CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
July 1, 2006 CONFERENCE OPENING
14:00 - 18:00 Participants’ Arrival and Conference Registration
19:00 Conference Opening
Evening Plenary
1) Conference Opening: His excellency, Minister of Education, Morocco
2) Welcome Speech:
- Mr Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, Chairman, Guerrand Hermès Foundation for Peace
- Mr Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, President of Al AKhawayn University
3) Keynote Speech: Ms Anuradha Vittachi, Director OneWorld International Foundation
4) House Keeping and explanations of the overall programme
20:00 Opening Dinner
July 2, 2006 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session
1) Keynote speech: Mr Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, President of Al AKhawayn University
2) Announcements
3) Preparation for small groups discussions
10.00 - 11:00 Small Groups – Personal introductions
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshment Break
11:30 - 13:00 Small Groups – Personal transformative experiences
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Parallel Session I: Paper Presentations and Workshops
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment Break
16:30 - 18:00 Small Groups – Educational experiences of transformation
Identify educational experiences and processes that you consider to be genuinely transformative, and identify why those experiences count as such
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Music Evening (performance by Moroccan musicians)
July 3, 2006 IDENTIFYING EDUCATIONAL VALUES AND IDEALS
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:30 Plenary Session
1) Announcements
2) Preparation for small groups discussions
09:30 - 10:30 Small Groups – Defining transformative education
a. From personal experience to other criteria relevant to the definition of a transformative education:
· What is transformational education?
· What conditions must it satisfy?
· What are the criteria by which we might recognise it?
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment Break
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Session II: Paper Presentations and workshops
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Small Groups – Personal Diagnosis
b. What is my personal experience of my institution and of my own learning processes?
c. What can I learn about myself from this reflection?
d. What do I need to do or to change in order to become more capable of learning in a transformational way?
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment Break
16:30 - 18:00 Small Groups – continued
18:00 Guided nature walk
20:00 Dinner
July 4, 2006 DIAGNOSIS OF INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Sessions
1) Announcements
2) Small groups sharing to the plenary
10:00 - 11:00 Small Groups – Identifying educational change
a) Share briefly some of the general results of day 3
b) What is obstructing the educational system from being more transformative and, as a consequence, what needs to change in our educational system and institutions?
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshment Break
11:30 - 13:00 Small Groups (continued) – Institutional diagnosis
c) How do our own particular educational institutions and/or personal learning processes in that institution need to change in order for them to be genuinely transformational? Identity:
i) 4 or 5 practices by virtue of which their institution or learning processes is already transformative
ii) 4 or 5 obstacles to transformative education in their institution
iii) 4 or 5 key aspects of their own educational institution or/and personal learning processes that would need to change in order for the institution to become more transformational.
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Parallel Session III: Paper Presentations and workshops
15:30 – 16:30 Small Groups – Rethinking of Educational Change
d) What can we do, as individuals, to make our educational institutions and learning processes more genuinely transformational?
16:30 - 17:00 Refreshment Break
17:00 - 18:30 Small Groups - continued
20:00 Dinner
Members of the same institution who are in different groups are encouraged to share
ideas/practices during the course of the evening
July 5, 2006 ACTION PLANS
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 11:00 Small Groups – Personal action plan
a) Each person explores his/her basic action plan idea, explains why he/she chose that and what he or she aims to achieve;
b) The other members of the group would make suggestions to this first version of the proposal
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshment Break
11:30 - 13:00 Small Groups (Continued) – Personal action plan
c) Write down personal action plan and commitment to support other’s action plan
d) By the end of the morning, each person has to write his or her action plan (no more than one page) and give it to his or her supporter and also to the facilitator.
13.00 -14.00 Conference closing over lunch
e) Brief reports
f) Closing speeches:
- Katherine Marshall, World Bank
- Sharif Horthy, President, Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace
14;00 Lunch
15:00 Guided tour in Fez