The registration has started for this year’s international conference for basic education. The program begins to take shape, many exciting speakers come. Will you?
Published: 06/27/2016
IKG16 being held in Bergen on 8 and 9 November. (Ill.foto: SIU)
For the second consecutive year invites SIU to a separate international conference for basic education. This year’s conference will be held in Bergen 8. – 9. November 2016.
Click here for more information, program and registration.
Democracy and Diversity
From Columbia University in New York has invited Felisa Tibbitts to talk about democracy, citizenship and diversity. How international cooperation can help to educate children and young people in these values?
Felisa Tibbitts going IKG16. (Photo: Columbia University)
Tibbitts is an expert on human rights in education. In 1999 she created “Human Rights Education Associates’ (HREA), later she established the” Human Rights in Education Program “at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Future school
OECD Miho Tagum going IKG16 to reflect on the future school, which will have to cope with rapid changes and a more diverse student body. Future school will have to put even more emphasis on skills like understanding of democracy and tolerance. Can international cooperation may be a way for schools to meet these challenges.
Miho Tagum is an expert on trends in education field. She knows Norwegian reality well, and wrote, among other OECD country report on Norway.
Partnership for School Development
The school development and social development requires cooperation and innovation. We invite speakers who have succeeded in using international cooperation as a means of regional development.
For IKG16 comes among others Ingunn Marie Bakken, principal at Leikanger school, and Claus Røynesdal, Presenter Sogn Regional Council.
Today’s challenges
- “the future of knowledge nation Norway created in kindergartens and basic education.”
- “Education is the key to the development of an inclusive knowledge society”.
These are quotes from the white Paper “Technical – specialization – Understanding: a renewal of the Knowledge” (2016).
the message portrays a backdrop that we know well: Society in rapid changes, new technologies and new forms of communication, globalization and an increasingly diverse Norwegian society.
On IKG16 we grab hold of the challenges of our time, and ask: How can international cooperation as a tool to meet and master these challenges?
Who is IKG16 for?
the target groups include national, regional and local school authorities, education policy institutions and stakeholders at all levels, school and kindergarten managers, educators, counselors, teachers , labor, NGOs and all others working on education and training.
See also: IKG16: International cooperation: A tool to meet challenges of our time (28.4.2016)
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