June 1, 2007
This kind of moral globalism is necessary so that traditional approaches to teaching, learning, and living are able to incorporate the emergent opportunities created by economic, political, and technological development. At the heart of this cosmopolitan role for education and educators, lies the desire for all human beings to be capable of living well with and for each other in just communities.
Education leaders from North America and Europe will be at the SFU Burnaby
campus speaking on these issues as part of the Summer Institute 2007: "Educating in a Globalizing World" event from July 3 - 19.
Public Lectures:
- Post-secondary Education in British Columbia Over Five Decades: The search for status" - John Dennison
- L'éducation à la Citoyenneté à L'école Secondaire : Les défis à relever par le personnel enseignant - France Jutras
- e-Learning: Opportunity, Promise and Challenge - Milt McClaren
- How Some Forms of Testing Always Corrupt Educators - David Berliner
- Cosmopolitanism and Critical Citizenship: Education in a post-national world - Roger Dale
- Rethinking the Design of Higher Education Systems in Response to the Challenges of Globalization - Michael Skolnik
- Recent Commissions on Post-secondary Education in Canada: What do they tell us about post-secondary education as viewed by policymakers - Michael Skolnik
For a complete list and more information about the public lectures, go to the Summer Institute 2007 web site.
Sponsored by the Faculty of Education as part of the "Education Matters Lecture Series", the Summer Institute 2007 is a month-long series of public lectures intended to provoke conversations. The lectures would be of interest to teachers, educators, administrators, policy makers, students, and all global citizens.