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From: "Julie Matthews" <julie.matthews-AT-mailbox.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Call For Papers
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 00:42:44 +1000


Dear Colleagues,
Please circulate this Call for Papers among your professional networks.
Apologies for cross-posting.

Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education Conference

Brisbane, 17 - 19th August 2001
School of Education, The University of Queensland

This interdisciplinary conference aims to initiate debate and discussion
about the broad significance of postcolonial thinking for national and
international education practice and policy. It seeks to bring together
researchers, academics, postgraduate students and teacher educators for a
dialogue about how we might harness and use the insights of postcolonialism
for teaching and learning, for curriculum, and for research.

Themes
Educational canons: curricula, disciplines, knowledges, pedagogies
Multiculturalism, interculturalism, antiracism
Indigenous knowledges
Identities: race, ethnicity, sex, sexualities
Mobilities: diaspora, migrants, refugees, travel
Colonial histories and resistances
Crossovers: theoretical, cultural, political

Speakers and Panelists

Associate Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith - Director of the International
Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education, The University of
Auckland.

Professor Helen Tiffin - School of English, Media Studies and Art History,
The University of Queensland.

In addition, the following speakers been invited to chair the following
panels:

Hybrid Identities: Professor Allan Luke - Dean and Head of School of
Education, The University of Queensland.

Antiracism and Multiculturalism: Professor Michael Singh - Head of
Department of Language and International Studies, RMIT University.

Indigenous Intellectual Traditions: Michael Williams - Director of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, The University of Queensland.

Postcolonial Education Systems: Dr Anne Hickling-Hudson - Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow, School of Education, The University of Queensland.

Decolonising the Curriculum: Associate Professor Parlo Singh - Director of
the Centre for Language,

Literacy and Diversity, Queensland University of Technology.

For Full Details Visit :
http://www.uq.edu.au/education/news/postcol-conference-aug-2001/index.htm

Abstracts can be submitted to:
Annette Woods
School of Education
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
Phone: +617 3365 6428 or +61 7 3365 6550
Fax: +61 7 3365 7199
Email: a.woods-AT-mailbox.uq.edu.au

Other enquiries may be directed to:
Dr Julie Matthews or Dr Anne Hickling Hudson
Phone +61 7 3365 6496
Email: julie.matthews-AT-mailbox.uq.edu.au or anne.hudson-AT-mailbox.uq.edu.au



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