Reforming Curriculum and Pedagogy: Innovative Visions for the New Century
13-16 December 1999 CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION |
| PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
Education should help everyone to become, to some extent, a citizen of the turbulent and changing world that is being born before our very eyesö. (Learning: The Treasure Within, UNESCO, 1996, p. 49) With this critical task in mind the purpose of this Conference is to undertake an in-depth analysis into what reformation is required in curriculum and pedagogy in all sectors of education - formal, non-formal, and informal, and at all levels - pre-primary, primary, lower and upper secondary and post- secondary, including college university and technical and vocational educational institutions. Such a study will involve networking and exchanging ideas on reforms being undertaken and contemplated. To undertake this analysis four principal themes will be addressed namely,
CONFERENCE OUTCOMES Three main outcomes are expected of this Conference:
CONFERENCE FORMAT
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CONFERENCE THEMES Four themes and a number of sub-themes will be addressed at this Conference: 1. Profiling the next century In approaching the new century, it is important we do so positively in the belief that the future is there to be shaped, if we have the will to do so. The task will not be easy as there are a number of tensions to be resolved. The Delors Report (pp. 16-18) categorised these as tensions between:
to which we would add conflict and peace. 2. Profiling the citizen of the future and the competencies required for the new age Having profiled the immediate future we need to determine what the citizen of this future will look like and the competencies we, our children and their children are going to need to be citizens of the new age. 3. What should be taught to provide those competencies? If the three "R"s have been battered and buffeted by the winds of change such that those who entered this century would barely recognise them now, what will the next century bring? How is the information explosion to be managed? And what of technological change? How is what is indigenous to be safeguarded? How is conflict to be resolved peacefully? These and other sub-themes will be addressed in pursuing the desired curriculum. 4. How should it be taught? The bottom line is teachers and teaching. Many of us have seen the teacher's role and teaching methodology change quite dramatically in our own lifetime. More major change is inevitable. What direction should such change take? What innovative changes can we take into the new century with confidence? How can pre-service and in-service education and educators adapt to promote a pedagogy suited to the future, its citizens and to the brave, new world? Partnerships, Community Participation , Quality, Equity, and Sustainability will traverse all themes.
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| CONFERENCE DETAILS
DATE AND VENUE The Conference will formally begin at 4 p.m. on 13 December 1999 and close at 6 p.m. on 16 December, 1999. (Registration will be available from 12.30 to 3.30 pm on 13 December) The Conference venue is the Imperial Queens Park Hotel, 199 Soi 22 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110 Thailand. CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATION Accommodation is available at the Conference venue - the Imperial Queen's Park Hotel - at the rates shown below. The hotel provides excellent five-star facilities, including cable TV, swimming pools, Health Centre, 24-hour room service and a quiet, relaxed environment, with the Queen's Park adjacent. Hotel registration can only be made directly with the hotel through Mr. Aphinan Srichok, Imperial Queens Park Hotel, 199 Sukhumvit Soi 22 Bangkok 10110 Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 261 9000, fax: (66 2) 261 9546-7. Conference rates are as follows: single room B 2,500; twin or double room B 2,700; deluxe suite B 5,000. All rates include American breakfast. One night deposit, or details of a valid credit card, is required in advance. Airport transfers are available for B 650 one-way. |
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| CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
A full day of the Conference will be devoted to presentations by Conference Participants, either in concurrent paper sessions lasting 25 minutes each or by way of a poster session. Papers and poster sessions are invited on any topic within the scope of the Conference theme, with the preferred emphasis being on innovatory ideas and best practice. The programme allows for the presentation of a maximum of 120 papers. An additional 50 presentations by way of a poster session is envisaged. There will also be a Youth Forum on this day. Abstracts of 300 words maximum should be received by 31 October, 1999. Papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication in the IBE educational journal Prospects or their content used for IBE’s INNODATA file. CONFERENCE ADDRESS The address for registrations, submission of abstracts and general inquiries is: Rupert Maclean DRAFT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES 13 December, 1999
14 December, 1999
15 December, 1999
16 December, 1999
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