Human Library Panel Session: Conversations on Global and Local Educational Topics

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

As part of the conference theme, AERA 2018 urges us to "hope radically, imagine creatively, and act inspirationally to build knowledge and take enlightened next steps for public education". For postgraduate researchers, this call to hope as a precursor to expanding our minds and taking action requires support and nurturing from a range of sources including supervisors, academic and non-academic mentors, and peers within our doctoral community. Using the human library format, in this panel session, an international cohort of speakers at different stages of their careers will discuss topics such as issues around public education, curriculum development, navigating an academic career, internationalisation, student agency, and insight from a senior academic on customising the student-supervisor relationship. The session aims to provide a space for open dialogue between the contributors and the audience. Each topic underpins stories of success, failure, missed opportunities, and works in progress that contribute to a living depository of scholarly experience waiting to be explored and used as source of inspiration, hope, and action.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Laura Hamman, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Omolabake Fakunle, University of Edinburgh

• Keisha Siriboe

Participants

• Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, Turkish Educational Research Association

• Rowena Arshad, University of Edinburgh

• Hans de Wit, Boston College

• Jingyi Liu, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Keisha Siriboe

• Omolabake Fakunle, University of Edinburgh

• Alison Milner, University of Nottingham

• Gary James Harfitt, The University of Hong Kong

• Cheryl J. Craig, Texas A&M University

• Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University