The educational landscape is continuously changing due to globalisation and the transnational movement of people, ideas and resources. Dealing with diversity and practising inclusion has brought educational practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders many opportunities. At the same time, there are challenges and uncertainties in reflecting and renegotiating long-standing beliefs, structures, practices and power relations. In order to address the complexity of such challenges, we call for the opening of a dialogic space crossing disciplinary boundaries and promoting the encounter of different theoretical perspectives, research approaches, and pedagogical strategies and methods.
The ongoing COVID 19 pandemic has intensified the need to invent new theoretically informed, pedagogically viable, ethically appropriate, and practically valuable approaches to ensure equal educational opportunities for all sections of the world’s population. Still, we have a long way to go in solving the challenges that the pandemic has made evident for us both as educators and as researchers. Within this context of diversity and interdisciplinarity, SIG 10 (with focus on social interactions in learning and instruction), SIG 21 (with focus on teaching and learning in culturally diverse settings), and SIG 25 (with focus on dialogue among diverse educational theories) are organising a joint conference with the theme of Dialogue, diversity and interdisciplinarity in the field of learning and instruction in Belgrade, Serbia from September 7-9, 2022.
A variety of contributions were assembled to engage with ideas of dialogue, diversity and interdisciplinarity to reflect and explore new approaches and practices related to learning and instruction.
