Adyan Foundation has launched a Call for Papers for its International Conference titled ‘Cross-Cultural Education’ to take place in Lebanon on the 2^nd and 3^rd June 2011.

The conference which is taking place in the framework of Adyan Foundation’s pilot program called Understanding program, aims to offer to the youth a way of experiencing difference, widening horizons and reaching mutual understanding, as well as to prepare them to live and interact in a global multicultural framework.

To join the conference, participants need to submit, before 15 February 2011, an abstract (300 words) of a paper on any of the following themes:

1. Education and cultural diversity: mutual challenges.

2. ICT and Cross-Cultural education: the globalization of academia?

3. Cross-Cultural Education and the transformation of teacher and learner roles.

4. Cross-Cultural Education for professionals (diplomats, businesspeople, development agents, journalism and media, public health, arts…)

5. Cross-Cultural Education on religions

6. Civil society, space of Cross Cultural Education

Participants will be asked to submit the full paper in English or Arabic before 16 May 2011.

The Understanding Program represents a successful model of fostering cross-cultural teaching into youth formal and non-formal education. It is supported by the Anna Lindh foundation and conducted in partnership with academic and civil society organizations from Arab and European countries: Tischner European University (Cracow, Poland), International Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Education (Rome, Italy), Institut catholique de la Méditerranée (Marseille, France), Notre Dame University (Zouk-Mosbeh, Lebanon), Ahram Canadian University (Cairo, Egypt) and Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research Center, (Amman, Jordan).

Cross-Cultural Education (CCE) denotes a learning experience that enhances the learning process by crossing different perspectives and perceptions about issues related to cultures and religions, while joining participants – teachers and students – from different cultural and religious backgrounds. The collaboration between institutions and individuals in the creation and the implementation of cross-cultural resources and teaching constitutes an alternative way of teaching about intercultural issues, empowering multipliers, and enhancing critical thinking as well as empathy among learners from different world views.

To apply for the Call for Papers:

http://www.understandingprogram.net/course/view.php?id=12

For more information on Understanding Program:

www.understandingprogram.net