Professor Julia Paulson, introduces EdJAM's first launch event, # 1 Education, she is Professor of Education, Peace and Conflict in the School of Education at the University of Bristol and Principal Investigator for EdJAM.

Julia introduces Dr Tania Saeed who hosts a conversation on education with Professors Arathi Sriprakash and Keri Facer

Education is sometimes framed as the only way to overcome past injustices and their legacies in the present. Yet the personal experiences of millions of learners around the world and of the work social theorists across many traditions show how schooling is often a site of violence and a process that maintains existing inequalities and creates new ones.

This panel grapples with this paradox by exploring the purposes and possibilities of education, inside and outside of schools, to help create just futures. With a focus on decolonial theory and practice, creativity and co-production, memory and reparative practice, and ecological and climate justice, panellists share their experience, research and questions around education.

Professor Arathi Sriprakash is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol and a member of EdJAM’s Advisory Board. Arathi is a founding member of the Race, Empire and Education Collective and lead author of the recent paper ‘Learning with the Past: Racism, education and reparative futures’.

Professor Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, the 3rd Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University and a member of EdJAM’s Advisory Board. She led the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme and is author of the recent paper ‘Beyond business as usual: Higher education in the era of climate change’.

Dr Tania Saeed is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, and presently a Marie Sklowdoska-Curie fellow at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She is an EdJAM Co-investigator. Her research focuses on citizenship, education, Islamophobia, and populism in the context of Pakistan and the South Asian diaspora in the UK and US

Music in the opening and closing of this event is credited to Arafat Mazhar, he is an EdJAM Partner, Founder of Engage Pakistan and Director of Puffball Studios.

Audio for this podcast was recorded during a live online event which took place on the 2nd March 2021 with an international audience. This was the first in three live events organised for the official launch of the Education Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM).

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