我們邀請到於韓國啟明大學教育系的Kevin Kester副教授來中山演講囉！時間地點都在下方海報。不用事先報名，可以直接進來聆聽喔。

The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century

This presentation will critically examine the reproduction of social inequalities and violence within higher education peace studies inside the United Nations. It will overview how Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) educators conceptualize and practice the field of higher education peace studies around the world, the forms of capital and habitus they possess that contribute to their practices, and the ways in which they deploy these forms of capital and embodied performances to influence and move about the field. Using data collected through an extended ethnography — involving observations, document analysis, and interviews with faculty and students — the presentation will critique the underlying Western theoretical premises of the liberal peace agenda upon which scholars express PACS education is founded. Overall, the presentation is positioned within educational sociology, theoretically informed by Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and drawing on literature from peace studies, peace education, critical race theory, and Whiteness studies. The study is located within the epoch of postmodernity and global neoliberalism, and contributes to literature on higher education peace studies, peace pedagogy, and Whiteness. The presentation will merge these areas to provide new empirical insights into contemporary theoretical and pedagogical practices. Novel concepts of‘peace habitus’, ‘post-structural violence’ and ‘second order reflexivity’ will be offered to explain how PACS higher education today is implicated in the reproduction of cultural and structural violence.

Decolonizing Higher Education: Some Practical Examples from International and Intercultural Educators in Korea

In response to the increasing internationalization of Korean higher education, questions are arising about how educational professionals should respond creatively and effectively to changing demographics and citizenships in classrooms and universities. Lecturers are increasingly facing the challenge of educating young people from diverse backgrounds — from the global North and the global South. It is important in this changing context that intercultural educators in Korean universities adapt their theoretical and pedagogical approaches to transcend the limitations of the previous generations of multicultural education, human rights, language, peace and citizenship education to approach international and intercultural education from diverse traditions. The presentation will begin with a critical review of the literature, followed by an overview of the research methodology and findings from a collaborative research project conducted across Korea for six months in the 2019 academic year. The talk will then turn to a presentation of the decolonial toolkit, addressing six areas of educational intervention, co-developed by 100 participants from six workshops facilitated around the country. The talk will conclude with implications and considerations for the Taiwanese context