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<p align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana-Bold"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Verdana-Bold">You are invited to a Professional Development Workshop co-hosted by
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<p align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana-Bold"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Verdana-Bold">the Australian Psychological Society College of Community Psychologists, Psychologists for Peace
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<p align="center"><font color="#ff0000" size="4"><strong>Talking Culture: </strong>
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<p align="center"></font></font><i><font size="5" face="Verdana-BoldItalic"><font size="5" face="Verdana-BoldItalic"><font color="#ff0000" size="4"><strong>Building on the challenges and successes of culturally diverse schools</strong></font></font></font></i></p>
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<p align="center">7.00-9.00 pm, Tuesday 11 September 2012</p>
<p align="center">Treacy Conference Centre</p>
<p align="center">126 The Avenue, Parkville</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Presenters:</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Professor Eleanor H. Wertheim</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Ms Elizabeth Freeman & Ms Margot Trinder</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne</strong></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Cultural diversity can create significant challenges in communities, including conflict, race and</p>
<p align="left">culture-based discrimination and reduced social cohesion. Schools are one environment</p>
<p align="left">in which both the benefits and challenges of cultural diversity are experienced, and dealt</p>
<p align="left">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</p>
<p align="left">encouraging socially just approaches to diversity. </p>
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<p align="left">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</p>
<p align="left">student focus groups with culturally diverse schools.</p>
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<p align="left">The research is a collaboration of the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University with</p>
<p align="left">support from Uniting Care Sunshine and Broadmeadows</p>
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<p align="left"><font size="2">$10 students/concession</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2">$20 APS Community College or Psychologists for Peace/ Psychologists in
</font><font size="2">Schools Interest Group members</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2">$25 all others</font></p>
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<p align="left">For more information or to reserve your place </b></font></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><font size="2" face="Verdana">please contact Colleen Turner</p>
<p align="left">e. </font></font><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">Colleen.Turner@ucsb.org.au</p>
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<p align="left">ph. 0419 596 795</p>
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<p align="left">or </i></font></font><font size="2" face="Verdana-Bold"><font size="2" face="Verdana-Bold">you can register online via the APS Events Calendar until Friday 7 September at</p>
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<p align="left">http://www.psychology.org.au/Events/EventView.aspx?ID=10678 </font>
</font></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Registration and payment</p>
<p>will also be accepted on the night, subject to availability of places.</p>
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School of Social Sciences and Psychology </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
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