International Integrated Education Week 2013
International Integrated Education Week will take place from 4 to 10 March, 2013.
This is an annual event where integrated schools have the opportunity to celebrate their integrated ethos. This year, the event will have an international flavour.
The theme for this year’s Integrated Education Week is ‘Me, We, Our World’ and children and young people will be sharing their experiences of how they have been reaching out to other countries across the world and embracing cultural diversity. For the first time integrated week will be celebrated in schools around the world.
This international dimension grew out of last year’s inaugural Integrated Peace Education Conference, which was held in Belfast in March 2012. Teachers from Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia and Cyprus gathered together to consider the model of integrated education in Northern Ireland and to discuss their experiences and challenges in developing integrated education in their own regions.
Each integrated school will be celebrating integration in their own school. In addition, key events will include:
- Friday 1st March: the launch of International Integrated Education Week at Ballycastle Integrated Primary School, Key Road, Ballycastle, at 10.30 am. The guest speaker will be Patrick McGrath of i-Teach.
- Wednesday 6th March: Dunleath Lecture at 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm). Professor Brandon Hamber is the guest speaker. Professor Hamber is Director of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), an associate site of the United Nations University based at the University of Ulster. He is also a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Human and Community Development, and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.The Lecture will be given at Queen’s University in the Canada Room. The title of the lecture is ‘Thick or Thin Integration – Deep or Shallow Peace?”
- Thursday 7th March: at 10.30 am – International Integrated Education Week Celebration in the Long Gallery at Stormont. Trevor Lunn, MLA, will be hosting this event which will include a short drama ‘Connected’ especially written for the occasion by Andrea Grimason, digital media presentations and links with international schools with entertainment from a steel band and choir.
- A delegation from NICIE will also be visiting Macedonia for an international conference on 9 & 10th March
You can follow IIEW2013 at #IIEW2013 or click on our website http://www.nicie.org/iiew2013/
For further information, contact Cliodhna Scott-Wills or via email to cscott-wills@nicie.org.uk or Caitrin Hamilton chamilton@nicie.org.uk