EVENTS

 The TRANSFORM-iN Education organises and attends events for researchers and teaching professionals and practitioners to explore the balance of conformity and transformation in schooling, including the tensions in pursuing both goals. These spaces value  uncertainty.  This  includes  exploring  different knowledge and perspectives,  feelings and tensions,   and ethical deliberations.   The emphasis is on slowing down and probing deeply,   rather than   too quickly or narrowly deciding how to respond to challenges. 

If you are interested in exploring how to engage with uncertainties in an education setting, do please get in touch. 

EXAMPLES OF PREVIOUS EVENTS
Beyond Learning: education for sustainability 'wicked problem' workshop (2024)
The last in a four-part   series, we delivered a workshop to  undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and professional service staff at the University of Sussex on the educational imperatives and challenges  to engage with the issues of sustainability.  This series was a pilot to explore how to roll out a module for all undergraduates that include the participation of the whole university community, with the expressed focus on creating a sustainable Sussex together. 

Newport City Council (2024)
Having run a whole-day INSET training for schools from across Newport, we are continuing to work with them to explore possibilities to include a focus on 'uncertainty' within their sustainability activities. Our approach is closely linked to the Welsh curriculum:

• Supporting teacher innovation and creativity through a thoughtful and playful engagement with practical philosophical approaches where there is no one clear easy answer.
• Engaging with subject content through different disciplinary lenses, supporting students to bring together different knowledge and their own experience, to think through what this means for how they might live their own lives, both individually and collectively (including as a school and wider community).
• Enabling an attentive and reflective engagement with different knowledge, experiences and feelings, as well as ethical and existential concerns, it supports deep engagement.
• Involving discussion, deliberation, research, inquiry, critical evaluation, as well as imaginative and creative practices. 

Keynote workshop on visit day for teacher mentors for students on the BA Primary and Early Years,   University of Sussex , November, 2023

School teachers and academics deliberate workshops, June & July, 2023
Workshops with school teachers and academics with sustainability expertise, both at the University of Sussex and in Lewes, to deliberate the purposes of education for sustainability and to launch of the education resource and seven films.
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Exhibition, Jubilee Library, 17th-23rd July, 2023
A free exhibition at the central Jubilee Library, Brighton, took place between 17 and 23 July showcasing our own work in schools plus the local work by the local authority:   Our City Our World. This includes photos, films and installations. There was the unique opportunity to listen and examine the ‘inner life’ of compost with specialist audio-visual equipment, and to talk wiht a compost expert, Michael Kennard.

SSRP Annual  Symposium
Presentation entitled 'Creating with uncertainty: Covid recovery to educate for sustainable futures',   Sussex Sustainabilty Research Programme 5th Annual Symposium 2022,  Wednesday, 9 November 2022.

CTLR Higher Educaton
CTLR  Pedagogy Plus Higher Education series, presentation : 'Embedding Sustainability in the Higher Education Curriculum: Panel Reflections on Current Practice and Future Possibilities'  (October 2022)

PASTRES
Pedagogies of Uncertainty: input into global staff meeting   for   PASTRES Project exploring pedagogies for  educating pastoralists living with uncertainty.  (October 2022)

COP27 Youth event 
Youth in times of uncertainty: An ag of uncertainty - working with young poeple in precarious times, workshop hosted by   Anna-Lindh foundation. (November 2022)
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Objects that matter
Exhibition, plus workshops for children and young people, at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, on Saturday 6th November 2021, as part of the ESRC Festival of Science. The exhibited objects were chosen and exchanged by children and young people in India (West Bengal), Ecuador (lowland Chocó) and UK (Brighton). We will showed a short film about why these objects say something to them about their environment. 

Heads Techers conference
A workshop at the Brighton & Hove Head Teachers 2021 conference, talking about how to decolonise the climate change curriculum. (Slides below)

PREVENT  teacher workshop
A workshop on the PREVENT strategy for teachers from six different schools. We engaged in a community inquiry, with staff deciding the focus of the discussion. Together they discussed their response to the strategy, in relation to their own values, concerns and the relevance to their practice.

Sussex Wildlife Trust training
In partnership with the Sussex Wildlife Trust, we have run INSET training, and online training for the South Downs National Park, on the role of outdoor education for supporting children and young people to engage with the uncertainties in their lives, including climate change, Covid-19 and others.

NEU  teacher conference workshop
A workshop with teachers on  uncertainty at the NEU national conference (2019).
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