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EDiTE at ICCE

This year’s 8th International Conference on Critical Education took place at the University of East London from July 25 to 28 and focused on the theme of “Critical Education and Activism Against Neoliberalism/ Authoritarian Neoconservatism in Education, State and Society.” EDiTE researchers from the University of Lower Silesia, Tamas Toth and Josefine Wagner had the […]

Democracy & Diversity Institute, Wrocław, Poland

From 6-22 July, EDiTE researcher Beata Zwierzynska participated in 2018 Democracy & Diversity Institute organized annually by the New School’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies. Beata took part in Agnes Heller’s open lecture, and a discussion on Kielce Jewish pogrom events and screening of Bogdan’s Journey documentary, and two courses (each one consisting of 12 […]

EDiTE at ATEE Spring Conference

From June 7-9, EDiTE was represented at the 2018 Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) Spring Conference, organized together with the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Bialystok, Poland. The conference was dedicated to the theme of “Designing Teacher Education and Professional Development for the 21st Century: Current Trends, Challenges and […]

EDiTE at BYOD

Beata Zwierzynska and Wiktor Bernard, EDiTE researchers, participated in workshop for teachers and educators on the topic of the usage of smartphones in education “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)” on 30th May – 04th June 2018 at University of Algarve, Portugal. While some schools forbid bringing smartphones to schools and create harsh rules when using […]

EDiTE at EERA Summer School on Qualitative and Mixed Method Designs

EDiTE is proud that this year it was Masaryk University (MU, EDiTE partner university) that hosted the EERA Summer School titled ‘Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Designs: From designing to publishing’ between 9-13rd July, in Brno. The organising team, including some EDiTE researchers (Petr Novotný, Roman Švaříček, Klára Šedová, Ondřej Bárta, Zuzana Šmideková) did an […]

Newsletter Issue 5

[embeddoc url=”http://www.edite.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EDiTE-Newsletter-Issue-5.pdf” download=”all”] The fifth issue of the EDiTE newsletter, published on 31 May 2018

EDiTE Open Lecture: Prof. Irma Eloff on the Contrasts and Contradictions of the South African Educational System

On 29.05.2018, EDiTE UIBK organised an Open Lecture with Prof. Irma Eloff from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, who is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Innsbruck. Prof. Irma Eloff’s speech titled „Learning from contrasts and contradictions: South African educational challenges within the global context” engaged the audience in reflecting on the […]

EDiTE at CESE 2018

The Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organised its biannual conference at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia. The theme of this year’s conference was entitled ‘Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in an Age of Crisis’ and brought together around 300 scholars dealing with comparative education from around the world. The conference programme with all […]

EDiTE Lecture with Prof. Graciela Slesaransky-Poe: The Changing Paradigm of Inclusive Education

On May 16 – 18. EDiTE Students at the University of Lower Silesia had the exceptional opportunity to participate in two seminars and a conference with Prof. Graciela Slesaransky-Poe from Arcadia University, who is an expert in Educational Inclusion. On the 17th of May 2018, Prof. Graciela Slesaransky-Poe gave a public lecture with the title “The […]