Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL) Early Career Researchers Conference 2020 hosted by Oulu University, Finland held as an online event due to the Corona pandemic, on 11-12 June 2020. It was scheduled long before the pandemic as a “regular” conference but travel restrictions forced the organizers to move the conference to an online sphere. 200 academics, policy-makers and practitioners, especially early career (PhD students and post-doctoral) researchers from 40 countries attended the conference.

This second biannual ANGEL early careers researcher conference focuses on research on global education and learning. It highlighted the latest research and initiatives in global education. The focus was on the growing nationalism concerning the Covid-2019 pandemic and its consequences for education. Against this background, the conference participants discussed the consequences for democracy education and the challenges for democracy created by the pandemic. Weiterlesen →