Public Education at the Crossroads

Against this background, researchers from the US, Canada and Germany will join for a panel to introduce and discuss new evidence and responses to these challenges. They will examine both complimentary as well as competing factors that impact public education in democratic systems. The panelists will discuss what is needed to prepare schools for 21st-century challenges such as migration and multilingualism. In addition, they will analyze the ways in which public education has produced notions of citizenship and democracy that need to be developed further to address the realities of 21st-century societies.

Watch the panel discussion with

Hermann Josef Abs
Professor of Educational Research and Schooling
University of Duisburg-Essen

Gustavo Fischman
Professor of Educational Policy
Arizona State University

Ingrid Gogolin
Professor of Comparative and Intercultural Education Research
University of Hamburg

Joel Westheimer
University Research Chair in Democracy and Education
University of Ottawa

moderated by

Rose Ylimaki
Professor of Educational Policies
University of South Carolina