(NAME-MCE) World Indigenous Peoples Conference December 7-11 Melbourne

[Anselmo Villanueva]

2008 World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education (WIPC:E)

December 7-11, 2008  Melbourne, Australia

A triennial conference of international significance that attracts
peoples from around
the globe to celebrate and share diverse cultures, traditions and knowledge
with a focus on world Indigenous education.

The purpose of WIPC:E is to provide a forum to come together, share and
learn and promote best practice in Indigenous education policies, programs
and practice.

http://www.wipce2008.com/

Abstracts still being accepted until February 11, 2008.

To be held on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, Melbourne,
Australia from 7th - 11th December 2008, WIPC:E 2008 will be a
celebration of our diverse cultures, traditions and knowledge. It will
provide us with the opportunity to showcase our efforts to provide
educational experiences suitable to our individual and unique
communities and will be a time to rejoice in our strengths and
capacity to uphold our traditions and knowledge systems. It will also
be a chance to consider how we, as Indigenous people, would like to
see education shaped into the future to meet our needs. It is
Australia's Indigenous peoples' vision that WIPC:E 2008 will be
solidly embedded in community knowledge.

WIPC:E 2008 has the potential to impact positively on the educational
outcomes and lives of Indigenous people across the planet. Formal
education provides us with a broad set of options to shape our own
futures and with tools to tell our own stories to the wider community;
our challenge is to balance the learnings from formal systems within
our own traditions. WIPC:E 2008 hopes to explore some of the questions
raised by living within competing knowledge systems and look beyond
the horizon where complementary knowledge can be used to shape our own
futures.

The Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc is proud to be
hosting this prestigious event. We look forward to welcoming you to
our beautiful country and making your time in Melbourne an educative
and memorable experience.