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The UKFIET 2015 International Conference on Education and Development entitled, “Learning for Sustainable Futures – Making the Connections”, will be held from the 15 to 17 September at the University of Oxford.
IIEP at UKFIET 2015
UNESCO’s IIEP will be sending a delegation of six experts to contribute in a variety of sessions and events throughout the three-day event, including:
- Tuesday, 15 September – 14:00 – 15:30, Room 6, PS126 – Leonora MacEwen will participate in the “Quick Fire: Education and Resilience” with a focus on “Educational planning for safety, resilience and social cohesion”.
- Tuesday, 15 September – 16.00-17.30, Room 7, PS137 – Lyndsay Bird will chair the session “Evidence challenges in conflict zones and complex environments”.
- Thursday, 17 September – 10:30 – 11:00, North School, Pop-Up Station 1 PUD1 – The IIEP delegation will be hosting a Pop-Up session entitled “New education planning tools for a sustainable future”, to illustrate how IIEP tools can help contribute to education targets along the road to meeting the 2030 Education agenda. The session will also feature a graphic recording by Debbie Roberts, Engage Visually.
- Thursday, 17 September – 13. 30-15.00, room 14, PS 3914 – Paul Coustère will chair “Symposium: Resourcing education sector plans in crisis affected contexts: the case of South Sudan”. Lyndsay Bird will also be a speaker during this session.
Make sure to follow @IIEP_UNESCO and the #UKFIETConf hashtag on Twitter throughout the conference for updates and key moments.
Education post-2015
The UKFIET 2015 conference coincides with a critical time for the future of education. Later this month, more than 150 world leaders are to gather in New York City to formally adopt 17 global sustainable development goals, which for the next 15 years will promote a more equitable and inclusive vision of education that promotes quality and lifelong learning opportunities for all children, youth and future generations.
The three-day conference will address a range of critical questions and themes around the promotion of sustainable futures, including:
- Whose learning for whose development needs to be prioritized?
- What learning values and curricula should be emphasized?
- How can pedagogy and assessment support learning?
- What educational planning and resourcing systems are required?
- What types of evidence are needed to inform learning?
- What approaches to learning content, process and planning are needed to prepare for decent and sustainable work?
- How should international support and co-operation evolve in the next decade and beyond?
Conference details
When: 15 September 2015 at 9:00am – 17 September 2015 at 17:30
Where: University of Oxford
Examination Schools
81 High Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1
United Kingdom
For more information, visit the official UKFIET website.
