YOU, ME, DIVERSITY.......

Homophobia

Racism

Teacher Educators

OppressedMarginalised Cultural Differences

Trade

The Purpose of Education

At homeAbroad

Development

Prejudice

Human Rights

Children’sRights

The ‘Other’

Language

Equality

Exploring, Challenging Celebrating

Power

Themes

Springboard

Diversity

The Local and the Global

Reflective Space

Questions

Mirror work…

• Invitation to hold a mirror to ourselves

• You • Me • and Diversity

(P Travers)

Invitation

Reflect here!

Converse

Network

Think critically

‘Things being various’ McNeice

EDUCATION

Religion Ethics

Civics

Liberalism

CHANGE

Education is never neutral – asked the question around the purpose of education

There is an intricate relation between the religious and the ethic and the civic Who forms the citizen?

Education is about moral practice and we may agree on the basics but…

Jones Irwin

On Friday evening. . . .

‘Society is more advanced than our education system’

‘Paradox preaching tolerance, open-ness and understanding in an environment that is not.’

‘ Children assimilate social attitudes..they know fairness and unfairness.’

‘Teaching a man to fish ratherthan giving him a fish will notfeed him for life or help send his daughter to College unless he knows how to market his fish.’

‘What do the symbols in our environment suggest about who is welcome?’

Book launches and Research Learning to Read the World ? Teaching and Learning About Global and international Development in Post-Primary Schools by Audrey Bryan and Melíosa Bracken

• Actionable Post Colonial Theory in Education by Professor Andreotti de Oliviera

with posters and art on Traveller Narratives andDelivering Citizenship Education Of Educators

To develop an ethical engagement with the ‘Other’

Language

The perceptions and assumptions and values that are embedded in language

Honouring the skills and knowledge of Parents (and children)Dual Language books

The challenges of..

The power of ….

The bewilderment in families when children have a world that parents can’t share.

Language

LabelsStereotypes

Language as a means of giving voice to

Research based work - Evidence

Time to Interrogate questions

Ethical research with children – checking with them. Do we understand our accountability??

Paternalistic discourse around children

The importance of deconstructing the concepts of identity, diversity

To unpick the assumptions in our classes, schools, our colleges of education and country

In Practice – How…….

To develop tolerance and respect

To engage with other cultures, religions

To use drama, books, puppets, stories

Quotes….

And then they realised that they were on the same page…I belong

Children are passionate advocates for justice

People are afraid of diversity and equality issues.

We are moresimilarthan we think

Prejudice is a group process

How culturally competent are you?

Post-its

Everyone suffers

Tokenistic

interculturalism Awareness,respect

Teacher Education!!

It would be a win –win!situation

What do we mean by development?

Challenging comments..

Vanessa• We need to be able to make different

mistakes• Beyond competencies to dispositions• To understand our ‘caravan’ and create

possibilities for our backpacks

Vanessa• We need to be able to make different

mistakes• Beyond competencies to dispositions• To understand our ‘caravan’ and create

possibilities for our backpacks

Final comments

• Time to rock the boat Jones Irwin

• Time to rock the boat Jones Irwin

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The Springboard…

Diversity at home is the springboard to exploring diversity abroadThis conference has pointed the way to the need for more dialogue, more research, more conversations, more work….