Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Affirming Diversity for Social and Educational Justice
15-17 JULY 2015 | THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | HONG KONG SAR, CHINA | ONDIVERSITY.COM Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
“Affirming Diversity for Social and Educational Justice”
The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China 15-17 July 2015
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Dear Delegate,
Welcome to the Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations at The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, China. The conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalized society, while bringing together scholarly, government, and practice-based participants. The conference explores the full range of what diversity means and explores modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in community. Moving away from simple affirmations that ‘diversity is good,’ the conference supports a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of diversity on differently situated communities.
In addition to organizing the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference at www.OnDiversity.com/Publications/Journal, and we encourage all conference participants to submit an article based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. We also publish books at www.OnDiversity.com/ Publications/Books in both print and electronic formats. We invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal that address an identified theme.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who has contributed and prepared for this conference. We would especially like to thank The Faculty of Education for hosting the 2015 Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Conference as part of their Pearl Jubilee celebrations, The University of Hong Kong for providing the ideal setting, and the Local Organizing Committee chaired by Susan Bridges and including: Sarah Aiston, Kit Chan, Liz Jackson, Joseph Lam, Ida A.C. Mok, and Patcy Yeung who helped organize this year’s conference. Additionally, a special thanks goes to Rachel Li, Fanny Lau, and Natalie Tsui, of The Faculty of Education whose onsite coordination helped to make the conference a success. And more personally, I want to thank our Common Ground colleagues who have put so much work into this conference–Tamsyn Gilbert, Monica Hillison, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish.
We wish you all the best for this conference, and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world. We hope you will be able to join us at next year’s conference, 27-29 July 2016 at the University of Granada in Granada, Spain.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Director, Common Ground Publishing | About Common Ground
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Exploring the forms and futures of human difference and diversity Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Knowledge Community
The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community is brought together by a shared interest in diversity in one or another of its manifestations, in organizations, communities, and nations. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationship, peer reviewed journal and book imprint—exploring the affordances of the new digital media.
Conference The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Publishing The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Diversity Collection provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book imprint, Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposals and manuscript submissions are welcome.
Community The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Join the conversations on Facebook and Twitter. Or explore our new social media platform, Scholar. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Themes
Individuals ascribe Theme 1: Identity and Belonging meanings to their • Classified as exclusionary, either on a person to person affective basis, or through systemic or personae, or meanings are ascribed to them structural exclusion—hence classifications such as racism, sexism by others and through • Inclusive remedies are prescribed to the injustices of differences, including equity, access, processes of social multiculturalism, tolerance, and recognition categorization • Dimensions of individual differences (ethnicity, gender, race, socio-economic, indigenous, religion, sexual orientation, disability) • Cultural history, oral history, and cultural ‘renaissance’ • Dynamics of diversity (inclusion, exclusion, assimilation, integration, pluralism) • Social justice, injustice, and redress • Media representations of identities or groups • Intercultural relations • Experiences with “the other” (tourism, travel, exchanges, aid missions) • Exclusionary ‘isms’: racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, nationalism, capitalism • The ‘-isms’ with agendas: feminism, anti-racism, multiculturalism, socialism
The varied backgrounds Theme 2: Education and Learning in a World of Differences and attributes of learners • Learner differences cross dimensions that are material (social class, geographical locale, and have an enormous impact on their family), corporeal (age, race, sex and sexuality, and physical and mental capacities) and symbolic engagement with learning (culture or ethnicity, language, gender, affinity, and persona) and their educational and • Strategies for negotiating these differences, from the microdynamics of pedagogy, to the agendas social outcomes of curriculum, the nuances of assessment, the organizational structures of the educational institution and its relations with the communities it services • Dimensions of individual differences in learning • Inclusive education • Educational policies and practices related to diversity • Curricular and instructional frameworks for addressing diversity • Educating teachers, administrators, community members in diversity • The role of ethics in education • Language diversity and learning new languages • Service or experiential learning and intercultural understanding • Multicultural, cross-cultural, international, and global education Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Themes
‘Managing diversity’ has Theme 3: Organizational Diversity emerged as a distinct • Organizational diversity in private, public, and community organizations, including workplace agenda in the business and economics of culture, recruitment and promotion, human resource development, team work and relationships diversity with diverse clienteles • Explorations of the impact of government and regulatory policies on the workplace • Local and global diversity, as well as the full range of issues of diversity arising in workplaces, from gender, to sexual orientation, to culture and language, to disability • Management: employment policies and practices • Beyond legislative and regulatory compliance: disabilities, workplace harassment, discrimination • Design issues related to access and accommodation of diverse needs • Mediation: cultural assumptions and practical outcomes • Markets and diversity: niche markets, customization and service values • Leveling the playing field: global economics, fair trade, outsourcing, and equal opportunity
Examining the processes Theme 4: Community Diversity and Governance of governance and • Consequences of global human movement (e.g., immigrants, refugees) on local communities democracy in diverse • The development in response of multicultural policies and practices communities • Community self-governance and community capacity development • Democracy and diversity: questions of representation and voice • Defining human necessities and insuring access: housing, medicine, food, water • Human rights, civil rights • ‘Mainstreaming’ or ‘integration’ versus services based on unique cultural identities • The politics of community leadership: challenges for local government • The globalization of human rights and local sovereignty Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations 2015 Special Focus
Affirming Diversity for Social and Educational Justice
Modern diasporic movements of populations, both across and within countries, impact social diversity at multiple levels of scale. Responses to social change due to difference, whether related to culture, language, gender, race/ethnicity, class, ability, or sexual orientation can be conservative and at times detrimentally reactionary in nature. This conference focus, whilst acknowledging the challenges of diversity to local communities, seeks to disrupt discourses and narratives that can be seen to enable or accept inequity, and examine the potential benefits of diversity to all members of society. This conference focus thus explores the various ways global issues impact upon local contexts. Questions addressed will include:
• How can changes to a country’s demographic profile as a result of global population movements be viewed as adding value to a society’s social and cultural resources? • How can the inclusion of diverse learners enhance the learning of all across educational contexts? • How can inclusive leadership for marginalized groups enhance organizational capacity-building? Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Scope and Concerns
Difference and Identity In an earlier modernity, organizations, communities, and nations tried to ignore differences. When they could not be ignored, they were pushed over to the other side of a geographical border, or an institutional boundary, or the normative divide of ‘deviance’. Difference was addressed via categorization and separation. In slightly more open moments stringent rules of conditional entry were imposed, such as assimilation or integration. In both instances, however, singular similarity was posited as the norm for successful community.
Here is a typical catalog of dimensions of difference: material conditions (social class, locale, family); corporeal attributes (age, race, sex, sexual orientation, and physical and mental abilities); and symbolic differences (affinity and persona, culture, language, and gendre—this concept capturing an amalgam of gender and sexual identification). These were the categories that marked out lines of separation or exclusion in the past.
Increasingly today, these categories have become the focus of agendas of recognition-in-difference or programs that redress historic and persisting injustice. They present themselves in our late modernity as insistent demographic realities. These differences have become living and normative realities, buttressed by an expanded conception of human rights.
However, as soon as we begin to negotiate differences in good faith, we find ourselves confounded by these very categories. We discover that the gross demographic groupings used in the first instance to acknowledge differences are too simple for our needs. We find that we are instead dealing with an inexhaustible range of intersectional possibilities—where gender and race and class meet, for instance. We face real-world specificities which artificially align people who would formally seem to fit within the ostensible categorical norm.
In fact, if you take on any one of the categories, you will find that the variation within that group is greater than the average variation between groups. There are no straightforward norms. Rather, you find yourself in the presence of differences which can only be grasped at a level that defies categorization: different life narratives (experiences, places of belonging, networks), different personae (attachments, orientations, interests, stances, values, worldviews, dispositions, sensibilities); and different styles (aesthetic, epistemological, learning, discursive, interpersonal).
The gross demographics might tell of larger historical forces, groupings and movements. But they don’t tell enough to provide a sufficiently subtle heuristic or guide for our everyday interactions. The gross demographic categories also find themselves in lists which, in times so sensitive to difference, all-too-often come to sound like a glib litany.
So what do we do to rise above the glibness and the sometimes justified accusations of platitudinous ‘political correctness’? For history’s sake, we need to address the gross demographics, but also today, a lot more.
Diversity as a Program of Action Difference is the stuff of identities, human realities to be found in the social world. Diversity is a program of action. It is the stuff of normative agendas, where difference becomes the basis of social projects aimed at inclusion. This is where difference, the insistent reality, becomes diversity the agent of change. Many an historical and contemporary response to difference is hardly worthy of the name ‘diversity’—racism, discrimination and systematic inequity. As a normative agenda and social program, diversity stands in contradistinction to systems of exclusion, separation or assimilation. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Scope and Concerns
Divergence and Agency And another distinction. ‘Difference’ is a found social object. ‘Diversity’ is the mode of recognition of that object. ‘Divergence’ describes a dynamic peculiar to some social contexts, such as the societies of ‘first peoples’ and the just-now unfolding phase of modernity. These are places where there is an endogenous, systematic, active, and continuous tendency for individual social agents and groups to differentiate themselves. This is in direct contrast to the earlier modern societies where homogenization was the norm, or at best tokenistic recognition of differences.
We live today in a time affording greater scope for agency, and this allows us to make ourselves more different. And because we can, we do. Take for instance the rainbow of gender identifications and expressions of sexuality in the newly plastic body; or the shades of ethnic identity and the juxtapositions of identity which challenge our inherited conceptions of neighborhood; or the locale that highlights its peculiarities to tourists; or the panoply of identities supported by the new, participatory media; or the bewildering range of products anticipating any number of consumer identities and product reconfigurations by consumers themselves.
Globalization and Diversity The normative agenda of diversity has become all the more pressing as we enter a moment we might call ‘total globalization’. This is the moment when the global becomes a primary domain of action and representation of commerce, governance, and personality. There have been other moments of globalization, to be sure. First, there was a moment when gathering and hunting societies came to live across and speak about most of the earth’s habitable lands. Then came a moment of farming, writing, and the formation of societies on four continents so unequal that their rulers could afford to order buildings substantial enough to leave the ruins of ‘civilization’. Later, there was modern imperialism, industrialism, and nationalism. Then now, is this a new moment?
If there is a new moment, it is one on which there is no place that cannot be reached in person by modern transport, in conversation through modern communications, in representation through modern media, or by products and services through modern markets. And because they can be reached, almost invariably they are reached. The incipient fact of total globalization brings with it a normative agenda for diversity: the agenda of globalism.
Today’s agendas of difference, diversity, divergence, and globalization play themselves through the heartlands of the emerging world order—the heartlands of commerce, governance, and personality. Here we find paradoxes at play across the world of differences: the paradox of convergence which fosters divergence and the paradox of universalization which accentuates difference.
Economics of Diversity In the domain of production, distribution, and exchange, diverse labor forces work in organizations that increasingly defy national borders and strive to take their capital and commodities to the ends of the earth. Far from the founding logic of industrialism (mass production, mass markets, the lowest common denominator logic of deskilled workforces, and one- size-fits-all view of consumers), the new commerce talks of mass customization, complementarities amongst the persons on diverse teams, catering to niche markets, and staying close to customers in all their variability.
We could go so far as to claim that a new systems logic might be emerging in this, a kind of ‘productive diversity’. To make such a claim would be to go way beyond, or even dispense with, regimes of affirmative action and demographically defined Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Scope and Concerns
regulatory compliance. It would also be to set an equity agenda for productive life, in which even minimalist approaches to diversity and incremental approaches to inequality are, as a general rule, an improvement on unreflective discrimination.
Governing Diversity In the realm of civic life, local and national communities daily negotiate the differences resulting from immigration, refugee movement, settlement, and indigenous claims to prior ownership and sovereignty. At the same time, communities increasingly recognize and negotiate a plethora of other intersecting and sometimes contrary differences.
Going beyond multiculturalism at the local and national level, it may be possible in this moment to create a kind of ‘civic pluralism’, a new way of living in community based on multiple layers of sovereignty and multiple citizenship. Not only does this transcend the old civic—the nation-state of more or less interchangeable identical individuals and its legitimating rhetoric of nationalism. It also promises to move beyond trivializing and marginalizing forms of multiculturalism, and to address afresh the nature and forms of ‘human rights’.
Diverse Personalities Difference sits deep in our consciousness, our epistemologies, our subjectivities, and our means of production of meaning. No longer can we assume there to be a universal personality (normal or deviant but remediable), because the universal today is a humanity of personalities emphatically in the plural (the range of our differences), and also in the multiple (the layered complexity of the differences within us—for every individual the unique intersection of attributes, the nature and sources of which may often be ascribed to groups and socialization). This bit of gender, that bit of race, the other bit of socio economic group—this is the stuff of our personalities in the plural and the multiple. Together, these manifest themselves as the complexity of our dispositions, our sensibilities, our identities. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Community Membership
About The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching.
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Committed to being a definitive resource exploring the forms and futures of human difference and diversity Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Collection of Journals
About The Diversity Collection creates a space of discussion for anyone with an interest in, and concern for, mediating cultural difference and diversity. The collection examines the realities of difference and diversity today, empirically and critically as well as optimistically and strategically, touching upon Indexing Business Source Corporate the topics of globalization, identity, and social group formation. At a time of virulent reactions to Plus difference and globalization (ethno-nationalism, racist backlash, parochialism, and protectionism), Business Source Index there is a pressing need to reflect critically on the shape and the possibilities of the normative agendas Business Source International of diversity and globalism. They aim to be a place for thinking about and discussing these pressing Cabell’s matters, and in ways that range from the “big picture” and the theoretical to the practical and Education Source Genamics Journal Seek everyday business of negotiating difference and diversity in organizations, communities, and civic life. Scopus SocINDEX The Diversity Collection is relevant for academics, educators, and research students in the fields SocINDEX with Full Text Sociology Source of globalization, nationalism, anthropology and cultural studies, tourism studies, ethnic studies, International indigenous studies, gender studies, disability studies, gay and lesbian studies, diversity management, The Australian Research Council (ERA) public administrators and policy-makers, private and public sector leaders, equal employment Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory opportunity, human resource development and workplace trainers, and change agents—anyone with an interest, and concern for, mediating cultural difference. Founded: 2000
Publication Frequency: Collection Editor Quarterly (March, June, September, December) Jock Collins, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Center, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ondiversity.com ijd.cgpublisher.com Associate Editors Articles published in the Diversity Collection are peer reviewed by scholars who are active members of the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with the knowledge community, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion- based evaluation system, distinguishes the Diversity Collection’s peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to the Diversity Collection’s Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Collection Titles
The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review ISSN: 1447-9532 (print) | 1447-9583 (online) Indexing: Cabell’s, Genamics Journal Seek, Scopus, SocINDEX, SocINDEX with Full Text, Sociology Source International, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review features the best articles from the Diversity Collection and mediates cultural difference and diversity in today’s societies.
The International Journal of Organizational Diversity ISSN: 2328-6261 (print) | 2328-6229 (online) Indexing: Business Source Corporate Plus, Business Source Index, Business Source International, Cabell’s, Genamics Journal Seek, Scopus, SocINDEX, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Organizational Diversity includes analyses of the impact of government and regulatory policies on workplace diversity and discusses various management practices that promote and encourage inclusivity.
The International Journal of Community Diversity ISSN: 2327-0004 (print) | 2327-2147 (online) Indexing: Cabell’s, Genamics Journal Seek, Scopus, SocINDEX, Sociology Source International, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Community Diversity examines the processes of governance and democracy in diverse communities. It explores the consequences of global human movement (e.g., immigrants, refugees) on local communities, and, in response, the development of multicultural policies and practices. It also investigates community self-governance and community capacity development.
The International Journal of Diverse Identities ISSN: 2327-7866 (print) | 2327-8560 (online) Indexing: Cabell’s, Genamics Journal Seek, Scopus, SocINDEX, Sociology Source International, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Diverse Identities exposes the social, historical, cultural, and psychological dynamics of identity.
The International Journal of Diversity in Education ISSN: 2327-0020 (print) | 2327-2163 (online) Indexing: Cabell’s, Education Source, Genamics Journal Seek, Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Diversity in Education compares strategies for negotiating cultural differences in the classroom, from the microdynamics of pedagogy, to the agendas of curriculum and assessment. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Submission Process
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Award Winner, Volume 13 Robin Liu Hopson, OISE: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
For the Article “Racialized Teachers and the Role-Model Hypothesis”
Abstract The city of Toronto is one of most racially diverse places in the world, with almost half of its population identifying as being a “visible minority” (Statistics Canada 2010). As a result, educational institutions face the question of how to meet the needs of their transforming student demographics. Numerous researchers and organizational policies have responded to these changes by endorsing the hiring of a teaching staff that is reflective of the racially diversifying student population (Ontario Ministry of Education 2009; Ryan et al. 2009, 592). The Role-Model Hypothesis refers to the dominant belief that there should be a push to hire more racialized teachers because they will be role-models for racialized students. What is urgently lacking from these dominant discourses are the voices of racialized individuals, whose inside perspectives and lived experiences provide valuable insights about the shortcomings of the Role-Model Hypothesis. Using an anti-racist theoretical framework, individual semi-structured interviews with 21 racialized teachers from the Greater Toronto Area reveal the complexity of racial matching between educators and students. The findings contribute to a differentiation between being a role-model and the act of role-modeling as a way of challenging the reductionist and homogenizing attitudes embedded in dominant discourses about the diversification of the teaching force. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Subscriptions and Access
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Extinguishing Title: Maori Land Rights, People, and Perspective in Post-colonial New Zealand Stella Coram This book presents an argument on the systematic extinguishing of Maori rights to title to land in Aotearoa New Zealand. It identifies the key values informing Crown justification for disposing of inalienable reserve lands to claim their reworking within the contemporary administration of Maori land by the Maori Land Court. The task of the Court is to ensure that no further alienation of Maori land occurs; however, it is claimed that the Court applies restrictive interpretations of Maori customary law (Tikanga) to direct owner-families, who ‘share’ tribal affiliation, to form a tribal trust to administer their undivided interests in land. The Court, furthermore, reserves the right to change the status of trust land, and to transfer it from owner-trustees to the independent Maori Trustee, if it is deemed that owners have not fulfilled their obligations to care for their land.
ISBN—978-1-61229-202-1 Discontinuity of ownership is the basis for contending that the Court subverts rights to title by 135 Pages upholding customary (communal) law in accordance with Tikanga. Taken as a whole, this reinstitutes Community Website: Maori dispossession, a process commenced by the Crown. Contrary to its objective to deter further ondiversity.com alienation, it is argued that the Court engages in relations of dominance by disregarding common law to accommodate contentious claims to land. Case study of the history of alienation of Ohinepuhiawe Bookstore: Reserve lands reveals the process by which title is extinguished. At the centre is the Elder, Oma Heitia, ondiversity. who tells of her love for her ancestors and ancestral lands. This is juxtaposed with her unedifying cgpublisher.com treatment in petitioning the Court to have a human burial in private land disinterred and trust land under administration by the Maori Trustee returned. Critical cultural and critical race theory form the conceptual basis for examining the silences of cultural difference ideology and for urging a rethink in Maori affairs. It is intended that this book will be of interest to readers working toward justice for indigenous peoples.
Author Bio: Dr. Stella Coram is based at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interest is the changing significance of race and racism in the contexts of indigenous representation in sport, education and social policy, and media studies. This is her second book, the first of which was also published by Common Ground Publishing in 2007. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Book Imprint
Silk Purses, Recast Dies, and Peripatetic Apples: Narratives of Risk and Resilience from with the Academy Warnie Richardson Using a risk/resiliency paradigm, this book presents very personal narratives of authors who, in the face of profound challenges, have gone on to become teachers. These authors/teachers are thereby well placed to make a difference in the lives of all those who come under their direct influence, especially those that are most at-risk and/or marginalized. Inclusive of a review of selected seminal research literature, and a full description of the evolution of the project, the essence of this book lives, overwhelmingly, in the telling of personal stories.
Author Bio: Dr. Warnie Richardson is a professor of special education and educational psychology at the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University, located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
ISBN—978-1-61229-473-5 235 Pages
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Intercultural Mediation in Europe: Narratives of Professional Transformation Eugenia Arvanitis and Achilles Kameas (eds.) This book contains multiple narratives of intercultural mediation made by academics and professionals across Europe. Contributions from Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Poland capture the voices of experts and non-experts heard at the International Conference, «Enhancing the Skills and Identity of Cultural Mediators in a Multicultural Europe» (ESΙ-CM 2014), organized by the SONETOR project. The diversity of theories, policies, providers, and services associated with mediation testify the ambivalence and monocultural assumptions that surround this process in pluralistic societies.
The intellectual trajectory of this book is grounded on the notion that social transformation and cohesiveness can be best served through professional interactivity, reciprocal or peer learning, reflexivity, and collective practice regarding mediation issues. The SONETOR (funded by the EU ISBN—978-1-61229-475-9 Lifelong Learning program) constitutes the vehicle for improving the learning quality and ethos 243 Pages of cultural mediators. Its benefits constitute the essence of this book as SONETOR creates an intermediate space of interpersonal, intercultural, and professional communication through the Community Website: ondiversity.com innovative use of social media networking. This enables community members and other stakeholders in Europe to exchange professional and systemic experiences. It also provides a third space, ‘a contact Bookstore: zone’, for peer learning and collective intelligence concerning the mediation process. ondiversity. Finally, this book discusses the role of intercultural mediators and raises the importance of their cgpublisher.com professionalization and training to secure effectiveness and social legitimacy.
Editor Bios: Eugenia Arvanitis is lecturer at the University of Patras, Greece.
Achilles Kameas is an associate professor at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Conference
Curating global interdisciplinary spaces, supporting professionally rewarding relationships Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations About the Conference
Conference History Founded in 2000, the International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations has a history of bringing together scholarly, government, and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community. The conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalized society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of our present world order, but there are ways of taking this further without necessarily engendering its alternatives: racism, conflict, discrimination, and inequity. Diversity as a mode of social existence can be projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience. The conference seeks to explore the full range of what diversity means and to explore modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in community, supporting a move away from simple affirmations that ‘diversity is good’ to a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of diversity on differently situated communities in the context of our current epoch of globalization. In addition to linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and ‘racial’ diversity, the conference pursues its well-established interest in other aspects of diversity, including the intersecting dynamics of gender, sexual orientation, (dis) ability, locale, and socio-economic background.
The International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Past Conferences 2000 - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 2001 - Deakin University, Woolstores Campus, Geelong, Australia 2003 - East-West Center, University of Hawai’i’s Manoa, Honolulu, USA 2004 - University of California, Los Angeles, USA 2005 - The Central Institute of Ethnic Administrators, Beijing, China 2006 - New Orleans, USA 2007 - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2008 - HEC Montreal, Montreal, Canada 2009 - Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, Riga, Latvia 2010 - Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2011 - University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa 2012 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2013 - Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia 2014 - Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria 2015 – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations About the Conference
Plenary Speaker Highlights The International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including: • Regine Bendl, Vienna University of Economics and Business, WU Vienna, Vienna, Austria (2014) • Douglas Brinkley, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA (2006) • Mick Dodson, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Acton, Australia (2000) • Halleh Ghorashi, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007) • Paul James, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2003) • Hon. Joan Kirner, former Premier of Victoria, Australia (2001) • Marcia Langton, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (2000) • Walter Mignolo Duke University, Durham, USA (2003) • Brendan O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2003) • Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2005) • Ronald Prins, City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007) • Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (2011) • Rob Walker University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada (2005) Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations About the Conference
Past Partners: The International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations had the pleasure of working with the following organizations:
Australian Multicultural Centre for Citizenship Charles Darwin University, City of Amsterdam, Foundation, and Globalisation Darwin, Australia Amsterdam, The Netherlands Carlton, Australia Deakin University, (2013) (2007) (2001) Burwood, Australia (2004–2007)
City of Montreal, Louisiana State University, Ministère de l’immigration RMIT University, Montreal, Canada Baton Rouge, USA et des communautés Melbourne, Australia (2008) (2006) culturelles du Québec, (2000–2010) Quebec, Canada (2008)
The Globalization Research Center, The University of Hong Kong, Ulster University, University of Technology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Hong Kong, SAR, China Coleraine, UK Sydney, Australia Honolulu, USA (2015) (2010) (2000–2001) (2003)
University of the Western Cape, Xavier University of Louisiana, Victorian Multicultural Vienna University of Cape Town, South Africa New Orleans, USA Commission, Economics and Business, (2011) (2006) Melbourne, Australia Vienna, Austria (2001) (2014) Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations About the Conference
Conference Principles and Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:
International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 25 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.
Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.
Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.
Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Ways of Speaking
Plenary Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Conversation.
Garden Conversation Garden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.
Talking Circles Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.
Themed Paper Presentations Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty- minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.
Colloquium Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by commentary and/or group discussion. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Ways of Speaking
Focused Discussion For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.
Workshop/Interactive Session Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.
Poster Sessions Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Daily Schedule
Wednesday, 15 July 8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:05 Conference Opening—Susan Bridges, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 9:05–9:25 International Host Welcome Remarks—Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Publishing, USA The University of Hong Kong Welcome Address and Lion Dance Ceremony—Peter Mathieson, President 9:25–9:45 and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Plenary Session—Hon. Mrs. Anson Chan, Former Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong SAR, China 9:50–10:20 Sustaining Diversity Under One Country, Two Systems Chair: Susan Bridges 10:25–10:55 Coffee Break & Garden Session 10:55–11:40 Talking Circles 11:40–11:50 Transition Break
11:50–13:30 Parallel Sessions 13:30–14:25 Lunch 14:25–15:40 Parallel Sessions 15:40–15:55 Coffee Break 15:55–17:35 Parallel Sessions 17:35-19:00 Conference Welcome Reception
Thursday, 16 July
8:30–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:10 Daily Update—Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Publishing, USA Plenary Session—Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University, USA 9:10–9:40 Beyond the Culture of Forgetting: The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies Chair: Liz Jackson 9:45–10:15 Coffee Break & Garden Session 10:15–11:30 Parallel Sessions 11:30–12:25 Lunch 12:25–13:40 Parallel Sessions 13:40–13:50 Transition Break 13:50–14:35 Parallel Session 14:35–14:50 Coffee Break 14:50–16:05 Parallel Session Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Daily Schedule
Friday, 17 July
8:30–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:10 Daily Update — Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Publishing, USA Plenary Session —Roger Slee, Victoria Institute for Education, Diversity, and Lifelong Learning, Australia 9:10–9:40 Diversity and Risk in an Age of Exclusion Chair: Patcy Yeung 9:45–10:15 Coffee Break & Garden Session 10:15–11:55 Parallel Sessions 11:55–12:05 Transition 12:05–12:50 Parallel Sessions 12:50–13:45 Lunch 13:45–15:25 Parallel Sessions 15:25–15:55 Closing Session Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Special Events
Pre-conference Tour Tuesday, 14 July Description: Embark on a tour of Lantau Island in Hong Kong and visit the Giant Buddha Exhibition Hall and delight in a traditional vegetarian lunch at Po Lin (Precious Lotus) Monastery. Along with our professional guide, you’ll also tour the traditional Tai O fishing village and fresh fish market, discover pristine beaches, lush valleys, and soaring mountains. Ride a cable car from Tung Chung with spectacular views of Lantau Island, Ngong Ping Plateau and the South China Sea. Your Lantau Island tour includes round-trip transportation, one-way ferry, and lunch.
Conference Welcome Reception Wednesday, 15 July—17:35-19:00 Description: The University of Hong Kong, Common Ground Publishing, and the Diversity Conference will be hosting a Reception on 15 July following the last session of the day. All delegates are welcome to attend and enjoy complimentary refreshments. This is an excellent opportunity to network and get to know your fellow delegates.
Conference Tour Thursday, 16 July—16:30 Description: See Hong Kong’s highlights and various colorful night markets on this unique evening tour with hop-on, hop- off itinerary! On board, enjoy informative commentary from our professional guide about the history of Hong Kong and gain insight into Cantonese culture and tradition. Included is a one-way tram ride up to picturesque Victoria Peak to take in the sparkling skyline at night, and stops in Tsim sha Tusi, Jordan, and the Mongkok Ladies Market.
*The evening conference tour is an optional activity, and prior registration is required to attend. Please visit the registration desk for additional information. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Plenary Speakers
Anson Chan Sustaining Diversity Under One Country, Two Systems Anson Chan retired as the Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government in 2001, after nearly forty years of service. As chief secretary, she headed the 190,000-strong civil service. She was the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong. During her career in the public service she was responsible, amongst other things, for development of Hong Kong’s economic infrastructure including the planning and construction of Hong Kong’s new international airport, which opened in July 1998, port expansion, and deregulation of the telecommunications market.
In recent years, Chan has taken a prominent role in the campaign for full universal suffrage for election of Hong Kong’s chief executive and all members of the legislature. In December 2007, she stood as a candidate in a by-election for a seat in the legislative council and won by a convincing margin. Chan is well known for her stand on transparent and accountable government, on democracy, and on safeguarding the rights and freedoms enshrined in the “one country, two systems” concept that applies to Hong Kong.
In addition to holding a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in English and English literature from the University of Hong Kong, she has been awarded honorary degrees from Hong Kong University, Liverpool University, Tufts University in Massachusetts, the Open University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Sheffield, an honorary professorship at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai and an honorary fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
She is a recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s highest honor, and is an honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, an honor conferred by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. In July 2008, the president of France conferred on her the title of Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion d’Honneur.
Antonia Darder Beyond the Culture of Forgetting: The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies Dr. Antonia Darder is an internationally recognized Freirian scholar. She holds the Leavey Presidential Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and is Professor Emerita of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more than 30 years, her practice and scholarship have focused on political questions and ethical concerns linked to racism, class inequalities, language rights, critical pedagogy, Latino education, and social justice. More recently, her work has sought to articulate a critical theory of leadership for social justice and community engagement, as well as to theorize pedagogy of beauty, in the pursuit of a liberatory practice of education. Darder’s scholarship has been deeply influenced by the world renowned Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, whose ideas on schooling and society profoundly shaped the direction of her early work.
Beyond her scholarly efforts, Darder has been an activist and visual artist, participating in a variety of grassroots efforts tied to educational rights, worker’s rights, bilingual education, women’s issues, environmental justice, and immigrant rights. In the 1990s, she convened educators from across the state to establish the California Consortium of Critical Educators Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Plenary Speakers
(CCCE), a member-supported radical teachers’ organization committed to an educational vision of schooling intimately linked to social justice, human rights, and economic democracy. In 2005, she established a radio collective with students and community members who produced Liberacion!, a public affairs radio program on WEFT. As a member of the Champaign- Urbana Independent Media Center, she was active as a community journalist with the Public I. In 2007, she worked with graduate students on an award winning documentary, Breaking Silence: The Pervasiveness of Oppression that examined the persistence of inequality at the university.
Roger Slee Diversity and Risk in an Age of Exclusion Roger Slee is the Director of the Victoria Institute for Education, Diversity, and Lifelong Learning. The Victoria Institute researches ways to better improve learning outcomes for students from diverse and under-represented backgrounds. Slee has a long history in education and is passionate about the right of all to be included in education. He has a strong research background, has authored numerous books and journal publications, and presented keynote speeches at international research and advocacy conferences.
Prior to joining Victoria University he was Chair of Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. During this time he published his most recent book, The Irregular School: Exclusion, Schooling and Inclusive Education. Slee is the founding editor of the International Journal of Inclusive Education. He has also held the position of Deputy Director General in the Queensland Ministry of Education. He has advised governments and led research projects around the world. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Graduate Scholars
Henrietta Lai Henrietta Lai is a part-time master student in The Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. Her specialization is designing powerful learning environments. At the same time, she is working as a project manager at The Centre for Enhancing Teaching and Learning at The University of Hong Kong, and is currently involved in a General Research Fund research project which investigates the use of educational technologies by undergraduate healthcare students in problem-based learning. Before joining the Centre for Enhancing Teaching and Learing research team, Lai was involved in various research projects. She worked at The Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education and The Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong as a research assistant. She assisted in a medical education research regarding health professions students’ use of mobile devices in problem-based learning and a large scale territory-wide research about depression among patients recruited from hospitals and clinics in Hong Kong.
Luciane Lauffer Luciane Lauffer is a master’s research student in the department of media, music, communication, and cultural studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her research topic is about the challenges and barriers to the development of women’s football and the role of media in Brazil, a country where she was born and raised. She moved to Australia in 2001 to further her studies and also lived in Germany and Canada. Her motivation for her research topic occurred since she became actively involved in sports in Australia without confronting the prejudice women experience in her native country. For the past three years, Lauffer has been a football referee, youth referee mentor, and a grassroots coach in the sport. Her keen interest in large sporting events has taken her to work in media services as a volunteer at the FIFA U20 World Cup 2007 in Canada, FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil, and AFC Asian Cup 2015 in Australia. She has a BA in journalism obtained in Brazil and a master’s in international studies by Curtin University of Technology, Australia.
Mo Ng Mo Ng is a PhD student in the faculty of education at the University of Hong Kong where she is researching the psychological well-being of parents of children with special educational needs (SEN). She is also a graduate member of the British Psychological Society. Ng obtained her undergraduate degree in computing at the Imperial College in the UK and developed her earlier career in the banking industry. Inspired by her motherhood experience, she embarked on a postgraduate learning experience in psychology and completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology at The University of Hong Kong with distinction. Marrying the practical experience and theoretical knowledge of parenthood, Ng pursued her postgraduate career further by undertaking the PhD study (research title: “From Despondency to Competency: Psychological Well-being of Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs in Hong Kong”) in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong since 2013. Her study aims to support parents by enhancing their parental self-efficacy belief through intervention programs. It is anticipated that the outcomes of the study will be contributive to future research work on parental well-being as well as pragmatic intervention for parents in the local community. Her preliminary research work is recognized by receiving the “Best Presenter Award” at the Postgraduate Research Conference 2014-2015, organized by the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Graduate Scholars
Camilla Nicolls Camilla Nicoll has a BA (Psychology & Professional Writing and Editing). She has completed her Grad Dip App Psych and worked as a research assistant with the School of Psychology for three years. During this time, she has assisted in several projects relating to student attrition, retention, and intervention programs. Nicolls is now a PhD candidate and continues to examine student attrition, retention, and intervention programs across primary schools, high-schools, and universities. She has been trained in data collection and research design, through research methods course units and has completed professional ethics training.
Yuzhu Peng Yuzhu Peng is a PhD student in media & cultural studies at Newcastle University. His area of expertise is in media, communication, and cultural studies. After four years of undergraduate study in electronic information engineering, Peng decided to change direction and in 2012 enrolled in the master’s program in media and journalism at Newcastle University, and he completed it in 2013 with distinction, which then lead him to undertake a PhD. Peng has been working on his PhD project (working title: “The Rise of Digital Social Norms: How Chinese College Students use WeChat”) since he started his PhD study in September 2013. Through this project, he developed a social norm-oriented perspective to understand how users socialize through digital media technologies. The outcome of this project will contribute to the advancement of knowledge on media mobility, emerging online etiquettes, and Chinese college students’ uses of mobile media applications (in particular WeChat). His project comprises of a case study of Chinese college students from Xiamen University (China P.R.) and their use of WeChat. He has successfully conducted the case study during June and September of 2014. Peng has recently presented a part of his findings at the MeCCSA (Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association) Conference in 2014.
Margaret Thorne Margaret Thorne is a PhD student in the faculty of education at Monash University where she is researching work and life in residential aged care. This research stems from the desire to gain more knowledge concerning the perceptions, motivations, and experiences of Personal Care Workers (PCWs) and elderly residents from culturally diverse backgrounds who work and live alongside each other in busy and complex residential aged care facilities. Margaret has taught aged care and home and community care education in the vocational education and training sector to Australian and non-native English speaking students from diverse cultures in the classroom and workplace for several years. She has a nursing background and worked as a nurse in public and private hospitals before becoming actively involved in the aged care sector. During the last few years, Thorne has completed a bachelor of adult learning and development and a master of education at Monash University. The research topic for her master’s related to the relationship between the classroom and workplace in aged care education. While undertaking her master’s, Thorne was involved in a program through Monash University about cross-cultural collaboration in lifelong learning and work with four other international universities and participated in study workshops in Finland and Malta. After this program, she co-authored and presented a paper entitled “Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges in the Academic Apprenticeship.” Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Graduate Scholars
Kerre Willsher Kerre Willsher is a final stage PhD student at the University of South Australia, Whyalla Campus. Her research topic is ‘‘Caring for Young Children and Adults Born with Disability in Rural and Regional Areas of Australia: A Feminist Standpoint Interpretation.’’ The research revealed a wide diversity of personal experiences in caring for a person born with disability. The communities where the research took place had diverse populations, needs, and resources. As well as studying for a doctoral degree, Willsher is a lecturer in nursing at the University of South Australia teaching pediatrics, primary health care, and research. In 2007 she won an award for teaching excellence and in 2009 as part of a team, and also won a Chancellor’s Award for community engagement providing health promotion in primary schools. She has published articles on nurse education, nursing ethics, and disability studies in several refereed journals. In 2014 she presented at the Diversity in Communities, Organizations, and Nations Conference and the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID) Conferences in Vienna. Prior to 2005, Willsher was employed as a community nurse in rural and remote areas of Australia. She also worked as a nurse educator in Papua/New Guinea and as a midwife in the United Kingdom. Willsher is President-elect of a Rotary Club, a Girl Guide leader, and is involved with Amnesty International. WEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 15 JULU L YY
8:00-9:00 REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:05 CONFERENCE OPENING Dr. Susan Bridges, Local Organizing Committee Chair, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Opening Held in the Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall (LE1) in the Library Building (New Wing) 9:05-9:25 INTERNANTERNATIONALTIONAL HOST WELCOME REMARKS Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Publishing, USA 9:25-9:45 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG WELCOME ADDRESS AND LION DANCE CEREMONY Professor Peter Mathieson, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 9:50-10:20 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Hon. Mrs. Anson Chan, Former Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong SAR, China
"Sustaining Diversity Under One Country, Two Systems"
Chair: Susan Bridges 10:25-10:55 COFFEE BREAK & GARDEN SESSION 10:55-11:40 TT ALKING CIRCLES ROOM 1 (LE2): Identity and Belonging ROOM 2 (LE3): Education and Learning in a World of Differences ROOM 3 (LE4): Organizational Diversity ROOM 4 (LE5): Community Diversity and Governance Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall (LE1): Affirming Diversity for Social and Educational Justice (conference special focus) 11:40-11:50 TRANSITION BREAK 11:50-13:30 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1Room 1 Retention and Sustainability Success: Diversity Education (LE2)(LE2) TTeachingeaching to Sustain Indigenous Persistence at the Cultural Interface Dr. Gregory Martin, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia Vicky Nakata, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Prof. Andrew Day, Deakin University, Sydney, Australia Dr Martin Nakata, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Overview: This paper foregrounds theoretical arguments to reassert the role of the academic teacher and pedagogic knowledge in sustaining the persistence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students within higher education. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference An Examination of the Cumulative ResearResearchch in Student Retention and Attrition ResearResearch: Wherch: Where Have We Got Te To?o? Camilla Nicoll, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Assoc. Prof. Kathryn von Treuer, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Cumulative research informing our current understanding of student retention/attrition models is examined. We question the ideological split between objective-subjective truths and the philosophical differences in this pursuit of knowledge acquisition. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Higher Education Raising Aspirations: A Sustainability Integration Case Study Dr. Shamim Samani, Ethics Equity and Social Justice, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Dr. Silvia Lozeva, Ethics Equity and Social Justice, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Overview: This case study examines an integrated approach in higher education aspiration-raising focused on disadvantaged youth. It investigates shifting perceptions on participation, as well as the challenges of an integrated approach. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference WEDNESDAY, 15 JULY 11:50-13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Identity and Subjectivity (LE3) The Catalan Movement for Independence: Catalan Language and Identity as a Catalyst of Today’s Independence Movement Dr. Anuncia Escala, World Languages and Cultures, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA David Prats, World Languages and Cultures, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA Overview: The rise of the self-determination movement in Catalonia has been fueled by the economic crisis and centralizing policies blocking Catalan autonomy, but the unifying force has been identity and culture. Theme: Identity and Belonging Pathway to Success: The Impact of Sense of Place and Possible Selves on Adjustment among Vietnamese American Adolescents Dr. Brian Lam, School of Social Work, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, USA Overview: This paper examines the ways in which the social-emotional interaction within an enclave can advance understanding of the role of sense of place and possible selves on academic psychological adjustment. Theme: Identity and Belonging The "Other" and "Othering" among Ethnic Groups and Migrants in South Africa Prof. Davie E. Mutasa, African Languages, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper highlights how ethnic groups perceive each other and discusses linguistic concepts that denote perceptions or are used for “othering” other ethnic groups and migrants. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Colors of Peace Dr. Indira Y. Junghare, Institute of Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA Overview: In today’s world of rising violence, it is necessary to understand the nature of life’s existence, singularly and collectively, and contribute creatively to effecting a positive change. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room 3 Colloquium (LE4) Receptivity and Resistance: A Faith-based University’s Challenge Responding to Privilege within the Tensions of a Rapidly Shifting Culture Dr. Anna Berardi, School of Education, Graduate School of Counseling, George Fox University, Portland, USA Dr. Steve Bearden, Graduate School of Counseling, George Fox University, Portland, USA Dr. Linda Samek, Academic Affairs, George Fox University, Newberg, USA Dr. Debby Espinor, College of Education, George Fox University, Newberg, USA Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, Academic Affairs, George Fox University, Newberg, USA Overview: Educators within a dominant culture university report on data regarding efforts to address religious and racial privilege. Rapidly changing US cultural paradigms add to the urgency of this work. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 4 Diversity in the Workplace (LE5) Enhancing Diversity in the Workplace: The Transition to Meaningful Employment by Young People with Intellectual Disability in Regional Australia Kerre A. Willsher, University of South Australia, Whyalla, Australia Overview: This research uses Feminist Standpoint interpretation to show how enhancing psychological diversity in the workplace brings benefit to young people with intellectual disability and employers. Psychologically heterogeneous teams are successful. Theme: Organizational Diversity Embracing Diversity in Organizations by Promoting Identity Dr. Keith Schofield, Department of People, Management, and Organizations, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Dr. Jane Tobbell, Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Overview: Organizations should recognize the diversity of employee identity to enable the development of relationships at work. Encouraging participation through validating identity is key to individual and organizational success. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Aging Workforce: A New Zealand Perspective Beverley Cassidy-Mackenzie, Equal Employment Opportunities Trust, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: The concept of a greying workforce is becoming an increasing debate for employers globally. New Zealand has one of the highest workforce participation rates for people over sixty-five. Theme: Organizational Diversity Implementation of Diversity Management in Poland: Relationships to Confidence in the Company and Its Managers Dr. Aneta Klaudia Szymanska, Chair of Management, International Center of Postgraduate Studies, The University of Business in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Dr. Teresa Kupczyk, Chair of Management, The University of Business in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Dr. Joanna Kubicka, Chair of Management, The University of Business in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Anna Oleszkiewicz, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Overview: In order to verify expectations regarding relationships between diversity management and employer branding, the data were subjected to analysis of Pearson's correlation. Results indicate a positive relationship between tested variables. Theme: Organizational Diversity
13:30-14:25 LUNCH WEDNESDAY, 15 JULY 14:25-15:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Identity and Belonging (LE2) Towards Hakka Cultural Policy across Boundaries: Ethnic Imagines, Multiple Identities, and Cultural Hybridity in Global Perspectives Lj-Jung Wang, Department of Hakka Language and Social Sciences, National Central University, Jung-Li, Taiwan Overview: From the Hakka experience in Taiwan, this paper examines how cultural policy has responded to the development of hybrid cultures and multiple identities based on blurred ethnic and cultural boundaries. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance On Being the Other Everywhere: Transnational Identities and Globalization Dr. Ruth White, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Oakland, USA Overview: This paper explores self-definition as a elativer process in which one compares/connects who they are to where they are, using theoretical frameworks proposed by Steve Seidman and Zygmunt Bauman. Theme: Identity and Belonging Ethnic Diversity in Early Hong Kong: A Linguistic Landscape Study Dr. Michelle Li, Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Overview: This study discusses multiculturalism and multilingualism from the perspective of linguistic landscape in early Hong Kong. The sources of such diversity are examined through the naming of streets. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room 2 Diversity Curriculum and Instruction (LE3) A Case Study on Learners’ Interaction in a Diverse Group Wee Lee Tan, Centre for Transcultural Studies, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Soon Soon Chuah, Centre for Transcultural Studies, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Overview: How do Singapore Chinese students work with Mainland Chinese students in a classroom? Will such a learning environment encourage integration? This research explores learners’ interaction in a diverse group. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Human Diversity and Dialog: Building Bridges Dr. Barbara Zuck, Department of Business, Montana State University - Northern, Havre, USA Overview: Increasingly social media eclipses the importance of authentic human relationships. Blade founded Living Room Conversations. One university incorporated Living Room Conversations as part of the pedagogy to teach about diversity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 3 Education and Learning in a World of Difference (LE4) Embracing Diversity in South Korea: Integrating North Korean Refugee Youth into the South Korean Educational System Dr. Hyong Suk Yeom, Department of Social Work, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA Dr. Thomas P. Ward, History Department, James Madison University, USA Overview: This paper discusses the outcome of a preliminary needs assessment for North Korean refugee youth at an accredited alternative school, Yeomyung School, in Seoul, South Korea. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Teacher Retention and Attrition of English as a Foreign Language Teachers in the Context of Globalized Tertiary Education: A Case Study in Guangzhou, China Xin Guo, Department of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Overview: Using in-depth interview, this study analysis five EFL teachers’ decisions of attrition and etention.r Their motivations and credentials were examined. Three typologies are generated. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 4 Social and Cultural Studies (LE5) The Secret Sisterhood: An Exploration of the Active Role of Women in the White Supremacy Movement in the United States Dr. Judith Babnich, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA Overview: This paper investigates how women have become active members in the White Supremacy Movement and how their participation has lead to acts of violence and increased hatred of non-whites. Theme: Identity and Belonging From Ethnic to National Cloth: The Diverse Nature of the Tshivenda Nwenda Dr. Kanakana Yvonne Ladzani, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Prof. Thomas Maitakhole Sengani, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: The clothing "nwenda" is worn by the Vhavenda ethnic group of South Africa and has been associated with backwardness. This paper explores its changing cultural meanings. Theme: Identity and Belonging
15:40-15:55 COFFEE BREAK WEDNESDAY, 15 JULY 15:55-17:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Academic Preparedness and Support (LE2) A Support Program for English as an Additional Language for Nursing Students Liza Choi, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Community Studies, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada Overview: This paper outlines a model of support for EAL nursing students. The conceptualization and implementation of this support group will be delineated. The impact of this group will be discussed. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Supporting Latino and Haitian Migrant Farmworker College Students’ Academic Preparedness and Career Awareness through Customized Classroom Instruction Dr. Celina Wille, Office of Diversity and Pluralism, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Dr. Leonard Savala, Undergraduate Diversity, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Dr. Brenda Alston-Mills, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Overview: This paper examines outcomes of a course designed to support first-generation Latino and Haitian migrant farmworker college students’ academic preparedness and awareness of careers in agriculture and natural resources. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Causes and Remedies: New Ways to Address Student Preparedness Dr. Carrie Wastal, John Muir College Muir College Writing College, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, USA Overview: Using data from a study of student portfolios, the author examines the possible causes of and remedies for the disparity in grades between the two- and four-year college experience. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Parents’ Attitudes toward Inclusive Education: Family Functioning and Special Education Needs Students’ Self-determination Prof. Kuen-fung Sin, Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Dr. Lan Yang, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Dr. San-yin Cheng, Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Dr. Ming Lui, Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China Overview: By integrating family functioning and parents’ evaluation of self-determination of students with special educational needs (SEN), this study tests parents’ attitudes towards inclusive education in Hong Kong. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 2 Inclusive Education Strategies and Struggles (LE3) Equity and Diversity for Primary School Indigenous Children in Bangladesh Rabiul Islam, School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Prof. Rosalind Murray- Harvey, School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Overview: This paper is an analysis of focus group discussions with members of a school management committee at Chittagong Hill Tracts about equity and diversity for indigenous children. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Diversity in Urban Schools and Educational Technology: A Study in Selection and Allocation in the High-tech Field Dr. Mabel Kung, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, The Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, USA Overview: The study identifies the primary drivers that motivate young students in low-income neighborhoods to pursue technological endeavors, in particular, the computer science area. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Principals’ Actions and Reactions to Education Reform in the Subsystem of Indigenous Education Dr. Guadalupe Tinajero-Villavicencio, Institute for Educational Research and Development, Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico Dr. Carmen Pérez -Fragoso, Institute for Educational Research and Development, Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico Overview: This study focuses on reactions from principals in the subsystem of indigenous education in northern Mexico, regarding the educational use of information and communications technology. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 3 Politics: Accounting for Diversity (LE4) The Cultural Identity of Indigenous Peoples: The Role of Civil Society in Argentina and Chile Dr. Stephen John Beaumont, Technology Center for Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina Overview: The indigenous people of southern South America seek to preserve their cultural identity while demanding greater participation in government decisions that affect their communities. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Strategies and Concepts towards Recognition of Foreign Qualifications: A Comparison of Germany, Denmark, Canada, and Australia Dr. Silvia Annen, Commercial Service Occupations and Occupations in the Media Business, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn, Germany Dr. Christiane Eberhardt, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn, Germany Overview: This comparative analysis of selected national approaches towards recognition shows the relations between the different structures of the educational system, the labor market, and the aims of the migration policy. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Exploring the Role of Political Parties in the Substantive Representation of Equality and Human Rights: Evidence from the UK Paul Chaney, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Overview: This paper explores the issue-salience of equality and human rights in UK political parties’ post-war election programs. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Challenges in Intercultural Practice with North Korean Migrants in South Korea Prof. Min Young Lee, Division of Human Service, The Cyber University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea Dr. Minhwa Yun, Department of Social Welfare, Hallym University, Choon Chun, South Korea Overview: Through an intercultural approach, this paper underpins the challenges of community services serving migrants and the host society, analyzing the experiences of North and South Korean practitioners in NGOs. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance WEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 15 JULU L YY 15:55-17:35 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4Room 4 PrPromotingomoting Diversity in Higher Education and Education Leadership (LE5)(LE5) The EfThe Effectsfects of a Diversity-oriented Global Employability Survey on the Student Lifecycle Management for Diversity Management at a German University Lyuba Mutovkina, Equal Opportunities, Diversity Management, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Dr. Carmen Finckh, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Overview: This paper illustrates the results and evaluates the effects of diversity-oriented surveys for diversity management at a German university through the example of a global employability study. Theme: Organizational Diversity PrProfessionalofessional Infant Day CarCaree Close to School or WWorkplace:orkplace: A New Concept frfromom Reutlingen, Germany Dr. Petra Groß-Kosche, Equal Opportunities Office, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Kristina Fix, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Anne Mack, Tagesmuetter e.V. Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Overview: Pregnant students and student mothers suffer a special form of educational injustice. This paper introduces the concept of affordable professional day care for infants on a German campus and elsewhere. Theme: Organizational Diversity Helping MorMore We Womenomen Become Head TTeacherseachers in Minority ArAreaseas of China: The Localization of Action ResearResearchch Dr. Lili Zhang, Faculty Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Overview: This paper examines the process of using action research to promote women leadership in rural minority areas of China. Strategies implemented and localization of action research is discussed. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Impatriate and TTranspatriate:ranspatriate: ImprImproving Interoving Internationalnational Management Diversity AbrAbroadoad and at Home Prof. David A. Jones, Institute of The Americas and Europe, Faculty of Management, U.S. Law Program, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Overview: Impatriate experiences are as or more valuable than expatriate experiences to the multi-national corporation (MNC) because they improve multi-cultural sensitivity in the domestic workforce. Theme: Organizational Diversity
17:45-19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION Hosted by The University of Hong Kong THURSDAHURSDAYY, 16 JULU L YY
8:30-9:00 REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:10 DAILAILY UPDAY PDATETE Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Publishing, USA 9:10-9:40 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University, USA
"Beyond the Culture of Forgetting: The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies"
Chair: Liz Jackson 9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK & GARDEN SESSION 10:15-11:30 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1Room 1 Media ReprMedia Representationsesentations and Shifts: Identity and Belonging (LE2)(LE2) Celebrity CulturCulture,e, Media Use, and Body Surveillance Dr. Carol Liebler, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA Li Chen, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA Overview: Hypotheses based on self-discrepancy and social comparison theories test relationships between exposure to celebrity culture and body surveillance in a sample of 249 women of Asian descent in the U.S. Theme: Identity and Belonging Asian American Faces in United States TTelevisionelevision CommerCommercials:cials: A Changing Identity Debbie L. Wetherhead, Dr. May Hongmei Gao, Department of Communication, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, USA Overview: There are more Asian faces in U.S. television commercials. The evolution of Asian American identity from “exotic, inferior, and dangerous” to “tech-savvy, successful, and trust-worthy” reflects social-economic changes. Theme: Identity and Belonging News Flow within Diverse Communities: GrGreatereater Dandenong's News Networks Linda Jones, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Social Network Analysis software was used to map Dandenong's news organisations to find how the Internet has shaped connections, news flow, and production relations within the region's diverse news industry. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room 2Room 2 TTraining Training Teacherseachers in Diversity (LE3)(LE3) Re-configuring Remoteness: Participation in Australian PrPre-serviceTe-service Teachereacher EducationEducation Prof. Sue Shore, International Graduate Centre of Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: This paper reports on a project which investigated the range of ways in which Yolŋu residents in a remote Australian community moved toward participation in pre-service teacher education programs. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Exploring Inclusive Education Praxis in English Language TTeachereacher Education Dr. Cheri Chan, English Language Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr. Margaret Lo, English Language Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper narrates and explores inclusive praxis in English language teacher education. Our own and two of our student-teachers’ learning journeys in inclusive education are critically examined. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 3Room 3 Organizational Practices Influencing Diversity (LE4)(LE4) Investigating StrStressess Levels in Male PrPre-service Te-service Teacherseachers in TTeachereacher Education PrProgramsograms Dr. Gretchen Geng, School of Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Prof. Richard Midford, School of Education, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: This paper investigates how stressful it was for male pre-service teachers to participate in teacher education programs to explore its possible relationship with current male teacher shortages in Australia. Theme: Organizational Diversity Application of the Multicultural Organizational Development Model in a Canadian Police Force: Missteps and Next Steps Dr. Angela Workman-Stark, Organizational Development, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Canada Overview: Using the Multicultural Organizational Development Model, this paper describes the journey of a large Canadian Police Force to overcome serious allegations of discrimination and harassment and become more inclusive. Theme: Organizational Diversity Look, WLook, Wee Do It This WWay: Interay: Interculturalcultural Interactions in Residential Aged CarCaree in Australia Margaret Thorne, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia Overview: This study discusses the challenges involved in intercultural interactions among culturally diverse Personal Care Workers and residents in Australian residential aged care facilities. Theme: Identity and Belonging THURSDAY, 16 JULY 10:15-11:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Addressing Cultural Perspectives on Diversity (LE5) Diversity in Democracy and Education: An African Perspective of Integrating Values Dr. Muhammad Mann Shaaba, Department of Educational Foundations and Management, Federal College of Education, Kontagora, Kontagora, Nigeria Overview: This paper uses educationally relevant African values to conceptualize and domesticate democracy for Nigeria. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Tolerance and the Rule of Law: Outlining the Foundation for Universal Rights Prof. David Fagelson, School of Public Affairs, Department of Justice Law and Criminology, American University, Washington, USA Overview: By showing how the principle of tolerance spans a spectrum of political communities and is part of the concept of law, I accommodate universal human rights across local sovereign states. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance The African, His Spirituality, and Language Exploitation: A Cause of Some Armed Conflicts and Insurgency in Africa Blossom Shimayam Ottoh-Agede, Department of English and Modern Languages, Faculty of Arts, Federal University Lafia, Lafia, Nigeria Jesse Iorfaga Agede, Lafia, Nigeria Overview: We examined the disposition of Africans towards the supernatural and conclude that because of their respect for the supernatural they are easily manipulated and exploited by priests/mediums or political leaders. Theme: Identity and Belonging
11:30-12:25 LUNCH 12:25-13:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies in Diversity (LE2) Minimizing Oppression and Discrimination Faced by LGBTQ Youth in Northern British Columbia, Canada Julius Okpodi, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada Overview: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender questioning (LGBTQ) youth are at high risk of not receiving necessary care as a function of marginalization, anti-LGBTQ violence and abuse, and social exclusion. Theme: Identity and Belonging Standards of Practice for Serving LGBTQ Youth in Human Service Systems: Strategies for Effectively Responding to Youth Diversity Dr. Jeffrey Poirier, American Institutes for Research, Washington, USA Overview: This paper focuses on youth sexual orientation and gender identity diversity within human service systems, exploring the significance of organizational capacity to create safe, supportive settings for LGBT youth. Theme: Identity and Belonging Diversifying Sexuality Education in Hong Kong: Pedagogic Practices and the Role of Students’ Initiation in Higher Education Institutions Dr. Kit Ling Luk, Division of Communication and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr. Simon Sheung-man Chung, Division of Communication and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This research interrogates the relations between sexuality education, diversity, and self-formation in higher education institutions of Hong Kong. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 2 Educating on Diversity (LE3) How to Teach Systemically Global Diversity Management to Responsible Business Leaders Carlos Rabasso, Economics, Culture, and International Relations, NEOMA Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France Francisco Javier Rabasso, University of Rouen, Rouen, France Overview: This paper questions “logocentric” business education based in mechanical thinking views with a decentered approach related to global diversity issues. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Social Work Students and Evidence-based Practice: An International Comparison Dr. Sally Mathiesen, Social Work, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA Overview: This paper compares survey results of US and Caribbean social workers regarding evidence-based knowledge. The results signal a need for culturally relevant continued attention. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Measuring Diversity? To Study Diversity Processes with Different Measurements Monica Norberg, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, Visby, Sweden Overview: Current methods to measure equality are based on averages, like gender and age statistics. I instead use a literature review to explore how diversity can be measured. Theme: Organizational Diversity THURSDAY, 16 JULY 12:25-13:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Critical Studies on Community Diversity (LE4) Welcoming the Stranger: The Growing Politics of Diversity within American Evangelical Christianity Dr. Liesl Haas, Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA Prof. Richard Haesly, Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA Overview: The Evangelical Christian community is one of the most nationalistic subgroups in American society. But rapidly increasing Latino membership is transforming the politics of American Evangelical Christianity. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance The Education Dimensions of the Coal Seam Gas Protests: Adult Learning in Diverse Communities Dr. Tracey Ollis, School of Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper uses Bourdieu’s theory of "field" and "habitus," to outline adult learning processes that are developed as a diverse group of campaigners protest against "fracking" for coal seam gas. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference The Dynamics of Translation: Experiences of Translating "Little Troll’s Tail" from English to Sesotho (Mohatla wa Dingwana) Dr. Rosalia Moroesi Nakin, African Languages, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper analyzes the dynamics of translating a children's story from English to Sesotho, focusing on breaking the stereotypes attached to characters in the book. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 4 Cultural and Generational Diversity in Organizations (LE5) Generational Diversity in the Hospitality Industry: Problems or Advantage? Masita Misdi, Department of Workforce Education and Development, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA Overview: This paper is about categorizing the employees in the hospitality industry based on their diverse generational characteristics. Managers can utilize the findings to understand the work attitudes of each employee. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Connecting Effect of Cultural Identity in International Organizations: The Role of Cultural Identity beyond Cross-cultural Collaborations Sophie Quach, Department of Social Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany Overview: In spite of successful collaborations in multinational teams, cultural identity still matters. This paper shows the reasons for the strength of cultural identity in international organizations. Theme: Organizational Diversity
13:40-13:50 TRANSITION BREAK 13:50-14:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshop (LE2) Access to Inclusion: Best Practices for Workforces and Educational Institutions Lynette Chappell-Williams, Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Asa Nilsson Billme, Diversity Certification Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden Dr. A.T. Miller, Central Administration--Provost Office, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Overview: Workforces and college classrooms are becoming more diverse. Because of this growing diversity, employers and educational institutions must focus on providing access to inclusion. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room 2 Workshop (LE3) To Be Just Is to Know Justice: Situating HUMANity at the Heart of a Social Justice Course Dr. Pamela A. Taylor, Curriculum and Instruction Program, Department for Leadership and Professional Studies, Seattle University, Seattle, USA Overview: This workshop outlines the design and demonstration of activities for teaching a social justice course. The objective is to normalize students’ habit of mind for a social justice mind-set. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 3 Workshop (LE4) Creating Organizational Change: A Model of Inclusivity Dr. Lisa M. Coleman, Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Overview: This workshop focuses on how to identify, shift, and align organizational structures and policies practices to advance organizationally agile and innovative inclusion efforts. Theme: Organizational Diversity
14:35-14:50 COFFEE BREAK THURSDAY, 16 JULY 14:50-16:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Governance and Representation in International Organizations (LE2) The Impact of Enhancing Diversity in Decision-making Mechanisms of International Organizations through a Constitution of a Democratic, Effective, and Legitimate Global Governance System Dr. Gökhan Özkan, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of International Relations, Bursa Technical University, Bursa, Turkey Overview: The international community can solve transnational issues, such as immigration, by enhancing the diversity in decision-making mechanisms of international organizations and by constituting a democratic and legitimate global governance system. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Dealing with Diversity in Equality Interest Organizations: The Challenges to Transnational Equality Work in Post-Amsterdam Brussels Prof. Alison E. Woodward, Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Overview: How do new European Union legal provisions and funding, the understandings of intersecting identities, and economic constraints lead to adaptation on the part of EU organizations and equality actor networks? Theme: Community Diversity and Governance The Role of Supra-national Organizations in Protecting Diversity: The Case of European Union Minority Rights Prof. Mark Dawson, European Law and Governance, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany Prof. Pierre Thielboerger, Bochum, Germany Overview: This paper explores the added value that supra-national organizations, such as the European Union, can bring in protecting minority rights. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Room 2 Mental Health and Diversity Education (LE3) Mental Health Needs Assessment: Creating Inclusive University Communities That Foster Mental Health and Academic Success for Students with Mental Health Issues and Concerns Michael Lee, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Mineko Wada, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Steven J. Barnes, Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Melinda Suto, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Kathleen Lane, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Overview: This study explores university faculty, staff, and students’ views on how to make education more inclusive and how to support the success of students with mental health issues and concerns. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Students' Emotional Experiences of Growing Diversity at a South African University: An Analysis of the Emotional Intelligence Diversity Model June Monica Palmer, Faculty of Education, School of Education Studies, Department of Comparative Education and Education Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Overview: Utilizing the four elements of the Emotional Intelligence Diversity Model (EIDM), students’ emotional experiences of diversity were tested at a South African university. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Diminished Sense of Belonging and Able Identities among University Students: High Academic Expectations and Mental Health Stigma in University Communities Dr. Mineko Wada, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Michael Lee, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Melinda Suto, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Crystal Sun, Evaluation Services Department, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Canada Julia Goldman-Hasbun, Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Stephanie Chauhan, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Overview: Exploring university students’ perspectives and experiences of mental health stigma revealed that students felt pressured to construct and maintain mentally and academically able identities which diminished their sense of belonging. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room 3 Strategies for Diversity Management (LE4) Examining Team Diversity, Trustworthiness Perceptions, and Team Effectiveness via the Stereotype Content Model Dr. Frances Louise Tuer, DeGroote School of Business, Human Resource Management, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Dr. Willi Wiesner, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Overview: Grounded in the Stereotype Content Model this study showed that team diversity does not automatically produce lower levels of intra- team trustworthiness, as has been often assumed, but rarely tested. Theme: Organizational Diversity THURSDAHURSDAYY, 16 JULU L YY 14:50-16:05 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4Room 4 TTeacher Pereacher Perceptionception and Practices towartowards Diversityds Diversity (LE5)(LE5) Exploring TExploring Teachereacher Beliefs and Practices towartowardsds Inclusion: A Comparison between Hong Kong and VVictoria,ictoria, Australia Nasirah Qudrat, English Language Teacher, Delia Memorial School, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr. Cheri Chan, English Language Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper explores inclusive education practices of primary school teachers in Hong Kong and Australia. How teachers’ beliefs align to their pedagogical decisions in teaching and learning are critically examined. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference VVisionsisions for Education among Chinese and Non-Chinese Student TTeachers:eachers: Exploring Cultural DifDifferferencesences Prof. Ana Maria Correia, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China Overview: This study explores how student teachers in a multicultural classroom envision education and their teaching responsibilities. Cultural differences between Chinese and non-Chinese participants became apparent. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Exploring the University Student TTeachers’eachers’ PerPerceptionception of their Knowledge and Ability to TTeacheach a Diverse Population of LearLearners: Aners: A Comparative Study of Colleges frfromom South Africa, Sweden, and the United States Monica Norberg, Quality Management, Uppsala University, Sweden Dr. Mabatho Sedibe, Educational Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Prof. Anita Dutrow, Middle and Secondary Teacher Education, Presbytarian College, Clinton, USA Overview: This paper compares student teachers in South Africa, Sweden, and the United States and their perception of their knowledge and ability to teach a diverse population of learners. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference
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8:30-9:00 REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:10 DAILAILY UPDAY PDATETE 9:10-9:40 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Roger Slee, Victoria Institute for Education, Diversity, and Lifelong Learning, Australia
"Diversity and Risk in an Age of Exclusion"
Chair: Patcy Yeung 9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK & GARDEN SESSION 10:15-11:55 PP ARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1Room 1 Exclusionary "isms" and Hegemony (LE2)(LE2) A Challenging Game: WWomenomen Footballers in Brazil Luciane Lauffer, Sociology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Overview: In a country where football is everything, women players are still struggling. Lacking financial support, promotion, and even encouragement, this study identifies the role played by the media. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Role of CrCross-culturaloss-cultural DifDifferferencesences in Shaping Attitudes towartowards Diversityds Diversity Dharshika Sabanathan, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Dr. Jac Brown, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Dr. Siraje Ssekamanya, Counselling Psychology, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Assoc. Prof. Jeanna Sutton, Psychology, Univesity of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Dr. Michael Hough, School of Social Science and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Overview: Nationalism, religiosity, and aggression were cross-culturally examined in relation to pro-diversity attitudes. Culture moderated the relationships, and social identity complexity is discussed as a protective measure for pro-diversity attitudes. Theme: Identity and Belonging Unparalleled Development: A Critical Language AAwarwarenesseness Perspective between African Languages and Afrkaans Prof. Thomas Maitakhole Sengani, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: Afrikaans unlike African languages has developed well because it has always had privileges. If given resources, African languages can be productive and deliver services. Theme: Identity and Belonging Challenges for Including LearLearnersners with Autism Spectrum DisorDisorder in Order Ordinarydinary Schools: Implications on Education Policy and ResourResourcesces Dr. Eria Ping Ying Li, Graduate School, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Rina Mingxia Ji, Graducte School, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Prof. Kuen-fung Sin, Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Prof. S.K. Lo, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Overview: Hong Kong has experienced a major shift in inclusive education since 1997. The present study examines practical challenges for including learners with ASD in ordinary school setting. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 2Room 2 Inclusion and Disability Education (LE3)(LE3) Developing Beliefs and Practices of Inclusive Education: The Impact of a Deaf and Hearing Co-enrollment Prollment Programogram Jaclyn Yeung, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK Overview: This paper documents a student-teacher’s experience and perceptions towards the implementation of bilingual education in a deaf and hearing co-enrollment class in Hong Kong. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference What Do WWhat Wee Know about Post-school TTransitionransition Outcomes of Secondary Students with Disabilities in Hong Kong? A Qualitative Investigation Dr. Lan Yang, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Prof. Kuen-fung Sin, Department of Special Education and Counseling, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Prof. S.K. Lo, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Dr. Eria Ping Ying Li, Graduate School, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: Based on interview data from a wide range of stakeholders in Hong Kong, this study provides valuable findings of current progress and challenges of Special Educational Needs students’ post-school transition. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Dialogues of Diversity: Examining the Role of Drama PrProcessesocesses in AfAffirmingfirming Diversity and Supporting Inclusive Educational Practices Dr. Carol Helene Carter, Early Childhood Education, Holmesglen Higher Education, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Richard Sallis, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Drama can provide dialogical spaces for critical cultural conversations. This paper uses a variety of sources to reflect on the role of drama processes in affirming diversity and supporting inclusivity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Deploying Counter Discourses to Challenge the Deficit TruthsruthsT ofof EducationallyEducationally DisplacedDisplaced YoungoungY People Dr. Nicoli Humphry, International Graduate Center for Education, School of Education, Faculty of Law, Education, Business, and Arts, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: This study explores deploying counter discourses to challenge the deficit truths of educationally displaced young people. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference FRIDAY, 17 JULY 10:15-11:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Diversity and the University: Addressing Difference (LE4) Identity and Participation in United Kingdom Universities: An Exploration of Student Experiences and University Practices Dr. Jane Tobbell, Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Dr. Rob Burton, International School of Human and Health Sciences, The University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Overview: To include all students, Higher Education pedagogy needs to reject stratification by social label and be sufficiently flexible to enable participation of diverse identities. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Colored In: Investigating the Challenges of an "Othered" Identity within Spaces of Learning Monique Biscombe, Visual Arts Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Elmarie Costandius, Visual Arts Education, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Stephané Conradie, Visual Arts Education, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Overview: This study investigates how an "Othered" identity is described and experienced within spaces of learning at a Visual Arts Department at a South African University. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Learning to Honor Diversity through Participation and Observation Dr. Z. Z. Lehmberg, English Department, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, USA Overview: How does one learn to value and honor diversity? This paper recounts one university faculty's experience promoting diversity on her campus and shares the lessons she has learned. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Affirming Growth in Leadership: Belize Study Tour Participants’ Perspectives Dr. Douglas Hermond, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling, College of Education, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, USA Dr. Tyrone Tanner, Prairie View A&M University, Houston, USA Overview: This investigation determines the impact that a cultural exchange program would have on the leadership perspectives of graduate students from an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 4 Community Diversity and Governance (LE5) Building a Sense of Citizenship among Women in Poverty: Experiences in Community Organization Dr. Minhwa Yun, Department of Social Work, Hallym University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This study observes women in poverty who take part in community organization and become actors of social change, providing useful information for social work practice and policies. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Palm Oil Boom, Extractive Industrial Development, and Social Sustainability: An Empirical Assessment Dr. Yee Keong Choy, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Overview: This paper empirically examines the socio-economic impact of monoculture and extractive industrial development on the indigenous people in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Women in Senior Positions in South African Higher Education: A Reflection on oiceV and Agency Dr. Juliet Ramohai, Psychology of Education, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Overview: This paper explores how women academics in senior positions in South African higher education experience issues of voice and agency for women in positions of power in academia. Theme: Organizational Diversity
11:55-12:05 TRANSITION 12:05-12:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Workshop (LE2) The Fairness Project: Enabling Students in Higher Education to Understand Their Rights and Prospective Responsibilities under the United Kingdom Equality Legislation Rachel Nir, Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Tina McKee, Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Overview: The professions have reached stasis in advancing equality of opportunity. This interactive workshop will explore universities' responsibilities in equipping students to challenge barriers and become fair employers of the future. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 2 Workshop (LE3) Workshop on Systemic Constellation and Its Application in Diversity Management Dr. Carmen Finckh, ESB Business School, University of Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Dr. Kerstin Reich, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Overview: This workshop explains how systemic constellation works, where, and for which purpose it is applied. The authors demonstrate and discuss how it might be used in diversity management. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room 3 Workshop (LE4) The Intersectionality of Age with Other Aspects of Diversity Lynette Chappell-Williams, Office of orkforceW Diversity, Equity, and Life Quality, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Asa Nilsson Billme, Diversity Certification Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden Overview: The intersectionality of age with other aspects of diversity has implications on the successful management of workforce diversity. This workshop provides European and US best practices for addressing these implications. Theme: Organizational Diversity
12:50-13:45 LUNCH FRIDAY, 17 JULY 13:45-15:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Challenges of Multiculturalism in the Classroom (LE2) Education Rights and Freedom of Religion: The "Clash of Civilizations" in (Post)-multicultural Learning Spaces in Europe Dr. Kyriaki Topidi, Department of Comparative Law, Center for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion, University of Lucerne, Luzern, Switzerland Overview: This paper discusses the clash between education and religious rights in multicultural classrooms in Europe. It reflects comparatively on the need and ways to respond to the challenge of diversity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Bridging the Communication Gap: The Issue of Diversity in a Rural Community Dr. Young Imm Kang Song, Creative Arts in Learning Division, Graduate School of Education, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA Overview: This project explores how it may be possible to help students understand the significance of and diversity of culture through different projects and curricula. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Friends beyond the Bridge: Learning with Others and Getting to Know the Other Dr. Anat Raviv, Tel-Hai Academic College, Haifa, Israel Overview: This study introduces a multi-year plan that creates a bridge and connection between Arab teenagers and Jewish students with the aim to recognize, understand, and support one another. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference How to Develop Inclusive Design Curriculum to Embrace Diversity Prof. Vibhavari Jani, Interior Architecture and Product Design, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA Overview: In this paper the author expresses the importance of inclusive education in the Western design curricula and discusses her college’s efforts to embrace diversity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room 2 Diversity and Cultural Studies (LE3) Transgressive and Mobile Identities in Latin American Literature and Visual Arts: A Case Study for a Theory of Cultural Diversity Dr. Krzysztof Kulawik, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, USA Overview: Cross-dressing and androgyny in contemporary Latin American literature and art lead to conceptualized identity as a mobile construct of cultural diversity, applicable to categories of race, ethnicity, and social class. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Diversity of Digital Culture among the Post-1990's Generation: A Case Study of Chinese College Students and Their Use of WeChat Yuzhu Peng, Media and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK Overview: This paper applies a social norm-oriented perspective and triangulates survey and netnography methods to inquire about the emerging digital culture among the post-90's generation Chinese college students. Theme: Identity and Belonging “Follow Me” and “My Footsteps in Baraguá”: Jamaican and Haitian Influences in Afro-Cuban Women’s Film and Literature Dr. Dawn Duke, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Overview: This paper focuses on Inés María Martiatu’s “Follow Me” along with Gloria Rolando’s documentary, “My Footsteps in Baraguá,” as manifestations of another kind of Afro-Descendant presence within Cuban national space. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room 3 Minorities and Underrepresentation in Higher Education (LE4) Diversifying United States Higher Education? A Critical Thematic Analysis of Experiences of Female Immigrant Faculty in the United States Academy Dr. Brandi Lawless, Department of Communication Studies, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA Dr. Yea-Wen Chen, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, USA Overview: We utilize a critical thematic analysis to interrogate the experiences of female immigrant faculty members in the United States, regarding how they negotiate their subjectivity within a neoliberal context. Theme: Identity and Belonging Are German Governmental Programs to Increase the Percentage of Female Professors a Success? Anecdotal Analysis and Hypothesis Building Dr. Kerstin Reich, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Jessica Klab, Diversity Office, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Overview: For several years the German government has tried various approaches to increase the number of female professors. This paper explores the role of the application process as a potential barrier. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Role of “Social Fact” and Its Influence on the Discord in Hiring Practices in the Philippines Angiela Gemeniano, Manpower Group, Laguna, Philippines Overview: This paper explains how the implementation of an open-minded, unbiased, and equal opportunity employment, as well as acknowledging other credentials, such as inclusive education, can affect poverty incidence. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Despondency to Competency: Factors Influencing ell-BeingW for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Hong Kong Mo Ng, Division of Learning, Development, and Diversity Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This study examines parental self-efficacy mediates the effects on psychological well-being of various parenting constructs for parents of children with special educational needs to facilitate development of intervention programs. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference FRIDAY, 17 JULY 13:45-15:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Learner Diversity: Curriculum and Instruction (LE5) Catering to Students’ Learning Diversity through Rich Tasks and Collaborative Learning: Junior Secondary Mathematics Dr. Ida Ah Chee Mok, Division of Mathematics and Science, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: To cater to students’ learning diversity a University Team collaborated with Hong Kong schools on the innovation of rich tasks and collaborative learning to promote students’ motivation of learning mathematics. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Responsive Pedagogies: Getting It Right Down Under Prof. Angus Hikairo Macfarlane, College of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Dr. Sonja Macfarlane, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Overview: Down under in New Zealand, diversity across the sector is an enigma. It is guided by a nationally prescribed Maori Strategy. A critique of this strategy will be outlined. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference What Kind of Support Facilitates Oral Vocabulary Learning of Chinese Students with Intellectual Disabilities? Yutian Lei, Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr. Pui-wan Cheng, Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: Among the various forms of support for oral vocabulary learning of Chinese students with moderate intellectual disabilities, the additional support of print in both pinyin and character was most effective. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Sociolinguistics of "Wrong Grammar" Prof. Eileen Meneses, English Division, Department of Humanities, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Los Baños, Philippines Overview: This paper adopts a sociolinguistic perspective in examining the distinct ways by which a language learner constructs texts, the error patterns, and the diversity in the stages of interlanguage development. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference
15:25-15:55 CLOSING SESSION Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations List of Participants
Annen Silvia Federal Institute for Vocational Germany Education and Training Babnich Judith Wichita State University USA Bearden Steve George Fox University USA Beaumont Stephen John Centro de Tecnología para el Desarrollo Argentina Berardi Anna George Fox University USA Biscombe Monique Stellenbosch University South Africa Bridges Susan The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Brown Angela M. Fashion Institute of Technology, USA State University of New York Burton Rob The University of Huddersfield UK Carter Carol Helene Holmesglen Higher Education Australia Cassidy-Mackenzie Beverley Equal Employment Opportunities Trust New Zealand Challeen Marina University of Minnesota USA Chan Anson The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Chan Cheri The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Chaney Paul Cardiff University UK Chappell-Williams Lynette Cornell University USA Chen Li Syracuse University USA Cheng San-yin The Hong Kong Institute of Education China Choi Liza Mount Royal University Canada Choy Yee Keong Kyoto University Japan Coleman Lisa M. Harvard University USA Correia Ana Maria University of Saint Joseph China Darder Antonia Loyola Marymount University USA Dawson Mark Hertie School of Governance Germany Duke Dawn University of Tennessee USA Escala Anuncia Oregon State University USA Fagelson David American University USA Finckh Carmen Reutlingen University Germany Fix Kristina Reutlingen University Germany Gemeniano Angiela Manpower Group Philippines Geng Gretchen Charles Darwin University Australia Groß-Kosche Petra Reutlingen University Germany Guo Xin Chinese University of Hong Kong China Haas Liesl California State University, Long Beach USA Hermond Douglas Prairie View A&M University USA Hernandez Rebecca George Fox University USA Humphry Nicoli Charles Darwin University Australia Islam Rabiul Flinders University Australia Jackson Liz University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Jani Vibhavari Kansas State University USA Jones David A. University of Warsaw Poland Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations List of Participants
Jones Linda Deakin University Australia Junghare Indira Y. University of Minnesota USA Klab Jessica Reutlingen University Germany Kubicka Joanna The University of Business Poland Kulawik Krzysztof Central Michigan University USA Kung Mabel California State University at Fullerton USA Kupczyk Teresa The University of Business Poland Ladzani Kanakana Yvonne University of South Africa South Africa Lai Henrietta The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Lam Brian California State University Long Beach USA Lam Joseph Wai-ip The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Laotaeo Adison Office of the Permanent Secretary Thailand Lauffer Luciane Macquarie University Australia Lawless Brandi University of San Francisco USA Lee Michael University of British Columbia Canada Lee Min Young The Cyber University of Korea South Korea Lehmberg Z. Z. Northern Michigan University USA Lei Yutian The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Li Eria Ping Ying The Hong Kong Institute of Education Hong Kong Li Michelle The University of Hong Kong China Liebler Carol Syracuse University USA Lo Margaret The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Lozeva Silvia Curtin University Australia Macfarlane Angus Hikairo University of Canterbury New Zealand Martin Gregory University of Technology Sydney Australia Mathiesen Sally San Diego State University USA McKee Tina University of Central Lancashire UK Meneses Eileen University of the Philippines Los Banos Philippines Miller A.T. Cornell University USA Misdi Masita Southern Illinois University USA Mok Ida Ah Chee The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Mutasa Davie E. University of South Africa South Africa Mutovkina Lyuba Reutlingen University Germany Nakin Rosalia Moroesi University of South Africa South Africa Ng Mo The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Nicoll Camilla Deakin University Australia Nilsson Billme Âsa Lectia Sweden Nir Rachel University of Central Lancashire UK Norberg Monica Gotland University Sweden O’Callaghan Christine Mary Lee Shau Kee College Hong Kong Okpodi Julius University of Northern British Columbia Canada Ollis Tracey Deakin University Australia Ottoh-Agede Blossom Shimayam Federal University Lafia Nigeria Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations List of Participants
Palmer June Monica University of the Free State South Africa Peng Yuzhu Newcastle University UK Poirier Jeffrey American Institutes for Research USA Prats David Oregon State University USA Putthijirangkoon Chananchida Office of the Permanent Secretary Thailand Quach Sophie Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany Qudrat Nasirah Delia Memorial School Hong Kong Rabasso Carlos NEOMA Business School France Ramohai Juliet University of the Free State South Africa Raviv Anat Tel-Hai Academic College Israel Reich Kerstin Reutlingen University Germany Robertson Hamish University of New South Wales Australia Sabanathan Dharshika Macquarie University Australia Samani Shamim Curtin University Australia Samek Linda George Fox University USA Schofield Keith University of Huddersfield UK Sedibe Mabatho University of Johannesburg South Africa Sengani Thomas Maitakhole University of South Africa South Africa Shaaba Muhammad Mann Federal College of Education Nigeria Shore Sue Charles Darwin University Australia Slee Roger Victoria University Australia Song Young Imm Kang Lesley University USA Sun Liang Linda Kwansei Gakuin University Japan Sushames Lorraine Charles Darwin University Australia Szymańska Aneta Klaudia The University of Business Poland Tan Wee Lee Temasek Polytechnic Singapore Taylor Pamela A. Seattle University USA Thorne Margaret Monash University Australia Tinajero-Villavicencio Guadalupe Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico Tobbell Jane University of Huddersfield UK Topidi Kyriaki Universität Luzern Switzerland Tuer Frances Louise McMaster University Canada Wada Mineko The University of British Columbia Canada Wang Lj-Jung National Ceontral University Taiwan Wastal Carrie University of California, San Diego USA Weekes Brendan The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Wetherhead Debbie L. Kennesaw State University USA White Ruth University of Southern California USA Wichienkuer Narumon Office of the Permanent Secretary Thailand Wille Celina Michigan State University USA Willsher Kerre A. University of South Australia Australia Woodward Alison E. Free University of Brussels Belgium Workman-Stark Angela Royal Canadian Mounted Police Canada Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations List of Participants
Yeom Hyong Suk James Madison University USA Yeung Jaclyn University of Oxford UK Yeung Patcy The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Yu Matthew Community Business Limited Hong Kong Yun Minhwa Hallym University South Korea Zhang Lili Beijing Normal University China Zhou Chenqi Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and USA Public Administration Zuck Barbara Montana State University USA Özkan Gökhan Bursa Technical University Turkey Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Notes | Conference Calendar 2015-2016
Eighth Global Studies Conference Imperial College London | London, UK | 20–21 July 2015 www.onglobalization.com/the-conference
Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society Imperial College London | London, UK | 22–24 July 2015 www.artsinsociety.com/the-conference
Sixth International Conference on Sport and Society University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 30–31 July 2015 www.sportandsociety.com/the-conference
Eighth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum National Science Museum, Delhi | New Delhi, India | 7–9 August 2015 www.onmuseums.com/the-conference
Fifth International Conference on Health, Wellness, and Society Universidad de Alcalá | Madrid, Spain | 3–4 September 2015 www.healthandsociety.com/the-conference
Fifth International Conference on Food Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, USA | 18–19 September 2015 www.food–studies.com/the-conference
Seventh International Conference on Science in Society University Center | Chicago, USA | 1–2 October 2015 www.science–society.com/the-conference
Spaces and Flows: Sixth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies University Center Chicago | Chicago, USA | 15–16 October 2015 www.spacesandflows.com/the-conference
Thirteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing, and Libraries University of British Columbia at Robson Square | Vancouver, Canada | 19–20 October 2015 www.booksandpublishing.com/the-conference
Sixth International Conference on the Image University of California at Berkeley | Berkeley, USA | 29–30 October 2015 www.ontheimage.com/the-conference | Conference Calendar 2015-2016
The Eighth International Conference on e–Learning and Innovative Pedagogies University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, USA | 2–3 November 2015 www.ubi–learn.com/the-conference
Aging and Society: Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference The Catholic University of America | Washington D.C. USA | 5–6 November 2015 www.agingandsociety.com/the-conference
Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability Portland State University | Portland, USA | 21–23 January 2016 www.onsustainability.com/the-conference
Twelfth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society Universidad de Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18–19 February 2016 www.techandsoc.com/the-conference
Tenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC–Rio) | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25–27 February 2016 www.designprinciplesandpractices.com/the-conference
Sixth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society The Catholic University of America | Washington D.C., USA | 22–23 March 2016 www.religioninsociety.com/the-conference
Sixth International Conference on the Constructed Environment The University of Arizona | Tucson, USA | 2–4 April 2016 www.constructedenvironment.com/the-conference
Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, USA | 19–20 April 2016 www.ontheorganization.com/the-conference
Eighth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses VNU University of Science (HUS) and Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) | Hanoi, Vietnam | 21-22 April 2016 www.on-climate.com/the-conference