Saturday 12 May 2012
PARALLEL SESSIONS
SATURDAY 12 MAY at 10.30 – 11.30
D1 Training Teachers for the International Environment
Presenter: Tim Unsworth, Lumius/Stenden University, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Workshop. Target group: Pre-school/Primary school
Stenden University, together with partner colleges in Scandinavia, is developing an initial training course for aspiring teachers in international schools. In this session I will describe the course and show what advantages this will have for international schools in the future. Particular reference wil be made to the 'International Mindedness' minor and the English language content. The aim is to inform and form 'friendships' with international schools who may consider welcoming our students for school practice/classroom experience.
D2 Wisdom-What you did not learn in classes or books
Presenters: Ann Morrison Clement, PhD, Clement Consulting, and Annie Morrison, MA, the Morrison Group, Silverthorne/Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Lecture. Target audience: General
The development of proficient professionals is not primarily learned in classes or books but in practical experience. Wisdom is developed as a result of multiple experiences with other professionals, parents, and students. Such wisdom is a legacy that is handed down from those professionals that we have worked with and learned from in real life experiences. The true mastery in learning comes from the teachings learned from those who have experience and share such experience with new learners. This session will describe the role and strategies of educational mentors.
D3 Does 'phronesis' matter? Exploring school leaders' decision-making and its impact on their schools
Presenter: Francia Kinchington, University of Greenwich, London, England UK
Lecture. Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary; Higher education.
This session explores how decision-making that emerges from Aristotle's concept of 'phronesis' (applied wisdom) can contribute to the learning and development of school leaders, supporting their credibility and their evolution from novice to expert practitioners. It will explore how specific types of decision-making can give rise to new and profound learning. It is proposed that decision-making that is framed by applied wisdom and underpinned by ethical leadership that is guided by vision and values, and a commitment to holistic education and the development of staff and students, is central to effective school leadership.
D4 What is the impact of a researcher's intervention in an educational institution?
Presenter: Marie-Odile Nouvelot-Gueroult, AgroSup/Eduter-Recherche, Dijon, France
Open session. Target audience: Secondary/upper secondary; Higher education
How can the intervention of a researcher contribute to the organizational development and to the professional development of staff members (teachers, educators, and managers of a school for example)? How can it question the ways of doing, more or less implicit, of individual and collective actors in a situation and an organization? How does the mutual development of new ways of doing can help to think the organization by acting on work situations?
The workshop leaders will present two examples to discuss this matter with the participants of the workshop.
D5 The need for the wisdom and creativity of development education in higher education; a crisis looms!
Presenter: Dr. Martin Fitzgerald, LIT Tipperary, Ireland
Lecture. Target audience: Higher education
Now more than ever there is a need for a model of higher education that is creative, wise and offers an alternative way forward. Higher education is currently devoid of a creative framework that will allow the world to address the huge global environment crisis that faces us. Development education can provide a solution but will it be enough and will it happen in time?
PARALLEL PLENARY SESSIONS
SATURDAY 12 MAY at 11.45 – 12.45
E1 Pedagogical relations between knowledge domains, wisdom, and their modern integral cultivation (Bildung) – demonstrated on three paradigmatic educational examples
Lecturer: Prof. em. Harm Paschen, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Lecture. Target audience: General
How can education be sustainable in a time of deep and wide spread changes in all human activities? Since Comenius’ educational program on teaching knowledge to all, about all, and with an integral approach up to our modern knowledge society, the impact of the unmanageable resources of knowledge and the plurality of its domains - and their operating by IT machines - ask for a new understanding of human knowledge and how to teach it to students, teachers, and academics.
This session led by Harm Paschen will try to show three paradigmatic examples from mental arithmetic, anti-violence training, and the nature of education as an academic activity (on evidenced based education, competencies, and intuition). Pedagogical sustainability has to be based on meta-frameworks of experienced knowledge of knowledge and teaching them.
E2 Education for sustainable development (ESD) - Deepening the Initial Engagement
Lecturer: Prof. Charles Hopkins, York University, Toronto, Canada
Lecture. Target audience: General
This session is intended as a learning opportunity for the Learning Teacher Network’s ESD leaders and innovators. Many in the Learning Teacher Network have become engaged in initial ESD work and have much to report and share. This session led by Charles Hopkins will begin with a presentation by Charles updating the international ESD scene and posing emerging issues. Then the session will turn into a discussion of ESD issues and opportunities.
Note: This lecture requires pre-knowledge of the concept of ESD.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
SATURDAY 12 MAY at 14.00 – 15.30
F1 A Smorgasbord of Methods - Equipping Teachers for the Classroom
Presenters: Mathias Demetriades, Anna Mogren and Chtister Torstensson, the Global School/International Programme Office for Education and Training, Visby, Sweden
Workshop. 90 minutes. Target group: General
In this session The Global School demonstrates the concept "Method festival" where a variety of teaching methods regarding education for sustainable development (ESD) are presented. The Global School has, in collaboration with NGO's such as the UN Association, Storyline Sweden, Swedwatch, Simnet etc, arranged six festivals all over Sweden. Why are we doing this? What is in it for the teachers? How do we reach schools? What strategy and structures are behind this concept? What have we learnt so far? In case you are interested in learning how ESD according to the UN Decade, through active learning is put across to thousands of teachers in Sweden, this is the perfect workshop for you. Welcome!
F2 Creating European Courses part 2: Human Dynamics - ‘differences as a challenge…..’
Presenters: Drs. Anton de Vries and Herman Hoedemaker, Lumius, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Workshop. 90 minutes. Target audience: General
‘The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists’. Charles Dickens
As a follow-up of the workshop Human Dynamics you will be invited with the other participants of this workshop to create possible European LTN Courses. The Learning Teacher Network successfully gives European training courses such as ‘Creativity and Learning’ and ‘Inspiring Leadership’. In order to challenge the theme of this conference ‘Creating Knowledge and Wisdom in Education and Training’ we will use the basics ideas of Human Dynamics in creating possible new European courses.
In an active way, using your own Human Dynamic Principle (‘talent’), we will try to create first ‘draws’ of interesting/curious/ desirable/ challenging courses which can be proposed to the board of the Learning Teacher Network.
If you did not follow our first workshop about Human Dynamics, but you have some knowledge about HD, you are also invited to sign in for this workshop.
F3 To be or not to be curious? That is the question
Presenters: Marianne Nilsson and Patrik Backman, Directorate of Education, Karlstads kommun, Sweden
Workshop. 90 minutes. Target audience: Pre-school/Primary school; Secondary/Upper secondary school
The workshop is to introduce a format of work in science and technology that encourages all students to lifelong learning. This learning approach is supported by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and is a school development concept from Science and Technology for Children (STC), which the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) developed and has disseminated for many years.
The workshop will present ideas in and around the working method and present an experimental study with a gender perspective. The method also stimulates students' entrepreneurial qualities such as creativity, curiosity, responsibility, accuracy and teamwork, which is a prerequisite for sustainable development.
F4 Widening the perspectives
Moderated session: Paper presentations. 90 minutes. Moderator Bill Goddard. Target audience: General
EU perspectives for creating knowledge and wisdom in Turkish pre-school education reformation
Presenter: Dr. Ayse Kizildag, Borås kommun, Sweden
Knowledge and wisdom in education systems are conducted via overarching philosophies. One example could be Europeanization and EU philosophy on education as in the Turkish pre-school education reformation. From this perspective, the paper presents pre-schools education engagements that Turkey has been going under recently to create European knowledge in learning by following EU guidelines. The study analyses modifications in the national curriculum and teacher qualification and competences along with the teacher education curriculum in the field of pre-school education within the framework of critical discourse analysis. Data come from Ministry of Education (MNE) and EU legal documents such as progress reports. The results show that Turkey has had a great deal towards completing the infrastructure for compulsory pre-sechool education in terms of teacher, learning/teaching material and spatial resources. As for conclusion, opportunities and challenges in the reformation process are also discussed.
Creative process drama in language education - an example of bilingual nursery in Poland
Presenter: Dr. Alicja Gałązka, Educational Centre Future, Tarnowskie Góry, Poland
Process creative drama is a genre of educational drama which focuses on collaborative investigation and problem solving through a process of exploration. in which students have to use a language. In process drama students are rarely themselves; they are not playing characters as in the play, they are just putting themselves into someone’s shoes being aware that they are taking part in a dramatic fiction. This gives the participants an umbrella of protection from personal exposure and allows them to experiment with the language in a safe dramatic fiction. Creative drama is a dramatic activity which has the experience of the participants as the goal.
Implementing sustainable development at primary schools in Nepal
Presenter: Dipesh Dulal, Chelsea International Academy, Nepal
We have been aspiring ourselves for maintaining global sustainability right since 1992 by using education as tool. We have travelled twenty years as 'Agenda 21' identified education as an essential tool for achieving sustainable development and highlighted areas of action for education. There have been scientific applications of the document and most of the schools have 'Education for Sustainable Development' (ESD) in the curriculum. Critics of the current applications say that ESD is just in the scope of curriculum. They suggest that curriculum should be strategically in scope of ESD. Primary Schools have great impact of minds of children as their initial days of schooling are very important to them. ESD's motives if implemented at primary schools and beyond, will help us to achieve expected sustainability of the globe. This presentation takes global references about the question - 'Why and How sustainability aspects are being prioritized at primary schools?'
