Theme: Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding, Human Rights and a Culture of Peace

Organisers:Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, in cooperation with UNESCO.

Proposal submission deadline: September 30, 2002

The conference website is listed below.

You are cordially invited to come to share and discuss your ideas about,problems with and expertise in the issues of equity, social justice, conflict resolution and democracy at the international conference. We welcome you as a teacher, developer or researcher involved in intercultural education or active in any other field and willing to examine and develop your work from the perspective of promoting intercultural understanding.

The Organising Committee invites papers and performances that address educational and pedagogical issues in academic and vocational higher education from the perspective of intercultural education. Within this broad framework, the papers may focus on a variety of structures and methods: regional, national or institutional policies, study and trainingprogrammes, courses and curricula, teaching-learning processes, classroom strategies and activities, in-service education and faculty/staff development, or scientific research.