ICLS 2020

The International Conference of the Learning Sciences

June 19 – 23, Nashville, TN

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

ICLS is a major international event, organized biennially by ISLS, which gathers people involved in all aspects of the field of the learning sciences,including empirical, conceptual, theoretical, design-based, practitioner and policy perspectives. The Theme for ICLS 2020 is Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

The conference schedule will be released in detail in spring 2020. The general overview of the schedule is below.

June 19-20 -- Pre-conference workshops

June 20 -- Opening Plenary with Anna Sfard

June 21 -- Keynote presentation with Audrey Watters

June 22 -- Keynote presentation Leigh Patel

June 23 -- Closing ceremony

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Anna Sfard

Prof. Emerita, University of Haifa

Audrey Watters

Writer, Independent Scholar

Leigh Patel

Assoc. Dean for Equity & Justice, Univ. Pittsburgh

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Anna Sfard

Professor Emerita, Univ. of Haifa

Anna Sfard conducts research and teaches in the domain of learning sciences, with particular focus on the relation between thinking and communication. Her research is guided by the assumption that human thinking is a form of communication. Results of her theoretical and empirical research conducted within this communicational (or “commognitive”) framework have been summarized in her book Thinking as communicating: Human development, the growth of discourses, and mathematizing, in a series of special issues and edited volumes, and in numerous articles and book chapters. Currently, she is a Professor Emerita at the University of Haifa, Israel. She served as the first Lappan-Philips-Fitzgerald Professor at Michigan State University and is the Visiting Professor in the Institute of Education, University College of London. She is the recipient of 2007 Freudenthal Award, the Fellow of American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the member of the American National Academy of Education (NAEd).

Audrey Watters

Writer, Indepentdent Scholar

Audrey Watters is a writer and independent scholar who focuses on education technology — its politics and its pedagogical implications. Although she was two chapters into her Comparative Literature dissertation, she decided to abandon academia, and she now happily fulfills the one job recommended to her by a junior high aptitude test: freelance writer. Audrey has written for The Baffler, The Atlantic,Vice, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere across the Web, but she is best known for her work on her own website Hack Education. She has given keynotes and presentations on education technology around the world and is the author of several books, including The Monsters of Education Technology series. She is currently working on her next book, Teaching Machines, which will be published by MIT Press. Audrey was a recipient of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Leigh Patel

Associate Dean for Equity and Justice, University of Pittsburgh School of Education

Professor Leigh Patel is the Inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Justice at the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the ways that schooling often acts as one of the most efficient vehicles for societal harm, as well as the history and possibility of education as a tool for liberation. She has published five books, including the award-winning Youth Held at the Border from Teachers College Press and Decolonizing Educational Research. In addition to a substantive academic publishing record, she has also written for wide audiences, writing for and being interviewed by The Atlantic, The Feminist Wire, and Beacon Broadside. She is currently working on a forthcoming book from Beacon Press entitled, “There is no Study without Struggle: Higher Education in a Settler Colony.”