February 27-28, 2014
10th International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference
Activism and Education: Learning With(In) Lived Experiences.
Washington State University
Join us for the 10th Annual Conference and workshops February 27-28, 2014, at Northern Quest Resort in Airway Heights, (Spokane) WA. This year we will focus on the theme of Activism and Education: Learning with(in) Lived Experiences. This conference is committed to engaging activists, educators, and scholars from diverse disciplines in deep and meaningful dialogues around what we can do together to address and engage in alleviating and/or eliminating current social and environmental injustices in our local, national, and international communities.
Award-winning Seattle filmmaker Jill Freidberg spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of more than 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend to country’s public education system from the devastating impacts of economic globalization. Freidberg combines footage of strikes and direction actions with 25 years worth of never-before-seen archival images to deliver a compelling and unsettling story of resistance, repression, commitment, and solidarity.
For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance… Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico’s public schools
Proposal deadline: December 6, 2013
Paper and Panel Presentations: Please submit your proposal clearly explaining the presentation and its relationship to the conference. What is the question or problem that is being addressed? Who are the primary scholarly sources being drawn upon to frame the discussion?
Alternative Sessions/Workshops: Propose something alternative to traditional conference sessions or host a workshop! This should be a hands-on session dealing with an important issue related to the conference theme. Proposals should describe a) what the session will be about, b) what the objectives of the session are, and c) how participants will be involved.
To submit a proposal:
Send as an attachment to: khammer@wsu.edu or Send by mail to: Globalization, Diversity & Education Conference
Attn: Krenny
College of Education
PO Box 642114
Pullman, WA 99164-2114
Phone: (509) 335-6393
Fax: (509) 335-2097
Proposal deadline: December 6, 2013