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://fss.muni.cz/psych/romale/conf_2000.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.
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 (lower costs for Eastern
participants).
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: £98
(We will arrange group travel if demand is sufficient, and in any case we
will meet 2 designated planes on 31 August)
Possible option of later return flight with pre-booked venue in Slovakia, if
sufficient demand. We are delighted to recommend interesting & beautiful
visits if you rpefer independent on-going travel.
Apologies for cross posting.
Dr Hilary Gray, Secretary, British & East European Psychology Group
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