Programme
Programme for the congress (pdf)
english
espanol
francais
dansk
Please note that this is a draft version of the programme which may be subject to changes.
Programme introduction
There are both positive and negative aspects to globalisation. We hear a lot about the negative ones. However, globalisation presents opportunities for us as social educators to strengthen our profession and fight social inequality and social exclusion across national boundaries.
At AIEJI’s World Congress 2009 we will take up three essential challenges:
How can social educators around the globe create networks that strengthen the struggle for a decent life for everyone?
How do we develop our profession in such a way that our work does not become part of the new forms of power but helps create a decent life for everyone?
How do social educators make themselves familiar with and learn to master the global media to ensure focus on social exclusion – wherever it takes place? And how can we use the new media in the struggle against social exclusion?
The ambition is to come up with answers to these questions in such a way that they can be used in our daily work as social educators.
Programme structure
The congress programme will consist of keynote speeches, paper sessions and workshops with presentations and examples of how social educators address the challenges of globalisation.
The programme will include focus on “the great in the small” in social educational practice. This will take place through presentations and workshops by social educators who have taken part in local projects that reach beyond themselves – projects that have a global message.
The programme will also include field visits and social events.
At the conference you will have the opportunity to choose between various workshops, where participants across national boarders will discuss social educational work. The workshop themes will include:
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Children and young people with special needs
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Adults with physical or mental impairments
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Homeless and socially excluded
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Arts and creativity as an aim and method in our work as social educators
Field visits will give you inspiration from state of the art projects and institutions in Denmark.
Languages
The main working language at the congress will be English. Headsets will be available to allow you to listen to simultaneous interpretation into French, Spanish and Danish of the plenary sessions.