These themes capture the dynamic nature of our evolving educational landscape, inviting you to embark on an enlightening path of discovery and transformation. Engage in stimulating discussions, participate in thought-provoking workshops, and attend insightful presentations that delve into the heart of each theme.

AISC 2024 also offers a unique platform for networking. Build connections with fellow educators, passionate change-makers, and visionary leaders dedicated to advancing education. Together, we will gather actionable insights and strategies, contributing collectively to the global conversation on educational excellence.

Keynote presentation:

Imagining alternative educational futures in the present

AISC 2024 pleased to welcome Dr. Elke Van dermijnsbrugge, Lecturer and Researcher in International Teacher Education at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, to be our Keynote Speaker this year.  Dr. Van dermijnsbrugge focuses on alternative research methods in education and is interested in the application of utopian and speculative thinking, the punk ethos philosophy to reimagine educational policy, research and practices that support collaborative, participatory, plural, just and imaginative futures.

Dr. Van dermijnsbrugge consider crisis as an opportunity to interrupt the ‘normal’ order; to consider the conditions that have given rise to it, what it says about who we are as humans and how we might be able to imagine and do things differently to work towards collaborative, participatory, plural, just and imaginative futures. In this keynote, we will tackle the questions ‘How can educators respond to a world in crisis and create alternative futures in the present?’ and ‘How can the imagination be put to work in educational spaces?’

We will shift the focus from problem-solving and crisis responses to possibility and mutual aid. We will explore educational practices that involve imaginative, utopian and speculative thinking and acting. Education and schools in particular will be repositioned and reimagined as spaces where alternative futures emerge, starting here and now.

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