Granada, 16th and 17th March 2006
Presentation
Organized by the TEMCU “Training Teachers for the Multicultural Classroom at University” Project, funded by Action 6.1 of the Socrates Programme of the European Commission.
Partners: University of Limerick (Ireland); John Moores University (Liverpool, UK); University of Cyprus; University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); Universidad de Granada (Spain)
The international TEMCU team has been working since 2003 on a project designed to fulfil two main objectives: to understand in more depth what actually happens when exchange students from other countries join classrooms throughout Europe, and to help teachers to manage this challenging situation for the greater benefit of all those involved. In order to present the results of the project and to promote debate on the many different issues raised by the Erasmus teaching and learning experience, the partners in the project are organizing a two-day conference in the southern Spanish city of Granada in the month of March 2006.
The conference is for university teaching staff receiving exchange students or organizing mobility programmes, administrators running mobility programmes, and researchers in higher education, international education, multicultural education and multicultural communication, interested in this very specific form of temporary migration and intercultural contact. Alongside plenary sessions with keynote addresses and panels with leading scholars in the field, the conference intends to combine innovative interactive participation in the form of workshops with more traditional paper sessions. Proposals for scholarly papers are invited from those working in the field of student mobility and multicultural teaching and learning environments from any disciplinary approach.
