Posted by Ken Foote on July 04, 1998 at 19:28:39:
Here is an announcement from Mick about the symposium being planned for Honolulu:
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON 'LEARNING AND TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN HIGHER EDUCATION,' HONOLULU, 23 MARCH 1999
In collaboration with colleagues in the States (Ken Foote) and Australia (Iain Hay) I am organising an invited symposium prior to the main sessions at AAG99 in Honolulu and some associated mainline sessions in the conference (24-27 March) itself.
The invited symposium, which is sponsored by the AAG, IAG and RGS-IBG, is to be held on Tuesday 23 March 1999. The aim of the symposium is to examine national practices and programmes concerned with a variety of learning and teaching topics and focus on how we can make them more effectively international. Topics might include:
1) Conceptual issues in communicating/collaborating internationally in geography in HE
2) Internationalising geography curricula and pedagogy
3) International fieldcourses
4) Virtual fieldcourses - making them international
5) Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in internationalising learning and teaching
6) Developing geographer's skills for employability and life: International comparions
7) Educational development for HE staff/faculty/TAs: international comparisons
8) International exchanges for geography students and staff
9) Internationalising the JGHE
10) Internationalising national Professional Associations/Institutions HE Groups (e.g. RGS-IBG HESG, AAG Educational Speciality Group; proposed IAG HE Group)
11) Internationalising the Geography Discipline Network Guides and abstracts on Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Geography in HE
12) Internationalising the Virtual Geography Department
You are welcome to suggest other possible topics.
It is planned for brief details on the nature of the topics to be put on the WWW prior to the workshop and for position papers on the issues to be pre-circulated. Attempts will be made to pair people from different countries interested in the same issue so that they can prepare joint papers outlining the position in their own countries and discussing how the activity can be made more effectively international. Discussions will aim to identify actions needed to take the most promising ideas forward.
If you are interested in the possibility of participating in the international symposium please contact Mick Healey (mhealey@chelt.ac.uk) by return with brief details of what you would like to contribute (no more than 2-3 sentences at this stage please). A limited number of places are available so that as many countries as possible are represented.
If you are interested in contributing a paper to one of the main sessions please contact Ken Foote by email (k.foote@mail.utexas.edu) urgently as he has to complete the programme by mid-August. Delegates will need to register with the AAG by 4 September 1998 (see May 1998 AAG Newsletter for details or view http://www.aag.org or email gaia@aag.org). Participation in the pre-AAG symposium does NOT prevent
you giving a paper in the main conference.
It is planned to submit an edited collection of suitable papers arising from the workshop and the main sessions to the JGHE.
The cost of getting from the UK to Hawaii is not as high as you may think! I've been quoted a return flight from London to Honolulu via Los Angeles for 473 pounds up to 19 March and 595 after 19 March on United Airlines, as long as includes a Saturday night in the States. Tax (c60 pound) is probably additional.
Professor Mick Healey
Project Director Geography Discipline Network
Department of Geography and Geology
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Francis Close Hall
Swindon Road
Cheltenham GL50 4AZ UK
Tel: +44 (0)1242 543364 (532971 Department Office)
Fax: +44 (0)1242 532997
Email: mhealey@chelt.ac.uk
http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn