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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:01:19 -0500

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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers:

New Directions in International Education: Building Context, Connections and Knowledge

October 29-30, 2004

This conference is an opportunity to exchange ideas about new ways of extending and enhancing international education for our students.

Who should attend?

This is an opportunity for faculty and administrators to engage in discussion of best practices. Both individuals and campus teams of faculty, international education professionals, and other administrators are welcome. We are particularly interested in teams representing multiple disciplines.

The challenge of international education is to create context, connections and knowledge so that students and institutions of higher education are better able to engage with our changing world. Meeting this challenge requires innovative programs and curricula.

We invite papers and poster presentations from the humanities, social sciences and sciences and interdisciplinary perspectives that address aspects of effective international education at home and abroad. Submissions from both faculty and administrators are welcome. How do we create the context in which students learn about the world around them? How can we create connections between institutions and individuals to foster learning? Are new international education models necessary to meet the needs of our students, faculty and institutions and to include students who do not normally engage in study abroad experiences? For example we are particularly interested in exploring how international education enriches the study of science and how science can enrich international education. A science workshop, sponsored by Global Partners, frames this conference.

Depending on paper submissions, possible themes will be: innovative models for study abroad and on-campus programs, faculty and institutional development, the role of experiential education and service learning, the intersection of science and international education, strategies for including underrepresented students and disciplines in international education and the integration of study abroad programs with on-campus curricula.

http://www.beloit.edu/%7Eoie/conference/