Join us in our third digital dialogue, where we will explore progressive education and school experiments in the late 20th century. 

Lead: Professor Julie McLeod, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. 
Speaker: Associate Professor Frances Kelly. School of Education and Social Practice, in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Date: Thursday April 23, 2026
Time: 9 am – 11.30 am (CET/CEST)

Zoom-link: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66145476801?pwd=gWc11r3hvg0lDclVWTpuPJKPE9ukG9.1 

In this dialogue, we take up the notion of progressive education as an empirical and analytical concept to discuss not only what it implies, but also how it may take on different meanings across time and space. By focusing on specific experiments at the everyday level within school and teacher education, we explore the micro-level of progressive education and examine how understandings of teaching, teachers, and students evolve through these experiments. In doing so, we wish to discuss how these developments add meaning to the very notion of progressive education. We also consider the ways in which new ideas and practices travel beyond the experiments themselves and ask how this movement unfolds – perhaps differently - across time and space.

Read more about this event here