Beyond Internationalising the Curriculum
Event details:Date: 13 July 2009
Venue: Deakin University,
Melbourne Burwood Campus
Much of the focus of internationalisation in schools and universities has been on the curriculum, marketing and the support required for international students.
This seminar program extends and enhances this work to consider the changing nature of teachers' practice and professionalism that accompanies processes of internationalisation across all sectors and transnationally.
This seminar will include various key-note speakers from the industry as well as panels that offer Australian Research on the impact of internationalisation on academics and teachers, policy and practice, and on what this means for informing future policies, practices and research in international education.
Workshop Topics
▪ Beyond internationalisation: Translocation, globalisation
and higher education
▪ Internationalisation and assessment.
▪ Issues and Trends in International Education
▪ The question of ‘hospitable’ education
▪ Teachers in the International Context: Struggles and Security
▪ Global Travel, Teachers, and Pedagogic Communication
▪ ‘Teacher Identity’ and ‘Cultural Identity’
▪ International schooling today
▪ implementation of inclusive language curriculum
▪ Travelling pedagogies, colonising cultures in teacher education
Key note speakers
Paul James - Director of the Global Cities Institute & Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Globalism Research Centre, RMIT
University, Melbourne
Parlo Singh - Dean of Graduate Research School, Griffith University, Brisbane
Panels
Professor Marcia Devlin - Higher Education Research Group, Deakin
University
Associate Prof Ian Robottom - Acting PVC International, Deakin
University
Associate Prof Alex Kostogriz - Assoc. Head of School, Deakin
University
Dr Athena Vongalis‐Macrow - Deakin University
Associate Professor Mary Dixon - Deakin University
Dr Ruth Arber -Deakin University
Dr Andrea Gallant - Deakin University
Department of Education and Early Childhood representative
Professor Jill Blackmore - Deakin University
