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Updates on IASCE’s Turin Conference: 19-22 Jan 2008

The international conference, “Cooperative Learning in Multi-Cultural Societies,” 19-22 January, 2008, which IASCE is jointly organizing, begins with an outstanding line-up of pre-conference workshops on 19-20 January. These workshops cover a wide range of issues on the conference theme, with a focus on practical implementation in the multicultural classroom, and will be conducted by highly skilled international experts. You'll find the registration form on the conference web site: http://iaie.org/torino under the "pre-conference workshops" link.

Workshop facilitators	Title of workshop
1. Pasi Sahlberg	Training Trainers for Cooperative Learning
2. Kathryn Markovchick and colleagues	Celebratory Learning to Differentiate for all Students
3. Lynda Baloche and Yael Sharan	Enhancing Creativity in Cooperative Contexts
4. Yael Sharan	How is Cooperative Learning Affected by Cultural Differences in Teaching and Learning?
5. Robyn Gillies	Cooperative Learning: Integrating Theory and Practice
6. Linda Lee	Assessing School Improvement Through a Social Justice Lens
7. Paul Gorski	Beyond Celebrating Diversity: Intercultural Education for Human Rights and Social Justice
8. Francesca Gobbo	Complex Instruction and Intercultural Education
9. Sabrina Ortega	Cooperative Learning and Second Language Teaching
10. Gianni Di Pietro	Learning to Understand the Differences Between Civilizations
11. Marco Falasca	C. L. and Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Science Education
12. Maria Grazia Bergamo	Cooperative Learning: Effective Cooperation Between Teachers and Parents
13. Claudio Berretta	C. L. and Social Skills Education with Special Needs Students
14. Fabrizia Monfrino	C.L. in the Nursery School Through the Use of Games
15. Yael Sharan and Annavaleria Guazzeria	Group Investigation in the Intercultural Classroom
16. Tanenbaum Center	Cooperative Learning and Religious Pluralism

For the main conference, presenters will reflect global efforts to tackle the challenges of cooperative learning in diverse classrooms. Proposals have already been submitted by educational researchers from the Philippines, Japan, Spain, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Hong Kong, Turkey, So. Africa, the United States; Australia and New Zealand, Belgium; Italy, Nigeria, Kenya, Taiwan, Latvia, India, and Iran. Educators from Armenia, Finland, and Lithuania will report on long term teacher training projects. Close to the conference date the program will be posted on the conference site: http://iaie.org/torino. It looks as if this conference will be an opportunity for meaningful exchanges among people from all over the world with varying experiences and interests.

Last but not least, the deadline for proposals has been extended to 15 October: http://iaie.org/torino/1_call.html