write by : Sana sakale
With the intervention of many colleagues and partners, a great educational event-the First Edition of the International Conference on Quality Education and Sustainable Development-was held June 17th, 2021in the Ecole Superieure d ‘Education et de Formation, Ibntofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
The event was inaugurated with Ecole Superieure d ‘Education et de Formation (ESEF) director’s speech, Prof. Moulay Mustapha Hafid, who pointed out to the importance the school plays in promoting sustainable development in the sphere of education in general and in the advancement of training among future teachers in particular. His speech was followed with the intervention of research laboratory director at Ibnotofail Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts,prof. Hafida El Amrani, who also stressed the unequivocal necessity of more reform in education and the need to engage all stakeholders in the development process.
Prof. Nabil Morchid, the Chair of the conference, launched the first panel. Four other trilingual panels took place. The panels were constituted of both Moroccan univertsity professors as well as international guest speakers. After each session, a number of important questions was asked by the audience in an atmosphere characterized by multilingualism, pluridisciplinarity and mutual exchange of valuable feedback.
The educational day ended with a number of pedagogical implications and a huge amount of negotiation and interaction took place. Overall objective of the conference was to bring together expertise from different disciplines to probe the complexities surrounding the educational system in Morocco. Eventually, researchers of different profiles and of different backgrounds could synchronize into a coherent whole and work out strategic plans for quality education and sustainable development.
