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CALL FOR PAPERS - 'RACE' AND ETHNICITY STREAM
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C-SAP Conference 2005 - "New Contexts in Learning and Teaching"

Organised by: C-SAP
Date of event: 23rd - 25th November 2005
Venue: Jury's Inn, Birmingham
Following the success of C-SAP's 2004 conference, we are pleased to announce details of our 2005 event, to be held in central
Birmingham, which will focus on international perspectives of learning and teaching. Themes of the conference will include:

- E-Learning
- Globalisation
- Vocationalism
- Widening participation
- Employability
- Pedagogy
- Student perspectives
- Race and ethnicity (see below)****

Two new speakers have been announced for C-SAP's next Annual Conference: 

Professor Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha is the Executive Secretary of IUCEA, the Inter-University Council for East Africa.

Professor Michael Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. A former elementary and secondary school teacher and past president of a teachers union, he has worked with
educators, unions, dissident groups, and governments throughout the world in democratising educational policy and practice.

Also appearing at our 2005 Conference will be Paul McFarlane. Dr McFarlane is currently an Instructor in the School of
Professional Studies in Business and Education (SPSBE) at The John Hopkins University in Baltimore. His current research and
writing interests include a book, "Social Deviance: Action, Reaction, Interaction", to be published in January 2006, and two
papers scheduled for presentation in America and Japan in 2005.

Joining Dr Paul McFarlane, as a keynote speaker, will be Professor Robert Burgess, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester.
Professor Burgess is Honorary Secretary of the Society for Research into Higher Education and a member of its Council. He is also
a member of the Council of the Institute for Employment Studies and an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the
Social Sciences. 

To find out more about the conference, or to register, please contact C-SAP by phone on 0121 414 2995 or through our email
address.

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****Race and Ethnicity Stream

This stream of the conference examines the way in race and ethnicity is being taught and assessed in Higher Education today. It
aims to discuss and evaluate existing methods, to share best practice, and to extend teaching activity on 'race' throughout the
social sciences. We are also interested in ideas for using existing structures to promote wider attention to 'race' issues in the
social science curriculum. The stream will have a practical focus - how can we improve our class-room practices? - while
recognising that differences in theoretical stance on 'race' may well need to be aired. The event will place a high premium on
open and friendly discussion of what is recognised to be a difficult and sometimes controversial area. Much of the discussion will
take place in small groups.

Papers are invited from a wide range of disciplines and addressing a variety of relevant themes and issues. Suggested topics are
listed below, but we invite you to contribute on any other relevant matters which are important to you.

Some LTA topics:

*       Examples of 'race' module descriptors - how well do they work? 
*       What is the relevance the ethnicity of the lecturer/tutor in teaching 'race' issues? What is the
        relevance of the ethnicity or ethnicities of the students in the class? 
*       Does it help to link the study of globalisation to the study of 'race'? 
*       How can 'race' be incorporated into social science modules which don't take 'race' as their prime      focus? 
*       What potential is there for the study of 'race' in skills and applied modules (e.g. cross-cultural    capability, equal
        opportunities, career planning etc) 
*       Class-room dilemmas - e.g.: how to deal with racists, how to make everyone feel safe enough to    speak, 'political
        correctness', confronting stereotypes (including our own) 
*       Are there any specific teaching methods that are particularly appropriate to the teaching of 'race'? 
*       Does 'race' have any implications for the assessment methods we use? 
*       Recommendations for the use of particular audio/visual/print materials - how have they been used? 
*       Terrible (or minor) mistakes that we've made and what we've learned from them

Some structural/institutional issues:

*       How do we mobilise support for extending the teaching of 'race'? 
*       Where and how should we intervene on 'race' issues in HE and FE LTA structures? 
*       How can the 'demonstrate good practice' clauses in the Race Relations Amendment Act (2001) be         effectively utilised?
 
For further details, please contact:
Dr Malcolm Todd
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Faculty of Development and Society
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
S1 1WB
England
UK
0114 225 2415
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