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CONFERENCE: 1-3 SEPTEMBER 2,000 MINORITIES in a PLURALIST SOCIETY in the new MILLENNIUM FOR POLICY MAKERS, EDUCATIONISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, ADMINISTRATORS: MASARYK UNIVERSITY, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC Sponsors: CR Government; UK Foreign Office Please see our website for complete information including booking: http://www.fss.muni.cz/psych/romale/conf_2000/index.html Email enquiries: [log in to unmask] (Eva Polaskova) UK Enquiries to: Dr Hilary Gray, Tel: +44 (0)1629 55345; [log in to unmask] BRNO IS A FINE CENTRAL EUROPEAN BASE: COMBINE A HOLIDAY WITH CONTRIBUTING TO OUR CONFERNCE! Conference opening: Czech Minister of Education & the UK Ambassador Committed speakers: Prof Sally Tomlinson: U Oxford Prof Tony Cline: U Luton Prof Ed Cairns, U Ulster (Member, APA Ethnic Conflict Committee) Plenary & Parallel Sessions: Ethnicity, anti-racism National and local administration for Equal Opportunities. Anti-oppressive practice: working with minority families School management and curriculum in the interests of all children Educational assessment of ethnic minority children Promoting skills in young children Conference languages: Czech and English If you research, administer policy, or practice with ethnic minority children and their families, you may well have a contribution which would help Czech professionals with their difficult problem. Workshop material is particularly welcome. Or just come: join the event & meet the people: there will be films, visits to local provision, a reception, and an exhibition. Submission of Papers: as soon as possible & not later than 01 05 2,000 You will be informed within 3 weeks and not later than 15 05 2,000: Title, short resume (approx 200 words) and generous abstracts (approx 1,000 words) Dr Christopher Alan Lewis, Psychology Department, Behavioural & Communication Studies, University of Ulster at Magee College, Londonderry, BT 48 7JL +44 (0)1504 375 320 [log in to unmask] CONTEXT & RATIONALE: Brno, a fine Central European city, is capital of Moravia & the Czech Republic's second city. Approximately 200 km by rail or road from Prague (Vienna is nearer), BRNO is an excellent base for visits to Central Europe: castles & renaissance towns within easy reach; un-missable Czech beer; night life second to none. We are delighted to recommend interesting & beautiful visits for your on-going travel. Masaryk University is the country's second oldest, with 20,000 students. This conference will complete one of the country's first Equal Opportunities projects, conducted in the Faculty of Social Studies, by the Department of Psychology, a discipline which suffered heavy repression in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The education system also carries effects of the totalitarian regime: it successfully teaches basic skills, but is formal in delivery and management. All the psychologists' research has been within the context of the Roma community, the ethnic minority who suffer much discrimination thorughout East & Central Europe. The research has included an investigation of Roma child-rearing, (relevant to anti-oppressive social work), a study of fair assessment of children, (including Dynamic Assessment), and a project to facilitate democratic classroom discipline. Venue: The Conference venue is Masaryk University's very modern Economics Faculty 1 km from the town centre. Meals and accommodation are 4 minutes away, in comfortable, modern 2-bed rooms (bathroom between 2 rooms) Costs: Western participants: Waged: £105; Unwaged £75. This includes: Meals from evening 31/8 to breakfast 4/9, (1 day before & after conference) but excluding conference dinner. Accommodation with 2 sharing (you can request single rooms and/or additional nights: £5 / night) This price does not include airfare. The cheapest travel to Prague is with BA-Go: Supersaver return: £98 (We will arrange group travel if sufficient demand, and in any case we will meet 2 designated planes on 31 August) Costs: Participants working in & citzens of East European countries: Waged: 500 Krc + 250 Krc / night + 150 Krc food / day (total 1450 Krc, $47, for meeting, 2 nights & 3 days). Contributors: 250 Krc / night + 150 Krc food / day (total 950 Krc, $30, for 2 nights & 3 days). Apologies for cross posting. Dr Hilary Gray, Secretary, British & East European Psychology Group %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%