Iv forum on intercultural learning and exchange
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| IV FORUM ON INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND EXCHANGE
“Assessing Intercultural Learning in Student and Pupil Exchanges: Exploring Evidence of Success” Location: Colle di Val d’Elsa (Tuscany, Italy) – Intercultura Foundation Dates: Arr. Friday Sept. 27th – Dep. Mon. 30th 2013 Partners: Intercultura Foundation, EFIL European Federation for Intercultural Learning, AFS Austria, AFS Intercultural Programs Goals:
Tentative agenda: Friday September 27th ….. Arrivals at the Intercultura Foundation’s Center in Colle di Val d’Elsa, 40 kms. South of Florence
Key note speaker: Jagdish Gundara, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Studies, Director of International Centre of Intercultural Studies, Institute of Education, University of London – “Current Intercultural Issues within the Global Context” Saturday September 28th
11.00 Plenary session – Milton Bennett – “Meta-Approaches to Assessing Intercultural Competence” (how different kinds of assessment operate at different levels of analysis and emerge from different paradigms. How to choose the kind of assessment that matches the approach and expected outcome of the exchange). 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Plenary session – Melissa Liles – “The case of AFS: what has AFS done so far” 15.00 Breakout groups to discuss inputs and ask questions
16.30 Break 17.00 Plenary with Darla Deardorff, Milton Bennett, Melissa Liles to reply/clarify 20.00 Dinner – distribution of next day’s case studies Given the complexity and technicality of the subject, each presenter is requested to prepare in advance a 2 page document that outlines: 1. what they were asked to help assess (project goals) 2. why they then selected the methods they did 3. very briefly, how these methods work 4. how successful the measurement system was/is vis-à-vis #1 above Sunday September 29th 09.00 Plenary session – Bruce La Brack frames goals of the day (related to debating which approaches work best with pupil/student exchanges) and he introduces 4 case studies: Guo-ming Chen, Shingo Ashizawa, Prue Holmes, Michael Vande Berg 1. Vande Berg: Georgetown Study and CIEE’s use of it for their exchange programs 2. Chen: Exact subject TBD, but could be about development and/or validation of his own tool Intercultural Communication Sensitivity Scale 3. Ashizawa: How to evaluate the skills learned during an experience abroad 4. Holmes: Autoethnography and Self-reflection: tools for self-assessing intercultural competence in and outside of the classroom 10.30 Break 11.00 First round of parallel workshops (4 case studies above) The workshops are structured as follows, using facilitators who have been well briefed in advance (possibly already assigned recommended reflection/discussion questions to for part C): A. expert gives additional context/answers questions about the case and the previously distributed summaries (20-30 mins) B. expert shares views on how methods could be applicable outside of the case to other pupil/student settings – i.e. what conditions would warrant same/similar use of methods, what conditions would NOT (20-30 mins) C. open discussion ensues about applicability in other (AFS, YFU, classroom, etc.) settings depending who is in the group, with goal of participants walking away with more concrete ideas about application to their own settings (60-80 mins). 13.00 Lunch 14.30 Second round of parallel workshops (4 case studies above) 16.30 Break 17.00 Closing reports, remarks, suggestions – Final wrap up 20.00 Dinner Monday September 30th …… Departures Participant experts Shingo Ashizawa, Tokyo University Trudy Banta, Indiana University – Purdue University Milton Bennett, IDRI Juergen Bolten, AFS Educational Council Paola Bortini, Limina OG, Vienna Darla Deardorff, Duke University Gunther Dietz, AFS Educational Council Uffe Gravers Pedersen, former principal of international school Guo-ming Chen, University of Rhode Island Jagdish Gundara, University of London Prue Holmes, Durham University Cigdem Kagiçtibasi, Koç University, Istanbul Ewa Krzaklewksa, Jagellonian University Krakow (speaks Italian and English) Tom Kurz – Experiment in International Living Bruce La Brack, University of the Pacific (emer.) Joyce Osland, San Jose State University Kumiko Torikai, AFS Educational Council Michael Vande Berg, MVB Associates Uli Zeutschel, OSB International, Hamburg 1 In this forum we suggest that we concentrate on progress made by students/pupils and that we leave other participants (families, schools, etc.) to future sessions, to avoid confusing methodologies etc. Directory: webfiles webfiles -> Name Author Publisher/Maker webfiles -> Pase, Shells, ssh, ruby, Java, nodeJS, json/sql webfiles -> Annual Report April 2010 webfiles -> Western Carolina University School of Stage & Screen B. F. A. Theatre – acting undergraduate application webfiles -> School of Stage and Screen Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Acting Concentration Q1: What makes this program special? webfiles -> School of Stage and Screen Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre: Musical Theatre Concentration Q1: What makes this program special? webfiles -> How to make advertiser funded programming work for your brand webfiles -> Title: "a nation on Wheels: The Automobile Culture in America Since 1945" Author: Mark S. Foster webfiles -> The Warmth of the Welcome: Is Atlantic Canada a Home Away From Home for Immigrants? webfiles -> Resume: Dr. William J. Neal Download 23.94 Kb. Share with your friends:
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