European Days
EASSE in Europe
Since 2015, an annual conference has been held in different European cities.
September 27 and 28, 2024
Katowice
IX European Meeting
Future challenges of personalized single-sex education
Keynote Speakers
IX EASSE European Meeting:
From the perspective of “personalized single-sex education” (PSE), a concept that articulates the keynote sessions and workshops of the last EASSE meetings, the 9th European Meeting of EASSE, to be held in Katowice (Poland), proposes a reflection on the future challenges of this educational model, chosen by thousands of families in many European countries.
Our time is defined by globalization in all areas, and especially in the cultural sphere, which finds in hyperconnectivity and digital development the means for an ongoing universal conversation, open to everything and everyone anywhere in the world.
However, increasing polarization may affect that universal dialogue, which would lose its positive effect if opinions were to become extreme. For this reason, the current means that facilitate working together and sharing an ethic based on human rights and respect for freedoms could become a channel only for controversies.
The new cultural framework of our time requires reference values that facilitate dialogue and, above all, the complete and harmonious development of each person. Educational systems can contribute a lot to the construction of a fairer and more humane society, to the task proposed by Pope Francis to build among all “an educational path that matures a new solidarity.”
This is the scope in which PSE contributes its experience and the values it promotes, based on the dignity of the human being, the full development of each student, and taking into account an essential trait of the person: being male or female.
Assuming the differences between men and women is relevant. OECD educational reports in recent years refer to “different maturity processes”, “different expectations” of students, and the creation of educational environments free of social and cultural stereotypes, aspects that are reflected in the percentages of STEM career choices by female students and in the academic results of male students.
PSE institutions and schools also contribute the values of the Christian identity that underpins their model, the training offered to parents, teachers, and students, and their institutional culture. The spirit of service and the values of Christian humanism are transmitted to the students. They become part of their daily life. Later, when they are alumni, they drive their tasks and relationships with their family and others.
Teachers are the main actors in the educational activity. Nowadays, their importance in building the institutional culture of schools and in concretizing the principles that form the identity of the institutions is even more evident. Their work and example are also fundamental axes of communication, to which their training must attend in a measure similar to the other aspects that define their task.
This is the framework of the 9th EASSE Meeting, organized jointly with EDUCARE, a Polish educational institution accredited by the Ministry of Education of Poland, which since 2019 has been collaborating steadily with more than thirty PSE schools in its country and in other Central European countries.
The EDUCARE Personalized Education Institute is a private teacher improvement institution that promotes the development of personal and professional competencies of teachers and managers.
“Future challenges of personalized single-sex education (PSE)”, like on other occasions, will alternate the broad perspective of keynote sessions and the more specific one of the workshops, and will offer space for attendees to comment and share their experiences.
The 9th EASSE Meeting will delve into core aspects of the educational field, such as how the Christian identity is reflected in all the activities of a PSE school and those who work in them, or the formation of a mature personality. The other two keynote sessions will be dedicated to teacher training, an essential help for those who every day in each classroom are in charge of making the educational project a reality.
FRIDAY 27
14.00 Registration and collection of simultaneous translation devices.
15.00 Welcome to the IX EASSE European Meeting by Gemma Arasanz, managing director.
15.10 Transversality of Christian identity in personalized education, by Alfonso Aguiló, CEO of Arenales Educational Network and President of the Spanish Confederation of Educational Centers (CECE).
15.50 Official picture of the IX European Meeting.
16.00 Break and coffee.
16.15 Psychology of mature personality: forming maturity, by Weronika Juroszek, professor of Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of Silesia and vice-president of the Association of Family Mediators of Silesia.
17.00 Break.
WORKSHOPS
17.15 Development of interpersonal relationships in personalized single-sex education (PSE) schools, by Giovanni Vicari, managing director and member of the Board of Directors of CEFA schools in Rome.
Training for families, by Lucía Calvo, principal of Los Tilos school (Madrid); teacher, pedagogue and master’s in educational center management.
17.45 Break.
18.00 Great Works, by Miroslava Durankova, graduate in Character Education from the University of Birmingham, co-founder and director of Great Works Academy.
The Mark Program, by Alfonso Sánchez Romero, graduate in Business Administration and Management, product manager of the Vice-Rectorate for Transfer and Research at UNIR.
18.30 End of the workday.
SATURDAY 28
KEYNOTE SESSIONS
09.00 Challenges in Teacher Training, by Stanislaw Kowal, professor at the Faculty of Education at Jagiellonian University, General Director of the Sternik – Krakow Foundation.
09.40 Break and coffee.
10.00 Coordination of Boys’ and Girls’ Schools, by Sandra Pérez, Master’s degree in educational center management, Managing Director of Attendis (Seville).
10.40 Break.
11.00 School Communication: families are the key, by Miquel Rossy, school branding consultant, graphic designer, author of “Your school, a great brand” (2017) and “The Secret of Educational Marketing” (2020).
11.40 Break.
WORKSHOPS
12.00 Challenges of Family Tutoring in Personalized Education, by Jakub Janik, Deputy Director of Wierchy Primey School in Krakow (Sternik Foundation), collaborator with the Educare Institute.
Educational Innovation, Juan Mora-Figueroa, Ph.D. in Education and Director of Educational Innovation at Fomento de Centros de Enseñanza.
12.30 Break.
12.45 Family Tutoring, by Antonio Orol, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Deputy Director of Retamar School (Madrid).
STEM Experiences and Perspectives in a Girls’ School, by Judith Monés, Principal of Institució La Vall School (Bellaterra – Barcelona) and Roser Farrús, Vice Principal of Institució la Vall School.
13.15 Conclusions and closing remarks at the IX EASSE European Meeting, by Joan Curcó, president of EASSE.
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University of Silesia
(Faculty of Law)
Conference History
EASSE European Days from previous years.
