Bridging Worlds: Making Connections in Education – 14th Internation Conference on Educatin, Brunei, Darussalam, May 21-24
Theme / Topic of event: Bridging Worlds: Making Connections in Education
Day / Date: May 21-24
Place: Brunei, Darussalam
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Education encompasses a variety of worlds – home, school, university, the workplace and industry – situated within the national and the global communities. The resulting tensions and competing paradigms in these worlds of education provide a rich framework in which to explore and examine strategies necessary for their resolution.
This conference will provide a platform for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss and negotiate how bridging this diversity demonstrates the interdependence of these worlds.
Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to enable participants to share and reflect on issues related to preparing learners for the global challenges of diversity and independence, and to provide educators with an opportunity to network.
Conference sub-themes
Bridging home and school.
Connecting school and community.
Connecting across subject areas in the school curriculum.
Linking the school curriculum and the workplace.
Linking standards and the needs of individual learners.
Linking educational practice and national development.
Linking educational policy and global imperatives.
Forging school-university partnerships.
Forging university-industry partnerships.
Connecting worlds through technology and education.
Balancing accountability and innovation in education.
For registration and other details please visit the conference website: http://www.ubd.edu.bn/conference/webice09/home.html
2009 ACTFL ANNUAL CONVENTION AND WORLD LANGUAGES EXPO, California, November 20-22
Theme / Topic of event: Speaking Up for Languages… The Power of Many Voices
Day / Date: November 20-22
Place: San Diego, California
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The Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will be held Friday, November 20 through Sunday, November 22, 2009 in San Diego, CA with Pre-Convention Workshops scheduled on Thursday, November 19. The ACTFL Convention features over 500 educational sessions and events covering the whole spectrum of the foreign language profession. The entire selection of sessions is designed to provide attendees with an exciting array of sessions and events to further their knowledge and help them be better teachers or administrators. We welcome you to submit a proposal for consideration. When you login, please read carefully the Submission Guidelines before proceeding to complete your online submission.
The convention draws approximately 6,000 attendees and is the only national event bringing together all languages, levels and assignments within the profession.
For registration and other details please visit the conference website: http://convention3.allacademic.com/one/actfl/actfl09/index.php?cmd=actfl09&id
ACCESS:1st Philippine International English Language Conference and the 11th UK Education Fair, January 31-February 1, Philippines
Theme / Topic of event: 1st Philippine International English Language Conference
Day / Date: January 31-February
Place: Philippines
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ACCESS: the 1st Philippine International English Language Conference and the 11th UK Education Fair is a weekend education extravaganza happening on 31 January – 01 February 2009 at the SMX Convention Centre in Pasay City. It showcases the exchange of strengths and expertise of British and Filipino experts in the areas of English and study opportunities in the UK.
The 1st Philippine International English Language Conference is a gathering of English experts and practitioners from all over the world. It aims to bring to the fore, issues on how English is being taught in the classroom and how it is needed in the workplace, especially in the BPO sector. Plenary speakers include David Nunan Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong, Kingsley Bolton Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University and Jane Lockwood head of the English Language Centre at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
This English Language Teaching (ELT) conference is organised in partnership with the country’s 4 leading universities namely the Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, University of the Philippines and the University of Sto Tomas.
Alongside the ELT conference is the UK Education Exhibitionwhich is an annual exhibition of UK institutions. These UK institutions come to the Philippines to discuss study opportunities with Filipinos who wish to avail of a UK education.
The participant fee for the English Language Conference is at Php 3000.00 whilst the UK Education exhibition is free admission.
ACCESS is co presented by the British Alumni Association.
For registration and other details please visit the conference website: http://www.britishcouncil.org/philippines-common-about-us-our-events-access.htm
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