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II. Critical Pedagogy Congress — DAY 1: September 11, 2026 (Friday)
HourHall 1 (POOL)Hall 2 (HANGAR)Room 3 (HOBBY)Hall 4 (LIBRARY)
08:30–09:15Registration + Welcome Coffee (HANGAR)
09:15–09:45Opening Workshop / Welcome (HANGAR)
10:00–11:00Invited Speaker: Antonia Darder (POOL)
11:00–11:15Coffee Break (Available in all rooms)
11:1512:45
Session I
Panel I: Liberation in Education; Creative Drama and Critical Pedagogical Transformation
*From Theatre of the Oppressed to Creative Drama: Techniques of Augusto Boal
Critical Pedagogical Transformation (Mete Akoğuz),
*Creative Drama as a Tool for the Liberation of Docile Bodies (Ayşe Sancak)
*The Contribution of Using Creative Drama and Brecht's Didactic Plays Together in Education to Critical Pedagogy (Büşra Yalçınkaya)
*Exploring Inner Processes Through Creative Drama: A Critical Pedagogical Approach in the Context of the Rainbow of Desire (Ebru Devrim Sayman)
Presentation Session I: *How to Incorporate Critical and Feminist Pedagogy into Public Policy: An Experiment at Mersin Metropolitan Municipality (Esra Ergüzeloğlu)
*Making Music for Both Children and Adults: The Friend Band Experience (Barış Yıldırım)
*Looking at School Ontology Through Architecture: Conceptual Expansions and a Proposed Alternative Model (Onur Gülbudak, Çağın Tanrıverdi Çetin)
Workshop I: Liberationist Education: Thoughts and Practices (Işıl Ünal-Seçkin Özsoy) 
13:00–14:00Lunch (HANGAR)
14:00–15:30
Session II
Panel II: Critical Medicine Education in an Era of Multiple Crises
*Critical Medical Education: Proposals for a Political Pedagogy that Defends Life Totally (Ş. Erhan Bağcı), *Medical Education in the Grip of Neoliberal Health Reforms and Capitalist Digitalization (Mehmet Zencir), *Evaluation of Medical Education from a Queer Perspective (Mustafa Robin Kara(Nevin Durdu)

Presentation Session II: *The Possibilities of Philosophical Counseling in Critical Pedagogy (Dilek Atik)
*Methods Supporting Critical Education: The Beutelsbach Consensus and Obtaining Consent (Ismail Kaplan)

Workshop II: My Body is a Battlefield (A. Durakbaşa, A. Türksoy, D. Dayı, Ö. S. Çelik)Workshop III: Rewriting the World: Hope and Solidarity Through Creative Drama (İhsan Metinnam)
15:30–15:45Coffee Break (Available in all rooms)
15:45–17:15
Session III
Panel III: Integrating Pedagogical-Constructs of Freire and Beuys for Brazilian-German Pedagogy-Research
*Integrating Pedagogical-Constructs of Freire and Beuys for Brazilian-German Pedagogy-Research (Wassim Mahfouz, Silvano de Andrade, Monica Lopes Forlena Araujo),
*Towards Art-Therapy Diagnostics for Reinventing Freirean-Pedagogy (Wassim Mahfouz, Willenberg Ferreira, Silvano de Andrade), *Lyric-Poems Initialization Tool for Redesigning Explorative E-assessment in Ethnomathematics (Wassim Mahfouz, Miguel de Brito Santo -zoom-Silvano de Andrade
Presentation Session III: *The Pedagogical Laboratories of the Nation-State: Boarding Schools, Assimilation, and Identity Construction in Şefiq Peşeng's Narrative of Zarokên Minarê (Osman Talayhan) *Social Anomie, the Normalization of Evil: Understanding Violence in SchoolsMehmet Taki Yılmaz(Nilüfer Yılmaz) *An Evaluation of Critical Pedagogy, Power, and Centralized Examinations (Seda Çulha)Workshop IV: From IQ to WeQ: Gaming, Interaction, and Co-production with T-Station (Şule Şenol) 
2nd Critical Pedagogy Congress — Day 2: September 12, 2026 (Saturday)
HourHall 1 (POOL)Hall 2 (HANGAR)Room 3 (HOBBY)Hall 4 (LIBRARY)
09:00–10:30
Session IV
Panel I: Body, Cognition, and Pedagogy in the Context of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence *Screen Exposure and the Erasure of the Body: An Enactivist Critique of the Collapse of Cognitive Ecology (Ayşe Uslu),
*Imagination and Care as Hybrid Products in AI-Human Interactions (Güler Cansu Ağören), *Education in a Future We Cannot Regulate: Artificial Intelligence, Reading Comprehension and Pedagogy
Unpreparedness (Delicate Gold)
Presentation Session I: *Rights-Based Pedagogy
An Integral Part of an Egalitarian, Libertarian, and Community-Based School Model: The Struggle for Nutrition (Dicle Dilan Salman) *Justice in Numbers: Accessibility Rights Through Mathematics via a Ramp Design
Defending (Duygu Doğru Seyranoğlu) *Critical Discourse Analysis of the Social Studies Curriculum of the Turkish Century Education ModelCem Akar(Sitar Keser)
Workshop I: Colorful Melodies, Shared Breath: Tracing Intercultural Solidarity Through Music and Movement (Işık Sabırlı)Workshop II: Language, Power, and Ideology: A Workshop on Critical Language Awareness (Ömer Solak)
10:30–10:45Coffee Break (Available in all rooms)
11:00–12:00Invited Speaker: Jones Irwin (POOL)
12:15–13:45
Session V
Panel II: Critical Music Pedagogy: Contradictions, Encounters, and Collective Learning *Music Teaching as a Field of Contradictions: A Critical Autoethnography (Gülcan Akkanat)
*Women's Jam: An Experiment in Transformative Musical PraxisIşık Sabırlı, Rümeysa Çamdereli),
*From Songs to Encounters: A Critical Pedagogical Analysis of Şubadap School Tours (Gökçen Karaman)
Panel III: Bringing Eco-Pedagogy to the Rooftop: Thinking About the Foundations for a Democratic Eco-Pedagogy
*The Loss of Eco-Pedagogy: Opening the School Door for a Critical Eco-Pedagogy (Onur Gülbudak), *The Source of Unequal Relationships and the Construction of Opposition in Pedagogical Processes (Birkan Mengütay), *Looking at Pedagogy Through Nature and Culture: A Critical Field Experience (Barış Onur Örs), *Peace Eco-Pedagogy in Daily Life (Gizem Dündar)
Workshop III: Rethinking and Acting on Schools with Plural Ecologies (Nejla Kurul) 
13:45–14:45Lunch (HANGAR)
15:00–16:30
Session VI
Panel IV: Pedagogy on Stage: From Freire to Boal: Transformation in the Theatre of the Oppressed
Practices *From Freire to Boal: The Educational Origins and Praxis-Based Transformation of Theatre of the Oppressed (İhsan Metinnam)
*Audience-Actor in the Theatre of the Oppressed: The Establishment, Subjectification and Limits of Participation (Gökhan Karaosmanoğlu) *Reconstruction of Belonging in Civil Society Organizations Through Forum Theatre (Özlem Yıldırım)

Presentation Session II: *Seeds of tomorrow: critical financial education, school life, and the fight for social justice. (ENG) (Maurício Alves NascimentoSilvanio de Andrade)

*Where is the Woman's Knowledge? A Feminist Critique of Epistemic Marginalization in
Educational Leadership and Critical Pedagogy (Esra Töre)

*Mathematical Problem Posing as Sociocultural and Critical Perspective (ENG) (José Jorge de SousaSilvanio de Andrade)

Workshop IV: Religious Education and Democracy (Kemal İnal - Murat Çatal) 
16:30–17:00Coffee/Tea / Closing / Goodbye / Group photo (POOL)

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