Open Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Education - Overcoming the contradictions of Educational Markets
Time
17.9.2024 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.
2. Seminar: Overcoming the contradictions of Educational Markets
Markets (neoliberal) thinking in education has been ubiquitous in recent decades, but so have the critiques relating to its negative consequences in hollowing out the focus away from public goods in education, and generating serious social and economic inequalities. Yet it is hard to imagine any longer how educational systems might work without reliance on the markets --in making educational investments through various private sources, corporations, philanthropic organizations and of course student fees, and in structuring educational governance. This session will examine this contradiction and consider how it might be overcome.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Prof. Piia Seppänen (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair Prof., Faculty Dean Jukka Husu (Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education)
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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.
2. Seminar: Overcoming the contradictions of Educational Markets
Markets (neoliberal) thinking in education has been ubiquitous in recent decades, but so have the critiques relating to its negative consequences in hollowing out the focus away from public goods in education, and generating serious social and economic inequalities. Yet it is hard to imagine any longer how educational systems might work without reliance on the markets --in making educational investments through various private sources, corporations, philanthropic organizations and of course student fees, and in structuring educational governance. This session will examine this contradiction and consider how it might be overcome.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Prof. Piia Seppänen (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair Prof., Faculty Dean Jukka Husu (Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education)
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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.