Plenary - Nurturing Socially Just Care Ecosystems While Facing Uncertainty in Education
In this interactive plenary session, participants will have opportunities to reflect on how we can nurture socially just care ecosystems in education. We will discuss, explore and apply the Equity/Care matrix, Compassionate Learning Design, the Roumy Cheese analogy, and the practice of Intentionally Equitable Hospitality. Participants will have a choice to dig deeper on a topic of their choice, either an exploration of building compassionate community online, a compassionate approach to AI in education, an exploration of the relationship between oppression and AI, or systemic reasons leading to moral injury.
Maha Bali, Professor of Practice
Maha Bali is Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound (an equity-focused, open, connected intercultural learning curriculum, which has also branched into academic community activities Continuity with Care, Socially Just Academia, a collaboration with OneHE: Community-building Resources and MYFest, an innovative 3-month professional learning journey. She writes and speaks frequently about social justice, critical pedagogy, and open and online education. She blogs regularly at https://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha.
