50th ABS Annual Conference: Full Schedule

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10:30am EDT

Saturday August 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

This session explores how nurturing moral education can move students beyond seeing results as the main measure of learning and toward developing virtues, skills, and a sense of purpose. Grounded in a Bahá’í perspective on human progress, it highlights how educators can foster meaningful dialogue, build community, and empower learners through inquiry, project-based learning, and problem-seeking that sparks curiosity. Practical tools will be shared to help classrooms support self-actualization, sense of belonging and reflective, forward-looking learning.

Speakers

Nazli Ighani

I view education as transformative, empowering students to connect learning to real-world issues and meaningful social action. I center learner agency, cultural knowledge, belonging, and emotional safety, creating inquiry-driven, inclusive spaces grounded in justice. With an M.Ed... Read More →

Saturday August 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:45am EDT
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Education, Breakout

2:00pm EDT

Implications of a Broader Perspective on the Concept of Power for Educational Research: Analysis of Two Dissertations

LIMITED

Saturday August 8, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT

213

Limited Capacity seats available

In this presentation, two emerging scholars reflect on their efforts to learn how to explicate a wider conception of power and attempt to articulate its implications in their respective dissertation contexts: Indigenous teacher education in Argentina and alternative education high schools in the United States. Each author will reflect on how a more nuanced conception of power informed their research methods and how they shared their findings within their field. The presentation will conclude with all participants being invited to identify relevant concepts and their implications within a context with which they are familiar.

Speakers

Sam Settelmeyer

Sam got married, completed his PhD in Social Work, and moved to an international pioneering post over a four-month period in 2024. He is still consolidating from these experiences, and is seeking opportunities to apply his research, evaluation, and practice experience in alternative... Read More →

Zaynab Gates

Zaynab is an educational researcher focused on teacher learning and social development, with two decades of experience working in Latin America and with Indigenous communities. She has studied Intercultural Bilingual Education policy and practice in Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador... Read More →

Saturday August 8, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
213