Conceived as a major, internationally focused gathering, the ANGEL Conference 2023 aims to bring together interested parties from all backgrounds for two exciting days of sessions showcasing and discussing research, projects, and new developments connected to Global Education and Learning or Global Citizenship Education, and other related fields such as Development Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Peace, and Intercultural Education. This event, which is free to attend, will prioritise transversal activities that promote and enrich connections between researchers, policy-makers, and civil society organisations, especially those which capitalise on the rare opportunity to gather face-to-face.
Conference Goals
Sharing outcomes on relevant and current research on Global Education & Learning, Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainability
Showcasing the work of UNESCO in conceptualising and disseminating Global Education & Learning, Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainability
Connecting researchers and international policy makers on Global Education and Learning
Nurturing Early Career Researchers
Facilitating relationships between researchers and Civil Society Organisations
Exploration and analysis of UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative
Exploration and analysis of the process of developing the new Global Education to 2050 declaration
A full conference report will be issued, as well as a number of journal articles, an edited book, and edited videos of all of the keynote presentations.
Event Structure & Topics
The Conference, to be held within UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, carries the title Global Education & Learning for a Just, Peaceful & Sustainable World, and will include a mixture of inspirational keynote presentations, academic papers and presentations from empirical research, debates on key issues and opportunities for meetings of specialist Journal boards, early career researchers, NGO practitioners and policymakers. A wealth of parallel sessions will cover themes that emerge amongst submitted proposals, e.g. school-based education, further and higher education, adult education and informal learning. All plenary sessions will include discussions on how to take forward the themes addressed by the speakers in developing and implementing policies, informing research, and helping to improve the quality of educational practice.
Timings: 9:30 on the 19th until 15:30 on the 20th June. A final agenda will be published here ASAP. Plenary sessions, which will be live-streamed, will be in a mix of English and French, with simultaneous interpretation provided both ways. Breakout sessions as a default will be in English, unless specific proposals are made that require other languages - attendees who are leading such sessions are welcome to arrange their own translation or interpretation services for this.
Background
This will be the 4th international conference on Global Education and Learning organised by ANGEL. The first three editions (2017, 2019, 2021) were organized by the Development Education Research Centre (DERC) within IOE, with the support of GENE, and were all held in London, apart from the 2021 event which was held online. A further major event, focused primarily on Early Career Researchers, was held in 2020, and hosted by the University of Oulu.
ANGEL is a EU co-funded network established in 2017 through close cooperation between GENE and DERC. Building upon foundational collaborations between these organisations and the University of Bamberg in Germany, the University of Oulu in Finland, and the University of Bologna in Italy, the project has grown steadily to incorporate many more partners. The project arose in response to the need to establish and reinforce existing relationships among scholars (particularly early career stage researchers) and academic institutions working in global education and related areas, and to link and interface this community with interested policymakers and practitioners.
The network has grown quickly, with more than 870 members in 85 different countries as of late 2022. As well as the aforementioned conferences, the network has produced a number of publications, and runs a webinar series. For more details, please visit our website www.angel-network.net.