Attention Daegu-Gyeongbuk KOTESOL faithful: We are meeting on the second Saturday of May - the 11th. Current members and non-members alike are invited! Feel free to bring a friend and invite your colleagues, too.
About us: The Daegu-Gyeongbuk Chapter of Korea TESOL serves the ELT community in Daegu and the greater Gyeongsangbuk-do area with monthly meetings to share information about English language teaching, engage in professional development, and to socialize with like-minded folks.
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2019
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Venue: Downtown Daegu.
Ecology Oriental Wellness Experience Center
(On Oriental Medicine Street – behind Hyundai Department Store)
Namseong-ro 24
에코한방웰빙체험관
대구광역시 중구 남성로 24
Ph) 053-422-9651
Directions:
From Banwoldang Subway Station, walk through the underground and take the escalator to the left in front of Hyundai Department Store (HDS), Exit 18. Do not enter HDS.
Walk across the front of HDS and turn right. Head to the front corner of Sh Bank (수협 은행), behind HDS. Daegu Oriental Medicine Street is there, turn left. You can find our meetings at The Ecology Oriental Wellness Experience Center, Namseong-ro 24. It is directly across the street from the First Presbyterian Church of Daegu and the Oriental Medicine Museum.
Go down the flat stone sidewalk to the back of the building. Then walk up the outdoor steps to the second floor conference room. There is a Da Hyang coffee/tea shop on the first floor.
Agenda:
3PM
Meet’ n’ greet new friends and old. New friends: Tell us about yourself and your interests!
3:30
May Workshop Presenter: Kevin Kester
Presenter Bio
Kevin Kester is a tenure-track assistant professor of International Education and Global Affairs at Keimyung University in Daegu. He completed his postdoc and PhD at the University of Cambridge and regularly consults with UNESCO in Seoul. Kevin has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in international and domestic venues — including SSCI, Scopus, and KCI publications — and has acquired research funding in excess of $250,000 in his early career. His latest book is The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice, and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century. He has worked in Korea since 2007.
Workshop: “Decolonizing pedagogies: Some practical examples from intercultural educators in Korea”
In response to the increasing internationalization of Korean higher education, questions are arising about how educational professionals should respond creatively and effectively to changing demographics and citizenships in classrooms and universities (Kim & Chun, 2015). Lecturers are increasingly facing the challenge of educating young people from diverse backgrounds — from the global North and the global South. It is important in this changing context that intercultural educators in Korean universities adapt their theoretical and pedagogical approaches to transcend the limitations of the previous generations of multicultural education, human rights, language, peace and citizenship education to approach interculturalism from diverse traditions (Andreotti et al., 2015; Connell, 2007). This workshop will begin with a critical review of the literature and share findings from previous workshops. This will be followed by guided inquiry to collectively re-imagine strategies for decolonizing higher education in Korea today. The strategies in turn will be shared with the KOTESOL community in The Korea TESOL Journal.
5PM – KOTESOL Social Event nearby (Brewer's Brothers, Etoh's, Indian, or Galbi - TBA). Everyone pays for their own food and beverage.
Daegu-Gyeongbuk KOTESOL Homepage - http://www.koreatesol.org/daegu
