An interview with the BQ founders - Part one of a five-part series. Part 1 - The history behind Burning Questions as a student-led event. In this episode, we go back in time to when Burning Questions first started. Joffy Conolly, Sharanya Menon, and William LaFleur are previous Education and Globalisation (EdGlo) students who were the first event organizers of Burning Questions. They shed light on the founding story of BQ and why and how they went about questioning their basic assumptions about education. They talk about the reasons behind why they designed the event to include dialogic discourse, empowering all stakeholders in the educational communities.
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Are you interested in learning more about the topics of this episode? You can find more information in the following links:
Articles mentioned:
Biesta, G. (2009). Good Education in an Age of Measurement: On the Need to Reconnect with the Question of Purpose in Education. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 21(1), 33-46.
Our esteemed guests:
Joffy Conolly
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joffyc/
Sharanya Menon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharanya-menon-066a20106/
William LaFleur
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/william-lafleur