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Online Symposium on Democratising the Urban City through Education Theory, Policy and Practice
February 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Laurence Lasselle from the School of Management will co-organise an online Symposium on Democratising the Urban City through Education Theory, Policy and Practice on 12 February. You are warmly welcome to join her. Simply register for the event by using the form available at: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=yyZW-KgN00mqWGTvZ47wGrx9e6JABsFCvoiNYujYeq5UOFg1WllFOFZRUllTODRBMDNRUEJYQ1VBSS4u
EERA Network 14
Network 14 is delighted to warmly invite you to an online event on Friday 12 February from 12noon (UK time). It will give us the opportunity to learn more about the findings of an international comparative study exploring how approaches to education can help to reconnect urban communities thanks to radical forms of engagement between institutions and communities.
Abstract:
Education theory, policy and practice are key factors, not only in the improvement of a place’s academic and socio-economic outcomes but also in the development of the socio-educational relationships required to (re)connect communities in our urban cities and beyond. However, the ways in which education can help build stronger democratic relationships with local communities is often overlooked by policymakers.
This symposium features international examples of research and practice that illustrate how urban cities are attempting to (re)connect communities by viewing education as a lived experience, a process that involves developing a shared understanding of the connections and implications of individuals’ social situations and experiences and the range and meanings of different situations and experiences.
Bringing these different projects and initiatives together in this way addresses gaps in policy and research by illuminating the extent to which a place and its communities can become more relational through a place’s education theories, policies and practices. The symposium starts by providing an overview of traditional approaches to education in urban areas and an exploration of the comparative way in which education institutions and policymakers in four different cities around the world Barcelona, Berlin, New York and Rio de Janeiro) are trying to do things differently; by engaging with their locality through various relational mechanisms and infrastructures (such as curriculum, pedagogy and governance).
Examples from Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro examine how education theory and practice are being used to address the challenge of (re)connecting communities in different urban city contexts.
Symposium Co-ordinators: Dr Deborah Ralls, University of Manchester and Dr Laurence Lasselle, University of St Andrews
Speakers: Dr Fernando Lannes Fernandes, The University of Dundee and Jose Cano Escribano, Institut Municipal d’Educació Ajuntament de Barcelona and Arnau Boix i Pla,
If you wish to participate in the event, please fill in the form using the link above.