16.9.–20.9. Critical Conversations about the Emerging Challenges in Education
Driven largely by new technologies, the world is experiencing wide-ranging social, economic, and political transformations. The speed, intensity and reach of changes are unprecedented, 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, Visiting 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.
You are invited to these public seminars to engage with the conversations, at which ample opportunity will be provided for inputs from the audience.
Professor Rizvi has been a Visiting Professor in the Faculty 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 globalisation and education policy, identity and culture in transnational contexts, internationalisation of higher education, and social transformations in Education.
Seminars:
16.9.2024 at 9.15–10.45 Edu 3, Addressing the challenges and opportunity of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Fazal Rizvi + Doctoral Researcher Mikko Haavisto, chair Doctoral Researcher Lauri Lehtonen
17.9.2024 at13.15–14.45 Edu 2, Overcoming the contradictions of Educational Markets
Professor Fazal Rizvi + Professor Piia Seppänen, chair Professor, Faculty Dean Jukka Husu
18.9.2024 at 9.15–10.45 Edu 3, Rethinking the Limits of Cosmopolitanism in an Era of Populism
Professor Fazal Rizvi + Postdoctoral Researcher Suvi Jokila, chair University Lecturer Kalypso Filippou Kalypso Filippou
19.9.2024 at13.15–14.45 Edu 3, Meeting the Challenges of Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development, Professor Fazal Rizvi + University Lecturer Rauno Huttunen, chair Academy Research Fellow Johanna Kallo
20.9.2024 at 9.15–10.45 Edu 3, Understanding Shifting Youth Cultures and Aspirations
Professor Fazal Rizvi + Professor Tero Järvinen, chair University Lecturer Jenni Tikkanen
