in which we might address them.
4. Seminar: Meeting the Challenges of Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development
The challenges of climate crisis and sustainable development are now widely recognized by international organizations and national systems of education. UNESCO’s sustainable development goals, for example, have climate action at the heart of its agenda. Young people in particular, view climate crisis as fundamental to their future. While anti-climate change sentiments remain influential, so does the claim that our response to the crisis is at best limited. This session will address the role that education might play in climate action, dealing not only with the challenges but also the opposition from the sceptics and nay-sayers.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & University Lecturer Rauno Huttunen (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair Academy Research Fellow Johanna Kallo (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE)
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Professor Rizvi has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Turku over the past five years. He is an Emeritus Professor in Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has written extensively on globalization and education policy, identity and culture in transnational contexts, internationalization of higher education, and social transformations in Education.
In this series of seminars, Visting Professor Fazal Rizvi will hold critical conversations with a range of scholars at the University of Turku, focusing on such issues as the changing nature of work, artificial intelligence, environmental crisis, shifting youth cultures and populism and their challenges for educational policy and practice, and the ways in which we might address them.
4. Seminar: Meeting the Challenges of Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development
The challenges of climate crisis and sustainable development are now widely recognized by international organizations and national systems of education. UNESCO’s sustainable development goals, for example, have climate action at the heart of its agenda. Young people in particular, view climate crisis as fundamental to their future. While anti-climate change sentiments remain influential, so does the claim that our response to the crisis is at best limited. This session will address the role that education might play in climate action, dealing not only with the challenges but also the opposition from the sceptics and nay-sayers.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & University Lecturer Rauno Huttunen (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair Academy Research Fellow Johanna Kallo (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE)
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Professor Rizvi has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Turku over the past five years. He is an Emeritus Professor in Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has written extensively on globalization and education policy, identity and culture in transnational contexts, internationalization of higher education, and social transformations in Education.