GSE Early Summer Symposium
May 23, 2014 9am-5pm
Room 22, Education Building
Symposium Committee: Prof. Cameron McCarthy and Xiuying “Sophy” Cai
9:00-9:45am: Welcoming and Opening Speech
Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life
Author: Dr. Cameron McCarthy: Global Studies in Education and Institute of Communication Research
9:50-11:10am: Rearticulating Territory, Citizenship and Rights in the New Millennium
Porous Categories: Immigration Documentation and the Performativity of Citizenship
Author: Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, Global Studies in Education
Problematizing Citizenship in Theory and Practice: Overlaps and Contradictions of Citizenship Strategies in Educational Reform in the Philippines
Author: Elizer Jay de los Royal: Global Studies in Education
“Social” Democratic Deficit?: Interrogating the Changes in Norwegian Education in the PISA Era
Author: Paul Myers: Social and Cultural Studies in Education
Rapping for a Change: The Poetics and Performance of Women’s Rights in Arab Hip Hop Culture
Author: Angela Williams: Global Studies in Education
Chair & Discussant: Mor Gueye: Curriculum and Instruction
11:15-12:15pm: Imagining the Local and the Global: Towards Inclusive Global Community
Towards a Digitally Inclusive Community Model: A Case Study of Parents and Children in a High Poverty Elementary School
Author: Samaa Haniya: Global Studies in Education
Riding the Bus in Orchard Downs: A Case of Grounded Globalization
Author: Lisa Chason: Global Studies in Education
The global perspective of an international curriculum framework
Author: Leonardus Sudibyo: Curriculum and Instruction
Chair & Discussant: Jaehee Park: Curriculum and Instruction
12:15-13:15pm: Lunch Discussion with Invited Speaker: Chaitut Roungchai (GSE 2014 PhD Graduate)
Twists and Turns in the Process of Dissertating: a Case in Working with Ethnography and Refugee Community
1:25-2:00pm: (Re)Design of the Golden Triangle: Policy Interpretations of New Campuses in Singapore and Finland
Author: Dr. Allison Witt: Global Studies in Education and Office of International Programs
2:10-3:10pm: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in the 21st Century
Unequal “Global Connection:” Forging Critical Cosmopolitan Relationships through Dialectics of Space and Time
Author: Xiuying “Sophy” Cai: Global Studies in Education
Trying a Method: Freire’s Work as Autobiographical Text
Author: Daniel Johnson Mardones: Curriculum and Instruction
Theories of Meaning and English Language Education
Authors: Natalie Mullen & Lisa Chason: Global Studies in Education
Chair & Discussant: Terry Vaughan III: Philosophy of Education
3:20-4:20pm: Democratizing International Education in Globalizing Universities
International Graduate Student Social Adaptations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Authors: Jason M. Bailey; Jasmine D. Collins, and Jelena Pokimica: Human Resource Development
Universities in a Global Market: Exploring Entrepreneurialism and University-Industry Linkages
Author: Georganne Sadomytschenko: Global Studies in Education
Democratizing International Education: Increasing African American Representation in U.S. Study Abroad Programs
Author: Dinah Armstead: Global Studies in Education
Chair & Discussant: Xiaokang “Violet” Tang: Global Studies in Education
4:25-5:00pm 2014-15 Graduate College Funded Focal Point Opening Speech
Diversity and Internationalization of Higher Education: Possibilities for Collision and Collaboration
Author: Dr. Nicole Lamers, Office of Academic and Student Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences