Twenty-third International Conference on Learning
- Education in the Age of the Anthropocene
- 13–15 July 2016
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Twenty-third International Conference on Learning
Countries represented
‘The Anthropocene’ is the term that has been proposed to describe an epoch in which human activity begins to have a noticeable impact on the ecosystems of the earth. Among these impacts, one of the most noted and discussed is climate change.
In addition to its usual range of themes, in 2016 The Learner Knowledge Community will address the area that has traditionally been called “environmental education”. This is necessarily a cross-disciplinary endeavor, not only using the methods of natural science to explore the workings of natural environments, but also exploring the relations between humans and the environment in history, social studies, and the humanities. In addressing this special theme, the conference also wishes to raise broad questions about cross-disciplinary practices of critical thinking, citizenship education, environmental ethics, and social/scientific reasoning. In the era of the Anthropocene, we have come to realize that such questions may become life-and-death matters, not only in the face of ecosystemic trauma and more frequent natural disasters, but eventually for the very sustainability of human life on earth. These have become fundamental questions which today’s educators and their students must address.
Professor, Early Childhood Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
EdD, Professor, Early Childhood Education, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
PhD, First Nations Scholar and Assistant Professor, Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2016 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Guelph, Canada
University of Manchester, UK
Wayne State University, USA
University of the District of Columbia, USA
University of the Philippines, Philippines
Artvin Coruh University, Turkey
Macquarie University, Australia
University of British Columbia, Canada
University of Alberta, Canada
University of British Columbia, Canada
University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, West Indies
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
James Cook University, Townsville City, Australia
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Visit our YouTube channel through the button below to view the lightning talks.