UNDERSTANDING EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY AROUND THE WORLD

What does education look like in other countries? What are the challenges for teachers around the world? What do you know about the countries of international and diasporic students sitting in US classrooms? Hear from the international graduate students in the College of Education about the educational systems in their home countries in this speaker series.

Friday, November 9th from noon to 1 pm in 210A

PIZZA WILL BE PROVIDED.

CHILE: the consequences of privatization and the student undergraduate educational movement that has impacted the world

Mauricio Pino Yancovic, is a Ph.D Student in the EPOL- Global Studies in Education Division. MA in Ethnopsychology, was a professor of the Catholic University of Valparaíso in Chile, where he has worked in teacher professional development programs and researched teachers transforming identity in the context of the new Chilean teacher evaluation and incentives system.

Upcoming Presentations:

November 30 – CHINA: the social diversity of the country and the complexity of its educational system with the fast economic development

(12-1pm in 210A ED)

SPRING 2013 Presentations

February 1 – South Africa

February 8 – South Korea

February 15 – Kenya

March 1 – Indonesia

April 15 – Taiwan

April 26 – Morocco

(all Spring presentation will be at noon in Room 22 ED)

This presentation series is coordinated by Mauricio Pino Yancovic (mypino2@illinois.edu) and  Xiuying Cai (xcai7@illinois.edu ), international graduate students from EPOL – Global Studies in Education, along with Dr. Nicole Lamers (lamers@illinois.edu ), EPOL.