Francis D. Lee - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2022
Featured Session
Global Citizenship and Capacity-Building for Peace
Global Citizenship Education (GCED) aims to be transformative, equipping learners of all ages with the values, knowledge, and skills that reflect and instill respect for human rights, social justice, diversity, gender equality, and environmental sustainability. GCED is competence/capacity-oriented critical learning. It promotes respect for differences and diversity, being socially connected, transforming relationships, critical reflections on identities, skills for critical inquiry and analysis, and questions into underlying assumptions and power dynamics. Learning for peace is to acquire sensitivity of peace; violence and conflict; and capacities for conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding.
Time: Saturday (April 30) 3:00 p.m. KST (50 min., Synchronous)
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Second Session
Transformative Pedagogies for Peace Education
Transforming pedagogies in peace education will bring about a surprising transformation of learners and facilitators together. Learning in which the stories and experiences of the participants’ lives are central will create truly participatory processes. Mutual learning through and beyond dialogues, exchanging what body and mind promptly capture and convey will create a dialogical, mutual learning. Creating step-by-step "aha!" moments through theatrical, musical, drawing, mime, and other types of activities that arouse all six senses will transform education into artistic and cultural representations of the learners’ lives. Creating and testing together new things and thoughts, acts and interpretations, with question-posing and detail-observing will form a critical way of learning. The pedagogy of estranging involves drawing distance with the familiar, inviting and facing the unfamiliar, to raise and respond to deep questions about oneself and the surrounding world.
Time: Sunday (May 1) 4:00 p.m. KST (50 min., Synchronous)
Biosketch
Francis Daehoon Lee has been professor for peace studies at SungKongHoe University, Ritsumeikan University, and the International University of Japan. He served as legal advisor to the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Sub-commission in 2005 and worked with the Center for Peace Museum in Korea. He is the former executive director of ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives, Asia-wide) and the director of the Center for Peace and Disarmament, Korea. He has coordinated CENA (the Civil Society Education Network in Asia), a collaborating network of universities committed for peace, human rights, and democracy studies. Francis has been actively involved in facilitating UNESCO and APCEIU teacher training workshops since 2006. In 2012, he joined the Peace Education Project MOMO (PeaceMOMO) to provide school teachers and peace activists in Korea with peace education training that is based on new, learner-oriented pedagogical principles. He is also the director of the Trans-Education for Peace Institute (TEPI).
Select Sites
News Article: Francis Daehoon Lee Meets Jeremy Corbyn
Video with Francis Daehoon Lee: Peace on the Korean Peninsula?
The TEPI Podcast
PeaceMOMO Website
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