In this issue:
Foreign Policy and the Media: An interactive program for high school students
The Institute of World Affairs at UW-Milwaukee's Center for International Education invites you and your students to participate in the 2nd annual Kennan Academy for high school students, an interactive workshop in conjunction with the George F. Kennan Forum on International Issues. This year's program will take place on April 17, and focus on the following theme: "Election 2008: Foreign Policy and the Media." The workshop will increase student awareness of how the media can influence our interpretation of global events and shape foreign policy decisions.
Deadline to apply is this Friday, March 7.
Space is limited and a limited number of grants will be provided to teachers.
For more details and an application, please contact Nicole Palasz at palasz@uwm.edu or 414-229-3312.
International Education Conference
March 31 & April 1, 2008 in MiddletonBe sure to sign up and attend the International Education Conference, held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Council of Social Studies, on the 31st of March & 1st of April. The conference will be in Middleton. Information is available at:
African Storytelling: Giving Voice to the Performers and their Texts
Two-Day Teachers’ Workshop organized by the
African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAfrican Storytelling: Giving Voice to the Performers and their Texts
with Harold Scheub.Saturday, April 5th and Saturday, April 12th 10:30 am 3:30 pm.
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
On the campus of the UW-Madison
Madison, WisconsinThis two-day workshop will help teachers learn more about and prepare to teach an important subject that is often overlooked—oral traditions. Sometimes misconstrued or discounted as static folklore and therefore peripheral, this workshop will present the topic as a continuing and dynamic engagement with culture and memory significant to all societies. This workshop will focus on southern Africa and the research of Professor Harold Scheub, one of the world’s leading scholars on the African folktale. The goal of the workshop is to develop teaching units to enhance the current multicultural curriculum in Wisconsin.
Resources to teach African oral traditions have grown on the World Wide Web including Scheub’s site, The Storyteller. This workshop will help teachers understand the goals and benefits of the website and offer some ideas about how they can develop lessons that introduce the realities of performance and bridge the increasingly scrutinized division between high and low cultures and art.
This one credit workshop requires ten hours of classroom time and five hours of independent work (a tuition waiver has been applied for). Registration is open to interested teachers of all grades. Registration is required, and a nonrefundable fee of $30 covers all materials and meals.
For more information, or to register, please contact Toni Pressley-Sanon, Outreach Coordinator, African Studies Program, at 265-9151 or toni.sanon@gmail.com. Send your checks made out to “African Studies Program” to Toni at 205 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Deadline for registration is March 24.
Global Educator Graduate Certificate Program
University of Wisconsin OshkoshThe Global Educator Graduate Certificate Program is a 16-18 credit graduate degree program that can be directly applied into a master's of science degree in Educational Leadership.
It's time to start planning for summer/fall 2008. Study abroad and earn graduate credits. Compare education systems around the world and engage in global research. Learn cutting edge approaches on how to teach Global Citizenship and develop an appreciation for bilingual/bicultural education. Combine this program with a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership and enhance your teaching.
The world is getting smaller everyday - teach your students and coworkers how to develop a global perspective and become global citizens.
For additional information, please contact Courtney Bauder at bauderc@uwosh.edu or go to the UW Oshkosh Global Educator Graduate Certificate Program website.
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