Korea TESOL is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Daegu-Gyeongbuk March Workshop
Time: Mar 27, 2021 15:00 Seoul
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Meeting ID: 937 9465 3956
Passcode: 728393
Kick start the semester by joining us on March 27th for the first Daegu-Gyeongbuk workshop of 2021! We are pleased to welcome back Kevin Kester, who will be holding a workshop titled "Teaching Strategies for Working with Students Affected by Conflict: Lessons Learned from University Educators in Afghanistan and Somaliland". Full details for the workshop can be found below. We hope you will join us for this online (and COVID safe!) workshop, Zoom details to be announced.
Workshop details:
Higher education has become an important agenda in the international education and global development communities as they strive toward the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. A major aspect of this agenda is the conceptualization of education as a tool not just for development but for peacebuilding more broadly. Yet, there are few studies examining how university educators might be equipped as frontline peace workers, especially those educators working with students in and from areas affected by conflict. This study then explores: How might conflict affect teaching in higher education, especially in and with students from conflict-affected contexts? In what ways does higher education pedagogy serve to ameliorate or exacerbate conflict? And, how could the practices of academics working with students in conflict-affected contexts inform and enhance global approaches to higher education, such as in Korea? Data for the study was collected through interviews with university educators working in two conflict-affected contexts, Afghanistan and Somaliland, and analyzed through the lens of De Sousa Santos’s ‘post-abyssal thinking’. Findings culminate in the development of a conflict-sensitive toolkit for university educators in Korea (and elsewhere) who teach heterogenous student populations, including those students coming from conflict-affected contexts.
