Hello,

You're invited to the second webinar in the Looking Forward – Looking Back: Reflecting on 20 Years of International Large-Scale Assessments series:

Global Citizenship Amid the Pandemic: Reflections on the PISA 2018 Global Competence Results

Wednesday 9 December, 2020. 
10.00 am London; 9.00 pm Melbourne; 1.00 pm Nairobi; 3.30 pm New Delhi; 11.00 am Paris.

Duration: 90 minutes.

Convenor: Sam Sellar, Manchester Metropolitan University

Panellists:

·         Christine Sälzer, Professor of Education, University of Stuttgart

·         Karen Pashby, Reader in Education Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

·         Keita Takayama, Professor of Education, Kyoto University

This webinar will reflect on the release of the PISA 2018 Global Competence results in the light of debates about the impact of COVID-19 on globalisation. The panellists will consider the following questions:

·         What do the PISA 2018 Global Competence results tell us?

·         What are the challenges and possibilities for assessing Global Competence?

·         Can the results inform current debates about the futures of education?

This panel will bring together experts in large-scale assessments, comparative education and global citizenship education to reflect on the measurement of Global Competence and its implications for policy in unprecedented times for education globally.

Panellist biographies:

Christine Sälzer

Dr. Christine Sälzer is Professor of Education at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She was Germany’s National Project Manager in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) from 2010 to 2017. Christine focuses her research and teaching on integrating educational monitoring and findings from large-scale assessments into teacher education. As one of two directors she leads Stuttgart’s Professional School of Education and works on evidence-based curricula for future teachers.

Karen Pashby

Dr. Karen Pashby is Reader at Manchester Metropolitan University where she co-leads the Global Futures in Education research group at the Education and Social Research Institute with Sam Sellar and teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs. A former secondary educator (Canada, Brazil) and experienced teacher educator and university lecturer (Canada, Finland, UK), her research draws on postcolonial and decolonial theoretical resources to examine productive pedagogical tensions in education for global citizenship in multicultural contexts.

Keita Takayama

Keita Takayama is Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. Prior to his current appointment, he was at the University of New England in Australia for 11 years. He has been researching OECD and PISA for more than a decade.

More about this series:
Over the last 20 years, the influence of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) has grown dramatically, particularly with the rise of the OECD’s PISA, and the establishment of ILSA techniques and comparisons as a global policy force aiming to put an end to ‘learning poverty’. But COVID-19 has upended everything, including the ways that we view the future of education.

What is the relevance of international comparisons in a post-COVID world? How are pandemic conditions affecting confidence in the predictive power of statistical data and the practical work and organisation of ILSAs in future assessment rounds?  Is thinking and planning at a global scale feasible or desirable? How useful do international comparative measures look when set alongside the local contexts and geographies that are reasserting themselves: economic inequalities, social divisions and local educational practices that interact with pandemic effects?

In this webinar series, the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies, together with Deakin University’s strategic research centre Research for Educational Impact (REDI) and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI), engages in conversations with leading experts in the field to explore these and other questions in a series of discussions about how international assessments may change as a result of pandemic conditions and priorities. 

For full details on Webinars 3 and 4 in the series please refer to the Eventbrite registration page.

Warm regards, 

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