The NoRNet2023 conference on the challenges of the transition from education to working life will be held in Turku in early October. The theme of the conference is The Politics of Educational and Working Life Transitions: intersectional perspectives. Abstracts for the conference can be submitted until 30 March.
How should we rethink higher education to make it more responsive to the challenges of a changing world? This question will be answered in a panel discussion in Educarium on Thursday 9 February from 12.30 pm.
Visiting professors Fazal Rizvi and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral will give open lectures at the Faculty of Education. Professor Fazal Rizvi is speaking with title "Global Transformations and Education Policy. Reimagining Globalization and Education" on 12th October and Professor Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is speaking about Understanding the Business of Education: A Challange for Education Research at 8th November. Both events are organised by Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education.
Visiting Professor Marcelo Parreira do Amaral will give an open lecture with title "Postcolonialism and Globalization: a view from Comparative and International Education" on Mon 6th of June, 2022 at 12.15–13.45 at Edu 357a (Assistentinkatu 5).
Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Director General of the International Baccalaureate Organization, and Martin Thrupp, Professor at New Zealand's Univeristy of Waikato, will give their honorary doctoral lectures at the end of My. The title of Heinonen's lecture is "What have I learned in 30 years about educational reforms?" and the title of Thrupp's presentation is "Education academics in small countries: Comparing notes between New Zealand and Finland". Both lectures can be followed remotely and you can also attend Thrupp's lecture at the University of Turku.
Professor Bob Lingard gives a quest lecturer A critical consideration of emergent developments in the datafication and digitalisation of education on Monday March 14th at 14.15–15.15. Lecture will held in Edu 3 -hall in Educarium building, Assistentinkatu 5, Turku.
In a recent report, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO has challenged everyone to think about how education can help us meet the great challenges of the future. Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE will hold on Thursday 2th December from 2 to 4 p.m., an open zoom discussion to open the content of the report, after which the experts will discuss the topic with the public.
The Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE's 20th anniversary celebrations highlight challenges of a global risk society from perspective of lifelong learning. The lecture by Professor Fazal Rizvi will be available in the zoom of the gala seminar on Friday 3 December from 12 noon.
Research Center for Lifelong Learning and Education at CELE celebrates it 20th anniversary. The anniversary year is opened on 2nd September 2021 with a lecture on Education Gone Global - The Expanding Global Education Industry by a visiting professor Marcelo Parreira do Amaral.
While the policy discourses of internationalisation of higher education at systematic level are relatively recent, there is nothing new about its practices. Internationally acclaimed professor Fazal Rizvi started his two year term (2019-2020) as a visiting professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education, and spoke about neoliberal rationality and the internationalization of higher education on his opening lecture.