| II. Critical Pedagogy Congress — DAY 1: September 11, 2026 (Friday) | ||||
| Hour | Hall 1 (POOL) | Hall 2 (HANGAR) | Room 3 (HOBBY) | Hall 4 (LIBRARY) |
| 08:30–09:15 | Registration + Welcome Coffee (HANGAR) | |||
| 09:15–09:45 | Opening Workshop / Welcome (HANGAR) | |||
| 10:00–11:00 | Invited Speaker: Antonia Darder (POOL) | |||
| 11:00–11:15 | Coffee 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) | |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch (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) | 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) |
| 15:30–15:45 | Coffee 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) | ||||
| Hour | Hall 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) |
| 10:30–10:45 | Coffee Break (Available in all rooms) | |||
| 11:00–12:00 | Invited 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) | |
| 13:45–14:45 | Lunch (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 *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) | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee/Tea / Closing / Goodbye / Group photo (POOL) | |||
Note: 1) Session times and content are subject to change; please check our website regularly for the most up-to-date information. 2) In multi-authored presentations, the name of the author presenting the paper is underlined.
