GUEST SPEAKERS
• Vanessa Andreotti
University of British Columbia
• Maxwell Caughron
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Roland Sintos Coloma
Miami University
• Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
University of São Paolo
• Rosalyn Eder
University of Fribourg
• Edgar Forster
University of Fribourg
• Doris Gödl
University of Fribourg
• Anne Hickling-Hudson
Queensland University of Technology
• A. Mani
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
University
• Edgar Porter
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Bernhard Schär
ETH Zürich
• Nima Sobhani
University of Melbourne
• Rene Suša
University of Oulu
• Maria Tabuenca Cuevas
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
• Tran Ngoc Tien
Da Lat University
International Exploratory Workshop
INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATION
EMERGENCES
AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
04 – 07 May 2015
University of Fribourg / Switzerland
Department of Educational Sciences
Organisers: Rosalyn Eder and Edgar Forster
www.unifr.ch/pedg/internationalworkshop
Free Registration
by email until 17 April 2015:
[email protected]
Please provide your complete name, postal and email
addresses, and the day(s) that you wish to participate.
Participants need to attend at least a full day.
The number of participants is limited.
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PHILOSOPHISCHE FAKULTÄT
PHILOSOPHISCHE FAKULTÄT
DEPARTEMENT ERZIEHUNGSWISSENSCHAFTEN
RUE FAUCIGNY 2, CH-1700 FREIBURG
DEPARTEMENT ERZIEHUNGSWISSENSCHAFTEN
RUE FAUCIGNY 2, CH-1700 FREIBURG
International
Exploratory Workshop
International Education:
Emergences and Future Possibilities
Current international education policies
are being scrutinised for its complicity in
perpetuating the commodification of education, especially higher education, and
the asymmetrical power relationships it
produces imitating colonial structures.
These current developments urge for
serious reflection on the directions that
international education takes and on the
values it promotes.
This international exploratory workshop
will thus theorise on the future of international education and will examine the
following issues: Is a paradigm shift in
the fundamental epistemologies of education (broadly defined) inevitable? As
we look towards the future, how should
the various stakeholders, especially the
scientific community, cope with these
issues? How could the current social
imaginaries in education premised on the
‘laws of the market’ be changed? How
could academics engage and collaborate
to overcome the ‘exigencies’ of international education?
This workshop therefore innovates and
contributes to current scholarship by
setting the stage for an ‘education of
emergences’ – a meta-reflexive concept
that will be developed and explored to
facilitate recognition and acceptance of
emerging alternative possibilities in international education.
Draft Programme
Monday, 04 May 2015
09:00
Welcome and introduction to the
programme and overarching
theme; overview of the conceptual framework
(R. Eder, E. Forster)
09:00 – 12:00 International
education as a
critical space of struggle – tensions and contentions in the
North/South and South/South relationships
(A. Hickling-Hudson, R. Coloma)
09:15 – 12:15 Deconstructing the imperialist
education project – mapping the
blueprints of colonialism and
new imperialism in education
(R. Coloma, V. Andreotti)
13:30
Postcoloniality in Switzerland.
Lessons for international education (B. Schär)
15:00
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30 Between governance and gov-
ernmentality: critical discussions
and practical implications
(E. Forster, E. Porter)
Location map
Wednesday, 06 May 2015
13:00
Rene Suša: Phd Project “Embodying cognitive justice in
global education”
14:00
Nima Sobhani: PhD Project “The
Impact of Changing Geopolitics
on Educational Aid: Exploring
Shifting Pacific Island Perspectives”
15:00
Coffee break
15:30
Rosalyn Eder: PhD Project “Internationalisation of Higher Education in ASEAN. Postcolonial perspectives and Southern
Theories”
16:30
Maxwell Caughron: PhD Project
“Educational contributions in
Swedish
scholar
Gunnar
Myrdal's 1968 work Asian Drama”
Tuesday, 05 May 2015
09:00
University of Fribourg, Education Center
Rue de Rome 6, CH-1700 Fribourg
Room: 201 second floor
Conceptual reflection on travelling theories: Universalism vs. /
and particularism? (D. Gödl)
10:00 – 12:30 The
politics of international
education - the sphere of influence of supranational organisations (A. Hickling-Hudson,
M. Tabuenca)
17:30 – 18:00 Summary
13:30
Indigenous education : perspectives from Latin America
(L. M. T. Menezes de Souza)
09:00
15:00
Coffee break
15:30
Indigenous education: perspectives from Malaysia and Viet
Nam
(A. Mani, T. N. Tran)
‘Education of emergences’ – reframing international education
based on alternative epistemologies and theories, future possibilities, limitations and implications,
theoretical and methodological
issues
(V. Andreotti, L. M. T. Menezes
de Souza)
17:30 – 18:30 Screening of documentary clips
13:30 – 16:00 Summary, feedback and conclu-
on
the
children's
union
UNATSBO in Bolivia followed
by open discussions (R. Eder)
Thursday, 07 May 2015
sion (E. Forster, R. Eder)
16:00
End of Workshop