(Name-mce) ListServ Worldwide Intercultural Ed Conference - Sarajevo

[Paul C. Gorski]

LIVING TOGETHER
EDUCATION AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

WCCES XIII  WORLD CONGRESS of
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETIES
SARAJEVO 3-7 SEPTEMBER 2007

Goals of the Congress:
•	To develop theory and methodology of comparative and international
education based on intercultural dialogue
•	To develop a network of research fields in comparative and international
education particularly in the regions that have not previously developed
those fields (e.g. countries in transition)
•	To develop curriculum and to present positive pedagogical practices of
teachers, which will aim at affirming intercultural dialogue
•	Sarajevo Congress would like to draw attention of all comparative
educators to a multicultural environment and traditional tolerance that
has characterized Sarajevo for many centuries and whose existence had to
face the challenges of nationalism and intolerance so much present in the
recent past.

What do we want to achieve?
•	To brainstorm the ideas, knowledge and practices on comparative
education in the Balkan region and other countries in transition, as well
as worldwide.
•	To raise awareness and to develop attitudes about the constant nurturing
of intercultural communication through dialogue and understanding
•	To initiate research, publications, exchanges and distribution of
knowledge, and ideas in the field of comparative education
•	To develop cooperation with other disciplines which are connected to the
issues of education and culture in the broadest context.

Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
city is considered one of the most important cities in the Balkans and has
had a long and rich history since it was founded by the Ottomans in 1461.
For over four hundred years, mosques, synagogues, Orthodox and Roman
Catholic churches have been built and have stood side by side here.
Citizens of different nationalities and religious orientations live and
work together, developing their city and their own style of togetherness
regardless of conquerors and foreign rulers whose identity changed over
and over again, fast or slowly, depending on the historical and
geopolitical situations and the great-power interests.  See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo

University of Sarajevo

The University of Sarajevo descends from a century long tradition of
higher education in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sarajevo. The institutional
beginnings of higher education are identical to the university tradition
of Western Europe. The University of Sarajevo is a large educational
system with 23 Faculties, 1,640 teachers and assistants, 893 non academic
staff and 47,000 students.  http://www.unsa.ba/eng/ouni.php


Under the main theme of Living Together: Education and Intercultural
Dialogue, there are 12 Organising themes or Thematic groups:

A. Comparative Education
T1.Comparative Education: theory and methodology
T2.Intercultural Education and Human Rights: Theory and Practice

B. Policy, politics and economics
T3 Language
T4 Higher Education
T5 Education for All

C. Social and Educational Relationships within and between societies
T6 Transition, conflict and post-conflict societies
T7 Ethnicity, Religion, Secularism and Spirituality
T8 Gendered Discourses

D. Teaching and Learning
T9 Teacher Education
T10 Educating Professionals
T11 Indigenous learning
T12 Learning in and out of classrooms

E. Symposia and cross-thematic panels
The programme will consist of plenary sessions and thematic groups,
symposia, special workshops, panels etc. on the topics related to the
conference, and to local and regional intercultural issues.

Details of the content of these themes (and their international, regional
and local convenors) are to be found on the website section  
http://www.wcces2007.ba/eng/thematic.html

Contributors should submit an abstract (not more than 250 words) through
the website, which will then be sent to the relevant convenor for review. 
The deadline for abstracts is 31st March 2007.

A CD of papers will be produced, and those wanting their paper on the CD
should submit it by 1st June.

All information about the Congress, costs, hotels etc can be found on the
website, together with registration forms and Abstract submission forms.


Congress Convenor:
Adila Kreso
University of Sarajevo
e-mail: adila at wcces2007.ba

Congress management:
Larisa Kasumagiæ
e-mail: lara at wcces2007.ba

(Chair of Congress Standing  Committee: Lynn Davies, e-mail:
L.Davies at bham.ac.uk)