GL-UNA JAVA CAFE:

REIMAGINING EDUCATION

November 17 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Spaces for Flourishing: Reimagining Education Beyond Global Targets

Name: Spaces for Flourishing: Reimagining Education Beyond Global Targets
Start: 2025-11-17T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-17T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Edgewood United Church

Join us this November! GL-UNA’s upcoming Java Café will feature Yetunde S. Alabede and Dr. Alyssa Morley in a conversation about reimagining education beyond global targets. Held during International Education Week, the program will explore what quality education can look like when it centers culture, community, and equity rather than standardized measures.

Yetunde Alabede is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education at Michigan State University and founder of Ebunoluwa Children School in Ogun State, Nigeria. Her research explores family language policy, multilingualism, and multiliteracy practices among African and diasporic families. She advocates for culturally sustaining and affective-affirming education for (young) multilingual learners.

Assistant Professor of Global Education and Coordinator of the Global Educators Cohort Program at Michigan State University. Her work focuses on how education can either reinforce or challenge inequality, with research in areas including girls’ schooling in Malawi and study abroad for future teachers.