INKSHED CONFERENCE XVI

Finding each other in a hall of mirrors:
Negotiating goals and values in language

May 6-9, 1999
Mont Gabriel, Québec

Final Program

[NOTE: links below are to summaries or abstracts of presentations, edited inksheds on sessions or presentations, and to photographs; links on names are to email addresses]

Thursday May 6th
Bus leaves McGill at 3:00 p.m. and Dorval Airport at 4:00 p.m. for Mont Gabriel

Registration at Mont Gabriel
5:00-6:30 p.m.

Dinner
6:30-7:45 p.m.

Welcome
7:45-8:00 p.m.

Pedagogy, expectations, and personal values
8:00-9:30 p.m.

8:00-9:00 p.m.: Stan Straw, Sandy Baardman, Laura Atkinson, Pat Sadowy: "Lost in the fun house: Negotiating colliding values in literacy instruction" (Inkshedding included)
9:00-9:20 p.m.: Doug Brent, "In the Mirror of Genre: Students Write this World"
9:20-9:30 p.m.: Inkshedding

Friday May 7th

Exploring values across generations 9:00-10:20 a.m.

9:00-9:15 a.m.: Ana Maria Klein, "Children's vernacular: An invented language"
9:15-9:35 a.m.: Pat Dias, "Children as initiators of language and culture"
9:35-10:10 a.m.: Anne Hunt, Pam Whitty, Pam Nason, "The literacy of the home"
10: 10-10:20 a.m.: Inkshedding

Coffee/tea break 10:20-10:40 a.m.

Imposing values on oral cultures 10:40-11:35 a.m.

10:40-11:00 a.m.: Ali Abdi, "Oral societies and colonial experiences: Sub-Saharan Africa and the de facto power of the written word"
11 :00-11:20 a.m.: Laura Mastronardi and Anthony Paré, "Fun house mirrors: Stories of distortion and disruption in cross-cultural education"
11 :20-11:35 a.m.: Inkshedding

Brief break 11:35-11:45 a.m.

Whose values count? 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Martin Behr, "Recurrent patterns in Canadian Inuit testimonio"
12:00-12:20 p.m.: Betty Holmes and Chris Holmes, "Teaching Past to Teaching Future: A dialogue"
12:20-12:30 p.m.: Inkshedding

Lunch 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Language goals in the multicultural classroom 2:00-3:00 p.m.

2:00-2:20 p.m.: Josée Makropoulos, "Finding the balance in Ontario immersion programs: Addressing the needs of francophone students from multi-bilingual family backgrounds"
2:20-2:40 p.m.: Margaret Procter, "Holding the wire: Working via e-mail with ESL learners"
2:40-3:00 p.m.: Inkshedding

Tea/coffee and Free Time 3:00-6:30 p.m.

Dinner 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Workplace values and professional identity 8:00-9:00 p.m.

8:00-8:30 p.m.: Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox, "Through the looking glass: Identifying causes of the Alice-syndrome in undergraduate engineering writers"
8:30-8:50 p.m.: Rick Coe and K.J. Peters, "The pedagogy of writing beyond the classroom"
8:50-9:10 p.m.: Inkshedding

Saturday May 8th

Teaching and writing beyond the classroom 8:45-10:15 a.m.

8:45-9:00 a.m.: Ralph Harris, "Real and metaphorical bridges for the teaching of engineering communications"
9:00-9:20 a.m.: Janet Blatter, "Only connect: The role of 'off-task' free-writing in teaching engineering technical communication"
9:20-9:40 a.m.: Andrea Williams, "Negotiating conflicting definitions of literacy: Business literacy at ATC Corps" (inksheds specifically on this presentation)
9:40-10:00 a.m.: Jamie MacKinnon, "Expertise, rhetoric and ethics" (inksheds specifically on this presentation)
10:00-10:15 a.m.: Inkshedding

Tea/coffee break 10:15-10:30 a.m.

Cultural survival and personal narrative 10:30-11:15 a.m.

10:30-10:45 a.m.: Samia Costandi, "Cultural bridges and student testimonies"
10:45-11:00 a.m.: Hourig Attarian, "Voice prints: Oral history in the classroom: A case study with Armenian genocide survivors"
11:00-11:15 a.m.: Inkshedding

Brief break 11:15-11:30 a.m.

Silence and the goals of power 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Donna-Lee Smith, "Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who's the cruellest of them all? The world judges a nation by how she treats her First Nations people" (Inkshedding included) (inksheds specifically on this presentation)

Lunch 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Negotiating curriculum goals 2:00-3:00 p.m.

2:00-2:15 p.m.: Joan Page and Gail Vanstone, "ESL and business: Political and pedagogical goals" (inksheds specifically on this presentation)
2:15-2:30 p.m.: Shurli Makmillen and Yaying Zhang, "Teaching and learning academic writing in cross-cultural contexts" (inksheds specifically on this presentation)
2:30-2:45 p.m.: Winston Emery and Audrey Berner, "Negotiation through talk: Developing a course of study" (inksheds specifically on this presentation)
2:45-3:00 p.m.: Inkshedding

Coffee/Tea 3:00-3:15 p.m.

Reflections and interpretations 3:15-4:30 p.m.

3:15-3:30 p.m.: Bill Boswell, "Seniors' stories"
3 :30-3 :45 p.m.: Jane Milton and Patricia Golubev, "Culture of the deaf; culture of the hearing"
3:45-4:00 p.m.: Inkshedding
4:00-4:30 p.m.: Jean Mason and Charlotte Hussey, "Through the looking glass: Language meets body-language" (Inkshedding included)

Free time
4:30-7:30 p.m.

Dinner
7:30-8:45 p.m.

Talent Night
8:45 p.m. - whenever .... Some relics and incriminating evidence from Talent Night

Sunday May 9th Please pack and have your room ready after breakfast. The bus MUST leave promptly after the business meeting.

General Meeting
9:30- 11:45 a.m.

Conference Review
Business Meeting
Future of the Newsletter
Planning for Inkshed XVII

Rooms to be vacated by 12:00 noon, all accounts settled with hotel and room keys returned.

Lunch
12:00- 1:00 p.m. - Cold buffet (this is one reason so many people found it hard to get on the bus)

Bus leaves
1:00 p.m. to arrive at Dorval Airport at approx. 2:00 p.m. and McGill at 3:00 p.m.

We wish to thank the
Research Grants Office
in the Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research,
for its financial support to participating graduate students
and
the Department of Educational Studies,
McGill University
for its logistical support,
especially the wonderful organizational abilities of
Carole Kleivstul.

This site maintained by Russ Hunt
Last updated 6 June 1999

INKSHED CONFERENCE XVI

Finding each other in a hall of mirrors: Negotiating goals and values in language

Final Program

Finding each other in a hall of mirrors:
Negotiating goals and values in language