Fixing the future - Education edition: Mmantsetsa Marope
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About this Event
After the success of the 2018 and 2019 editions, Fixing the future is back - now online and free - to explore the future of education.
“How to learn?” is one of the most critical and urgent questions for our post digital and post-pandemic future: Atlas of the Future wants to offer an inspiring debate about learner-focused, future-fit, justice-centred education for all, with some of the world’s leading educational experts and innovators.
Every Thursday, for 7 weeks, an international expert will connect online to present his/her idea on the future of education and to answer the questions of the public.
Each event will be live streamed and simultaneously translated in English and Catalan. You will be able to choose the language channel you prefer and you can ask your questions in either language.
Mmantsetsa Marope's intervention will be moderated by David Bueno.
Mmantsetsa Marope is the Executive Director of the World Heritage Group and Honorary President of the Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Society. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Chicago, a Masters degree in Education from Pennsylvania State University and a BA from the University of Botswana and Swaziland. Her professional career includes 11 years university professorship, ten years at the World Bank and ten years in the United Nations – including her role as Director of UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education (2014 - 2020). She has also been editor in chief of PROSPECTS, as well as founder and editor in chief of IBE INFOCUS. The global thought leader works to transform learning systems towards innovative self-renewal, quality, impact and equity, inclusion, justice and fulfilment for all. She is also an award-winning Setswana novelist.
David Bueno i Torrens is a doctor in Biology and professor and researcher in Genetics at the University of Barcelona, who works to make science more accessible to citizens.