Open Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Education - Understanding Shifting Youth Cultures and Aspirations
Time
20.9.2024 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.
5. Seminar: Understanding Shifting Youth Cultures and Aspirations
With the emergence of new communication technologies and the social media, youth cultures are changing, with intergenerational transformations. With the changes in the nature of work, employment and labor relations, youth aspirations are often couched in terms that have become outdated. Assumptions of meritocracy, for example, can no longer motivate young people in the ways in which once did. It has become essential for educators to think about how young people imagine their futures, to better align their educational experiences. This session will discuss how we might now understand shifting youth cultures and their aspirations, demanding shifts in the ways in pedagogic and social relations between teachers and students might now be conceptualized.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Prof. Tero Järvinen (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair University Lecturer Jenni Tikkanen (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.
5. Seminar: Understanding Shifting Youth Cultures and Aspirations
With the emergence of new communication technologies and the social media, youth cultures are changing, with intergenerational transformations. With the changes in the nature of work, employment and labor relations, youth aspirations are often couched in terms that have become outdated. Assumptions of meritocracy, for example, can no longer motivate young people in the ways in which once did. It has become essential for educators to think about how young people imagine their futures, to better align their educational experiences. This session will discuss how we might now understand shifting youth cultures and their aspirations, demanding shifts in the ways in pedagogic and social relations between teachers and students might now be conceptualized.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Prof. Tero Järvinen (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE), chair University Lecturer Jenni Tikkanen (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.