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OHIO
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION HOSTS ANNUAL IDE
CONFERENCE
ATHENS,
Ohio -- The Ohio University College
of Education
is hosting the annual Institute for Democracy in Education
(IDE) Conference October 1-2, 1999 in McCracken Hall. The
conference, "Critical Literacy for Democracy," is open to
the public and the conference costs are as follows: $25.00
for IDE members, $35.00 for non-IDE members, $15.00 for
full-time students, or the conference can be taken for Ohio
University credit. Registration information can be obtained
from Jaylynne Hutchinson, Director of the IDE Main Office,
at (740) 593-9827 or through e-mail at democracy@ohiou.edu.
The
conference deals with issues of "literacy" understood
broadly. All of the sessions at the conference are
interactive, dialogue-based workshops. Workshop topics
represent exciting and effective educational practices and
will address many different issues and therefore will have
something for everyone including kindergarten-grade 12
teachers, students, community activists, environmentalists
and university professors.
"In a time
when educational issues are so critical to the many groups
vying for the opportunity to try to reform our schools, we
feel we have assembled an impressive and diverse group of
people to offer a variety of interactive dialogue-based
workshops," said Jaylynne Hutchinson, Director of the IDE
Main Office.
Some of
the workshop topics include:
- Literacy
for Women
- Media
Literacy and our Children & Schools
- Ecological
Literacy and schools
- Forging
Community Connections with schools
- Violence
in our Schools...whose left out and why?
- The
Democratic High School
- Teaching
Democratically at the University Level
- Parents
Against Proficiency Testing
- Teaching
Against the Grain
- How to
Address the Tough Social Issues in a Literacy
Classroom
- Student
Free Press for High School Students
- Local
Oral Appalachian History -- How to Make it Come
Alive
- Novelists
and Poets in our Classrooms
- Using
Primary Historical Sources to Build Empathy in
Classrooms
- Diversity
-- Developing Gay/Straight Student Alliances
The
Institute for Democracy in Education, housed in the Ohio
University College of Education, is dedicated to helping
schools find ways that prepare their students to develop
democratic habits of heart and mind, so they can become true
participating democratic citizens in our communities. IDE
began in Athens in 1985 as a grassroots organization of
local teachers who wanted to have a greater voice in the
decisions about how to educate students in meaningful
ways.
PLEASE
NOTE: Jaylynne Hutchinson, Director of the IDE Main Office,
is available for interviews and can be reached at (740)
593-9827 or democracy@ohio.edu
for more information and a schedule of events.
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