INKSHED CONFERENCE XVI

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

Preliminary Program

MAY 6-9 1999

MONT GABRIEL, QUEBEC

THURSDAY MAY 6TH

Bus leaves Montreal approx. 2.45 and Dorval approx. 3.30 for Mont Gabriel

Registration at Mont Gabriel, 5.00-6.30; Dinner, 6.30-8.00

Pedagogy, expectations, and personal values, 8.00-10.00 p.m.

• Stan Straw, Sam Baardman, Laura Atkinson, Pat Sadowy: "Lost in the fun house: Negotiating colliding values in literary instruction" (Inkshedding included)
• Doug Brent, "Students' expectations of web-text"
• Inkshedding

• Betty Holmes and Chris Holmes, "Teaching Past to Teaching Future: A dialogue" (Inkshedding included)
• Anamaria Klein, "Children's vernacular: An invented language"
• Pat Dias, "Children as initiators of language and culture"
• Anne Hunt, Pam Whitty, Pam Nason, Lynda Homer, "The literacy of the home"
• Inkshedding

Imposing values on oral cultures, 10.40-11.35 a.m.

• Ali Abdi, "Oral societies and colonial experiences: Sub-Saharan Africa and the de facto power of the written word"
• Anthony Paré and Laura Mastronardi, "Fun house mirrors: Stories of distortion and disruption in cross-cultural education"
• Inkshedding

The study of literature: whose values count? 11.45 a.m.-12.30 p.m.

• Martin Behr, "Recurrent patterns in Canadian Inuit testimonio"
• Dorothy Turner, "Negotiating ideas of the Mediterranean"
• Inkshedding

Language goals in the multicultural classroom, 2.00-3.00 p.m.

• Patrick Allen, "Language and communication in the multicultural classroom"
• Josée Makropoulos, "Finding the balance in Ontario immersion programs: Addressing the needs of francophone students from multi-bilingual family backgrounds"
• Margaret Procter, "Holding the wire: Working via e-mail with ESL learners"
• Inkshedding

Workplace values and professional identity, 8.00-9.00 p.m.

• Ralph Harris, "Real and metaphorical bridges for the teaching of engineering communications"
• Janet Blatter, "Only connect: the role of 'off-task' free-writing in teaching engineering technical communication"
• Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox, "Through the looking glass: indentifying causes of the Alice-syndrome in undergraduate engineering writers"
• Inkshedding

• Rick Coe and K.J. Peters, "The pedagogy of writing beyond the classroom"
• Andrea Williams, "Negotiating conflicting definitions of literacy: Business literacy at ATC Corps"
• Jamie MacKinnon, "Expertise, rhetoric and ethics"
• Inkshedding

Cultural survival and personal narrative, 10.30-11.15 a.m.

• Hourig Attarian, "Voice prints: Oral history in the classroom: a case study with Armenian genocide survivors"
• Samia Costandi, "Cultural bridges and student testimonies"
• Inkshedding

Silence and the goals of power, 11.25 a.m. -12.35 p.m.

• Lorri Neilsen, "To publish and to perish: Collusions/collisions/coercions" (Inkshedding included)
• 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)

Negotiating curriculum goals, 2.00-3.00 p.m.

• Joan Page and Gail Vanstone, "ESL and business: Political and pedagogical goals"
• Sharon Josephson, "A cross-cultural course"
• Winston Emery and Audrey Berner, "Negotiation through talk: Developing a course of study"
• Inkshedding

Reflections and interpretations, 3.15-4.45 p.m.

• Linda Behan and Marcia Dickson, "The stories students tell us"
• Bill Boswell, "Seniors' stories"
• Jane Milton and Patricia Golubev, "Culture of the deaf; culture of the hearing"
• Inkshedding
• Jean Mason and Charlotte Hussey, "Through the looking glass: Language meets body-language" (Inkshedding included)

Talent Night, 8.45 p.m. - whenever ....

SUNDAY MAY 9TH, 10.00 a.m.-12.00 p.m.

Review; Business Meeting; Planning for Inkshed XVII

Bus leaves 1.00 to arrive at Dorval at approximately 2.00 and Montreal at 2.45