Plenary discussion registration

De/reconstructing education as a space for transformative belonging and agency: Research and policy symposium on gender equality in and through education

Monday, December 5, 2022, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. EST
Online: https://www.brookings.edu/events/de-reconstructing-education-as-a-space-for-transformative-belonging-and-agency/ 

To delve deeper into the scholars’ individual research, register for the virtual workshop discussions here.

To develop the holistic skills young people need to thrive in life, work, and citizenship in the 21st century, education must provide students a sense of stability, belonging, and connection with their peers and community that allows them to individually and collectively identify and voice their hopes, make decisions, and take action to fully shape their own lives and the lives of their communities. Unfortunately, these fundamental education needs are often not met due to systemic factors—both within and outside of the education sector—that exclude millions of young people, especially girls, young women, and gender non-conforming people.

On December 5, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) will open the research and policy symposium on gender equality in and through education with a plenary discussion among the Echidna Global Scholars that will look at how to de/reconstruct education systems, schools, and other learning contexts into spaces of transformative belonging and agency. Speaking across their research about forcibly displaced girls in the Sahel, young children not in school in rural Pakistan, girls and young women left out of digital technology education and careers in Kenya, and adolescent girls (and their teachers) struggling in isolation with the effects of poverty and gender inequities in Nepal, the scholars will unpack the ways in which policies and practices currently limit belonging and inclusion in places of learning and share what they have learned about co-constructing more just and gender-transformative policy solutions.

Viewers can submit questions via e-mail to events@brookings.edu or on Twitter using #EchidnaScholars.