Welcome to this year’s UAL Education Conference (ExEd25) organised by the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange.
We look forward to hosting a full schedule of this one day in-person event, including a wide variety of session formats, opportunities to socialise and network throughout the day, including hospitality. Come and meet your colleagues from across all 6 Colleges, Institutes, Central Services and Arts SU representatives under the broad umbrella of a day focussed on the educational.
Open Call
This year again we invite you to submit proposals using our accessible form on any education-related theme. We all share concerns related to climate, racial, social justice and our social purpose because these aspects of strategy activate qualities, concerns and ethics. Current events challenge educators to even greater levels of commitment to counter ignorance, decrease polarisation and violence, add nuance and build bridges of understanding. The relationship between education and justice is one of the ongoing commitments of the Conference, voicing and enacting our collective wisdom.
Climate change and species loss, as part of conditions that violate life and our interconnected lives, demand ever more innovative responses to and structural adaptation of our curricula. This may increase art and science, economic, social, cultural and political cooperation. Each are implicated in ethical art and design, knowledge exchange and research. Is the loss of knowledge of as much a concern to you as new knowledge? Are we concerned to represent an educational future for all our students that is unique to our aims and unique to their priorities and motivations? Are there new possibilities and challenges that you have found yourself responding to?
We want to invite you to a conference of criticality, mutual support and respect. What ingenuity, urgent analyses, positive actions, principles or practices are we, as a community, contributing to education? A diversity within educational discourse is essential at such times, when crisis becomes a term at risk of loss of urgency. Education, Health, Culture and Freedom are Human Rights that ask demands of us, as an education profession and as individuals. What is a learning crisis, if not a moment of choice?
Join us in an appreciative inquiry into our contribution and impact as we seek positive ways forward. Join us as we celebrate: the Conference Archive (2013-2024), our links with international educators including cultures of the Caribbean, work across technical and academic specialisms, the incredible achievements we have accomplished this year in our day-to-day commitment to students, both teaching staff and those that support learning and student welfare.