Conference 2025

Critical Edge Alliance institutions were established to unsettle and reimagine higher education in their respective countries through innovative models of learning, teaching, research and social engagement. In a context of increasing challenges to critical education and global crises that demand new thinking, this conference seeks to create a forum to share the accomplishments, challenges and new initiatives of our respective approaches to critical education and deepen our work together through creating new avenues of collaboration and action. 

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How are we evolving and innovating our critical models to address current challenges? How can we build skillful, sustained engagement across the Critical Edge Alliance that leads to learning and action? How can we support one another in challenging times?

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Call for Participation and Submissions
by December 31, 2024

We invite participation from administrators, staff, faculty and students from Critical Edge Alliance institutions who would like to:

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• Assess the evolution of their respective approaches to critical education in light of current challenges,

• Highlight new curricular or pedagogical initiatives as well as approaches to social engagement on or off campus,

• Showcase new research projects and scholarship that advance or illustrate the promises of critical education in our current moment, and;

• Submit creative proposals for 1) how Critical Edge Alliance institutions can work collaboratively to address current challenges; 2) deepen our connections, work together, exchange, and; 3) build our alliance further.

We ask all presenters to try to relate their work to an action that can be taken across the Critical Edge Alliance in 2025-26 and beyond. Some examples of those actions might be: student/staff/faculty exchanges, collaborations and research initiatives, student gatherings, projects and newsletters, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), shared speakers and resources and more.

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You can propose a Panel discussion, Workshop, Paper, Activity, or Artistic production or expression.

Sign Up to Attend and Submit Your Proposals by December 31, 2024
 

Selected proposals will be announced by January 15, 2025​​​​