Global Forum 2025 | Reimagining the Education of Humanity for the Third Millennium
Join us as educators, thinkers, and practitioners from around the globe gather to reimagine what it means to educate humanity for the third millennium.
The international initiative “Human Education in the 3rd Millennium” was launched by thinkers and educationists from across the world who are concerned with certain trends in educational policies and systems of the present times. Their proposal for the project of human education has been to spread throughout the world the basic ideas of educating the hearts and minds of individuals and organisations for the development of universal responsibility and care for the Earth and society.
The outcome of this initiative was a Global Declaration that proposes aims and values of education, and institutional approaches and general principles of pedagogy at different levels of education. The Declaration calls for a new sense of becoming human, rooted in an education that centralizes friendship, compassion, and ethics, as well as collectivity, solidarity, coexistence, democracy, and criticality. Click here to download the Declaration.
The Global Forum 2025 aims to discuss the key messages of the Declaration, to examine the current challenges to education and offer newer imaginations of educational processes, policies and practices. Attention will be paid to what it means to be human in the third millennium in the context of societal and political crises, the rapid development of AI and other technologies, and the forging of new relationships between humanity and the entirety of Nature and planet Earth.
Participants will include a diverse body of academics, teachers, researchers, civil society members, practitioners and students, among others, from across the globe. The Forum foregrounds diversity of voice and perspective in the format of the programme, and will include workshops, roundtables, keynote talks and poster presentations.
Paper Presentations:
This is the conventional style where one person will be given approximately 30 minutes to present, including audience questions and discussion.
Panel Presentation:
These sessions will examine specific research issues, problems, or topics from a variety of perspectives represented by panel members. For these presentations, we encourage 3 – 4 participants to submit a single group proposal. Panels will be given approximately 60 minutes, including audience questions and discussion.
Roundtable Presentation:
Roundtable discussions will involve 3 – 4 participants who are brought together through the Program Committee. The format is more informal than a panel presentation and presenters do not need to identify co-presenters in advance. Sessions will be approximately 60 minutes, including audience questions and discussion for each presenter.
Workshop/Master Class:
Workshop or Master Class is oriented towards practice, such as experiential and participatory demonstrations of methods and forms of educational practice. The session will be approximately 2−2.5 hours.
Poster Presentation:
This format provides for consideration of a topic or issue while offering significant opportunity for visual and graphic presentation and individualized discussion with presenters. Student posters are especially welcome. Students at the undergraduate level or below must include a faculty advisor.
Discussion Groups:
The purpose of these sessions is to allow participants to form a group around a common topic and have an open discussion that is outside traditional formats. Participants do not need to prepare materials in advance. However, if there is a topic that you would like to have featured, please note it in the proposal form.
- Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Educational and Ethical Challenges
- Prospects of Peace and the Value of Recognition in a Contentious Age
- Education for being human in the third millennium
- Education for sustainability
- Education as a shared responsibility for community building
- Educational Affects: Feelings, Empathy, and Love
- The critical function of education in society
- Pedagogical Horizons: Equity, Recognition, Justice, Peace and Care
- Re-thinking Education: Learning from grassroots movements and minoritised communities
For more details, you may click here.
Should you have any questions, please reach out to the Programme Committee at globalforum25@apu.edu.in.
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