[Commpsych] FW: Talking Culture: Building on the challenges and successes of culturally diverse schools - Tue 11 Sept 7-9pm Parkville

[Heather Gridley]

Apologies for any cross-postings...

You are invited to a Professional Development Workshop co-hosted by

the Australian Psychological Society College of Community Psychologists, Psychologists for Peace & Psychologists in Schools Interest  Groups



Talking Culture:

Building on the challenges and successes of culturally diverse schools



7.00-9.00 pm, Tuesday 11 September 2012

Treacy Conference Centre

126 The Avenue, Parkville



Presenters:

Professor Eleanor H. Wertheim

School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University

Ms Elizabeth Freeman & Ms Margot Trinder

Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne



Cultural diversity can create significant challenges in communities, including conflict, race and

culture-based discrimination and reduced social cohesion. Schools are one environment

in which both the benefits and challenges of cultural diversity are experienced, and dealt

with, on a daily basis. This session will focus on recent research in Victorian primary schools in economically disadvantaged areas exploring ways of developing intercultural understanding, and

encouraging socially just approaches to diversity.



The Enhancing Relationships in School Communities (ERIS) project, founded by Psychologists for Peace, is an initiative supporting schools to develop these processes and exploring schools’ experiences in these areas. Five standpoints on cultural diversity will be described including how these standpoints have been used to help schools to expand their views of approaching diversity beyond a ‘tourism’ approach to one that is truly transformative. Positive approaches to cultural diversity currently being applied in schools will also be discussed, based on parent, teacher and

student focus groups with culturally diverse schools.



The research is a collaboration of the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University with

support from Uniting Care Sunshine and Broadmeadows



$10 students/concession

$20 APS Community College or Psychologists for Peace/ Psychologists in Schools Interest Group members

$25 all others



For more information or to reserve your place please contact Colleen Turner

e. Colleen.Turner at ucsb.org.au

ph. 0419 596 795

or you can register online via the APS Events Calendar until Friday 7 September at

http://www.psychology.org.au/Events/EventView.aspx?ID=10678 Registration and payment

will also be accepted on the night, subject to availability of places.

Heather Gridley
Honorary Fellow
School of Social Sciences and Psychology
Victoria University
PO Box 14428
Melbourne VIC 8001
Australia

MOBILE: 0419 113 731
Email: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au<mailto:heather.gridley at vu.edu.au>

This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.curtin.edu.au/pipermail/commpsych/attachments/20120829/ebf6487b/attachment-0001.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: TalkingCultureflyersep2012PD.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 34304 bytes
Desc: TalkingCultureflyersep2012PD.doc
Url : http://lists.curtin.edu.au/pipermail/commpsych/attachments/20120829/ebf6487b/attachment-0001.doc 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: TalkingCultureflyersep2012PD.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 63822 bytes
Desc: TalkingCultureflyersep2012PD.pdf
Url : http://lists.curtin.edu.au/pipermail/commpsych/attachments/20120829/ebf6487b/attachment-0001.pdf