Educational Responsibility in Times of Social Crisis
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Kiel University during the Kieler Woche
Thursday, June
11.00 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Venue: Leibnizstraße 1, Room 104
All conferences are open to the public. Guests are welcome!
There is a political maxim, variously attributed to Winston Churchill, Karl Marx, and current mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” More and more contemporary discourse is framed in terms of threats and dangers and our responsibility to meet them. In this
Opening & Introduction
11.00 a.m.
Timothy Ignaffo (Teachers College / Columbia University, NY) and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hoinkes (Kiel University)
Educational Responsibility in Times of Social Crisis
Panel 1
11.45 a.m.
Michael Schapira (Hofstra University, NY)
Student Protest: Critical Discourse as a Social Threat
Panel 2
1.30 p.m
Tine Junker (Oxford University)
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Exit from Babel? – A New Alphabet of Human Thought
2.15 p.m.
Holly Brewster (Washington College)
Why Democracy Needs Different, not Just More Mathematics Education
Panel 3
3.30 p.m.
Meike Hethey (Bremen University)
Dealing with Social Threat Scenarios in the Foreign Language Classroom of German Grammar Schools – A Focus on a Literary Approach
4.15 p.m.
Monica van der Haagen-Wulff (Köln University)
Discursive Constructions of Threat Scenarios in Migration Societies
Panel 4
5.30 p.m.
John Allegrante (Teachers College / Columbia University, NY)
The Role of Positive Affect in the Management of Chronic Disease: Implications for Education
Closure