[xmca] call for papers: Bilingual education in Latin America, July/2009

From: Ana Paula B. R. Cortez <apbrcortez who-is-at yahoo.com.br>
Date: Tue Aug 19 2008 - 07:36:07 PDT

Dear colleagues,
The Pontifical University of Sao Paulo, The University of Mogi das Cruzes-Lapa and the Research Program Language in Activities in School Contexts (LACE) kindly invite researches and practitioners who focus on bilingualism, bilingual education, teacher education and citizenship in Latin America or the rest of the world to submit abstracts to the international conference:   
Third Symposium on Bilingualism, Bilingual Education and Citizenship in Latin America
July 8-10, 2009, São Paulo, Brazil
General Information
The symposium on "Bilingualism, Bilingual Education and Citizenship in Latin America" will take place in São Paulo, Brazil on July 8,9,10, 2009 at PUC–SP (Catholic University of São Paulo) and UMC – Lapa (The University of Mogi das Cruzes – Lapa). This event includes, for the first time, a pre-conference winter school on the main issues of the conference.
The 1st BILINGLATAM Pre-conference winter school will take place on  08 July 2009 and will offer courses for graduate and undergraduate students and masters and doctors in the various fields of Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teacher Education and Citizenship Education. Students all over the world are encouraged to participate and contribute to the high quality interdisciplinary teaching of the School.
 
General Information
This symposium, in similar fashion to BILINGLATAM I and II, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2004 and in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2006, aims at promoting an exchange of knowledge in the fields of research and teaching on bilingualism and bilingual education among those who work in majority and minority language contexts in Latin America.
The Organising Committee invites proposals for presentations on any aspect of the central themes, which are: 
·        Bilingualism
·        Bilingual Education
·        Bilingual Teacher Education
·        Citizenship Education
 
There will be three modalities of presentation:
• Keynote sessions (with invited keynote speakers)
• Oral papers (Maximum time, 30 minutes)
• Poster presentation sessions (15 minutes)

English, Portuguese, LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) and Spanish are the official languages of the Symposium.
 
Call for Papers
The Bilinglatam symposia series aim at promoting an exchange of knowledge in the fields of research and teaching on bilingualism, bilingual education, bilingual teacher education and citizenship education among those who work in majority and minority language contexts in Latin America. The past two symposia (Buenos Aires, 2004 and Bogotá, 2006) were concerned to consolidate work carried out in bilingualism in Latin America in relation to policy, pedagogical practices, and teacher education.  Thus, the symposia invited prominent researchers involved with these issues in their research to participate in these events and to inform the debate, taking into account perspectives that will enrich the discussion.
The third symposium will address bilingualism, bilingual education and bilingual teacher education, linking these concepts with the notion of citizenship.  Due to our preoccupation in expanding the scenario to deprived communities, we plan to attend the issue related to prestigious and minorities’ bilingualism, focusing interdependence as a single goal.  The themes of the Symposia are at the core of our responsibility towards a greater community of life and future generations (La Carta de la Tierra en Acción, UNICEF, 2008), emphasizing the condition for access to different cultures, closer forms of coexistence, and the possibility of access to cultural capital.
We feel that an exchange of knowledge and experience between research communities in Latin America will help in the understanding of common issues in an attempt to transform the socio-culturally unbalanced situation in which the Latin American communities live.
The symposium will welcome researchers from various fields of education and applied linguistics, including undergraduate students, masters and doctors from the participant institutions. We feel that this is a great opportunity to improve connections between Latin American researchers, through generating discussion and debate on issues arising from the relations between bilingualism, bilingual education and identity, bilingualism, bilingual education and intercultural relations, and bilingualism, bilingual education and citizenship.
The Organising Committee invites proposals for presentations on any aspect of the main themes of the conference. We encourage researchers from all over the world to join the discussion as well, in order to enrich the work that has been done in our community.
Submit a summary of your paper or poster in approximately 200 words and an abstract of no more than 500 words. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Academic Committee. Oral papers and poster presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, allowing 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. The official languages of the symposium are English, Portuguese, LIBRAS and Spanish.
Please complete and submit the presenter's and abstract forms found in the following website: www.fernandaliberali.com.br/bilinglatam or contact us at the following address: bilinglatamIII@yahoo.com.br
 
Deadline for submission of proposals: November 30th, 2008.
You will receive notification of acceptance no later than February 15th, 2009. If your proposal is accepted, you may send the full version of your paper before March 12th, 2009. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teacher Education and Citizenship Education in Latin America, to be distributed on CD-ROM to conference participants at the end of the event. All registered attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings.
 
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Anne-Marie de Mejía (CIFE, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia)
Prof. Christine Helot (IUMF, Alsace, Strasbourg, France)
Prof. Heloísa Britto de Mello (Federal University of Goiás, Goiás, Brazil)
Prof. Marilda Cavalcanti (UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil)
Prof. Marilyn Martin-Jones (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)
 
Organising Committee

Fernanda C. Liberali (Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC-SP)
Angela C. Lessa (Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC-SP)
Maria Cecília C. Magalhães (Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC-SP)
Rosemary Schetinni (ULS Idiomas/ Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC-SP)
Mona Mohamed Hawi (State University of São Paulo - USP)
Ana Paula Barbosa Risério Cortez (University of Mogi das Cruzes – Villa Lobos UMC-VL and Stance Dual School)
Norma V. Sanchez (Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC – SP)
·        Anne-Marie de Mejía (CIFE, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia)
·        Maria Cristina Damianovic (UNA – Costa Rica e PUC –COGEAE)

Helena W. Miaskovsky (Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP and Stance Dual School São Paulo, Brazil)  
Ermelinda Baricceli (Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)
José Carlos Barbosa Lopes (Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)
 
Academic Committee
Amparo Clavijo (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas)     
Allan Luke (Faculty of Education - Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Angela Brambilla Cavenaghi T. Lessa  (Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)                       
Anne-Marie de Mejía (CIFE, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)
Cecília Magalhães (Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC – SP, São Paulo, Brazil)             
Claudia Torres           
Cristina Banfí (Ministry of Education, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Dorothy Robbins (University of Central Missouri, USA)
Eila Burns (Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, Teacher Education College, Finland)
Fernanda C. Liberali (Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)
Gisela Wajskop  (Instituto Superior de Educação de São Paulo – Singularidades, São Paulo, Brazil)   
Iliana Reyes   (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)                   
John Smeds (University of Truko)
Luz Libia Rey (Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia)
Maria Lucia Casas (Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana – UNICA, Bogotá, Colombia)
Mona Mohamed Hawi (State University of São Paulo - USP, São Paulo, Brazil)                
Rosemary Hohlenwerger Schettini (ULS Idiomas/ Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)                          
Sari Pöyhönen (University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland)      
Sueli Salles Fidalgo   (Catholic University of São Paulo / PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)            
 
Please, share information about the conference with as many people as possible.
Thanks!

Ana Paula Barbosa Risério Cortez
English Language and Literature Professor
Faculty of Language and Education
University of Mogi das Cruzes-VL, Brazil
Av. Imperatriz Leopoldina, 550
Vl. Leopoldina, São Paulo, SP - Brazil
05305-000
55 11 3648-5050
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