Teaching for Social Justice, Equity and Sustainability with a focus on initial Teacher Education - 14th June 2013

Friday May 24, 2013

The Ubuntu Network and the Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice (RCEPP), Department of Education and Professional Studies, invite you to a day of dialogue on‘Teaching for Social Justice, Equity and Sustainability with a focus on initial Teacher Education’ on Friday, 14th June 2013 in the Graduate Medical School, UL

 

 

Draft Programme:

9:30 – Welcome: Dr. Patrick Ryan, Head of Department of Education & Professional Studies, UL

10:00 – Teaching for Social Justice, Equity and Sustainability in Initial Teacher Education…introducing a Framework for Integration:

Deirdre Hogan, Ubuntu Network Coordinator

10:20 – Discussing Perspectives: How to introduce a concept as complex as development to student teachers

Panellists: Prof. Tom Lodge (Dept. of Politics and Public Administration, UL); Dr. Audrey Bryan (Education Department, St. Patrick’s College); Dr. Paul Conway (School of Education, UCC); Michael Doorly (Concern Worldwide)

 

11:30 – Coffee

 

12:00 – Keynote Address: Aligning Development Education with Teacher Education: A focus on teaching for Diversity and Inclusivity

Prof. Audrey Osler, School of Education, University of Leeds

1:15 – Lunch

2:00 – Book Launch: 'Education that Matters: Teachers, Critical Pedagogy and Development Education at Local and Global Level'

Mags Liddy & Prof. Marie Parker Jenkins (editors)

2:30 ‐ Parallel Workshops: A Focus on Pedagogy

• Workshop 1: A dialogic approach to Development Education with film as a resource

Carmel Hinchion (Dept. of Education and Professional Studies, UL)

• Workshop 2: Making digital tutorials to integrate Development Education into art and design curriculum

Dr. Kieran Meagher & Maria Finucane (Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT)

• Workshop 3: Confessions of a teacher educator: Teaching for Diversity and Inclusivity

Dr. Joanne O’Flaherty (Dept. of Education and Professional Studies, UL)

3:45 – Dialogue Session: Using multimedia to communicate the integration of Development Education, a case study and discussion

Tony Murphy & Fiona King (Faculty of Education, National College of Art and Design)

4:30 – Finish

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