Tuesday 8 September 7.00 – 8.30pm AEST

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In the final seminar, we will be joined by panellists Dr Genaro Oliveira (HSIE/social sciences teacher educator, Global South scholar and intercultural and multicultural education enthusiast), Dr Jo Grimmond (early childhood teacher, academic, passionate advocate for play, and all things early maths), climate activist Anjali Sharma and Year 12 student Tilly Mitchener to turn our attention to questions of action and toward different, hopeful, educational futures. Rejecting both passive optimism and hopelessness, this conversation will consider what educators, communities and young people might do once the conditions of the present have been named and understood. It considers how collective response and public action might emerge during this time of deep rupture and uncertainty.

Key discussion points:

• What forms of action are possible in this moment?

• How might educators move beyond isolation toward solidarity and collective responsibility?

• What does resistance, care and public hope look like in education today?

• How might education create spaces for grief along with rage, creativity and collective imagination rather than silence or disengagement?

• What kinds of educational futures remain worth fighting for?

Resources

Australian Anti-Racism Kit

https://adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au/

From India to Gaza: Youth Revolts and the Struggle to Break Open the Future - CounterPunch.org

Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Fascist Tyranny | Human Restoration Project

https://freireproject.com/

Interview with Joe L. Kincheloe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01wUVOhtATw

Do schools kill creativity?

Bring on the learning revolution!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513057.2026.2679951