Key Speakers

Bernard Petiot

MD, Cirque du Soleil

 
 
MD for casting and performance at the well-reputed Canadian contemporary circus group Cirque du Soleil. Upon completing his Master’s degree in Physical Activity, Bernard was recruited by Montreal’s Club Gymnix to lead the advanced gymnastics program at the same time as he was teaching at Université de Montréal. Under the theme of participation, Bernard will speak about the challenges and the potential of getting individuals who are experts within their fields, and who furthermore have high personal integrity, to want participation and to create something together.

Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde

Author
 
Founder of the organization Inkludera Invest (Include invest), author, independent columnist in DN (the newspaper Dagens Nyheter) and lecturer. She has her education from Stockholm School of Economics and Columbia Business School in New York. Golnaz has in her novel Hon är inte jag (She is not I) explored experiences from the Swedish education system from the nine-year compulsory school to the higher education institutions. These experiences create an understanding for the fact that the Swedish education system many times is blind and insensitive to how class, ethnicity, and gender influence and form the education process. Golnaz will in her keynote speech throw light upon this.

Pär Lager

CEO at the education group Anthon B Nilsen.

 
Pär is also in charge of the  EdTech Group, chairman of the board for the trade association SAUF - Sveriges Auktoriserade Utbildningsföretag (Sweden’s authorized education companies) and participant in the SNS research project on provision of competences for the future [“Framtidens kompetensförsörjning”]. He has also been political specialist at the Ministry of Education and Research. Under the theme of digitalization, Pär will address what is happening – and what is not happening – in higher education. Pär will compare the development of higher education in Sweden with what is happening both internationally and in other sectors that lie near at hand.  

Invited speakers

Communication for Development

Malmö Högskola

The panel has three presenters, Hugo Boothby, Marie Leijon, and Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt from Malmö University. 

Hugo Boothby is an adjunct lecturer at Malmö University with a background in broadcasting. Before taking a position in Malmö, Hugo worked for 10 years with the BBC World Service in London. During his time in Malmö, Hugo has worked extensively with programmes such as the Communication for Development and Media and Communication Studies. In these programmes, the teaching team works with a blended learning or ‘convergence pedagogy’ approach that seeks to integrate distance learning and campus based education. Marie Leijon is senior lecturer in pedagogy at Malmö University. Marie is also an Educational developer at the Centre for Academic Teaching at Malmö University. She has done postdoctoral research projects about campus space as a place for learning. Marie is currently focusing on a research project about the hybridization of learning spaces and the connection between physical and virtual learning spaces. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is senior lecturer in media and communication at Malmö University and professor in media studies at the University of Tartu. She is currently the programme coordinator of Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries and teacher in several courses in this programme. Experiments with online learning environments, making the technology work multiple teaching methods and having an engaged classroom is at the centre of her teaching.

In the session, these three teachers will bring to the table experiments with teaching methods and technology. There will be presentations on how a combination of technologies can work in a teaching situation and what affordances this might offer both teacher and students, and on the interplay between space, interaction and learning, and different kinds of student engagement opportunities that online teaching allows.

Jens Dolin

Professor at the University of Copenhagen

 
Jens Dolin, professor in science didactics at the University of Copenhagen, will speak about career paths in teaching and education at universities and higher education institutions. The faculty of science and bioscience at the University of Copenhagen has since 2012 worked with an organization for making it possible to become professor with special tasks in the development of education and teaching (professor MSO). Nine professors have for the time being been appointed, see http://www.ind.ku.dk/professormso/. The professors work with innovative projects in their own subjects with perspectives for the whole faculty. They work together with researchers from the department of science didactics, which also supports the coordination and the dissemination of these projects, so that the entire faculty is favoured and inspired by the venture.

Johan Gärdebo

 Doctoral Student in History of Technology, the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology

Since his study period at Uppsala University Johan has worked intensely with student and teacher participation to make possible that which can be named active student participation. Active student participation comprises education forms where students participate in each other’s learning. Johan Gärdebo will talk about how the work with active student participation has continued to develop at Uppsala University and how it now takes place in clear dialogue with other initiatives, both in Sweden and internationally. He will discuss the importance of the division of responsibilities and how joint initiatives for and between different parties around the university may be successful. Johan Gärdebo asks questions about collegiality, and about the different parties who participate in higher education.