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How is the pandemic reshaping the education debate? Part 2: the Americas and South Africa
15 December 2020, 5:45 pm–6:45 pm
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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- All
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- Yes
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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 2, the panel considers the case of the Americas and South Africa. 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.
Links
- Part 1 of How is the pandemic reshaping the education debate? East Asia, South East Asia, and Australasia
- IOE signs International Network of Educational Institutes statement on the coronavirus pandemic
- INEI
- COVID-19 research at the IOE
Image: Cropped from the poster by Michael Smith submitted to United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives - help stop the spread of COVID-19.
About the Speakers
Ana Luiza Jesus da Costa
Professor of History of Education at School of Education, University of São Paulo
Glen Jones
Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto
Catherine Kell
Associate Professor and Director of the School of Education at University of Cape Town
Erica Turner
Associate Professor of Education Policy at Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chaired by Professor John O'Regan
Professor of Critical Applied Linguistics at UCL Institute of Education
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