Rutgers symposium on education to provide international perspective (10/03/99)

Rutgers symposium on education to provide international perspective

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - The Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University will present the 14th annual Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education (RISE) titled "Diversity in the New Millennium: An International Perspective" on October 26 at the Cook Campus Center.

The initiative for the organization of the RISE symposia has been provided, since their inception, by the dean of the Graduate School of Education, Louise C. Wilkinson. Co-directors of the symposium are Ivan Z. Holowinsky, professor of psychology and education, and Ken N. Shimahara, professor of anthropology and education, both of Rutgers University.

The conference will bring together an internationally distinguished group of educators who are recognized for their work on cultural, racial, ethnic and national identities, and the impact of these on education in the 21st century.

Among conference participants are scholars from China, South Africa, Japan, Mexico, Wales, Israel, the United States and Ukraine. Taking part in the conference is Petro P. Kononenko of the Kyiv National University who, along with Prof. Holowinsky, will speak on "Educational Reform and the Language Issue in Ukraine."

The conference will feature four concurrent sessions on the following topics:

"Language and Identity: Three Case Studies," with a focus on China, Wales and Ukraine;
"Psycho-Social Dimensions of Identity," which will deal with a comparative analysis of Chinese and Chinese-American identity development in education; education and identity within a psychological and socio-cultural context, and multicultural identities and adaptation of young immigrants in Israel;
"Identity and the Schools," which will deal with teacher experiences of desegregation in the 1990s in South Africa, cultural identity of minority children in Japan, and a Mexican perspecitve on ethnic diversity; and
"The Influence of Identity," which will deal with various forms of identity and their influence on higher education in the U.S. and South Africa.

The keynote speaker at the conference will be Prof. Douglas Foley of the University of Texas (Austin), who will speak on "Reconceptualizing Ethnicity and Educational Achievement."

Registration deadline for the conference is Monday, October 18, or until the maximum number of registrations have been received. A registration fee of $109 includes registration, copy of conference presentations in book form (to be mailed out in the fall of 2000), continental breakfast, lunch, handouts and parking; a partial day fee for the morning or afternoon sessions (lunch not included) is $45.

Registration with credit card information (Visa, Mastercard, Discover) may be faxed to (732) 932-1640. No walk-in registrations will be honored on the day of the conference. The conference program begins at 9 a.m., with the closing session ending at 3:45 p.m. For further information call (732) 932-7496, ext. 205, 202 or 246; or e-mail [email protected].

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