GISIG Dennis' online aide
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
IATEFL GISIG
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Your local time: Sunday14:00 - 15:00 GMT
Video interview with Maureen Ellis,co-ordinator GISIG and Sunday's presenter in Adobe Connect
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Interview with Dennis Newson another member of GISIG
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What are “Global Issues”?
“The ‘Global Issues Special Interest Group of
IATEFL’ is really the most important Special Interest Group this Association
has and all members of IATEFL should be members of it.” To explain this
statement we must refer to GISIG’S Mission Statement.
The Global Issues SIG was
formed in 1995 to provide a forum among ELT practitioners to stimulate
awareness and understanding of global issues, and to encourage the development
of global education within language teaching.
What are our aims?
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To increase members' awareness and understanding of issues such as
peace, justice and equality, human rights and social responsibility, racism and
sexism, the environment, world development and international understanding.
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To exchange ideas on integrating peace education, human rights
education, development education and environmental education into language
teaching.
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To equip learners with the knowledge, skills and values which can help
them confront both local and global problems.
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To promote a less Eurocentric perspective within ELT.
These aims justify that above
givem statement of the SIG’s Founding Father: Alan Maley.
GISIG fulfils the two roles a
language teacher has in society: the conveyer of linguistic knowledge AND the
educator to enable students to understand better how the modern world
functions.
GISIG gives teachers the means of
filling their roles with meaningful substance; it provides teaching models and
concepts and stimulates teachers to develop ideas on how to integrate these ideas
into teaching.
GISIG enables IATEFL to be a truly
International association.
Explanation
This is simply a blog to enable me to gather together and publish, promote information about forthcoming IATEFL GISIG online events.
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