Sandra Kairė

Associate Professor, Director of the Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University

Sandra Kairė is an Associate Professor and director of the Institute of Educational Sciences (Vilnius University, Lithuania). She is an expert in intercultural education, visuality and education, qualitative research, education in the Anthropocene, climate crisis, and education. She was also inquiring about visual school culture, school spaces, and visual artifacts created by pupils. She specializes in the phenomenological, visual, and posthuman approaches to educational research and practice.

She has recently accomplished postdoctoral research, "Like the ocean we rise": learner-education relation in the epoch of Anthropocene," which seeks to identify essential changes in the educational processes of the children of the Anthropocene. During postdoctoral research, she closely worked with Professor of Education Margaret Somerville (Western Sydney University, Australia), whose conceptual, theoretical, and methodological contributions to place studies have coalesced into a significant body of research worldwide in sustainability education across the educational spectrum from early childhood to school and community-based education. She is a member of the International Research Network "Planetary Wellbeing and human learning group "(Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene, Australia) (since 2021).

Presentation title: Critical Thinking for Education in the Anthropocene: What to Expect?