Training Programme @ V V Giri National Labour Institute

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International Conference on 21st Century Education 2014

Dear Colleague: I am emailing to invite you to participate in the International Conference on 21st Century Education, taking place in Dubai November 13-15, 2014. As the title of the conference suggests, we are inviting Oral and Poster presentation proposals on topics falling under the wide umbrella of "21st century education." An exhaustive list of presentation topics can be found on our website. We also invite those who would like to attend to listen to the diverse group of presenters from around the globe. Here is a direct link to a full description of the conference on our website: http://www.21caf.org/ic21ce-2014.html The conference is organized by the 21st Century Academic Forum, an international group of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting research and discussion on the challenges and opportunities in the quickly changing landscape of education and research in the 21st century. The conference is proudly sponsored by Pearson, the world's leading learning company, dedicated to bringing the best in 21st century education to people from all walks of life, all around the globe. IC21CE 2014 participants will also be able to attend the International Conference on Language Learning and Teaching (ICLLT 2014), which is held in parallel with IC21CE 2014. The aim of the ICLLT conference is to explore the latest developments in language learning, instruction, and assessment. Venue: Knowledge Village Conference Center (Dubai, UAE) Conference Theme: Challenges and Opportunities in Preparing 21st Century Citizens Types of Presentations: - Keynote Presentations: 45 minutes (invited only) - Research Papers: 20 - 25 minute presentations - Poster Presentations: 3 hours Paper Publication Opportunities: All papers that meet the requirements set by the editorial board of the 21st Century Academic Forum's Conference Proceedings will be published in our online Conference Proceedings (ISSN: 2330-1236). The Conference Proceedings editorial board in turn works with the editors of our three peer-reviewed journals to select papers for possible publication in one of our three online peer-reviewed journals listed below. - The International Journal of 21st Century Education (ISSN: 2330-1244) - The International Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ISSN: 2333-9659) - Journal of Language Learning and Teaching for the 21st Century (ISSN: 2333-9640) Abstract Submission: Abstracts are peer-reviewed by our Conference Committee. Authors are invited to submit their abstracts in English through our Online Submission System until the final deadline of October 24, 2014. The Conference Committee review abstract proposals on a rolling basis and authors will receive a decision within two weeks of his/her submission. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or requests. We do hope to see you in Dubai in November for IC21CE 2014! Best regards, Tom Thomas Lechner, Ph.D. Academic Director 21st Century Academic Forum 21 Apex Drive Bozeman, MT 59718 U.S.A. +1 (406) 551-1101 Skype: thomas.lechner2 www.21caf.org

ACAH 2015 - The Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities

ACAH 2015 - The Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2nd to 5th April 2015 - Osaka, Japan IAFOR and its global partners are proud to announce the Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities and would like to encourage submissions and participation from around the world to this international, intercultural and interdisciplinary event. Enquiries: acah@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/acah2015/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum Conference Theme and Streams - Please submit your abstract through the online submission system found on the "Call for Papers" page of the website. Conference Theme: "Power" The conference theme for 2015 is "Power", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized into the following thematic streams: -Arts Teaching and Learning the Arts Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy Arts Theory and Criticism Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Visual Arts Practices Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music Literary Arts Practices Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media Other Arts -Humanities Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication Aesthetics, Design Language, Linguistics Knowledge Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness History, Historiography Literature/Literary Studies Political Science, Politics Teaching and Learning Globalisation Ethnicity, Difference, Identity Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation First Nations and Indigenous Peoples Sexuality, Gender, Families Religion, Spirituality Cyberspace, Technology Science, Environment and the Humanities Other Humanities ACAH2015 Conference Chairs and Featured Speakers Reverend Professor Stuart Picken ACAH2015 Conference Chair and Featured Speaker Chairman of the IAFOR IAB Stuart D. B. Picken is the founding chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining and Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through his work with IAFOR. A fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children.

2014 International Symposium on Education and Psychology - Fall Session (ISEP 2014 - Fall Session)

International Conference on Education and Psychology - Fall Session (ISEP 2014 - Fall) Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan November 12-14, 2014 http://www.tw-knowledge.org/isep2014fall Dear Colleagues, Let me kindly inform you that the paper submission deadline for ISEP 2014 - Fall has been extended to September 10, 2014. We hope you can participate in this prestigious conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research in any of the conference main topic areas, which are detailed further on the conference website http://www.tw-knowledge.org/isep2014fall ISEP 2014 - Fall is to be held at Meiji University, Tokyo on November 12-14, 2014. This conference will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in various fields and applications of education and psychology. Tokyo is the center of various activities in Japan including politics, economy, and culture. Meiji University is one of the best universities in Japan and has the history for 130 years. We sincerely invite you to attend ISEP 2014-Fall. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation. Sincerely yours, Conference Chair Yumiko Miwa, Meiji University (Japan) http://www.tw-knowledge.org/isep2014fall Enquiries: isep2014.fall@gmail.com

10th Global Conference: Creative Engagements: Thinking With Children

10th Global Conference: Creative Engagements: Thinking With Children Sunday 22nd March - Tuesday 24th March 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: This interdisciplinary and global research project seeks explore the concept of genuine 'engagement' in regard to areas such as learning, development and meaning making within the overarching framework of 'creativity'. Recognizing that these facets of 'creative engagement' and the ideals and ideas associated with children, childhood and learning are developing exponentially, this project is grounded in more than presenting research but making authentic inter-disciplinary connections during the course of the conference. Some of the broader areas of reference and connectivity in past projects have been, and continue to be historical and contemporary representations of childhood, the complex issues surrounding the notion and practices of creative engagement in the context of pedagogy and the curriculum, changing technologies and frequently instrumental institutional imperatives and changes. In a rapidly changing world this project will also seek to address the role of creativity in social interaction, with particular reference to children's development of life skills, autonomy and independence in an increasingly complex and demanding world. Please note that the following are only suggested foci, and papers can be submitted on any area dealing with creativity and children. Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited, but not limited any of the following focus areas; 1. Brain Research and Creativity - What does current brain/cognitive research tells us about childhood and creativity? - How does current understanding of brain plasticity impact on other disciplines dealing with children and creativity engagements? 2. The Creative Environmental Space - What spaces engender or inhibit creativity? - What is the nature of the architecture of a creative space? - From Theory to Practice: Case studies of creative spaces in action - What will the creative spaces of the future look like? - Children's views on creative spaces 3. The Creative 'Inner' Space - What is the role of memory in creativity? - How is the concept of creativity 'framed' in various disciplines? - What are the origins of these forces and forms of thinking, and links to creative thinking? - What is the relationship between creativity and divergent thinking? - How are these developed and nurtured? - How do various disciplines understand these forms of thought, and praxis? - What are the similarities/differences in understanding between the related research disciplines? - How can these be fostered in a world dominated by measurement, outcomes and benchmarks? - Children's views on creativity. 4. Creativity, Engagement and Education? - How do various disciplines define the concept of engagement? - What is the nature of genuine learning, genuine engagement with learning and their relationship to creativity? - What is creativity in theory and practice? What is creative education? Can creative engagement be taught? - Engaging with, engagement for, and for whom? - What does engagement mean for teachers, children and classroom practice? - How does genuine engagement and creative learning relate to the architecture and physicality of the classroom environment? - Creative engagement in the areas of planning, resourcing, organization, management and assessment. - Good practice, classroom examples, and effective strategies for promoting creativity within and across curriculum subjects. 5. Creativity, Pedagogy and Curriculum - Inter-disciplinary approaches to creative engagement in teaching and curricula. - Historical and contemporary representations of childhood and adolescence: art, film and literature. - The future role of text, the visual media as form of critical appraisal, developing creativity and children's engagement. - Children, creativity and visual literacy. - Traditional literacies and creativity: what are they and how do they fit in the visual age? - Assessing Cziksentmihaly's work, and in particular, the notion of 'flow'; how this is understood by different disciplines. - The role and nature multiple intelligences (re: Howard Gardner) in developing creativity. - Are there more intelligences than Gardner's 7.5 – e.g. spiritual/existential intelligence, and how do these 'fit' with creativity? - Pedagogy, curricular and extra-curricula approaches. - Integrative case studies and examples of team based teaching. - Creativity in a crowded curriculum. - Education, entertainment or edutainment, and the 'fit' with creativity? - Teachers, creativity and professional development. - How to assess, analyze and describe creative practice? - Institutions, education and designing systems to develop children's learning in the 21st century 6. Critical and Cultural Thinking and Children - What is the optimal macro and micro-culture for developing creativity? - What are the limits of cultural development for creativity? - What are the enablers and inhibitors of creativity? - What is critical thinking? Is it the same as critical literacy? - What is the nature of engagement with critical thinking before school? - Facilitating creativity: With what, who and when? - What is the role of the 'significant other' in developing critical engagement at home and in school? - What are the conditions that foster critical thinking at home and then in the school years? - The rise of the far right Christian education movement and the effect on critical thinking and engagement. - Types of critical thinking and their relationship to creativity. - Cultural contexts of critical thinking. - What are the links between self-esteem and creativity? - What is the nature of, and links between teaching creatively and teaching for creativity? 7.Engagement, Skills and Life Issues - Emotion and links to creativity. - Engaging in intercultural and human development education with children. - The role of parents in developing or fostering creativity and engagement with life and learning. - Engaging in intercultural and human development education with children. - The nature of school as an enabler or inhibitor of creativity or engagement with learning as a whole. - The idea of moral, values and spiritual, education as creative experiences. - The role of play (in all forms) and the concept of creativity. - Children creatively engaging each other: communication and cooperation; problem solving; play and social issues - ethnicity, immigration etc. - Creatively engaging the disabled. - Exploring children's needs, wants, wishes, desires and hopes. - The nature of natural learning theories. - Developing antinomy and independence. - Developing life skills, social issues and education for citizenship. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: CE10 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar: phil.fitzsimmons@avondale.edu.au Rob Fisher: ce10@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'At the Interface' series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-with-children/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

8th Global Conference: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity

8th Global Conference: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity Saturday 14th March – Monday 16th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: Interculturalism stands at the interface between the individual, local groups, societies and cultures. These compete, conflict, co-exist and trigger reactions and responses on a number of levels including the social, the economic, the political and the personal. These are reinforced through language, the media, cultural events, social institutions and migration policies. Amidst all these dynamic and static forms of interaction, identities are built and consolidated. The previous meeting of this project recognised that identity is not something which is fixed and predetermined but rather is continuously created and recreated from the day-to-day flow of living in communities. With mobility not simply a commonplace factor in society but continuing to rapidly expand, people are faced with challenges to and changes in their own identity as a result of encounters with new cultures, new ways of living and new ways of thinking. People find themselves forging and reforming their identities through integration, assimilation, disintegration, reintegration... and so the pattern continues. A very important topic to be discussed in the 2015 conference is the use of interculturalism models in daily life. The previous conference, the one of March 2014, exhibits the need of discussions about how to create working platforms within varied professions such as medical professions: nurses, doctors etc. or social workers, teachers, local administrative and so on. The 2015 conference will build on the work of previous meetings in this series and examine the meaning and parameters of Interculturalism, how it is studied and what it means. How can we talk meaningfully of interculturalism? What role does hybridity play in understanding the way cultures morph, adapt and become suited to their context? The 2015 conference encourages people, not necessarily academics, working in multicultural environments, to describe their experiences in the field. The first interests would be theories of cultural sensibility and its practical aspects. The focus of the 2015 Interculturalism conference will be on meeting between cultures and identities: -Cultural sensibility? What is it in practice? -How does understanding of cultural signifiers assist in studying intercultrualism? -Recent criticism of literature has emphasized the problematics of identity and meaning associated with globalisation; how so and why? -What are the implications of processes adopted to consider the centre-periphery? -How do the immersion, absorption and the intersection of cultures promote a better understanding of individual and group identities? -Is "Transculturalism" possible in disputes over resource use? -How can "Transculturalism" be taught more effectively to professional field workers, such asas nurses, teachers, aid workers, psychologists etc? -What can one learn from and about significance of Cross Cultural Psychology and Interculturalism, as well as Autism and Interculturalism and cultural manifestations of identity, Citizenship and Diaspora? -Are patterns of cognition governed by acculturalisation? -Is intercultural experience therapeutic or problematic in respect of mental health? Presentations will also be considered which deal with related themes. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract E-mails should be titled: Interculturalism 8 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Joint Organising Chairs: Efrat Tzadik: efrat@inter-disciplinary.net Ram Vemuri and Rob Fisher: ic8@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'Diversity and Recognition' research projects, which in turn belong to the 'At the Interface' programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/interculturalism/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

Opening for Economics and English Faculty

B M English School - A leading and reputed school/ PU College located at Ulsoor, Bangalore requires faculty to teach Economics and English at class 9 to 12 level.  Postgraduates or trained graduates may apply.  Mail to drsrajesh@yahoo.com or call 09844108895