DATE: July 05, 2007
CONTACT:
Michalann G. Evatt, (864) 656-3482
mevtt@clemson.edu
WRITER:
Ross Norton, (864) 656-4810
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Service-learning conference draws from six continents
CLEMSON — Clemson’s International Center for Service-Learning in Teacher Education (ICSLTE) hosted its first international conference on service-learning in teacher education in Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with the Thomas Green Clemson University Brussels Center.
The conference, “Conversations That Matter,” featured Jean-Francois Rischard, author of High Noon: Twenty Global Problems and Twenty Years to Solve Them. The conference showcased presentations to examine service-learning and civic engagement projects around the world. Special-interest groups offered participants ways to continue their involvement in service-learning in teacher education globally through research, technological connections, citizenship education and faculty and student exchanges.
Participants in the conference represent six continents.
“This conference is a dream come true for the International Center for Service-Learning in Teacher Education and its first major initiative that meets our global mission – fostering the sharing of experience, practice and research of service-learning in teacher education with colleagues throughout the world,” said Clemson’s Marty Duckenfield, who co-chaired the conference with Don Hill of Youth Service California.
The ICSLTE is housed in Clemson University’s Eugene T. Moore School of Education. The vision of the ICSLTE is three-fold: to build the moral and civic dispositions of educators, to prepare educators to use service-learning as a teaching instrument and to promote service-learning to preK-12 schools.
Clemson University’s Nancy Cassity Dunlap, associate director of the Eugene T. Moore School of Education; Duckenfield, public information director for National Dropout Prevention Center; and Brenda Thames, former associate dean of research for the College of Health, Education, and Human Development; serve on the ICSLTE board of directors.
Other conference participants from Clemson included Jim Cross, vice provost for international affairs; and Larry Allen, dean of the College of Health, Education and Human Development.
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