CELEBRATING AND AFFIRMING DIVERSITY-2000 AND BEYOND

Implications for Instruction in our Multicultural Schools

Conference Sponsors:

The University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Fayetteville State University with financial support from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Program and contribution from Mr. Billy Davidson, Sprint Corporation.

Conference Location:

Continuing Education Building - Multi-Purpose Room

Conference Objective:

To build a solid foundation for the appreciation of the diverse cultures represented in our public schools and our community by ensuring that these cultures appropriately influence learning, instruction and inquiry. To move towards a more multi-cultural approach to education by infusing and/or integrating more multicultural content into the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Social Studies at all grade levels. To help participants identify and create educational climates to calibrate cultural differences.

Conference Date:

March 26, 1999 from 3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and March 27, 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Program Organizers

Dr. Masila Mutisya, FSU Conference Program Director
Barbara Jones, Director of Continuing Education FSU
Mr. Bogdan T. Leja, Director of Outreach UCIS at UNC-CH
Paris Ann Moore, Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator
Billy Davidson, Sprint Corporation and former President for the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce

Registration:

$15 (Includes Tuition, Handouts, Friday Supper and Refreshments) Full Time Students are exempt from registration fees. 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU). Application cost will be refunded to teachers completing conference and workshops. CANCELLATIONS, SUBSTITUTIONS ARE PERMITTED. A refund minus $5.00 administrative fee will be given if notification is received in writing, one week prior to activity. A program may be canceled due to weather, insufficient enrollment and other unforeseen circumstances. In case of cancellation, fees will be refunded and program will be rescheduled. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL THE CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION AT FSU (910) 486-1226

Conference Program: Friday, March 26

3:00 - 3:30 P.M.

Registration and Refreshment

3:30 - 4:00

Introductions, Occasion Greetings

4:00 - 5:45

SESSION ONE

TITLE:

Conceptual Framework on Diversity: A Critical Conscious Approach to Cultural Awareness (Conscientzacao)

4:00 - 4:30

Dr. Masila Mutisya will provide, Overview of Diversity
"Concept as it Relates to the Participants".

4:30 - 5:45

Workshop: Group Discussion and Exercises.

Session Description: This session will include discussion on conceptual aspects that are critical in conceptualizing diversity awareness. The participants will be exposed to a specific approach/method to dialogue on diversity. This method involves thematic approach to discussion and critical thinking, derived from Paulo Freire method on on literacy. The method includes: Naming, Reflection and Taking Action on thematic issues involving problem-solving. The session will set the tone for the overall workshop, and the participants should leave with enhanced knowledge on the effective ways to approach difficult cultural issues, as well as develop a conceptual framework and dialogue on diversity.

Dr. Masila Mutisya, Associate Professor, School of Education at FSU will lead session one.

Multicultural Training Manuals produced by Dr. Mutisya.

BSA Module
Module 2
BSA Train
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5:45 - 6:30 P.M. Break: Dinner will be provided to registered participants.

6:30 - 8:30

Session Two:

Title

African American Family/Children Identity and Socialization: Implications in the Classroom.

6:30 - 7:20

Dr.Comfort Okpala, Adjunct Professor, Department of Education FSU

Session Description:

The session will include discussion on issues relating to newly arrived African immigrants or children descended from African born parents and the children's socialization and the implications in the classroom

7:20 - 7:40

Zimbabwe Education Outreach

David Morrica and Eric Farmer will talk about their experiences with students in Zimbabwe and show their multimedia documentary on children who overcame intense poverty to acquire their education. The documentary features a number of students who tell in their own words, what education means to them.

7:40 - 8:30

Ms. Valerie Knight, Staff Development Director, Halifax County Schools and an appointed teacher from Halifax County Schools

Session Description:

This session will include a discussion on a specific approach to the actions and response to diversity as it relates to African American children. Teachers who are presenting will discuss and share specific approaches that they have taken to respond to specific educational aspects facing African American children in Halifax county.

8:30 - 9:00 P.M. Closing and final remarks.
Day Two Saturday, March 27

Teaching to Diversity: An International Perspective

8:00 A.M. - 8:30 A.M. Registration/Coffee

8:30 - 10:15 A.M.

Session Three

Title:

Bi-Racial, Multiracial and The New Immigrants in Middle and Secondary Schools

8:30 - 9:15

Dr. Ruth Woods, Associate Professor, School of Education and Dr. Geraldine Munn-Campbell, Assistant Professor Elementary Education FSU

Session Description:

The first part of this session will include a talk on and discussion about issues facing the identity and socialization of Native American families and implications in the classroom.

9:15 - 9:30

Short Break

9:30 - 10:15

Simona Farcas, Master in Social Work (MSW) student at UNC-Chapel Hill who is from Romania will talk about the "Educational System in Romania". Bogdan T. Leja, Director Outreach Programs, UCIS-UNC-CH, will talk about identity issues relating to European and specifically Polish students.

Session Description:

Diversity and issues relating to students identity and socialization in the classroom. A comparative of the European and American educational approaches

10:15 - 10:30 A.M. Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:45 A.M.

Session Four

Dr. Enid Jones, (at podium) Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Dr. Fanny Arguello, Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages FSU will lead discussion on issues facing West Indian children from the Caribbean and Hispanic students in our K-12 classrooms.

11:45 - 12:45

Young-Sook Jung, former teacher in Korea, and Insil Chang. Both spekaers are Doctoral Students at UNC-CH School of Education, Curriculum and Instruction. They will present on Korean educational system and a parents perspective on their children who are students in American schools. They will be joined by Mingh Courtney, ESL teacher in Cumberland County Schools, who will talk about and offer suggestion on how teachers can become more responive to students from foreign countries.

12:45 - 1:00 P.M.

Closure, Evaluation and Forms return