I am not a consultant.
I am a researcher and international teacher educator asking critical questions about what comes next for international schooling.
My work explores how educators support teaching and learning for multiperspectivity. I research critical global citizenship, emerging technologies and posthumanism. I am especially interested in how schools rethink their purposes and help young people to imagine more just, livable futures.
I collaborate with school leaders, teachers, researchers, and future educators to co-create transformative learning. For me, change starts in inclusive classrooms that honour students’ linguistic, cultural, and academic diversity, while inviting them to reflect on the urgency of our times. Asking young people who they are, who they want to become and what world they want to live in seems to me like the most fundamental purposes of education. I like to work with others who think we can do a lot better in supporting these children in asking these questions.
I have worked in international schools all my life as a teacher and school leader, and I have recently moved full-time into research and international teacher education. I love international schools, my life is dedicated to them, but I think they could do signficantly more for wider society.
I believe education should be a pathway to personal and collective emancipation. If you are a school leader or teacher I would love to work with you to ask new questions about supporting teaching and learning in your school.
Irish, European and Citizen of Nowhere.
I spend my time in the Netherlands where I work as a Professor of International Teacher Education with ITE, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and with my family in Dublin, Pittsburgh and Valencia.
Callum Philbin 