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	2004 Conference: Teaching and Curriculum for a Global Society March 12-13, 2004 Pyle Center - 702 Langdon Street University of Wisconsin-Madison   Back to homepage of Educational Administration

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Keynote Sessions

Harold Scheub

Friday, March 12 6:30-7:45PM Friday Evening Program - Alumni Lounge Keynote: The Storyteller: Making the World One Harold Scheub, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities, African Languages and Literature UW-Madison Professor Scheub has taught and conducted research in eastern and southern Africa, and has authored several books including The Tongue Is Fire, Secret Fire, Story, A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller, and The Poem in the Story. Professor Scheub as spent ten years in Africa including four year-long trips when he walked six thousand miles, collecting oral stories, poetry, and history which he now shares with his students in courses and seminars. More information about Professor Scheub http://african.lss.wisc.edu/hscheub/

 

Valters Nollendorfs

Saturday, March 13 8:30-9:45PM Keynote: The Intimidating Teaching Task: Re-appropriating Recent History of Post-Soviet Latvia - Valters Nollendorfs, Emeritus Professor of German, UW-Madison and Director of the Occupation Museum/Latvia Latvia suffered heavily during WWII and was an occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991. War deaths, Soviet deportations to the Gulag, the Nazi Holocaust, mass escapes to the West, and collaboration and accommodation with occupying powers, and re-writing history left not only a population void but also took a heavy demographic, social, economic, political, cultural and moral toll. The Occupation Museum is dedicated to re-appropriating Latvian history through the development of curriculum and teaching materials for use in primary and secondary schools. More information on Professor Nollendorfs

 

 

Sangeeta Kamat

Saturday, March 13 12:45-2:15PM Lunch & Keynote: Challenges of Teaching International Studies in an Era of Globalization Sangeeta Kamat, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Kamat will challenge common beliefs about development and argue for alternative strategies to improve human conditions. Her scholarly and practical work on grass roots development, on state and civil society, and on the cultural politics of globalization has been inspired by community based organizations in India. She has worked with the urban slums of Bombay in non-formal education programs related to health and other social issues for women and youth. These experiences and interests will be brought to bear on teaching international studies in an era of globalization. More information about Professor Kamat

 

 

 

 

Contacts for additional information:

Shirley Droese, 608-263-7880; smdroese@wisc.edu
Dean Bowles, Professor Emeritus, 608-263-7880 bdbowles@education.wisc.edu
at the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW-Madison

Sponsors for the International Education Conference include:

•University of Wisconsin-Madison

School of Education Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department of Curriculum and Instruction International Institute African Studies Program Center for East Asian Studies Center for European Studies Center for International Business Education and Research Center for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Center for South Asia Center for Southeast Asian Studies Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program Global Studies Program

• Friends of International Education • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UW- Milwaukee • Edgewood College • The Asia Society • Longview Foundation • Wisconsin Association of Supervision & Curriculum Development • Wisconsin Chapter of the Fulbright Association • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction • Wisconsin Education Association Council

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