34th ATEE conference 2009

29 August t/m 02 September 2009

34th Annual Conference of the
Association for Teacher Education in Europe

Knowledge Creativity in Teacher EducationEducation for Knowledge Creation

From August 29th to September 2nd, 2009, the 34th ATEE took place in Palma de Mallorca.

The conference brought together more than 400 teacher educators from more than 40 countries within and outside Europe.

THE PROCEEDINGS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

The conference was integrated with a meeting of the Summer Institute of the University of Toronto. This created the opportunity to bring together two knowledge networks for exchange and new friendships.

During the conference the RDCs developed their work through working sessions and paper presentations. The keynotes focussed on the theme of knowledge building in education and the implications for teacher education.

The outcomes of the conference and its contribution to the development of teacher education will be reflected in the proceedings of the conference, which will be published on this website in the Spring of 2010.

For more information and contact:

Dr. Mireia Montané Tuca and Dr. Joana Salazar Noguera
Contact address: atee2009mallorca@gmail.com

This conference has been sponsored by:

Knowledge Creativity in Teacher Education
Education for Knowledge Creation

The theme of the conference will be centered on what is known about Knowledge Creation (KC) in different cultures as well as which mindsets are most appropriate to develop KC in Teacher Education for a world which demands creativity of the many, not just of a few artists and research scientists.

At present, Europe needs to strengthen its capacity for creativity to respond effectively to the development of a knowledge society. Therefore, educational training systems should cater to the development of competences by supporting creativity, with a view to finding original solutions to various life aspects of either a personal, occupational or social nature.

The main objective of the Conference is to find out whether educational practices of today’s institutions, which offer initial and/or in-service teacher education, provide effective solutions toward cultivating the learning dispositions that underpin creativity.

Thus, there are challenging conceptual issues about whether educational goals for knowledge creation should be formulated in terms of skills, knowledge, habits of mind, personal traits, character development or acculturation, among others.

Some research questions to be considered are listed below:

People concerned with improvements in education and with the advancement of knowledge like to consider closely-related questions such as the following: “How is new knowledge created?”, “How is new knowledge possible?” and “How does new knowledge work?”
Conceptual tools for Knowledge Creation and mindsets are commonly recognized as playing a crucial part in this process. Some conceptual tools are the following: logical reasoning, combination, analogy; self-organization; ideas interacting with ideas; curiosity, imagination, persistence.
We look for satisfactory or problematic answers which may explain the process of producing new knowledge, which can be made more likely through effective education policies.

Next to the conference theme, the conference will offer room for papers that fit within the themes of the Research and Development Centers that are active within the ATEE and for business meetings of these RDCs. See for more information the list of RDCs on this website.

Schedule

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Download the general program (pdf)

The detailed program for the parallelsessions and RDC working meetings and the abstracts of all papers can be found in the conference guide.

Saturday, 29th August

10.00 - 18.00	Registration
10.00 - 16.30	Pre-conference workshops Download the description of the pre-conference workshops 1st workshop. Getting Started with Knowledge Building Creation methodology: workshop for beginners, Katerine Bielaczyc, National Institute of Education, Nanyang University, Singapore. Participation fee 25€ 2nd workshop. Bridging minds for Knowledge Creativity: innovating communicative approaches in a global world. Multilingual and intercultural attitudes for dealing with cultural and personal diversity. Neus Lorenzo, Head Unit, Department of Education, Catalonia, Spain. Participation fee 25€ 3rd workshop: Laboratory Experience. Knowledge Building Creation in international context. Nature of the challenge. Tomorrow’s Innovators: workshop to experience knowledge creativity. International Team coordinated by Thérèse Laferrière (Quebec), Nancy Law (Hong Kong) and Mireia Montané (Catalunya). This workshop will continue on other conference days. Participation fee 100€ The three workshops will be carried out with the collaboration of RDC Global Co-operation in Teacher Education and the OISE Summer Institute of the University of Toronto, Canada. 4rd workshop: Teachers’and teacher educators’ ownership of professional quality - Using creative reflection tools to identify professional quality of teachers and teacher educators. International team Comenius Project Identifying Teacher Quality/RDC Curricula in Teacher Education coordinated by Marco Snoek (The Netherlands). Participation fee 25€ 5th workshop: “String” theory and knowledge creation: an innovative way of concretizing, thinking through barriers and determining positive action. Glynn Kirkham, Consultant in Education and Educational Leadership and Management. Participation fee 25€.
16.00 - 17.00	Meeting of the Administrative Council (UIB, ed. Jovellanos)
17.00 - 18.00	AC+RDCs and Academic/Organising Committee
19.30 - 20.30	Newcomers meeting
20.30	Welcome reception

Sunday, 30th August

09.00 - 19.00	Registration
09.30 - 10.30	Opening Ceremony Chair: Giovanni Polliani, ATEE President Co chairs: Mireia Montané, ATEE Past-President, CDLLC Catalunya Joana Salazar, UIB, Universitat de les Illes Balears Welcoming session Bàrbara Galmés Xicón ,Consellera d’educació i Cultura del Govern de les Illes Balears Montserrat Casas Ametller, Rectora Magnífica de la UIB Pere Joan Brunet Estarellas, Degà de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres de la UIB Maria Gener Llopis, Directora general d’Admistració, Ordenació i Inspecció Educatives de la Conselleria d’Educació de les Illes Balears Maria Antònia Fornés Pellicer, Directora de Filologia Espanyola, Moderna i Llatina de la UIB Joan Mestres Gavarró, Director de l’Institut d’Avaluació i Qualitat del Sistema Educatiu de les Illes Balears Luís Ballester Brage, Director de l’ICE de la Universitat de les Illes Balears Bernat Sureda Garcia, Director del Departament de Pedagogia i Didàctiques Específiques Greetings from Josefina Cambra, Presidenta del Consejo General de los Ilustres Colegios Oficiales de Doctores y Licenciados en Filosofía y Letras y Ciencias, España Annete Digby , ATE USA President Thérèse Laferrière, CATE Canada Past-President Maxine Cooper, ATE Australia Past-President Dr. Xing Teng, DATE, China President Elija Omwenga, ATEA, Africa President
10.30 - 11.30	Keynote 1 + Discussion Prof. Dr. Marlene Scardamalia, University of Toronto, Canada Prof. Dr. Carl Bereiter, University of Toronto, Canada “Knowledge Building Creation in Teacher Education”
11.30 - 12.00	Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00	Keynote 2 + Discussion Prof. Dr. Jaap van Lakerveld, Platform Opleiding, Onderwijs en Organisatie BV (PLATO), Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands Prof. Dr. Nadine Engels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium “Transforming learning: empowering teachers and learners with Knowledge creation”
13.00 - 15.00	Lunch
15.00 - 16.30	Parallel sessions, round 1
16.30 - 17.00	Tea break
17.00 - 18.30	RDC meetings 1
18.30 - 19.30	EJTE Board meeting
19.30 - 21.00	WFATE meeting
21.00	Evening free

Monday, 31 August 2009

09.00 - 10.30	Parallel sessions, round 2
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30	Keynote 3 + Panel discussion Prof. Paul Resta, “Ruth Knight Millikan Centennial” professorship. Director, Learning technology Center. The University of Texas at Austin, USA Technology for Social inclusion and Knowledge Creation: a key issue in Elementary and Secondary Teacher Education Panel discussion Marlene Scardamalia, University of Toronto, Canada Carl Bereiter, University of Toronto, Canada Jaap van Lakerveld, PALTform Opleiding, Onderwijs en Organisatie BV (PLATO), Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands Nadine Engels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Thérèse Laferriere, Université Laval, Quebec Nancy Law, Hong Kong University Jordi Vivancos, Department of Education, Catalonia, Spain
12.30 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	RDC meeting 2
16.00 - 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30	RDC meeting 3
17.30 - 19.00	Poster presentation/Round-tables Teacher Education Institutions network meeting
20.30	Reception in the City Hall, Castell de Bellver

Tuesday, 1st September 2009

09.00 - 10.30	Parallel sessions, round 3
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30	Keynote 4 + Discussion Prof. Dr.. Thérèse Laferriere, Université Laval, Quebec Prof. Dr. Nancy Law, Hong Kong University “Teacher Education for Knowledge Creation: The Knowledge Building International Project (KBIP)”
12.30 - 14.00	ATEE General Assembly
13.00 - 15.00	Lunch
15.00 - 16.30	RDC meeting 4
16.30 - 19.30	Bus or walking tours/visits
21.00	Social dinner, Restaurant Mediterraneo

Wednesday, 2nd September 2009

09.00 - 10.30	Parallel sessions, round 4
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00	Closing session Yves Bernaert, ATEE past- Secretary General, Brussels, Belgium, "Spring Day for Europe and initial teacher training institutions across Europe" Jordi Vivancos, Head Unit, Learning and Knowledge Technologies, Department of Education, Catalonia, Spain "Framework Policy for learning technologies"
12.00 - 13.00	Final conclusions and Presentation of ATEE 2010: Budapest Team. Chair: Giovanni Polliani, ATEE president Conclusions: Joan Mestres, Former Director of the Institut d’Avaluació i Qualitat del Sistema Educatiu de Balears Mireia Montané, ATEE Past-President, CDLLC Catalunya Joana Salazar Nogera, Univesitat de les Illes Balears Presentation ATEE 2010 Budapest: Yvan Falus and Beata Koetschy, University of Budapest, Hungary Presentation ATEE Winter Conference 2010 Prague Radka Wildova, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic Farewell
13.30 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	AC/RDCs Chairs meeting

Conference location

The conference will be held in Palma de Mallorca, at the campus of the University of the Balears, Edifici Jovellanos. The campus is situated 7.5km away from Palma, on the road to Valldemossa. (SEE MAPS)

Edifici Jovellanos
Ctra. Valldemossa KM 7,5 - 07122 Palma (Mallorca)
http://www.uib.es/ca/

The international airport Palma de Mallorca is only 8 km from Palma.

Accomodation

The congress organisation has blocked rooms in several hotels in city centre of Palma de Mallorca.

In order to benefit from special hotel rates, you must contact to our collaborating agency CARLSON WAGONLIT TRAVEL. Click the logo below.

Location of the hotels

For the location of the hotels, you can use the map below.

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The hotels will keep rooms blocked until July 30th, after which we can not garantee the availability of rooms.

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