Proposed Program
First International Conference on
Service-Learning in Teacher Education
Brussels, Belgium
“Conversations That Matter”
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We will begin these conversations with a World Café as part of
the Opening Chocolate Reception on Thursday, 5 July 2007. We will continue
them throughout the conference; there will be a variety of settings for
conversations that matter about service-learning in teacher education.
We will share work that demonstrates academic rigor and high-quality research
from all over the world.
There are over 50 presentations from leading service-learning educators
from all regions of the world in workshop, panel, roundtable, and showcase
formats.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
14:00 - 15:00 Registration
15:00 - 17:00 World
Café and Chocolate Reception
17:00 - 18:00 Home
Group Meetings
18:00 - 19:15 Opening
Plenary (J.F. Rischard)
19:15 Dinner
on own
Friday, July 6, 2007
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome;
Overview of the Conference
9:00 - 10:30 Workshops,
Panels, Round Tables Session #1
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee
Break
10:45 - 12:15 Workshops,
Panels, Round Tables Session #2
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
(Opening and Remarks by Jeffrey Anderson)
13:30 - 15:00 Workshops,
Panels, Round Tables Session #3
15:00 - 15:45 Tea
Break and Home Group Meeting Opportunity
15:45 - 17:15 Workshops,
Panels, Round Tables Session #4
17:15 - 19:00 Service-Learning
Showcase
17:45 - 19:00 Meeting
of International Research Consortium on
Service-Learning in Teacher Education
Meeting
of Civic Education Special Interest Group
Meeting
of International Exchange Special Interest Group
19:00 Dinner
on own
Saturday, July 7, 2007
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 Workshops,
Panels, Round Tables Session #5
10:00 - 10:45 Final
meeting of Home Groups
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
Break
11:15 - 12:30 Reflection;
Evaluation; Planning next steps
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Plenary Speaker (Edward Zlotkowski)
Featured Speakers
Jean-Francois
Rischard
Former Vice President, World Bank
Author: High Noon: Twenty Global Problems and
Twenty
Years to Solve Them
Mr. Rischard served as the World Bank vice president for Europe from 1998 to 2005, acting as the Bank’s chief spokesman both to the European Union and to individual European countries. Mr. Rischard has doctoral degrees in law and economics. He also earned an MBA degree at the Harvard School of Business.
Some 20 burning global problems are on our hands. They must get resolved within the next 20 years, if we are to avoid the massive and adverse planetary consequences many of them bring in their tow. And yet, the current international system is failing to deliver the deep and timely solutions that are required. Why is that, and what are we to do? This presentation invites the participants to engage in some out-of-the-box thinking about how we could come up with a better methodology for global problem-solving, while there is still time. It concludes with the thought that besides a new methodology, we also need future generations to espouse a new mindset---something the education system is in an unparalleled position to promote.
Edward
Zlotowski
Professor of English, Bentley College
Senior Faculty Fellow, Campus Compact
Education, Globalization, & Democracy: Taylor vs. Dewey Déjà Vu
It is ironic that both Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” and John Dewey, America’s most famous philosopher of education, both saw science and the scientific method as fundamental to their understanding of how people best learn and function. Today their very different understandings of the implications of being “scientific” lie at the core of a profound tension between global capitalism and democratic self-determination. Far from being a debate “merely” about how one designs educational programs, that tension also informs our understanding of what constitutes economic progress and social justice. Hence the importance of “service-learning” or “community-based learning” – an increasingly popular educational strategy that draws upon decades of interdisciplinary research and that seeks to achieve both enhanced student success and authentic social empowerment. This concluding keynote will explore what is at stake in decisions today’s educators cannot avoid.
Conference Highlights
World Café
What is the World Café?
World Café Conversations are an intentional way to create a living
network of conversation around questions that matter. A Café Conversation
is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge
and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes.
The World Café is a metaphor. It's a guiding image, a scenario
of possibility, and an innovative set of tools and methods for evolving
collective intelligence and creative futures.
As a guiding image, the World Café helps us appreciate the importance
and connectedness of the informal webs of conversation and social learning
through which we:
* Discover shared meaning
* Access collective intelligence
* Bring forth the future
--World Café® ( http://www.theworldcafe.com/worldcafe.html)
The World Café will be in conjunction with a Chocolate Reception so appropriate to Brussels
Home Groups
Conference participants will select and take part in one of twenty Home Groups that focus on a topic of strong professional interest. Home Groups with seven to nine members will meet three times during the conference to provide an informal opportunity to get to know new colleagues who share a common interest and to share reflections in a personal setting. There will be a wide variety of Home Group topics for selection, including the following : Cultural Diversity, Global Education, Research on Service-Learning in Teacher Education, Special Education, Disaffected Youth, Social Justice, Using Service-Learning to Teach Reading and Writing, Civic Education, and K-12 Teachers.
Featured Presentations
“Global Perspectives on Service-Learning Research and Practice: Implications for Teacher Education”
Andrew
Furco
Director, Service-Learning Research & Development Center
University of California at Berkeley
Service-learning initiatives are being implemented in primary, secondary,
and tertiary education systems in various countries across the globe. The
educational structures and social culture of each nation influence the
purposes, goals, and organization of service-learning. This session
offers perspectives on service-learning research and practice as it pertains
to the educational systems in Australia, Argentina, Germany, and the
United States. The session explores the similarities and differences
in service-learning across these other nations as well as presents an
analysis of the key issues that are being addressed in teacher education
programs.
Andrew Furco, US Anne
Sliwka, Germany
Maria Nieves Tapia, Argentina Terri
Jones, Australia
“Citizenship Education in Action”
Chris Waller, Association for Citizenship Teaching, UK
Lee Jerome, London Metropolitan University, UK
“Navigating the Sea of Terms in Service-Learning”
David Donahue, Mills College, Oakland, California
“Integrating Service-Learning in the curriculum of postgraduate
courses at a South African higher institution: Theory and Praxis in
Education”
C. J. Gerda Bender, University of Pretoria, South Africa
“If CAS (Creativity, Action, Service) IS the International
Baccalaureate Organization's Model of Service Learning, How Is It Presented
and Applied?”
Diane Russell, International School of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
John Cannings, Intercommunity School, Zurich, Switzerland
Friday Luncheon Speaker:
Jeffrey Anderson, Board Member, International Center for Service-Learning
in Teacher Education
Presentations focusing on such areas as:
- Teaching for global citizenship
- Preparation to use service-learning as a pedagogy
- Achievement of teacher education standards
- Familiarity with education reform initiatives
- Personal and social development
- Democratic participation and civic engagement
- Social justice and appreciation of diversity
- Critical inquiry and reflection
- Career exploration
- Exploring cross-cultural experiences
This Conference Agenda is also available in PDF Format
Registration Form is available only in PDF Format