international conference is an intellectual and educational
This international conference is an intellectual and educational gathering that represents a quality opportunity to explore common themes in education and develop a research agenda which develops interdisciplinary discussion on themes ranging from foreign language instruction, the impact of globalization on learners’ and teachers’ identities, to implications of interculturalism on students’ learning, identities, and interculturalism. It aims at;
- Gathering new views and perspectives of interculturality and its underpinning for
educational, societal, and identity development/mapping.
- promoting and facilitating new multifaceted approaches to one of the core issues
of our time namely globalization and the forms of intercultural flows and growth that it
entails.
- This conference would contribute to raising awareness of how current
intercultural flows cut across the world of education, and its impact on societies and institutions and educational practices around the world.
- The conference presents those taking part in it with three unique dimensions of
experience, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating heightened intercultural
awareness and promoting international educational exchange.
The conference theme has 5 different axes
- Intercultural teaching and learning
- International education
- Identity and cultural studies
- Professional training
- Education and difference
This conference is very inclusive in its themes and encourages researchers to collaborate and engage in fruitful interdisciplinary academic discussions on the national and international level with researchers such as:
Prof. Michael Byram
Prof. Claire Kramsch
Dr. Sarah Hopkyns
Dr. Trevor Grimshaw