AISC 2024 Announce the 1st Keynote Speaker

We are delighted to extend a warm invitation to join us at the Asia-Pacific International Schools Conference (AISC) 2024.

The Asia-Pacific International Schools Conference 2024 welcomes educators to explore four significant and interconnected themes: Adaptive Learning, Critical Pedagogy, Futures Forward Education and Wellbeing in Education.  Join us for an engaging and transformative conference experience!

These themes capture the dynamic nature of our evolving educational landscape, inviting you to embark on an enlightening path of discovery and transformation. Engage in stimulating discussions, participate in thought-provoking workshops, and attend insightful presentations that delve into the heart of each theme.

AISC 2024 also offers a unique platform for networking. Build connections with fellow educators, passionate change-makers, and visionary leaders dedicated to advancing education. Together, we will gather actionable insights and strategies, contributing collectively to the global conversation on educational excellence.

Keynote presentation:

Imagining alternative educational futures in the present
 
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Elke Van dermijnsbrugge, Lecturer and Researcher in International Teacher Education at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, to be our Keynote Speaker this year.  Dr. Van dermijnsbrugge focuses on alternative research methods in education and is interested in the application of utopian and speculative thinking, the punk ethos philosophy to reimagine educational policy, research and practices that support collaborative, participatory, plural, just and imaginative futures.

We are confronted with global crises: political instability, environmental destruction, and increasing global inequalities. The dominant, evidence-based discourses in education do not seem to be offering adequate responses to these crises.

Dr. Van dermijnsbrugge consider crisis as an opportunity to interrupt the ‘normal’ order; to consider the conditions that have given rise to it, what it says about who we are as humans and how we might be able to imagine and do things differently to work towards collaborative, participatory, plural, just and imaginative futures. In this keynote, we will tackle the questions ‘How can educators respond to a world in crisis and create alternative futures in the present?’ and ‘How can the imagination be put to work in educational spaces?’

We will shift the focus from problem-solving and crisis responses to possibility and mutual aid. We will explore educational practices that involve imaginative, utopian and speculative thinking and acting. Education and schools in particular will be repositioned and reimagined as spaces where alternative futures emerge, starting here and now.

For more details, visit our website https://www.aisc.com.hk/

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Unlimited and access to all conference strands and the co-located Learning & Teaching Expo

Participation at all side events Opening of the Exhibition, Seminar and Workshop Sessions, Business Matching, Reception

Conference pack and programme booklet

Certificate of Attendance

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