“Empowering the Voiceless: Knowledge Production and Pedagogical Innovation Through Community of Practice for Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable Development of Education”

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Tuesday I)
  In Refereed Round-Table Session: Institutionalizing conflict sensitivity in education—a look at our progress to date

Proposal

Presentation objective:
The 20th century in diplomacy and economic development of the world was focused primarily on “power sharing,” but the 21st century paradigm must address emerging human and environmental challenges, and requires us to crate policies and actions that center on “responsibility sharing” (Anderlini, 2015, Gakiya, 2016). To respond to these challenges, particularly for education sector, three scholars jointly present the following areas of their applied research: 1) value of interdisciplinary approach for professional education and leadership development, 2) transformative learning for peace and reconciliation and 3) lifelong learning and mentoring. The goal of this presentation is to share their practices and lessons, working with diverse cultural backgrounds of communities to advance their knowledge and skills and also develop the fullest potential as possible to be productive global citizens.

Note: Transformation learning for peace and reconciliation
In 2017 President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia was awarded the Nobel peace prize for having achieved the peace agreement with the guerrilla— ending a 50 year long armed conflict. Currently the new government, under President Cardenas, is undertaking the task of implementing the peace agreement. The main vehicle are the so called schools for forgiveness and reconciliation (Escuelas de Perdón y Reconciliación- ESPERE) Colombia is notorious for profound socio-cultural and political differences in it’s geo-political regions. Base on her expertise as a social anthrpologist, who carried out research in an Andenean peasant village and a Afro-Colombia village in the pacific coast context Laserna will report on findings around the formative evaluation of the ESPERE Schools being conducted by Dr. Fabio Idrobo in five different sites in Colombia. Dr. Idrobo’s research combines data on mental health and social capital. It asks: under what conditions can deeply traumatized individuals and communities enact positive life paths? The assumption is that such capacity is critical in stabilizing these traumatized communities. Laserna with explore the question: How does ESPERE adapt to various socio-cultural contexts and how can this educational effort be made sustainable? What ongoing educational support would be necessary to sustain the local peace agreements.

Presenters:
Dr. Mariko Gakiya (Shine, Advisory board and research scientist, Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Dr. Gakiya’s research and teaching aim to advance the understanding of human development in the context of organizational systems to enrich personal and professional well-being. She takes an innovative approach to learning sciences and complex change management, with a focus on inclusive governance practices. She is particularly interested in how physical and psychosocial environments shape human resiliency and well-being in organizational settings.
Her work is centered on organizational leadership and the future of employment and skill development in the face of the digital revolution and the degradation of planetary health. She is interested in applying these perspectives to the issues of poverty reduction, gender equality, and peace-building, with the goal of creating a sustainable healthy ecosystem.
https://shine.sph.harvard.edu/people/mariko-gakiya

Dr. Allan M Collins: Professor Emeritus of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy
Known as American cognitive scientist, Professor Emeritus of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy. He has studied teaching and learning for over 30 years, and written extensively on related topics. His book with Richard Halverson entitled Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America and his recent book entitled What’s Worth Teaching: Rethinking Curriculum in the Age of Technology were published by Teachers College Press in 2009.
From 1991 to 1994, he was Co-Director with Jan Hawkins of the US Department of Education’s Center for Technology in Education. He also served as a founding editor of the journal Cognitive Science and as first chair of the Cognitive Science Society. Recently he was chosen by French psychologists as one of 37 living scholars who have had the most impact on the field of psychology.
He is best known in psychology for my work on semantic memory and plausible reasoning, in artificial intelligence for my work on reasoning and intelligent tutoring systems, and in education for my work on situated learning, inquiry teaching, epistemic forms and games, design research, and cognitive apprenticeship.
https://allancollins.northwestern.edu/

Dr. Catalina Laserna (Lecturer, FAS/ DCE Harvard University)
Dr. Laserna is a social anthropologist who takes a socio-cultural perspective on how people learn. After completing a research fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, she took a position at HarvardX as one of their first Senior Fellows. Until 2011 she conducted policy-oriented research on innovations for online education at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education. At the Harvard Extension School she conceived and directed the Masters of Liberal Arts in Technologies of Education. Over the past decade, Dr. Laserna has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the Harvard Department of Social Anthropology and at Harvard Summer School Study Abroad program. She previously worked as a Development Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), where she advised the ministries of Education in El Salvador, Paraguay and Colombia on strategies for infusing information technologies to advance national educational reform. She currently works as a consultant for Parenting Journey and other organizations.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~laserna/Catalina/Welcome.html

Authors

• mariko gakiya, Harvard university

• Catalina Laserna, Parenting Journey