Program
Program
Futures of Education – Learning to Become 2021 (Futures21) was a free, two-day online research conference, 22–23 April 2021, hosted by VIA University College, Denmark. The sessions ran in Zoom in three parallel rooms (A, B and C) with plenary keynotes.
All times are CEST (Central European Summer Time). Click a session code to read the abstract.
Thursday 22 April 2021
| Time (CEST) | Room A | Room B | Room C |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15–09:30 | Welcome day 1 | ||
| 09:30–10:15 | A1 Felix Riede (Aarhus University): The mandate of the Anthropocene and the collapse of disciplinary boundaries in education | B1 Jeppe Læssøe (Aarhus University): Recent trends in re-thinking education in the face of an escalating non-sustainable world | C1 Laura Cléries Garcia (ELISAVA, Barcelona): A framework for innovating through design: Design Attitudes |
| 10:15–11:00 | A2 Kenneth Nordgren (Karlstad University): Subject-Didactics in the New Normality: Challenges and Possibilities in History Teaching | B2 Nanna Jordt Jørgensen (University College Copenhagen): Education for Sustainable Development and social justice: Global and local challenges and educational openings | C2 Natalie Mossin (Royal Danish Academy): Architectures interaction with the Sustainable Development Goals; reaching for sustainable development, in teaching and practice |
| 11:00–11:15 | Transition break | ||
| 11:15–11:45 | A3 Marianne Leth, Michael Vogt (VIA): Sustainability – Local investigation – Global awareness. ‘Bildung’-making for the Anthropocene in an inter-disciplinary teacher education course (nature and technology/history)? | B3 Megan Brasell-Jones (Otago Polytechnic): It takes a Village: Communicating a campus compost project as a local case study of sustainability education | C3 Anne Louise Bang (VIA): Oh No, Not another Framework! |
| 11:45–12:30 | A4 Michael Paulsen (University of Southern Denmark): Onto-sympathy, embodied beings and pedagogy in a (post) Anthropocene age – about the possibility of pedagogically mediated dialogue with more than humans | B4 Thomas Østergaard et al. (VIA): Learners Learning to Become – Exploring experiences with developing educator’s ESD-competencies across sectors in Higher Education | C4 Albert Fuster (ELISAVA, Barcelona): The Future is Now – Reflections on Time, Place and Agents in the Learning Experience |
| 12:30–13:15 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:15–14:30 | Keynote 1 – Daniel Ross: Dare to Think Past the Anthropocene: What is to be Done with Education? | ||
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:00–15:30 | A6 Elinor Bray-Collins, Nalini Andrade, Catherine Wanjiru (Humber College, Canada / Kenya): Gender Equality and TVET on the African Continent: Findings from the Scholarship | B6 Rune Thorbjørn Clausen, Kasper Trolle Elmholdt (VIA): To count or not to count, that is the question? Evaluative practices in Higher Education | C6 Sara Denise Narciso (Otago Polytechnic): Project Based Learning in Communication Design: Creating value for learners and communities |
| 15:30–16:00 | A7 Niels Larsen (RCE Denmark): Teacher Education addressing Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene time – Partnerships and Co-learning | B7 Lesley Brook (Otago Polytechnic): Evaluation of art research for sustainable development | C7 Inge Andrew (Otago Polytechnic): Using Design Activism to Empower and Value a Community Group |
| 16:00–16:15 | Transition break | ||
| 16:15–16:45 | A8 Torben Albertsen (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile): Strange animals and what to do with them | B8 Machiko Niimi, Mary Butler (Otago Polytechnic): Designing education that makes a difference: the spectacles story | C8 Students, Humber College, Canada (special session): Map the System to Crack the System: Student Systems Thinking Research on Issues Related to the SDGs |
| 16:45–17:30 | A9 Ljupco Kocarev & Jasna Koteska (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje): Ethics of Digital me (AI agents and Futures of Education) | B9 Karen Bjerg Petersen (Aarhus University): Global citizenship education for (unknown) futures of education | C9 Faculty and Students, GPA (special session): International Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: Faculty and Student Reflections from a Virtual Polytechnic Classroom |
| 17:30–17:45 | Transition break | ||
| 17:45–18:30 | Keynote 2 – Noah W. Sobe: UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative |
Friday 23 April 2021
| Time (CEST) | Room A | Room B | Room C |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00–09:15 | Welcome day 2 | ||
| 09:15–10:30 | Keynote 3 – Shelley Sacks: Education as a Connective Practice for ‘making Social Honey™’ | ||
| 10:30–10:45 | Transition break | ||
| 10:45–11:15 | A10 Tsewang Lhundup (FabLab Bhutan / Humanitarian Innovation, Bhutan/Denmark): Gross Local Happiness – Future of the Past! | B10 Caroline McCaw (Otago Polytechnic): Education for Sustainability: Learning from and with living systems | – |
| 11:15–12:00 | A11 Christian Ydesen (Aalborg University): Reconciling Paradigms and Agendas for the Realization of Education for the 21st century | B11 Christian Christrup Kjeldsen (Aarhus University): Global Attitudes and Perceptions of Social Justice among Youth: How the International Large Scale Assessments (ILSA) can inform the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and learning to become | C11 Lene Rachel Andersen (Nordic Bildung, Denmark): How big are the changes for which we need to prepare and educate? |
| 12:00–12:45 | Lunch break | ||
| 12:45–13:30 | A12 Jonas Lysgaard and Sanne Hasse (VIA): Danish Higher Education institutions’ strategies of Education for Sustainable Development | B12 Kerstin von Brömssen (University West, Sweden): In the Context of Migration – the Swedish Nation’s selfnarration through Civic Orientation Courses | C12 David Kergel (IUBH University of Applied Sciences, Germany): Digital Diversity within the educational Field – towards an integrative approach |
| 13:30–14:00 | A13 Ainoa Abella Garcia, Maria José Araya, Thomas Østergaard (VIA & ELISAVA): Experiencing Emotional and Entrepreneurial Didactics for Sustainable Design Educations | B13 Katrine Dahl Madsen, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Tejs Møller (University College Copenhagen): Sustainability at the university college: Challenges, dilemmas and openings | C13 Poul Erik Christoffersen (National UNESCO coordinator for Danish SDG Schools, Denmark; special session): A little less conversation, a little more action |
| 14:00–14:30 | A14 Bridie Lonie (Otago Polytechnic): Art, complexity and sustainability in the Anthropocene | – | C14 Jesper Marius Als (VIA): The plurality of reality for global educational opportunities |
| 14:30–14:45 | Transition break | ||
| 14:45–16:00 | Keynote 4 – Mirian Vilela (Earth Charter): Cultivating human shared values and sparking social transformation; the greatest challenge of education of our times | ||
| 16:00–16:30 | Closing event |
There is no A5/B5/C5: that slot was the lunch break and keynote. The conference had 4 keynotes, 17 invited presentations, 17 selected presentations and 3 special sessions; see Speakers.