The New Civics Early Career Scholars’ Program & The Civic and Moral Education Initiative in partnership with The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics invite you to a conference on Creating Civic Competence: the Critical Challenges. May 3-4 Larsen Hall Harvard Graduate School of Education

Preparing youth to meet growing civic challenges, worldwide, creates new questions for effective civic education. The New Civics Early Career Scholars Program, supported by the Spencer Foundation, trains doctoral students in civic education. This Conference draws on their innovative work with commentaries from distinguished senior scholars in the field.

3:30 PM        KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND CONVERSATION Larsen Hall Room G08 “Identity, Agency and the Power of Story: Meeting the Civic Challenges?”Helen Haste, Visiting Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Bath with Danielle Allen James Bryant Conant University Professor, and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Peter Levine Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Tisch College, Tufts University Judith Torney-Purta Professor of Human Development, University of Maryland

The Conference also features commentaries from Michelle Bellino, Sarah Dryden-Peterson and Julie Reuben.
Some questions the Conference will address:

• How do young people become motivated and gain civic identity?
• How does early experience develop the skills for later civic and moral responsibility?
• How do digital media reshape civic participation?
• How can we use art to enlarge and innovate civic education?
• How involved should higher education be in fixing civic problems?
• How do cultural narratives and institutional structures, in the US and internationally, frame civic identity, competence and global moral responsibility?
• How should we sensitively define and measure civic education outcomes in different cultural and social contexts?
• What can we learn from critical and participatory pedagogy among marginalized, dispossessed and conflict-ridden populations??

Registration:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conference-creating-civic-competence-the-critical-challenges-tickets-44990792672

Conference Website:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardconference

Conference Program:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardconference/program