Keynote Address
Dialogue Education: What are the basics?
Dr. Jane Vella, Global Learning Partners
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
9:30 to 11:00 AM (tentative start/end times)
Halpern Centre, Room 126
SFU Burnaby
In this opening keynote address, Dr. Jane Vella will introduce Dialogue Education as understood and taught by Global Learning Partners, Inc. She will identify four basic protocols of Dialogue Education:
Seven Design Steps and Learning Needs and Resources Assessment
Twelve Principles and Practices
Learning Tasks: Four Parts
Evaluation Indicators of learning, transfer, impact
Dr. Vella will use Dialogue Education throughout the keynote, to give all participants a taste of its style and efficacy.
3 Hour Workshop
Four Protocols for Dialogue Education
Dr. Jane Vella, Global Learning Partners
Dr. Marian Darlington-Hope, Global Learning Partners
Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:30 AM to 12:30 PM (tentative start/end times)
Halpern Centre, Room 126
SFU Burnaby
In this three-hour workshop, Jane Vella and Marian Darlington-Hope will use Dialogue Education with the workshop group to go into depth on the Four Protocols introduced during the keynote address on May 17th. Participants will work with each of the protocols, applying it to their life and context. We will complete seven learning tasks, including raising questions about Dialogue Education, and examining resources for continuing study.
Biography: Dr. Jane Vella
Jane Vella, the founder of Global Learning Partners, gained her insights on adult education from the thousands of participants she met over her 40 years of teaching in Africa, Asia and North America. Jane's academic research into the work of theorists like Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles, Kurt Lewin, and Benjamin Bloom confirmed what she saw in the communities where she had worked: that adults learn best through a "dialogue" that takes place in an atmosphere of mutual respect and safety, and with learning designs that are grounded in the reality of their lives.
Jane's insights are detailed in her books, all of which are published by Jossey-Bass (San Francisco).
• Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults (Revised Edition 2002).
• Taking Learning to Task: Creating Strategies for Teaching Adults. (2000)
• How Do They Know They Know: Evaluating Adult Learning, (1998)
• Training Through Dialogue. Promoting Effective Learning and Change with Adults. (1995)
• Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults. (First Edition, 1994)
Her teaching and work have inspired a generation of educators, community developers, and health workers. Some of their experiences with dialogue education are now outlined in Jane's latest book Dialogue Education at Work: Case Studies (October 2003).
Biography: Dr. Marian Darlington-Hope
A Senior Associate with Global Learning Partners, Dr. Marian Darlington-Hope is a 10 year veteran of the Learning to Listen Learning to Teach course. Since 1996, Dialogue Education has become the basis for her work with organizations, communities, and the university. Darlington-Hope has worked with community organizations on a variety of issues in the Boston area for more than 30 years. She teaches undergraduate courses in community and non-profit organizations, management, and social policy. Her research focuses on institutional collaboration and community leadership.
Dr. Marian Darlington-Hope is an Assistant Professor and Lead Faculty for Human Services in Lesley University’s Adult Learning Division. She has a Master in City Planning (MCP) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Urban Studies and Planning, and a PhD in Social Welfare Policy from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
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