Open Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Education - Rethinking the Limits of Cosmopolitanism in an Era of Populism
Time
18.9.2024 at 9.15 - 10.45
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.
3. Seminar: Rethinking the Limits of Cosmopolitanism in an Era of Populism
For more than three decades, the idea of cosmopolitanism was widely promoted, often it the language of multiculturalism and interculturalism, global citizenship education and global competencies. Its popularity was aligned to the idea of globalization and how cosmopolitanism was an appropriate response to the opportunities associated with global economy and politics. Over the past ten years, populism, nationalism and anti-globalization sentiments have undermined the appeal of cosmopolitanism. Yet global forces and connections have never been stronger. This session will consider how most of our problems are global, and their solution requires cosmopolitan thinking and learning, along with the recognition of their limitations.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Postdoctoral Researcher Suvi Jokila (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair University Lecturer Kalypso Filippou (Department of Teacher 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.
3. Seminar: Rethinking the Limits of Cosmopolitanism in an Era of Populism
For more than three decades, the idea of cosmopolitanism was widely promoted, often it the language of multiculturalism and interculturalism, global citizenship education and global competencies. Its popularity was aligned to the idea of globalization and how cosmopolitanism was an appropriate response to the opportunities associated with global economy and politics. Over the past ten years, populism, nationalism and anti-globalization sentiments have undermined the appeal of cosmopolitanism. Yet global forces and connections have never been stronger. This session will consider how most of our problems are global, and their solution requires cosmopolitan thinking and learning, along with the recognition of their limitations.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Postdoctoral Researcher Suvi Jokila (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair University Lecturer Kalypso Filippou (Department of Teacher 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.