Event Category: Discussion or Talk

Join us for Coffee, Scones & Traybakes, and discussion.

Three inputs from Three different speakers reflecting on how they have changed and helped others to change.

Over tea and coffee, we will reflect on the joys and challenges we encounter as we build Good Relations.

Informal and reflective morning and a chance for youth workers to take time out and connect with their peers.

10:30 – Arrival and Coffee

10:45 – Input 1 – I am the possibility of Change

11:30 –  Input 2 – Changing me is Changing you

12:00 – Input 3 – The Legacy of Change

12:30- Finish

The Ulster University’s School of Education and the Integrated Education Fund are hosting an event as part of the 2022 Good Relations Week to launch the UU paper ‘How Education Needs to Change: A Vision for a Single System’ and engage representatives of our main political parties in discussion about the NI education system.

Based on research as part of the Ulster University ‘Transforming Education’ project, Dr Stephen Roulston and Dr Matt Milliken will give an overview of their latest briefing paper and share suggestions for what a single education system might look like in the NI context.

The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion among political party representatives, responding to the proposals made by Roulston and Milliken.

There will also be time for the audience to ask questions of the political representatives and the Ulster University researchers.

We hope to see you at Malone House, Belfast on Tuesday 20th September.

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided at this event so please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements.

If you would like more information, please contact jessica@ief.org.uk

To view all papers published through the ‘Transforming Education’ project to date, please visit: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/topic/education/unesco-centre/research/transforming-education

To register for this event, please visit https://Education-ChangeStartsWithUs.eventbrite.co.uk

As part of the Youth Link Good Relations Week events, we will have our ‘Annual Peace Lecture’ with guest speaker Dr Johnston McMaster.

Johnston will give input on the dynamics of Integrated Reconciliation and allow us to discuss and develop our thinking around it and consider the impact on our practice. This event is aimed at those involved in Community Relations work including Youth Workers, Community Workers, Educators, Teachers, and those involved in the faith-based sector.

11:00am Welcome with tea & coffee

11:15am Dr Johnston McMaster ‘The Dynamics of Integrated Reconciliation – Six Strands’.

11:45am Discussion in groups about the concept of Integrated Reconciliation in our practice.

12:30pm Light Lunch & Networking Opportunities

Free Parking at Youth Link and any dietary requirements or further information, please contact Youth Link.

BIO: Dr Johnston McMaster is a Senior Researcher, Writer and Educator with the Ethical and Shared Remembering Programme 1912-1922 through the Junction, Derry / Londonderry. For seventeen years he directed an Education for Reconciliation Programme with the Irish School of Ecumenics in Northern Ireland and Border Counties. He remains as an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. He is an author and broadcaster. Publications include: Overcoming Violence, A Passion for Justice: Social Ethics in the Celtic Tradition and War and Memory with Cathy Higgins. His key areas of interest and teaching are peace and reconciliation, interfaith dialogue, Biblical hermeneutics, political theology, social ethics, Celtic spirituality, Irish history and faith in a post-Christendom context. He has lectured internationally as well as throughout Ireland.