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November 11, 2008
9:00a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Billings Center, University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Extended Curriculum Development Institutes
- Session A: Teaching and Learning in a Globally-Engaged
Classroom
- Session B: International Community Engagement
-- Global Communities as Educational Partners in Curriculum
Development
(See Institute descriptions below or download
a copy.)
As of September 22, 2008,
the curriculum development institutes on November 11 are full.
We are happy to put you on a waiting list for either institute.
The second day of the conference will feature two
expanded curriculum development institutes open to faculty and
staff who are engaged in designing, or supporting the design of,
curriculum with a global focus. Registration is limited to 25
participants per session. These sessions are designed to be interactive
and engaging, and to allow participants time to hone in on their
own ideas through workshop time and consultation with peers.
Registration limited to 25 participants per session.
Institute Descriptions:
Session A:
Teaching and Learning in a Globally-Engaged Classroom
This workshop, open to faculty and staff from any discipline,
will engage participants in an exploration of how they can incorporate
global and cross-cultural perspectives into their formal or informal
curriculum without international travel. Workshop attendees will
develop learning goals specifically related to their discipline,
program, and/or course and explore a wide variety of strategies
for achieving these goals. Participants will learn about successful
approaches to developing a globally-engaged classroom, including
exposure to useful curriculum development resources, introduction
to active learning exercises in all class sizes, and discussion
of how to engage students in local communities through service-learning
and field-based education. This workshop will feature a panel
of faculty and a visit to a live classroom to experience first
hand the opportunities and dilemmas of active learning of global
themes. Participants should come to this workshop with a course
and/or program in mind; you will leave with tangible ideas, feedback
from colleagues, and concrete ideas of how to organize your learning
plan to maximize engagement with global themes.
Facilitator: Luis A. Vivanco, Associate Professor
of Anthropology and Director of the Area and International Studies
Program, University of Vermont
Luis Vivanco is a cultural anthropologist whose
research focuses on the culture and politics of environmentalism,
ecotourism, and environmental media in Latin America. In addition
to his scholarly books on environmentalism in Costa Rica and the
cultural study of adventure, he is author of an introduction to
cultural anthropology textbook. An engaging and popular teacher
at UVM, he has also taken students to learn about indigenous cultures
in Oaxaca, Mexico for eight years, and been involved in various
service-learning endeavors within Vermont. As Director of UVM's
Area and International Studies Program, he has been in charge
of a campus-wide effort to develop a new Global Studies program,
and he is currently teaching its core course, "Introduction
to Global Studies," for the first time at UVM.
Session B:
International Community Engagement - Global Communities as Educational
Partners in Curriculum Development
Many faculty and academic administrators seek to
enhance departmental programming through internationalization
and inclusion of global learning experiences. Study abroad, service
learning, internships and short-term faculty-led trips provide
opportunities to understand academic knowledge in a wider global
context, to gain cross-cultural communication skills invaluable
for applying new knowledge, to comprehend other world views through
direct living experiences in a new culture, and to appreciate
the values of global citizenship through responsible and respectful
engagement with local communities abroad.
Participants in this workshop will be introduced
to models, strategies and best practices for creating international
programs based on community partnerships in ways that foster students'
global understanding, enhance academic curricular knowledge, and
build positive models of responsible global citizenship. A key
focus will be on fostering critical thinking and dialogue through
effective curricular approaches that encourage students to consider
global implications of their experience. The workshop will be
based on interactive participation including role-plays, simulations,
directed writing with peer review, and small group activities.
Participants should come to the workshop with a
proposal or model of an international community engagement experience
they intend to develop as part of an academic program or course
content. You will leave the workshop with an outline for the learning
experience that includes: identified learning goals and objectives;
action plan for outreach and partnership development with the
local communities; plans for pre-departure and re-entry activities;
strategies to promote cross-cultural learning; methods for constructing
community-based experiential learning into your program; and appropriate
practices to encourage reflective learning, synthesis and follow-up
with the partner communities.
Facilitator: Rebecca Hovey, Globally Engaged Scholar,
World Learning/SIT
Rebecca Hovey holds a PhD in city and regional planning
from Cornell University and an MA in education from San Francisco
State University. Dr. Hovey brings an interdisciplinary background
in philosophy, anthropology, and political economy to her work
in international studies. From her early work in Freirean approaches
to community-based development to her more recent analyses of
critical pedagogy in study abroad, she believes that education
is key to the dream of a just and equitable world.
Until February of 2008, Dr. Hovey served as Dean of SIT Study
Abroad at World Learning for more than eight years. During her
tenure, she provided academic and administrative direction for
SIT Study Abroad and supervised the work of area studies directors
for Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the
Caribbean, and the Middle East. She continues her research in
international education as World Learning's first Globally Engaged
Scholar.
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Workshop Block #1 1:00-2:15 pm
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Workshop Block #2 2:45-4:00 pm
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Understanding Gender Identities in Cultural
Contexts:
This focused session addresses the conference
theme of improving student understanding of global and cross
cultural communities. Using my experience in Peace Corps
and international/Intercultural education, the presentation
combines personal experience and cross cultural theory to
understand both gender and sexuality in a global context.
The program seeks to contrast lived experiences of the social
constructions of gender/sexuality across cultures into a
context usable for cross cultural education. The session
presents methods for responding to learners multiple levels
of identity development and cultural awareness in understanding
the impact of international study (Bennett, 1998) and US
students at home and overseas.
Sherwood Smith, Director, Center
for Cultural Pluralism and Assistant Professor, Department
of Education, University of Vermont
Intended audience: Session benefits those
seeking tools to advance their understanding of gender and
other social issues in relation to international learning
events both domestic and international.
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Taking Students from Me to We: A Global
Citizenship Course Model for Students Participating in Service-Learning
This session will present a global citizenship
course developed by faculty leading intercultural courses
through the Amizade Global Service-Learning Center. Participants
will learn a model for taking students through a process
of exploring their personal values and how those relate
to concepts of global or universal values. This session
will present the definition of global citizenship that Amizade
has utilized in over a dozen disparate disciplines and community
contexts and explore its relevance to models proposed by
participants. The session will also incorporate insights
on academic content, experiential learning, service-learning,
intercultural education, group-building and reflection practices
from three faculty members engaged in global service-learning
on a variety of continents for over six years.
Christopher Boettcher, Assistant Professor
of English, Castleton State College
Jessica Friedrichs, Faculty, Social Work Department, Coordinator,
Service-Learning and Outreach Center, Carlow University
Eric Hartman, Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning,
Adjunct Faculty, WVA Master's Program in Public Administration
Intended audience: Experienced faculty
and administrators, as well as those new to the fields of
global service-learning and intercultural education.
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Bringing Direct and Personal Global Experience
into Your Own Classroom:
ECU's Award Winning Global Academic Initiatives
Study abroad has become a crucial part of
preparing students for global citizenship, but traditional
study abroad programs remain inaccessible to many students,
especially those from under-served populations. East Carolina
University has developed an alternative approach to globalization
called the Global Academic Initiatives. GAI offers an alternative
to traditional study abroad programs, allowing a larger
student population to have personal international experiences
in the regular classroom. Through low bandwidth live video
conference technology, GAI students interact and learn with
students in other countries. GAI has been in operation for
four years and has impacted thousands of students in more
than 21 countries around the world. We will explain the
initiatives and demonstrate that they are easily adaptable
to other campuses.
Marilyn Sheerer, Provost, East Carolina University
Austin Bunch, Associate Provost, East Carolina University
Rosina Chia, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Global Academic
Initiatives, ECU
Elmer Poe, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Outreach,
ECU
Bonnie Derr, International Programs Coordinator, University
of North Carolina General Administration
Intended audience: Academic administrators,
staff, faculty and technological personnel interested in
a cost effective way of bringing international experience
to your campus.
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The Rhythm of Awareness: Incorporating
Music and Arts within Global Studies Curriculum
This workshop offers attendees an insight
into how the arts- in this case Ghanaian drumming - can
serve as a strong part of any form of Global Studies initiative.
By experiencing the aesthetics, playing techniques, and
cultural values placed on music in Ghana, participants can
widen their perspective of how the beliefs and viewpoints
of all cultures are embedded within their arts. In addition
to direct experience with playing, the session includes
discussion of how the arts can be a fundamental part of
Global Studies by introducing a deeper experience and understanding
of culture.
V. Josselyne Price, Fine Arts Department,
Saint Michael's College
Intended audience: All levels.
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Constructing Effective and Ethical International
Partnerships
This dialogue based session will examine the
nature of partnerships created in the context of international
community based learning courses/programs. The session will
explore the relationship between student learning goals/outcomes
(including civic learning), and community development and
consider how international "service" shapes the
partnerships that are established. Reflection on these themes
will assist faculty/staff in the design of course syllabi
and the planning process for international community based
learning courses/programs. This session will begin with
a brief presentation followed by a facilitated discussion
based on a number of questions and scenarios requiring active
audience participation.
Eric Popkin, Dean of Summer Programs, Colorado
College
Intended audience: Faculty and staff involved
in the design of course syllabi and the planning process
for international community based learning courses/programs.
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What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen
& from the US?
Many of us from the United States have not
had the opportunity to consider what being from the US means
in relation to being a global citizen. This interactive
workshop will explore our development of identity as an
"American," the strengths and drawbacks of this
background, and how the US' role in the world impacts our
self-concept. Through this self-exploration, participants
will gain insight and skills regarding how to lead similar
conversations with students in a manner that develops self-awareness
without diminishing self-esteem. Ideally, participants will
have done some identity exploration previously.
Lisa Bedinger, Diversity Educator & Dialogue
Practitioner, Dialogue Design
Intended audience: Ideally, participants
will have done some identity exploration previously.
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Assessment and Evaluation
This workshop will explore best practices
of assessment and evaluation of the development of global
citizenship, interweaving assessment models, case examples,
and participant application. Presenters will briefly offer
their experience working at both graduate and undergraduate
levels, and on the home campus and through short-term study
abroad, and share best practices drawn from the literature
and their own practitioner reflection. Much of the workshop
will entail participants delving into their own contexts
within small groups to identify concrete ways they might
enhance assessment.
David
Shallenberger, Professor of International Education, Dept.
of Intercultural Service Leadership and Management, SIT
Graduate Institute
Linda
Gobbo, Professor of International Education, Dept. of Intercultural
Service Leadership and Management, SIT Graduate Institute
Rich
Rodman, Professor of International Education, Dept. of Intercultural
Service Leadership and Management, SIT Graduate Institute
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Action Planning for Cross-Campus Collaboration
This structured team time will take campus
teams through a facilitated action planning process to begin
to develop individualized campus action plans. The session
will focus on how institutional offices sharing a common
vision can develop activities and learning experiences that
combine active citizen engagement with improved understanding
of global and cross-cultural communities (two key elements
of global citizenship).
Participating teams will leave with plans specific to their
own campus' goals.
Facilitator: Amy Gibans McGlashan, Executive
Director, Vermont Campus Compact
Intended audience: Campus teams.
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Integrating Human Rights Education into
Academic and Campus Life
Over the past 6 decades universal human rights
norms have increasingly become just that: universal norms.
Starting with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
tremendous progress has been made in developing a world-wide
conception of what constitutes human rights, and what actions
can be taken to promote adherence to these values. Human
rights have increasingly come to be seen not as an exotic
adjunct to globalization, but an integral part of it. Challenges
clearly still exist in this regard. Debates rage, for example,
about conflicts between cultural, religious and historical
factors and certain elements of human rights. It is exactly
for these reasons that today’s university student, who
is and will be a global citizen, needs to have exposure
to and a grounding in some of the key concepts associated
with the notion of universal human rights. This workshop
will provide information about accessing human rights information
that can be integrated into a range of curricular and extra-curricular
activities on the university campus. We will examine a variety
of different sources of information and engagement in the
human rights field. A student who has undertaken a human
rights research project and been active in human rights
issues will present her perspective, and participants will
share ideas on how they can further integrate human rights
issues into their academic and campus life.
Edward R. McMahon, Research Associate Professor,
Dept. of Community Development and Applied Economics and
Dept. of Political Science, University of Vermont
Intended audience: This workshop is designed
for instructors, students and administrators who wish to
integrate human rights topics more directly into their teaching
and research, and campus activities more broadly.
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by Carol Bellamy, President of World
Learning/SIT
Carol Bellamy believes that one of the greatest
challenges in today’s world is how to live as a global citizen.
In her talk, Bellamy will argue that the world simply cannot afford
bystanders or passive participants. The social problems we face
arise from the choices that we make. Poverty does not persist
for no reason; war does not emerge from nowhere; and HIV does
not spread in ways we do not understand. We make choices that
result in these afflictions. How we allocate resources, how we
assess the impact of our decisions, how often we consider children
in our choices: these are the moments that matter. Creating a
network of concerned and active global citizens is Carol Bellamy's
and World Learning's vision.
Carol Bellamy assumed the leadership of World Learning
in May 2005, having completed ten years as executive director
of UNICEF, the children’s agency of the United Nations.
During her tenure at UNICEF, Ms. Bellamy brought
a compassionate yet pragmatic ethic to improving the lives of
children. She stepped up UNICEF’s work in emergencies, doubled
its funding, put the issues of child exploitation on the global
agenda and fought for health, protection and education as fundamental
rights of every child.
Prior to joining UNICEF, Ms. Bellamy was Director
of the United States Peace Corps. Having served as a Peace Corps
volunteer in Guatemala from 1963 to 1965, she was the first former
volunteer to run the organization.
Ms. Bellamy has had a distinguished career in the
private sector. She was a Managing Director of Bear, Stearns &
Co. from 1990 to 1993, and a Principal at Morgan Stanley from
1986 to 1990. Between 1968 and 1971 she was an associate at Cravath,
Swaine & Moore.
Ms. Bellamy also spent 13 years as an elected public
official, including five years in the New York State Senate (1973-1977).
In 1977, she became the first woman elected to citywide office
in New York when she was elected President of the NYC Council,
a position she held until 1985.
Ms. Bellamy earned her law degree from New York
University in 1968. She is a former Fellow of the Institute of
Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government,
and an honorary member of Phi Alpha Alpha, the U.S. National Honor
Society for Accomplishment and Scholarship in Public Affairs and
Administration. In 2004, MS. Bellamy was named to Forbes Magazine’s
100 Most Powerful Women in the World. Ms. Bellamy graduated from
Gettysburg College in 1963. She was born and raised in the New
York area.
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The Conference will be held at The Hampton Inn,
Colchester/Burlington, Vermont and the University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT.
Accommodations at The
Hampton Inn are available to conference attendees for a discounted
rate of $95/night. You must mention Vermont Campus Compact and
the Global Citizenship conference in order to receive the discounted
room rate.
The nearest airport is Burlington International Airport (BTV).
Directions:
- From the Airport to The Hampton Inn:
Take a left out of Burlington International Airport. At the
traffic light take a right onto Williston Road. Proceed on
Williston Road until Interstate 89 North. Take 89 North for
approximately 1.5 miles to Exit #16. As you exit the interstate
you will take a right onto Route #7 to the next traffic light.
The hotel will be on your right.
Turn Left out of the Hotel parking lot heading
towards Rte. 2/7. Turn left at the stoplight onto Rte. 2/7 heading
South. Continue on Rt. 2/7 heading South passing through the
traffic circle. Immediately after you have crossed the river,
Rt. 2/7 bears right. Do not bear right, rather stay straight
and continuing to head south on Colchester Avenue. Stay on Colchester
Avenue for a little less than a mile, you'll pass by the entrance
to the hospital and then Ira Allen Chapel. Immediately after
the UVM green, turn left onto South Prospect. At the next light,
turn right onto College street. The visitor parking lot will
be on your left. The Billings Center is within walking distance
across the green and to the left.We encourage you to arrive
by 8:45 as this lot can fill up after 9am. If it is full, the
attendant will direct you to the Gutterson parking lot on the
other side of campus. A shuttle is available from this the Gutterson
lot to Billings, or you can take the 10 minute walk. Please
see campus map for walking directions.
- From the Billings Center to Burlington International
Airport.
Turn right onto S. Prospect St. Remain on S. Prospect
St. for about three tenths of a mile and then turn left onto
Main St / Rt. 2 eastbound. Follow Rt. 2 for two and a half miles,
over the highway, and then take a left on Airport Drive.
Download a map
(.pfd) of the UVM campus.
For conference participants without transportation,
we are offering shuttles services into the center of Burlington
on the evening November 10 and another shuttle to and from the
Institutes at UVM on November 11.
You must sign up ahead of time for these shuttles.
Please contact Cheryl Whitney Lower at clower@middlebury.edu
or (802) 443-2507 or sign up at the conference registration table
by noon on November 10.
November 10 Shuttle into Burlington:
If there is interest, we will offer a shuttle service on the evening
of November 10 from the Hampton Inn into the center of Burlington.
The shuttle will leave the Hampton Inn at 5:30 p.m. and drop you
off at the corner of Main Street and Church Street in Burlington.
The return shuttle will leave the corner of Main Street and Church
Street in Burlington at 9:00 p.m. and return to the Hampton Inn.
We have space for 9 people. You must pre-register for this shuttle.
November 11 Shuttle to and from Institutes at UVM:
If there is interest, we will offer a shuttle from the Hampton
Inn to Billings Center at UVM at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November
11. The return trip will leave Billings at 3:30 p.m. and return
to the Hampton Inn. We have space for 9 people with an additional
trip possible if needed. You must pre-register for either or both
trips.
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Proceedings from the 2007 Fostering Global Citizenship in Higher
Education Conference: Strategies for Campus-Wide Collaboration |
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Summary
of Keynote Address by Humphrey Tonkin
Workshop Proceedings:
Summary
of Action Planning Session and Closing Remarks
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