Reimagining Education for Self-Reliance
03 & 04 October 2024
Welcome
Welcome to the webpage for the FECUN Tanzania conference and the 2nd International Conference on Education held at Mkwawa University College of Education. The hybrid conference will take place October 3-4, 2024, onsite at Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa, Tanzania, and online via Zoom.
The conference theme is Reimagining Education for Self-Reliance (ESR) in the context of Futures of Education, Culture, and Nature.
The conference is organized in a joint collaboration between MUCE, Tanzania
HakiElimu, Tanzania, and VIA University College, Denmark (see contact page for more info).
What
The conference is a conference in the series of FECUN-conferences, which again is a part of the FECUN project (www.fecun.net). FECUN is an abbreviation of Futures of Education, Culture, and Nature.
FECUN
The FECUN project is inspired by UNESCO’s Futures of Education project, which focus on establishing a new global infrastructure of education, which connects education with the notion of ‘commons’ and the idea of creating a new social contract for education that can repair injustices while transforming our visions and images of our futures together.
FECUN more specifically focuses on:
- the entanglements between education, culture, and nature (including issues related to sustainable development),
- the global biodiversity of knowledge and presence related to these entanglements,
- how various forms and types of education (academia, applied science, polytechnic, and vocational education, arts and craft), as well as civil society and arts, might relate to these entanglements.
When & Where
The conference is a Hybrid conference that takes place October 3-4, 2024.
Onsite venue: Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa, Tanzania( https://muce.ac.tz )
Online participation via Zoom
Who
The target group is researchers, professionals, students, and everybody else interested in or involved in/working with the theme or the conference subthemes.
Concept Note
The theme of the conference is Reimagining Education for Self-Reliance (ESR) in the context of Futures of Education, Culture and Nature.
In line with one of the main ideas of the FECUN conference series, the theme of each conference is inspired by views of education, culture, and nature from a particular ‘place’ on planet Earth, in 2024 Tanzania. However, the conference theme is developed to function worldwide beyond the local context.
You can read more on FECUN, the FECUN conference series, and the Tanzanian and East-African inspiration for developing the theme and ideas behind the conference in the concept note below.
You will also find more information on how the conference theme relates to worldwide concerns regarding education, culture, and nature in the interconnected world of the Anthropocene, Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Development Goals.
Finally, you will be presented with the various subthemes of the conference.