Local 4 Global

Conference
Diversity and participation: global dimension in the classroom
Friday 29 February 2008
Venue: Friends House, Euston Road, London

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Vanessa Andreotti University of Nottingham
Lynn Mario de Souza University of Sao Paulo
Education for diversity in the 21st century: learning to see, to think and to relate ‘otherwise'. What is involved in educating people for diversity in a complex, unequal and changing ‘global society'? This presentation
offered a number of tools for discussion around issues of diversity and education developed for teacher education

See presentation and supporting document.

PERFORMANCE: Inua 'phaze' Ellams Poet. See phaze05.com

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
June Bam-Hutchison Museum of London Group
The 2007 Legacy: where to in the world from here for teachers and pupils?
What are the challenges and exciting possibilities in the classroom in taking identity and global citizenship education forward?

See presentation used in the workshop and materials from the
gallery in the links below illustrate the points made.
For ownership of this history, see: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XVhN-DH6COU

An exemplar of community participation and an international linking idea, see:
http://www.molg.org.uk/English/NewsRoom/Current/Journey+to+Accompong.htm

There is also learning materials that can be downloaded for KS3 with regard to terminology used. See
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/E233B85A-ECD3-4CE8-9256-AE8887276584/0/KS3LonSugarSlavery.pdf

Launch of the research and report 'Whole school development and the global dimension' Read more>>

Open or download the conference programme (1.64Mb pdf)

<< Back to conferences