GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES SPEAKERS SERIES:
Understanding educational diversity around the world
What does education look like in other countries? What do you know about the countries of international and diasporic students sitting in US classrooms? Hear from international graduate students about the educational systems in their home countries.
Friday, February 14th from noon to 1 pm
in 210A Education Building
PIZZA WILL BE PROVIDED
SERBIA:
Education System of Serbia: K-12 & Higher Education
Vesna Tosic is a final year PhD student in the department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are improving adoptive T cell therapy for cancer and using oncolytic viruses for cancer therapy, as well as outreach to scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
Jelena Pokimica is a first year PhD student in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership – Human Resource Development. Her research interests are leadership and team development, organization development and change, emotional intelligence, applied quantitative research, and international programs.
SPRING 2014
January 31 — China, 1080 FLB
February 14 — Serbia, 210a ED
February 21 — South Korea, 210a ED
February 28 – Tanzania, 333 ED
March 7 – Chile, 242 ED
March 14 — Sri Lanka, 242 ED
April 4 — Malaysia, 242 ED
April 11 — Philippines, 242 ED
April 18 — Indonesia, 242 ED
April 25 — Senegal, 333 ED
May 2 — Wrap-Up and Celebration, 242 ED
(All presentations will begin at noon.)
This speaker series is co-sponsored by the College of Education (Office of International Programs, Global Studies in Education and Community for Global Studies in Education) and by the College of LAS (Student Academic Affairs Office).
For questions, please contact: Mauricio Pino Yancovic (mypino2@illinois.edu), Xiuying Cai (xcai7@illinois.edu ), or Nicole Lamers (lamers@illinois.edu ).
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