The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory initiates a broad public discussion about what kind of society we want and how changes can be achieved in the context of a captured state, widespread clientelism, endangered political pluralism and minimal media freedoms.

The third session in the Open Talks series raises the question of the concrete changes that need to be implemented in order to improve the education system in Serbia.

Going beyond the obvious answer that we need more investment in education, we want to discuss the following questions: what needs to change in the laws and regulations, educational practices of institutions in charge (the Ministry of Education, the Institute for Improvement of Education, and other bodies), in how reforms and educational policies are being conducted? What kind of innovations and solutions do we need in everyday functioning of educational institutions, from preschool to higher education? What kind of teacher education do we want? What kind of alternative educational practices and educational tools do we need, can they be systematically introduced, and how? How to improve the position of various participants in educational process, and above all of students and teachers?

Our goal is to move from theoretical assumptions to concretization of various sketches of a desired society.

🔹 Due to the epidemiological situation, we haven’t planned for live audience presence. Instead, the event will be streamed online, and the video of the conversation will be available on the YouTube channel of the IFDT “Angažovana misao”.

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