Intersecting Cultures: Implications for Leading Learning

Teaching and learning are relational activities that do not occur in a cultural vacuum; rather, both involve complex interactions and intersections of cultural backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, values, and norms.

Learners, caregivers and educators are all multi-faceted cultural beings. Ways of learning and understanding are culturally influenced. The development of knowledge has been, and continues to be, a cross-cultural collaboration.

How might school leaders consider these cultural complexities to facilitate learning that recognizes and prepares learners for a transcultural world?

In this interactive keynote, Dr Hassim will unpack frameworks that schools can use to help enhance learning in and for transcultural contexts.

Internationalism ≠ Cosmopolitanism

As international schools continue to develop and evolve their understandings of what it means to be ‘international’, a host of terms and concepts have been used to drive whole-school change and improvement. Examples of these terms and concepts include multiculturalism, interculturalism, internationalism, transnationalism, transculturalism, and global citizenship/cosmopolitanism. However, these terms and concepts, though co-existing, are not interchangeable and are conceptually distinct.

Which one should schools use as a launching pad?

In this diagnostic, solutions-focused workshop, participants will analyze key terms and concepts to help decide what it means for their respective schools to be ‘international’ and/or which framework to use to drive change and improvement towards becoming ‘international’.

Please bring your laptop/tablet to this workshop.

Target Audience: Leadership, including teacher leaders (all levels)

Continuum Levels: 1, 2, 3

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Deep and Transformative Intercultural Learning: Implications for Teaching and Assessment

Please bring your laptop/tablet to this workshop.

Target Audience: Leadership, including teacher leaders (all levels)

Continuum Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5

NESA's Learning Continuum:

Learn more about how NESA plans Professional Learning

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Keynote, Friday, Oct. 19

• Intersecting Cultures: Implications for Leading Learning

3-hour Workshop: Fri, Oct. 19

• Internationalism ≠ Cosmopolitanism

3-hour Workshop: Sat, Oct. 20

• Deep and Transformative Intercultural Learning: Implications for Teaching and Assessment