Thinking the 'yet to be thought': an international cross-sector seminar series exploring socially just education and inequalities in education

本系列研讨会旨在探讨社会公正教育制度的概念，以及这种制度如何解决社会中的不平等问题。研讨会和小型会议将探讨来自一系列国家的学校和大学的替代和创新的例子和想法，并考虑这些替代方案是否可以减少社会和教育不平等。他们是否提供了一个关于如何改善全民教育的洞察力？政治、组织和文化压力使人们在考虑主流教育的替代品时面临挑战。我们希望能够反思我们自己的教育假设、实践和制度，以便对以不同方式做事的可能性持开放态度。为了尽可能多地挑战自己，我们邀请能够将我们的注意力集中在教育中的激进替代方案上的贡献者是很重要的。因此，我们将邀请专注于创新和新的运营方式的研究人员和从业者。这些例子并不是作为可以效仿的理想模式展示的，而是作为一种手段，设想出主导社会的制度的替代方案。通过这样做，我们希望开始以尚未被思考的方式来思考，改变未来的教育。这次研讨会系列将汇集一系列著名的国际研究人员和实践者，分享他们的工作，并使在不同领域工作的研究人员和实践者的新网络得以发展。例如，通过面对面的会议和使用我们的互动网站，来自丹麦、印度、墨西哥、澳大利亚和美国的教师、家长和学术研究人员可以分享他们在创新学校、学院、大学和社区环境中工作的经验。来自国际顶尖大学的研究人员将谈论他们几十年来研究不同教育实践对不平等的影响的工作。那些有权主导设计自己的教育的学生将解释他们从能够这样做中学到了什么。研究生将谈论他们对教育替代方案的研究。大学和学校将一起学习。老师和学生会互相倾听。研究人员和实践者将共同努力。通过与所有这些人的合作，我们将提出一些探索性的问题，即以截然不同的方式组织教育，是否真的对学生的生活体验产生了积极的影响。自由的实践将是研讨会的一个特别焦点，这种自由可以采取多种形式：课程和教学方面的自由；评估的自由；决策的自由。为反映这一点，我们将确保所有活动都在自由的精神下进行，让所有参与者都能参与制定会议的方向和重点。每一项都将有一个具体的重点，将提请注意社会公正教育和不平等的不同方面(概述挑战；教育学和课程；评估；自由、自治和民主；制度、结构和治理；未来的教育，前进的道路)。每一次会议的组织都将引起广大受众的兴趣，并鼓励交流和建立专业和学术网络。每个研讨会将免费参加，并将在英国各地的不同地点举行，包括加的夫、爱丁堡、利兹、伦敦、纽卡斯尔和牛津。

This seminar series seeks to explore the idea of a socially just education system and how such a system might address inequalities in society. The seminars and mini-conferences will explore alternative and innovative examples and ideas from schools and universities across a range of countries and consider whether these alternatives may reduce social and educational inequality. Do they offer an insight into how to improve education for all?Political, organisational and cultural pressures make it challenging for people to consider alternatives to the mainstream. We want to be able to reflect on our own educational assumptions, practices, and systems so as to be open to possibilities of doing things differently. In order to challenge ourselves as much as possible, it is important that we invite contributors who are able to focus our attention on radical alternatives in education. We will therefore invite researchers and practitioners who focus on innovative and new ways of operating. These examples are not being showcased as ideal models to emulate but as a means of envisioning alternatives to the systems that dominate in society. By doing this, we want to start thinking in ways that have 'yet to be thought', to transform education for the future.This seminar series will bring together a range of eminent international researchers and practitioners to share their work and to enable the development of new networks of researchers and practitioners working in different fields. Through the face to face meetings and the use of our interactive site, teachers, parents and academic researchers from Denmark, India, Mexico, Australia and the USA, for example, can share their experiences of working in innovative schools, colleges, universities and community settings. Researchers from leading international universities will talk about their decades of work studying the impact of different educational practices on inequalities. Students who have had the freedom to take a lead in designing their own education will explain what they have learnt from being able to do this. Postgraduate students will talk about their research into educational alternatives. Universities and schools will learn together. Teachers and students will listen to one another. Researchers and practitioners will work together. Through collaborating with all of these people, we will ask searching questions about whether organising education in radically different ways, actually makes a positive difference to the lived experiences of students.The practice of freedom will be a particular focus of the seminars and this freedom can take many forms: freedom in terms of curriculum and pedagogy; freedom in assessment; freedom to make decisions. To mirror this, we will make sure that all events operate in a spirit of freedom, so that all participants can get involved in setting the direction and focus of sessions.The seminar series will be organised as seven open events. Each will have a specific focus which will draw attention to a different facet of socially just education and inequalities (Outlining the challenge; Pedagogy and Curriculum; Assessment; Freedom, Autonomy and Democracy; Systems, Structures and Governance; Education of the Future, The Ways Forward). Each will be organised to be of interest to a wide audience and to encourage communication and the building of professional and academic networks. Each seminar will be free to attend and they will take place in a variety of venues across the UK, including Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle, and Oxford.