Envisioning the Future: 2024-2029 – IAFOR Provost Prof. Anne Boddington

Описание: IAFOR Provost, Professor Anne Boddington began the ECE/ECLL/ECAH/EGen2024 academic programme by citing how Plato’s views on power ring true even after centuries of human and societal transformation: those who tell and claim the stories, control the world; and the stories we are told and tell are the flesh on the bones of power. The fact that humans are still facing discrimination and exclusion based on power struggles even after numerous transformations of societal, economic, and political structures may signal that the instinct to overpower others is deeply ingrained within the definition of ‘human’. While we may struggle with defining what it means to be human, we pay little attention to who has the ability to decide what it means to be human. Throughout human history, power comes from stories that are heard, but Provost Boddington directed us to consider a critical question: who tells these stories today?

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The European Conference on Education (ECE2024)
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The European Conference on Aging & Gerontology (EGen2024)
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