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Teachers and leading academics from around the world met in South Africa to identify and share thinking and practice on issues associated with raising the aspirations of young learners and providing them with the skills and knowledge to thrive in a globalised world.
Over 70 education officials, school principals, teachers and students from schools in South Africa were joined by 60 headteachers and educationalist from the UK, USA, Mauritius and Australia.
The intensive three day programme included school showcases, keynote presentations and seminars by leading academics and discussion and debate opportunities. Delegates also visited local schools to gain an understanding of South Africa’s culture and education system and also to provide further insights for the delegates as they thought through the shape of education for the 21st century learners in their home countries and schools.
The delegates were challenged to examine traditional practice through academic keynotes, Professors Erica McWilliam and Yong Zhao, who looked at how we need to unlearn how we teach to really transform systems around the world, how the impact of technology redefines what talents our young learners need, and what knowledge is of most worth for young leaner’s to acquire.
The conference was held up as an agenda setting event for iNet members by the delegates and the iNet team are now planning activities from this work. This will be framed around key aspects of the iNet Charter for Action and, significantly, the launch of the iNet Global Village.
To summarise this conference we would like to use the words of Charles Marthinussen Headteacher at Atlantis High School in Cape Town who presented at the event:
Umuntu Ungumuntu Ngabantus
A person is a person because of other people. If you want to achieve what you want to achieve help other people achieve what they want to achieve.