In this course we will talk about intercultural communication and education from a new perspective. The course is a follow-up to a very successful summer school in Denmark in 2011, co-organised with the international research group CULTNET. We propose to take Intercultural and Identity: Research Methodseven further, moving on to the entire research process from concepts to methods and analysis.

Learn not to be confused about the ‘intercultural’!
The Helsinki Summer School course offers up-to-date lectures, discussion of research papers as well as research talks on the latest developments and advances in the fields of intercultural communication and education. Practical sessions will help the participants to improve their own work. The course is aimed at Master’s and PhD students who specialise in any aspect related to intercultural communication and education.

The following topics will be covered during the course: the ‘old’ and contested concept of culture; from identity to identification; renewing concepts; the ‘inter’ of intercultural; language and the ‘intercultural’; complexifying the analysis of intercultural phenomena; and ethical responsibilities of researchers and practitioners.

Why attend this course?
• To get up-to-date and critical knowledge about how to do research on intercultural communication and education
• To test new ways of working on intercultural communication and education
• To learn how to challenge ‘old’ and unsatisfactory ways of conceptualising and working on the ‘intercultural’
• To meet and discuss your own work with renowned researchers
• To reflect on one’s responsibility as researcher and practitioner.

The course organisers are noted scholars in the field. Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education, University of Helsinki, and holds several positions in universities across the world. His research interests include intercultural competences in academic mobility and education, and multicultural education. He has published more than 20 books on these issues. Karen Risager is Emerita Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University. She has published widely on language, culture and identity as theorised in a transnational and global perspective. Dervin and Risager co-organised the first summer school on research methods for the ‘intercultural’ at Roskilde University in 2011.

Please direct any questions about the content of this course to the course coordinator. Any questions on the general arrangements (accommodation, scholarship, etc.) should be addressed to the Summer School office at summer-school(at) helsinki.fi

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/intercultural-multicultural/

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specializes in language and intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and linguistics for intercultural communication and education. Dervin has published extensively on identity, the ‘intercultural’ and mobility/migration. He has published over 20 books: Politics of Interculturality (co-edited with Anne Lavanchy and Anahy Gajardo, Newcastle: CSP, 2011), Impostures Interculturelles (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012), Linguistics for Intercultural Education (co-edited with Tony Liddicoat, New York: Benjamins, 2013) and Identity and Interculturality: Research Methods (with Karen Risager, Routledge, 2013). He is the series editor of Education beyond borders (Peter Lang) and Post-intercultural communication and education (CSP). His website is: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dervin/

Conference symposia

Symposium 1: Racism(s) and “race” in education
This symposium attempts to put racism(s) and “race” back into the dialogue on educational inclusion and social justice. It addresses the silencing of “race” in the dominant work on inclusive and anti-discriminatory education, where the focus has largely been on culture and ethnicity rather than e.g. legacies of scientific racism and colonialism.
Introductions:
Professor Geri Smyth, University of Strathclyde, UK
Associate Professor Camilla Eline Andersen, Hedmark University College, Norway

Symposium 2: Teachers from linguistic minority backgrounds
The focus of the symposium is on some of the challenges teachers from linguistic minority backgrounds face in the mainstream. The theme will be approached from a policy analysis and an in-service perspective.
Introductions:
Associate Professor Clea A. Schmidt, Ph.D., University of Manitoba, Canada
PhD candidate Joke Dewilde, Hedmark University College, Norway

Symposium 3: Differentiated instruction within mainstream
Today, there is an increasing tendency to prioritize inclusion into the mainstream at the expense of bilingual instruction. Through the presentation and conceptual analysis of empirical examples from classrooms, this symposium will discuss how this challenge can be met by schools and researchers.
Introductions:
Maria Johanson, Globala Gymnasiet, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor Sidsel Karlsen, Hedmark University College, Norway
Professor Sidsel Lied and Professor Thor Ola Engen, Hedmark University College, Norway

Abstract Submission
Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers to be presented in parallel sessions should be sent by e-mail to marte.monsen@hihm.no by 1st March 2013. Please state the title of the proposed paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation and full contact details. You will be informed by 15th March 2013 whether your paper has been selected for the conference.

Practical information
Deadline for registering to the conference is 22nd April 2013. For information regarding conference program, accommodation etc., please visit the conference website: http://www.hihm.no/Prosjektsider/Utdanning-og-diversitet/DTDL-Conference
General enquiries should be addressed to marte.monsen@hihm.no.

We have had participations from fields as diverse as Nursing, Political Science, Communication, Women’s Studies, University Extension and many others. We conceive of education and pedagogy broadly to include media, community action, political activism, aesthetics and myriad forms of alternative educations. The conference provides a forum for presenting ideas and engaging in conversation on the interrelationships among cultural pedagogies, ecopedagogies, contemporary identity shaping, global consciousness, indigeneity, cosmopolitanism, media literacy, social theory, social justice and activism. We welcome participation of researchers, educators, students, teachers, activists and community members. Proposals may address the theme of the conference from a range of intellectual, practical and activist perspectives. Individual papers, panels and alternative sessions that may include film/documentary screenings, workshops, exhibitions, poster sessions, and other creative endeavors are invited.
We strongly encourage submissions in alternative and aesthetic formats. The goal of the conference organizers is to have sessions that encourage conversation among the participants and the audience.

Find more information here: http://education.wsu.edu/globalization

For planning purposes, registration fee for the 2013 Annual Meeting will be $255 for members (early bird) and $330 for non-members (early bird).

Register early and save! Early bird rates end January 15, 2013.

Click here to go to the online secure registration site. Click here to download a pdf of the registration form which you can fax or mail with payment information.

Sunday Clinics

A number of clinics will be available on Saturday, February 16, at no additional charge to Annual Meeting registrants. More information will be available soon.

Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops will be offered in Atlanta on Friday, February 15, and Saturday, February 16. Click here for complete descriptions.Workshops are numbered according to the registration form .

For more information: http://www.ate1.org/pubs/2013_Annual_Meetin_1.cfm

Languages Canada will recognize the association’s accomplishments during these early years and will continue to enhance and develop long term plans to promote and advocate Canada’s language education sector nationally and internationally. There will be both plenary sessions and professional development workshops involving international presenters in 3 streams: Marketing, Student Experience, and Leadership . Please check the conference website page for more details as they are confirmed.

Languages Canada is Canada’s premier language organization representing its two official languages: English and French. Membership is limited to schools which meet the rigorous standards of the association and who are committed to upholding them. Languages Canada is recognized by the Canadian government and internationally.

For more information visit: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning/DL2012/index.cfm

As the diversity of the student population of schools increases it is essential that the linguistic and cultural needs of all pupils are met.  Many teachers from backgrounds other than the dominant one, bring the potential of linguistic and cultural capital to enhance the teaching profession and the learning of students.  This seminar series has involved employers in addition to academics, teachers and learners and aimed to encourage those with responsibility throughout the UK jurisdictions to view diverse teachers as a resource rather than a deficit and to be able to capitalize on the particular skill sets brought to the profession by diverse teachers.

The series has sought to explore the nature of the existing diversity in the teaching profession and to consider diversity in the life cycle of teachers as professionals from the decision to become a teacher through to leaving the profession, including the continuing professional development and career progression of such teachers.

This final seminar will bring together participants from Seminars 1,2 and 4 along with the evidence from Seminars 3 (teachers) and 5 (school students) and will investigate via a SWOT analysis how to move forward and disrupt the inertia which results in teacher homogeneity.   This seminar will identify the major research questions that now need investigation in order to ensure the programme leads to theoretical and research developments.

Geri Smyth was interviewed  by the  General Teachers Council of Scotland regarding the ESRC Diverse Teachers/Diverse Learners Seminar Series.   The interview is now available as a podcast on the Teaching Scotland website.  Here is the link:

www.teachingscotland.org.uk/podcasts/podcast-diverse-teachers-for-diverse-learners-1012.aspx

The 22nd Annual International Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will explore
the role of multicultural education in movements toward equity and social justice at the local, national, and global levels.

From pre-K to higher education, from classroom teaching to student support to school leadership to community advocacy to educational research, advocates and practitioners of multicultural education have long played and continue to play critical roles in movements to make our schools and societies better places for all.
NAME’s 2012 Conference provides a rare and unique opportunity to share resources, build networks, confront challenges, and renew our senses of possibility and hope.

Conference web site: http://nameorg.org/name-2012-conference/

Brochure and registration form: http://nameorg.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/N%202012%20Philly%20Conf%20Reg%20Brochure.pdf