Opening Ceremony

EIU/GCED Best Practice Awards Ceremony

Keynote Speech: Transnational perspective on GCED and reconciliation

Plenary Session 1 : Reconciliation through the lens of GCED

- Can the process of reconciliation be approached differently from the perspective of GCED?
- What does reconciliation tell us with respect to GCED?
- What is the potential of GCED to provide a fresh momentum for the long and difficult process of reconciliation?
- Some cases where reconciliation has been facilitated by GCED and lessons learned

Plenary Session 2 : Realizing GCED's potential for reconciliation: fundamental questions on learning and transformative pedagogy

- What is learning and what is transformative pedagogy?
- GCED as a transformative education?
- How can GCED transform education and bring about individual and communities’ transformation?

Concurrent Session 1: GCED transformative pedagogy from various perspectives for reconciliation

1A: Transformation from educators' perspectives
1B: Transformation from educators' learners
1C: Transformation from educators' communities

Plenary Session 3 : Voices of Youth

Concurrent Session 2: Innovating GCED's transformative pedagogy: trends that will bring about reconciliation

2A: Creating learning spaces for reconciliation: what is a learning environment?
2B: An unending dialogue between the present and the past for reconciliation: How to apply transformative pedagogy to history?
2C: GCED in the digital age: The role of effective digital learning in GCED for reconciliation

Concurrent Session 3: Systematic approach to mainstream GCED

3A: The role of policy facilitating GCED to be integrated into the education system
3B: How to develop GCED curriculum & textbook: Country perspectives
3C: Power of systematic teacher training: Trained teachers can mainstream GCED

Plenary Session 4 (Closing): A way forward