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EDiTE Supervisors Awarded for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design

In celebration of International Education Week, The Forum on Education Abroad announced the 2016 recipients of the Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design: Hana Cervinkova (supervisor and program director in EDiTE) and Juliet Golden (co-supervisor in EDiTE), for their course in cooperation with Syracuse University “Negotiating Identities Across Europe’s Borders,” offered as part […]

Negotiating Identities Across Europe’s Borders (Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania)

The Program Director of the Culture and Politics of Reconciliation in Central Europe, Professor Hana Cervinkova, and core curriculum Professor Juliet D. Golden have run this outstanding and recently awarded Study Abroad Program with the Syracuse University of New York for 12 years. Also in this year’s fall semester, the University of Lower Silesia became […]

Seminar with Prof. Julia White

On October 31, 2016, Julia White, Assistant Professor at the School of Education of Syracuse University, New York, gave a seminar on Inclusion to EDiTE researchers at the University of Lower Silesia. Prior to the meeting, students were equipped with an extensive list of readings that stretched from literature on critical disability theory (Baglieri, Bejoian […]

Announcing the EDiTE Knowledge Portal

It is with great pleasure that the team at University of Lower Silesia announces the EDiTE Knowledge Portal. The portal is in testing phase (Beta version). We’ve already started a second development phase, during which we are going to add extra functionalities, and the Slack integration. Through the Knowledge Portal you can get to know our doctoral […]

Public lecture and seminars with prof. Thomas Wallgren

We had two extremely interesting seminars with professor Thomas Wallgren (University of Helsinki) at University of Lower Silesia and we were pleased to welcome an EDiTE Researcher from Brno, Dev Raj Paneru (Masaryk University). EDiTE researchers had the honourable opportunity to have a conversation with prof. Wallgren (elected to the Helsinki City Council as a […]

EDiTE at the 6th International Conference on Critical Education

EDiTE researchers and supervisors attended the 6th International Conference on Critical Education (ICCE), previously held in Athens (2011, 2012), Ankara (2013), Thessaloniki (2014) and Wroclaw, Poland (2015). ICCE is a forum for scholars, educators and activists committed to social and economic justice.  The 6th ICCE: Dialogue, Solidarity and Resistance against Neo-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Education took place in […]

Democracy and Diversity Institute 2016

From July 5- 21, 2016 the Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies of the New School for Social Research, New York, organised the 25th Democracy and Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland. The institute themed In unsettling times: An Effort in Understanding provided an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic […]

EDiTE Summer School 2016

EDiTE Summer School 2016 Research as Social Change 28.06-1.07.2016, Brno, Czech Republic We had our 1st Summer School with a strong focus on “research as social change”. Researchers presented their individual research plans and the alignment of their research projects within the programme theme “Tranformative Teacher Learning for Better Student Learning within and Emerging European […]

EDUPRO Conference

From June 22-24, 2016, the EDUPRO conference themed: The ways of Lifelong Learning – Towards socially relevant quality in European universities took place in Wroclaw. This was the first occasion for all EDiTE researchers at the University of Lower Silesia to practice a joint presentation. We participated in a simple yet effective presentation format – the […]

Seminar and public lecture with prof. David Ost

On the 23th of May 2016, professor David Ost (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) gave a public lecture with the title “Po solidarności” (After Solidarity) at the University of Lower Silesia. The lecture was organized by the EDiTE programme and IISCE (International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education). EDiTE researchers had the honourable […]