NPCA at the 2009 NCSS Annual Conference
 For those
of you who will be attending this year's National Council for the Social
Studies Annual Conference on November 13-15, I encourage you to stop by and
visit NPCA in booth 300 of the exhibit hall. As in years past, NPCA
will be anchoring the hall's International Alley, which consists of all
globally-focused exhibitors. Some of the features of this year's International
Alley include:
- A
comprehensive collection of valuable resources geared specifically towards
international education
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A
global trivia quiz to test your International Alley knowledge
-
Hourly
prize drawings (Friday and Saturday) for those who complete the quiz!
Additionally,
Deborah Hutton from Indiana
University and I will be
giving a presentation entitled "Including the World in Our Civic Mission Using
ICTs". This one-hour session will take place on Saturday, November 14th
at 11:45am in the World Congress Room #405, and will demonstrate how to use
communication technologies such as Skype and Facebook in the classroom within a
global context.
I'm looking
forward to seeing you at the conference!
Peace,
Anne Baker
Vice
President, NPCA
p.s. - There's still time to register for the 2009
NCSS Annual Conference! Click here for details.
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Ohio State University Online Grad Course for Teachers
ONLINE WINTER QUARTER 2010
EDU T&L
883d: Teaching World Cultures and Global Issues will be taught totally online - no coming to campus!
OVERVIEW This is a 3 credit hour graduate course that prepares teachers to use online and
other resources from Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and
Slavic and Eastern Europe to teach diverse cultures, world history and
literature, and global issues. A focus of the course is learning about other
cultures and the global status quo through the knowledge, voices, and experiences of diverse people around the world. It includes online cross-cultural
interaction with educators in other countries.
INSTRUCTOR
Merry M. Merryfield is a professor in social studies and global education at Ohio State. She has been teaching online courses since 1997. Dr. Merryfield is the
winner of 2009 James Becker Award for Global Understanding given by the
National Council for the Social Studies and the 2009 Global Scholar award given
by the International Assembly of NCSS.
For more
information see http://people.ehe.ohio-state.edu/mmerryfield/or email the instructor, Merry Merryfield at merryfield.1@osu.edu
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Resource for Teaching about Conflict through Music
Over the
past two years, in collaboration with others at the University
of Alberta, Dr. Michael Frishkopf has
been working with Liberian musicians living in Buduburam, a refugee camp near
the Ghanaian capital, Accra,
to produce a benefit CD representing music of camp residents.
Working in
concert with a camp NGO (Center for Youth Empowerment), he collected 16 tracks
composed, performed and recorded by camp residents, representing a wide variety
of West African popular music styles, and signed the artists for this
compilation CD, which also includes
extensive liner notes on the history of the conflict, the camp, the
music, and the musicians themselves.
Beyond its
great music, the CD is designed to be useful for teaching at the high school
and university levels, in a variety of fields: music of Africa,
ethnomusicology, African history and politics, forced migration studies,
development studies, etc.
The CD,
entitled Giving Voice to Hope: Music of Liberian Refugees, is now available via
their websites: tinyurl.com/ott3w3 and www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/uai/buducd.cfm.
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Call for Applications for HREA Distance Learning Courses
HREA is
issuing a call for applications for the following e-learning courses,
which will be offered in the first trimester of 2010 (February-April):
- Human Rights-Based Programming
- Human Rights Information and Documentation (in French)
- Human Rights Litigation
- Human Rights of Migrants, Migrant Workers and Their Families
- Human Rights Monitoring (in French)
- International Tribunals, World Courts and Human Rights
- Introduction to Human Rights Education
- Monitoring Children's Rights (in French)
- National Human Rights Institutions
- The UN Human Rights Council
Please
note that the registration deadline for these courses is Tuesday, 1
December 2009. Applications can be submitted online. For further information
about each course please click on the course link above.
For more information, visit www.hrea.org/courses.
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GYC Human Rights Delegation to Bosnia - Summer 2010
Posted by request:
Global
Youth Connect Human Rights Delegation to Bosnia -- June 23 - July 13,
2010
Global
Youth Connect, an international human rights organization, is pleased to
announce that we are currently accepting applications from young
leaders (ages 18-30) for our Summer 2010 international
human rights delegation to Bosnia.
GYC's human rights delegations are a unique, first-hand opportunity to cross
cultural boundaries and learn about the daily reality of human rights as
experienced in a complex and increasingly globalized world. Each
delegation weaves together three core sets of activities: a human rights
training workshop with local youth activists, site visits to local
organizations, and hands-on fieldwork projects. For more information, please
contact Miki Jacevic, Bosnia program director at miki@globalyouthconnect.org with
any questions.
Application
Deadline: January
10, 2010 with rolling admissions until December 20 for up to half
of the delegation.
How
to Apply: Visit www.globalyouthconnect.org/participate
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