Training and Education Centre
About OXTEC
Our Ideals
Our aim is to build a new interdisciplinary intellectual framework that guides debate about the nature of education in an unpredictable world.
Our Initiatives
Education in Uncertain Times
Uncertainty pervades our every-day life, and comes in many forms: political, economical, and social. By its own nature, uncertainty has no boundaries. Political, economic and social uncertainties are enmeshed with uncertainties about our relationship with our environment, our relationship with technologies and scientific discovery, and our interpersonal relationships.
The research project "Varieties of Uncertainty" seeks to tease out the complex relationships between uncertainty and education, in its mission and reach.
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Seminar Series – The programme offers a dedicated seminar series in St Antony’s College that runs for 8 consecutive weeks in Hilary Term (January to March) each year.
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The Oxford Symposium in Comparative and International Education (OXSCIE – The programme hosts an annual symposium that asks the big questions in international education. 150 delegates are invited by the OXSCIE global leadership team each year to discuss the expectations we have about education in times of uncertainty.
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Empirical Research – The programme aims to launch a longitudinal research agenda, that seeks to investigate new ways of learning to better inform and influence comparative and international education policy, research and practice.
We are committed to a research programme that tests the 'certainties' of our responses to unpredictability and the world crisis in education. To mend the uncertainty surrounding education we need to foster dialogue and build new perspectives together. Our programme seeks to offer a more thoughtful approach to engaging with the important mission of education in uncertain times.