Responding to conspiracy theory, disinformation and dangerous ideas in the classroom (24.10.24)

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Date of session:  Thursday 24th October 2024

Time of session:  4:00pm to 5:30pm

Suitable for: Secondary school teachers, safeguarding leads and those working to develop young people’s critical thinking and media literacy skills.

Guest Speaker: Jeremy Hayward, Associate Professor (Teaching), IOE at UCL

Jeremy is a former philosophy teacher and for the past 20 years has been a lecturer specialising in the fields of citizenship education and the teaching of controversial issues at the Institute of Education, UCL.  Jeremy has led the citizenship PGCE for over 10 years, set up the IoE’s school direct provision and is the programme leader for the MA Education (Citizenship). He is also the author and co-author of a range of widely used textbooks, resources and guidance for schools in the areas of philosophy and citizenship.

Summary:

A free online session. Schools teach what could be called ‘official knowledge’. The advent of social media has seen a massive increase in the spread of conspiracy theory, disinformation and dangerous alternative narratives (such as Andrew Tate’s brand of misogyny) and increasingly these ideas are spilling over in the classroom – the domain of official knowledge.  How should teachers respond?  This workshop will introduce the existing research in this area and outline different possible approaches that teachers could take. As part of the workshop attendees will then consider a true case study set in a classroom in Germany and also reflect their own experiences in this area.