A reminder that registration
closes this Friday, June 15th for Conversations
that Matter III: Research, Practice, and Policy, the 3rd
International Conference on Service-Learning in Teacher Education, to be held
June 21-23, 2012 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
There is still time to join
us for two and a half days of exciting workshops, panels, and roundtables
offered by practitioners and scholars from around the world. Learn about your
colleagues’ research, teaching and outreach focused on teacher education and
service-learning. The full conference program is now available here.
Note that our keynote speaker
will be Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's
Defense Fund (CDF). Mrs. Edelman has
been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans her entire professional life.
Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children
and families. The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind®
mission is to ensure every child a Healthy
Start, a Head Start,
a Fair Start, a Safe
Start, and a Moral Start in
life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and
communities. She has received over a hundred honorary degrees and many awards
including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, and a
MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000, she received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the Robert F.
Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Other Featured speakers
include:
·
Cathy Davidson,
Professor of English and Interdisicplinary Studies, Duke University
·
Dan Butin,
Founding Dean and Associate Professor, School of Education, Merrimack College
·
Andrew Furco,
Associate Vice President for Public Engagement and Associate Professor,
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of
Minnesota
·
Carol Ma,
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy and the
Assistant Director in the Office of Service-Learning (OSL) at Lingnan,
University of Hong Kong
·
Nadine Peterson,
Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
·
Rajesh Majumdar,
The Doon School, Dehradun,
India
Pre-conference sessions
include:
·
Service
Learning: Engaging, Relevant, Real with Cathryn Berger Kaye
·
The
Power of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning with Karen G. Ridout
·
Critical
Reflection in Service-Learning with Patti Clayton
·
High
Quality Service-Learning for All Students: The Guilford County School Model
with Brenda Elliott
The conference is sponsored
by the International Center
for Service-Learning in Teacher Education and Duke’s Program in Education and Service-Learning
Program.
For more information about
the International Center, conference schedule, pre-conference sessions, hotel
and local information, please visit the Center’s website at www.icslte.org or contact Kathy Sikes, ICSLTE Executive Administrative
Director at Kathy.Sikes@duke.edu or 919.660.3075.
Kristin Wright
Assistant Director
Duke University Service-Learning
Program
(919) 668-4134
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