New
(Technology,) and Old (Marginalized People) Challenges to the Education
System
Tuesday, November
22nd - Quance Theatre
3:30
p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Dr. Gregor Wolbring is
a member of the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, a Biochemist at
the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, an Adjunct Assistant Professor
at Faculty of Education, Department for Community Rehabilitation and Disability
Studies at the University of Calgary and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the
John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre University of Alberta both in Canada. He is a
consultant for bioethics, disability, health research, emerging technologies
such as Nanotechnology and governance of science and technology issues looking
in particular at how these issues affect marginalized
groups.
Educators
in the fields of primary, secondary, post secondary and lifelong learning
education are facing many challenges locally and globally. Some are around for
quite awhile such as the inclusion of marginalized population and the acceptance
of the academic field of ‘disability studies’ others - which are new or on the
horizon - relate to the appearance of new science and technology products,
products which might be useful but also pose
problems.
This
presentation looks at the interface of how new and emerging science and
technology products could and might impact on the imagery of marginalized
groups and their inclusion in different education endeavors and how
emerging science and technology products (such as brain machine interfaces)
might change the delivery of education in general.