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Local residents and educators interested in alternative methods of teaching and new approaches to community organization and engagement are invited to attend a three-day conference to be held April 11-13 at Pitzer and Bon View School in Ontario.
Free and open to the public, "Beyond the Rhetoric: Educational Alternatives and Community" will be held Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12, at Pitzer and Saturday, April 13, at Bon View School in Ontario.
The conference will bring together leading educators, scholars, civic leaders, students and community residents to explore contemporary ideas in education and community-organizing practices.
"This conference places the Claremont educational community in the forefront of the academic dialogue on community studies," says Ann Weaver-Hart, provost and vice president for academic affairs at CGU, who will be giving an opening address at the conference. "It is particularly timely, too, in that these important discussions are taking place while CGU is launching its first endowed chair in transdisciplinary studies and entering the national dialogue on the need to focus our attention less on the disciplines that may divide our inquiry and more on the new frameworks for thinking about critical questions in our society that bring us together."
Session topics will include "Building Communities from the Inside Out," "Environmental Education in Schools and Communities," "Community-Based Spanish: The Relevance of the Community in Learning," "The Heart and the Brain in the Teaching/Learning Process," "Popular Culture," "Homeschooling," "Charter Schools," "Jumpstart," "Improving Underachieving Schools," "Involving Families in Schools," "Conserving Oral Traditions" and "Combating Homophobia/Heterosexism in the Schools."
The keynote address, on community organizing in urban school reform, will be presented by Ernesto Cortés, who is nationally known for his work in community mobilizing and leadership training for more than 40 grass-roots organizations.
The conference is sponsored jointly by Pitzer in Ontario, an external-studies program that immerses undergraduates in the Ontario community to learn first-hand about social and urban issues, and Claremont Graduate University's School of Educational Studies.
Additional information and a conference brochure are available by calling Pitzer College's Center for Intercultural and Language Education at (909) 621-8104 or by visiting the conference website at www.pitzer.edu/POG/Conference.
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