Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
My talk this evening is entitled “Education: a transformational journey?”. It will be a whistle-stop tour of the history of education since earliest times, and I will try to identify periods when education might be deemed to have been transformational – either for individuals, or for society or civilisation as a whole – and periods when education was used to prevent or to resist transformation. I will then focus on present day schooling, especially in Ireland. Finally, I will briefly explore the challenges currently faced by humankind and ask whether education systems worldwide can play a part in overcoming these challenges and act as an agent for transformational change across the world.
Period
17 Apr 2023
Held at
Fergal Nally Lecture, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland
Degree of Recognition
National
Keywords
History of education , Transformation , Ireland , Transformational change