Program Overview: Bildung, education and subject didactic in the Anthropocene Epoch

January 11, Tuesday
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Conference opening Jesper Garsdal (JEGA), VIA and Kenneth Nordgren CSD, Karlstad University
09:15 AM - 11:30 PM
Plenary Session 1: How should we approach education for a sustainable future and Bildung as a process of rethinking human cultural self-understanding? What does the Anthropocene uncover and conceal when related to education and Bildung?
Chair:
- Christina Olin-Scheller, professor of Applied pedagogy/ professor of Contemporary Literature, Karlstad University.
Panelists:
- Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard, Associate professor in education and pedagogy, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Gabriel Bladh, Professor of Social Science didactics, Karlstad University, Sweden
- Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History. University of Stavanger, Norway
- Michael Paulsen, Associate professor, the University of Southern Denmark
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lunch
12:30 PM – 14:00 PM
Parallel Sessions A1, B1 and C1
14:00 PM – 14:40 PM
Break
14:40 PM – 16:30 PM
Parallel Sessions A2, B2, and C2
January 12, Wednesday
08:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Plenary Session 2: To what extent does integrating the Anthropocene into education affect tensions between different educational goals? How can curriculum development navigate the demands and needs of interdisciplinary pedagogy, specialised knowledge and new epistemological approaches?
Chair:
- Marianne Axelsen Leth, Senior Lecturer, VIAUC-Teacher Education, Aarhus, Denmark
Panelists:
- Camilla Brudin Borg, Senior lecturer in Literary studies at The University of Gothenburg. Sweden
- Niklas Gericke, professor in science education, Karlstad University, Sweden, visiting professor at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
- Kenneth Nordgren, Professor of Social Science didactics, Karlstad University, Sweden
- Felix Riede. Professor MSO in Environmental Humanities and Climate Change Archaeology, Aarhus University, Denmark/ Professor II at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Norway
- Sirpa Tani, Professor of Geography and Environmental Education Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Finland
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Parallel Sessions A3, B3 and C3 (OBS C3 ends at 12:30)
12:40 PM
Conference closes - Plenary
14:00 PM – 15:00 PM
UBAN – Meeting network meeting
