8th Annual

Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference

February 23-24, 2012

Heathman Lodge, Vancouver, Washington

Conference registration: $140 general, $60 students. Register online.

Keynote speakers

Mary E. Weems, Ph.D,. is a poet, playwright, author, performer, and imagination-intellect theorist. She is the former Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights (April 2007 – April 2009) and the first African American. Dr. Weems is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Allied Studies at John Carroll University. She also works as a language-artist-scholar and education consultant in middle school and high school classrooms, universities and other venues, through her business Bringing Words to Life. Programming includes F.L.Y. (Finding Love in Yourself) a self-esteem program for girls and women.

Carol Black is an Emmy-Award-winning writer/director/producer of both entertainment and documentary television and film, co-creator with her husband Neal Marlens of the television series The Wonder Years, noted for its portrayal of the American public school experience. She studied education and literature at Swarthmore College and UCLA, and after the birth of her children, withdrew from a successful career in the entertainment industry to become involved in the alternative education movement. Her film Schooling the World is the culmination of many years of research into cross-cultural perspectives on education.

Featured film

Picture of children from Schooling the World film

Schooling the World takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world’s last sustainable indigenous cultures.

If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a ‘better’ life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture’s way of learning and understanding the world with our own?

Clock hours will be available. For information, please contact Krenny Hammer,

Contact us

Krenny Hammer, Coordinator
KHammer@wsu.edu
(509) 335-6393
Washington State University
Cleveland Hall, Room 156
PO Box 642114
Pullman, WA 99164-2114

Mike Hayes, Chair
mthayes@wsu.edu
(509) 335-2157

A message from Mike Hayes, conference chair

I have watched the conference evolve over the years, and I feel it is uniquely positioned to push education research and practice to the intersection of the head and the heart and create educational experiences for all students that are meaningful, fulfilling and just. I look forward continuing our tradition of deep engagement with ideas that enhance education in our global society.

More info

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