Ideas Conference

Each year the Werklund School of Education hosts an IDEAS Conference

The theme for the conference is Transforming Pedagogies: Learn – Design – Innovate, which reflects participatory inquiry focused on ensuring curricula and pedagogies fit with and in a rapidly changing world. These new understandings arise from the fields of neurology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and ecology.  While educational organizations are typically slow to respond to knowledge advances, it is imperative that those responsible for optimum learning in a system understand the transformations to pedagogies that support and promote learning throughout the system.  Rather than just a matter of policy, a focus on the transformative pedagogies that support optimum learning, calls for transparency in what takes place in learning environments.

The IDEAS Conference will be held from July 3 to July 5, 2019 at the University of Calgary. K-12 practitioners, school leaders, undergraduate and graduate students, post-secondary educators, consultants, ministry personnel and researchers are invited to submit a proposal for presentation on or before January 31, 2019.