Maynooth University invite you to a talk by Professor Mel Ainscow. This presentation will draw on his extensive experience and research to provide guidance regarding the conditions that are needed to make collaboration work. It will focus on the major challenge facing education systems around the world, that of achieving equity. In so doing, it will start from the assumption that, under the right conditions, learner diversity can be a catalyst for educational improvement.
The talk will take place Tuesday 2nd March 5pm-6pm
Mel Ainscow is internationally recognised as an authority on the promotion of inclusion and equity in education. He is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow, and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. A long-term consultant to UNESCO, he is currently working on international efforts to promote equity and inclusion globally. Examples of his writing can be found in: ‘Struggles for equity in education: The selected works of Mel Ainscow’, published in the Routledge World Library of Educationalists series.
Attendees will be able to submit questions and comments during the address. These will be responded to by Professor Ainscow in the live Q&A session that follows.
The event takes place on Tuesday 2nd March 5pm-6pm on TEAMS.
Please note registration closes @ 10:00 pm Friday 26th February 2021
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