University of Helsinki
Read my foreword to the book, the book introduction and one chapter
Highly recommended!
12.12 Programme available
Interrogating Diversity Initiatives and Programmes
12.12.2013 (10-16, siltavuorenpenger 5A, Helsinki, room to be announced soon
online broadcast at this address: https://connectpro.helsinki.fi/r7kxx8fvtwm/?disclaimer-consent=true)
New docent in Intercultural Competence in Global Education
Prue Holmes from Durham University (UK) has just been appointed docent at the Department of Teacher Education (Helsinki). Prue will be attached to Multicultural Education and to the Education for Diversities research group.
Congratulations!
Read about Prue here
Watch A Class Divided
It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.
Article on the late Scholar Ship
Anti-racism education event 6.11
RASISMIN VASTAINEN KOULU – UTOPIA VAI UNELMA?
Tervetuloa 6.11.2013 Helsingin yliopiston opettajankoulutuslaitokselle koulutusiltapäivään, jossa keskitytään pohtimaan sitä, miten syrjintää ja rasismia voitaisiin ehkäistä kouluissa.
Tilaisuuden kesto on 13.00-16.00 ja tilaisuus on maksuton.
Paikka: Siltavuorenpenger 5a, Minerva K213.
Ohjelma:
13.00 – 13.10 Avaussanat ja päivän ohjelman esittely
Fred Dervin, Amin Atabong, Heini Paavola, Helsingin yliopisto, opettajankoulutuslaitos, E4D (Education for Diversities Research Group)
13.10 – 14.00 “Lastenkirjallisuus liikkuvassa, monikulttuurisessa maailmassa”
Anna Rastas, sosiaaliantropologian dosentti, ma. professori, Tampereen yliopisto
14.00 – 14.45 Kasvatuksen keinot – pedagogisia näkökulmia rasisminvastaiseen työhön, Saara Launio, vt.pääsihteeri, Rauhankasvatusinstituutti
14.45 – 15.05 Kahvi (omakustanteinen)
15.00 – 15.50 ”Kytke hommat respektiin” Jan Wieland, Walter ry, Kytke-projektinjohtaja
15.50 – 16.00 Loppuyhteenveto Amin Atabong, Heini Paavola, Helsingin yliopisto, opettajankoulutuslaitos
Edward Said in Chinese
CFP: International conference: Intercultural vs. Multicultural Education 2 (Canada), February 27-28, 2014
We invite scholars and practitioners to submit proposals by 1st December 2013.
Paper and colloquia proposals are invited. Individual paper proposals (200-300 words; duration: 30 minutes including a twenty-minute presentation, with an additional ten minutes for discussion). Colloquia proposals (200 words for the colloquium concept and 200-300 words on each paper, duration: 3h, max. 5 participants – conveners and discussant included).
Abstracts for the Western University conference should be submitted to intervsmulti2014@gmail.com
Abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee for originality, significance, clarity and academic rigor.
Decisions about the submitted papers: 10th January 2014.
Questions should be sent to: intervsmulti2014@gmail.com
My reactions to Yle documentary on racism
Alternative goal of Education for Diversities
“The false assurance of artificial diversity are the shadows on the wall in our version of Plato’s allegorical cave: images that we mistake for substance. In Plato’s allegory, those who watch the shadows believe they are the only reality and strongly resist looking outside th cave. ”
P. Wood (2003: 40)