The conference will be organised as a hybrid event. All registered participants will have access to the pre-recorded presentations for on-demand viewing.
14:00 - 18:00
Pre-conference seminar - MS Teams ULS room 309
14:00 - 15:00
Registration and welcome coffee - ULS room 309
14:30 - 15:00
Open space for online delegates to drop into and meet and greet each other - Zoom main room
15:00 - 16:30
Plenary - Zoom main room; ULS room 309
Welcome to Wrocław
The Network
Introduction to conference theme
16:30 - 16:45
Coffee break - ULS room 309
16:45 - 18:00
Group 1: Getting to know each other - Zoom breakout room; ULS room 414
16:45 - 18:00
Group 2: Getting to know each other - Zoom breakout room; ULS room 518
16:45 - 18:00
Group 3: Getting to know each other - Zoom breakout room; ULS room 309
18:00 - 20:00
Welcome reception - ULS room 308
9:30 - 10:00
Open space for online delegates to drop into and meet and greet each other, welcome coffee - Zoom main room; ULS room 309
10:00 - 12:00
Group 1 - Encountering the Other in Digital Communities Zoom breakout room; ULS room 414
- Susan Mossman Riva - Engaging in Online Learning Communities: Flying Through the Window When the Door is Locked
- Clotilde Lechuga-Jimenez, Pilar Moreno-Crespo, Mario Ferreras-Listan, & Olga Moreno-Fernandez - Digital StoryTelling (DST): a tool for intergenerational dialogue to promote and transmit heritage identity in primary school classrooms
10:00 - 12:00
Group 2 - Encountering Difference Zoom breakout room; ULS room 518
- Dalila Raccagni & Elena Sarzilla - Re-encountering oneself. The MoltiMe theatre experience
- María Marcela González Arenas - Approaches to the epistemological construction of Pedagogical Theory from traces of the affects and the political in autobiographical narratives of female Mexican educative researchers
10:00 - 12:00
Group 3 - Encountering the Other in Organisations Zoom breakout room; ULS room 309
- Aneta Słowik - From the life history crisis of Ukrainians and Poles during the covid pandemic to the institutional support process
- Micaela Castiglioni - Organizations in the post-modern era: relational or individualistic models of leadership?
- Antonella Cuppari - “From stories about living to living the stories": inside and outside the idea of home in a cooperative inquiry with social workers, volunteers and family members of people with intellectual disabilities
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break - ULS room 308
13:30 - 15:30
Group 1 - Encountering Marginalization and Migration Zoom breakout room; ULS room 414
- Darasimi Oshodi - “Italy is one”: An asylum seeker’s experience and impression about Italians’ attitude towards Blacks
- Rob Evans & Skyller Walkes - An encounter: Black and white
- Dohye Yoon - Learning from life and learning for life: Biographical informal learning of migrant Korean women
13:30 - 15:30
Group 2 - Encountering Marginalization and Migration Zoom breakout room; ULS room 518
- Peter Leyland - Creating an Adult Education Course on African Novels
- Michael Bernhard - Encountering a new rulebook: 'Migrant' engagement with the 'Canadian experience' discourse
- Emilio Lucio-Villegas - Who are you? Stories to build the history
13:30 - 15:30
Group 3 - Encountering Marginalization, Mobility and Migration Zoom breakout room; ULS room 309
- Anne-Laurence Halford - Narrating the international student mobility experience: Issues and contributions of a dialogical intercultural approach
- Linden West - Migration, learning and its enemies: ‘us’, ‘them’ and the possibilities of cosmopolitan learning
15:30 - 15:45
Coffee break - ULS room 309
15:45 - 17:30
Plenary - Zoom main room; ULS room 309
Alan Bainbridge - Adult learning on the edge of a precipice: an ecology of living and learning
Brief plenary - feedback from groups (all delegates together)
9:00 - 9:30
Open space for online delegates to drop into and meet and greet each other, welcome coffee - Zoom main room; ULS room 309
9:30 - 11:30
Group 1 - Encountering Others in the Community Zoom breakout room; ULS room 414
- Vito Balzano - Educating social citizenship today between complexity and multidimensionality
- Donata Puntil, Patricia Zunszain - Intergenerational encounters
- Gaia Del Negro, Silvia Luraschi, Cinzia Delorenzi, & Dalia El Saadany - Hosting others. Looking for traces of transformation in adult education through somatic and artistic relational work
9:30 - 11:30
Group 2 - Encountering the Self and Other through Methods and Methodology Zoom breakout room; ULS room 518
- Katarína Rozvadská - Adult Learners' Stories of the Past: What Can Be Learned from Historically Grounded Biographical Narratives of Non-Traditional Students in Czech Higher Education
- Helen Woodley - Whose group is this anyway? Relationships and power in an online methodology group
- Hazel Wright - A semi-autobiographical reflection on being ‘other’ prompted by BREXIT
9:30 - 11:30
Group 3 - Pedagogical Encounters Zoom breakout room; ULS room 309
- Veslemøy Berg - Being the "other"
- Laura Formenti - The othered self: writing as learning in HE courses for socio-educational workers
- Laurence Bassingha - The effect of the transactional leadership to perpetuate racism when managing and developing Learning in a H.E institution in Wales
11:30 - 13:00
Lunch Break - ULS room 308
13:00 - 15:00
Group 1 - Encountering the Self and Other through Methods and Methodology Zoom breakout room; ULS room 414
- Tom Troppe - The Education of a Stay-at-Home Dad: Identity, Alterity & Event
- Rob Evans & Justyna Oleksy - The Other encountered
- Berit Bareksten, Gaia Del Negro, Silvia Luraschi, Inger Helen Midtgård, Donata Puntil, & Hazel Wright - Dignity through touch – in times of pandemic: Creating spaces for caring relationships
13:00 - 15:00
Group 2 - Encountering Others in the Community Zoom breakout room; ULS room 518
- Wojciech Gola - Individual, network and community – diverse relational experiences in educational pathways of adult learners in Poland
- Elisabetta Biffi, Maria Benedetta Gambacorti-Passerini, & Daniela Bianchi - “Being parents is like…”: a training course to explore parents’ biographical experiences
- Clotilde Lechuga-Jimenez, Juan Jesús Martín Jaime, & José Jesús Delgado Peña - Heritage education: an engaged learning proposal for university studies and adult education
13:00 - 15:00
Group 3 - Pedagogical Encounters Zoom breakout room; ULS room 309
- Espen Hektoen, Patric Wallin, & Dagrun A. A. Engen - Encountering Others on a Common ground - Collegial coaching of teaching in higher education
- Linden West & Ivan Kirchgaesser - Being human and adult in academia: Self/other, personal relationships, fine lines, and the place of feelings
- José Guillermo Trujillo, María Marcela González Arenas, & Esperanza Aurora Hakim Vista - Collective guided autobiographies: Meeting chronotropes for the recovery, reconfiguration and co-creation of professional teaching identities
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break - ULS room 309
15:15 - 16:30
Brief plenary - feedback from groups (all delegates together) - Zoom main room; ULS room 309
16:30 - 17:00
Closing plenary - feedback and discussing the future - Zoom main room; ULS room 309
19:00 - 22:00
Conference dinner