Program
ICEO: Education in Forty Years of Occupation, 1967-2007
Talita Kumi School, August 23 – 26, 2007, Beit Jalla, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Thursday, August 23- 2007:
10:30-11:00 Welcome and Official Opening
11:00-11:30 Organizational Issues
11:30- 13:30 Round table
Mohammad Atia and Khalid Shana: The failure of the Israeli and Palestinian peace camps to influence their peoples
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30:-16:30 Two papers
Hannah Amit-Kochavi: Translation from Arabic literature into Hebrew in Israeli Hebrew Textbooks–a missed potential
Yael Lerer: Andalus publications
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-19:00 Garden session:
Yoav Peled and Nasser Ibrahim: Readings of the political situation: Palestinian and Israeli Round table:
19:00-21:00 Dinner
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Friday, August 24-2007:
09:30 -11:00 Panel:
Nurit Peled-Elhanan and Mor-Sommerfeld: Between exclusion and inclusion: Discursive challenges to Israeli education
11:15-13:00 Two paper
Alison Weir: If Americans knew
Keith Hammond: The Israeli Occupation: A violation of the international
idea of the university
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break and praying
14:30-16:00 Workshop
Brian Rice: A historical and comparative analysis on the impact of colonialism among Aboriginal Peoples, Palestinian and other marginalized societies.
16:00- 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:15 Paper
Linda Dittmar: Teaching literature and political imagination in the United States: A window into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
17:30-19:00 Garden session: Round table
Sami Adwan Yael Lerer, Anat Matar and Gabi Baramki: Academic and cultural boycott of Israelis and cooperation
19:00-20:00 Dinner
20:00-21:30 Two papers
Wafa Ayayad: The Israeli violation of the Rights of the Palestinian children during Intifad Al-Aqsa
Rula Musleh: Readings in the Palestinian and Israeli historical narratives
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Saturday, August 25-2007
09:15-11:00 Two papers
Mamoun Kassem : Israeli restriction on education in East Jerusalem
Khadija Zawahreh and Kathleen Matheos: Open education and Occupation: Credentials and beyond, an interactive presentation
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:30 Two papers
Emily Siegel: Dilemmas in identity formation in schools run through the Israeli Ministry of Education
Budd Hall: Community-University research partnerships for action: Transformation or domestications
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Presentation
Oyvind Wistrom: Some experiences and reflections from an educational visit to Palestine and Israel with teacher training students from Norway..
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:15 Presentation:
Insert details on Parent’s Circle
17:30-20:00 Field trip to Aida Refugee Camp and tour of the Wall
20:00 Cultural evening
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Sunday, August 26-2007
09:00-10:30 Two papers
Tali Kochavi : Tales of Hope: A proposed educational project
Darlene Clover (paper read by Budd Hall): Creative Defiance: An exploration of women’s critical arts-based adult education and knowledge mobilization practices
10:45 – 11:30 Round Table:
Marion Boulby and Howard Davidson: Education in Forty Years of Occupation, 1967-2007: Overview and suggested follow up.
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:30 Closing session
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch, departures
14:00 – 18:00 ICEO: General Assembly meeting (Forum participants welcomed)
Proposed agenda
1- Reflections and feedback on the second Educators’ Forum
2- Funding
3- Next project/s
4-Formal registration
5- New membership
6- Expand the steering committee