This panel event in conjunction with the INEI brings together experts from a number of countries to examine how COVID-19 has changed the limits and possibilities for education policy around the world.
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Kate Thomas
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In England, the immediate impact of COVID-19 on the education system was profound. Knocking out the system’s very foundations, it heavily disrupted classroom teaching, across all phases, and upended school leaving examinations, with significant knock-on effects for further and higher education.
The impact on learners and educators themselves, as well as on their families, has been equally far-reaching, and, for many, highly distressing. To a greater or lesser extent and in various forms, these challenges have been felt around the world. At the same time, this episode has forced change: as ‘workarounds’, approaches that previously sat at the margins of policy debate have been actioned, while the use of remote learning has, overnight, accelerated far ahead of its previous trajectory.
In what ways have the past six months opened up education policy and practice to new possibilities, and how have those debates evolved in different countries? Within education systems, university faculties of education are an important source of analysis and critique and of new ideas and innovation. What is their role at this time of crisis and how are they responding?
In part 1, the panel considers the case of South Asia, South East Asia, and Australasia. Join us to hear more and put your questions to the panel.
In conjunction with the International Network of Educational Institutes (INEI), of which the IOE is a founding member. The INEI was established in 2007 to bring together an international community of educators, to share common experiences and work to bring about advances in education internationally.
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About the Speakers
Kevin Kester
Assistant Professor of Comparative International Education and Peace/Development Studies at
Seoul National University
Kevin is an educational sociologist. He researches and teaches educational responses to conflict, peace and development in local and global contexts, and directs the Education, Conflict and Peace Lab at Seoul National University. His most recent book is 'The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century'. Kevin serves on the Editorial Boards of Educational Philosophy and Theory; Teaching in Higher Education; Journal of Peace Education; and Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. He is an active member of the Comparative and International Education Society. More about Kevin Kester
Dr Dennis Kwek
Director of the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice and Associate Dean (Strategic Engagement) at
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Dr Dennis Kwek is a Senior Research Scientist with over 25 years of research experience in the UK and Singapore. His research interests include system studies in education, policy research, classroom pedagogies, sociology and philosophy of education, teacher professional development, comparative education, postcolonial theories, and educational reforms. His methodological expertise includes mixed methods research, classroom discourse analysis, systematic reviews, and case study research. He is currently leading the Singapore’s National Institute of Education’s CORE Research Programme (2004-present), a multi-million-dollar government-funded large-scale baseline suite of empirical studies into Singaporean classroom pedagogies.
Yasushi Maruyama
Professor of Philosophy of Education and Deputy Executive Director for International Planning at
Hiroshima University
Yasushi has served as an editor of various academic journals, including the editor-in-chief of Studies in the Philosophy of Education, a Journal of The Philosophy of Education Society of Japan. His research interests include the philosophy of Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, ethics of teaching, professional ethics education, and postcolonialism. Among his publications are 'Tragedy of Education, the Other in Education: Beyond the Colonialism of/in Education' (in Forum of Modern Education, 2002) and 'Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Voices from Japan' (in Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020).
Professor Xiaodong Zeng
at
Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University
Zeng Xiaodong is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, and executive director of the UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education. Her other research interests include early childhood education, teacher pay, and comparative education.
Dr Natasha Ziebell
Lecturer and the Master of Teaching Primary Programme Coordinator at
University of Melbourne
Dr Natasha Ziebell has coordinated subjects in initial teacher education courses and developed professional learning programmes for teachers. Her research focuses on curriculum reform, curricular alignment and authorship, with a particular focus on the intended, enacted and assessed curriculum. Recent research projects include the Australian Education Survey looking at the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning and cross-disciplinary collaboration to support students with additional needs. Natasha is co-convener of the Emerging Researchers’ Group at the European Educational Research Association, Deputy Lead of the Australian Ethics and Privacy Sub-committee for the Assessment for Graduate Teachers, and Chair of the Parliament of Victoria Education Advisory Panel.
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