Postdoc Working Group "Rethinking Accelerated Learning": Online Lecture on 22 January 25
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Under the theme “Global Learning Crises and the Role of International Organisations,” Dr. Iris Santos (Tampere University, Finland) and Professor Aaron Benavot (University at Albany-SUNY, USA) delivered two lectures on 22nd January 2025.
Dr. Santos shared her research on “The Global Learning Crisis: Perspectives from Finnish Education Experts in UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank.” She critically examines how international development agencies, led by the Global North, construct and perpetuate the learning crisis narrative. Based on interviews with 23 Finnish education experts, her study highlights systemic challenges and power dynamics shaping global education governance. It reveals how international organisations often rely on narrow, technical, and short-term solutions that overlook local socio-economic and cultural contexts, reinforcing dependency and inequality in the Global South.
Professor Aaron Benavot, in his lecture ‘The ‘Global Learning Crisis’ and Ready-Made Policy Solutions’, explored the long history of educational crises and the growing focus on a ‘global learning crisis’ among international organisations and aid agencies. He highlighted how this narrative has spurred interest in ‘effective’ interventions such as accelerated learning to combat the crisis.
Find out more about the Postdoc Working Group here: https://www.bayreuth-academy.uni-bayreuth.de/en/postdoc-working-groups/Rethinking-Accelerated-Learning/index.html
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- Postdoc Working Group "Rethinking Accelerated Learning": Online Lecture on 22 January 25
- Language
- English
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- Postdoc Working Group Accelerated Learning
- Date
- February 24, 2025
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- and today I'm delighted to introduce you to two um distinguished um distinguishes um speakers um doctors Santos who is the researchers based at the faculty of administration and Business tampara University in Finland um her current work focuses on International dynamics of global education governance her research interest includes policymaking international organization and Global government of Education global citizenship education sustainable development from a critical decolonial point of view uh today Dr Santos going to share with us her work her latest work on the policymaking process and international organization um so I would um I would introduce Professor Aon benos from University of amban Sunny later um when he started his um his presentation we have the first half an hour Dr Santos uh floor is your now I'm going to stop sharing my screen and um so I can share mine yes okay can you can you see my screen okay and now you can see only my screen not my notes right yes yes okay all right hello everyone uh good afternoon and thank you for inviting me uh for this talk uh today I'm presenting an article titled uh Finland uh from Finland to the world interrogating the Global Learning crisis written with my colleague ieta silova from Arizona State University in the USA so the aim of this study was to critically examine The Narrative of the learning crisis from a point of view of Finnish education experts focusing on how International Development agencies construct and perpetuate this crisis narrative the data was collected from interviews to 23 finish education experts affiliated with um UNESCO and UNICEF and the World Bank as well as through the analysis of international organizations reports and webs websites and we perform qualitative content analysis to both data sets the decision to focus on finish education experts was intentional given finland's International reputation for Education excellence and strong tradition in involvement in cooperation and… Read the full text about 9,005 words
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