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Agenda
The Fulbright Education
Seminar will be held from March 14th-18th on campus of Harvard University.
The seminar is designed to be interactive and participatory. Sessions
will include five panels discussions during which participants will
make formal presentations on their education sector project and/or
research.
Please note the sessions on Wednesday, March 16th and Thursday, March
17th will be held at Harvard Law School. Also please note that session
22, on Friday, March 18th, will be held at Harvard Graduate School
of Education. All other sessions will be held at the Harvard Center
for Training and Development.
Monday March 14th
Location:
Harvard Center for Training and Development (CTD), 124 Mount
Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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9:00 - 10: 30 am
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Session
1
Welcoming Remarks
LASPAU staff |
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Session 2
Welcoming Remarks
Debra Shetler, U.S. Department of State
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Session
3
Introduction of Participants |
| 10:30
- 10:45 am |
Coffee
break |
| 10:45
am - 12:00 pm |
Session
4
Critical Issues in Educational Reform
Noel McGinn, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| 12:15
- 1:30 pm |
Lunch
at Harvard Faculty Club |
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2:00 -
3:30 pm
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Session
5
A Systems Approach: Alignments and Linkages
Thomas Cassidy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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| 3:30
- 3:45 pm |
Coffee
break |
| 3:45
- 5:00 pm |
Session
6
Participant Panel I |
| 5:00
- 7:00 pm |
Free
time |
| 7:00
- 8:30 pm |
Welcome
Reception
Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge
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Tuesday
March 15th
Location:
Harvard Center for Training and Development (CTD), 124 Mount
Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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9:00 - 10: 30 am
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Session
7
Equality and Inequality in Education
Fernando Reimers, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| 10:30
- 10:45 am |
Coffee
break |
| 10:45
am - 12:00 pm |
Session
8
Equality and Inequality in Education (continuation)
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| 12:15
- 1:30 pm |
Lunch
at Harvard Faculty Club |
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2:00 -
3:30 pm
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Session
9
Minority Access to Education
Guillermina Herrera (Guatemala), Universidad Rafael Landívar
Paula
Louzano (Brazil), Harvard Graduate School of Education
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| 3:30
- 3:45 pm |
Coffee
break |
| 3:45
- 5:00 pm |
Session
10
Participant Panel II |
| 5:00
- 7:00 pm |
Free
time |
| 7:00
- 8:30 pm |
Dinner
at Iruña Restaurant
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Wednesday March 16th
Location:
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 332
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9:00 - 11: 00 am
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Session
11
Policymaking in Educational Reforms: The Bolivian Experience
Manuel Contreras (Bolivia), Researcher, Multilateral
Institutions |
| 11:00
- 11:15 am |
Coffee
break |
| 11:15
am - 12:30 pm |
Session
12
Participant Panel III |
| 12:30
- 1:45 pm |
Lunch
at Harvard Law School Cafeteria |
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2:00 -
3:30 pm
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Session
13
Institutional Change/ Case Study discussion
James
Honan, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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| 3:30
- 3:45 pm |
Coffee
break |
| 3:45
- 5:00 pm |
Session
14
Institutional Change/ Case Study discussion (continuation) |
| 5:00
- 7:00 pm |
Entertainment
activity |
| 7:00
- 8:30 pm |
Dinner
at Legal Sea Foods Restaurant, Prudential Center, Boston
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Thursday
March 17th
Location:
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 332
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9:00 - 10: 30 am
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Session
15
Data for Policy Decisions
Haiyan Hua, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| 10:30
- 10:45 am |
Coffee
break |
| 10:45
am - 12:00 pm |
Session
16
Higher Education in Latin America: Privatization and Massification
Claudio de Moura Castro (Brazil), LASPAU Board |
| 12:15
- 1:30 pm |
Lunch
at Harvard Law School Cafeteria |
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2:00 -
3:30 pm
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Session
17
Incentives for Faculty Performance and the Consolidation
of the Academic Profession: Chile 1980-2000
Andres Bernasconi (Chile), Universidad de Talca - Chile
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| 3:30
- 3:45 pm |
Coffee
break |
| 3:45
- 5:00 pm |
Session
18
Participant Panel IV |
| 5:00
- 7:00 pm |
Free
time |
| 7:00
- 8:30 pm |
Dinner
vouchers
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Friday March 18th
Location:
Harvard Center for Training and Development (CTD), 124 Mount
Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138,
with the exception of
Session 22 (with Phillip Altbach), which will be held at
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larsen Hall, Room G-08
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9:00 - 10: 30 am
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Session
19
Towards Quality and Equity Policy in K-12 Education
Sylvia Ortega (México), Subsecretaria de Servicios
Educativos para el Distrito Federal de México |
| 10:30
- 10:45 am |
Coffee
break |
| 10:45
am - 12:00 pm |
Session
20
Who Should Lead Education Reform?
Ernesto Schiefelbein
(Chile), Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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| 12:15
- 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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2:00 -
3:15 pm
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Session
21
Participant Panel V
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| 3:15
- 3:45 pm |
Evaluations
and coffee break |
| 3:45
- 5:00 pm |
Session
22 (Session to be held at Harvard
Graduate School of Education, Larsen Hall, Room G-08)
The Future of Higher Education: Global Futures and Implications
for Latin America
Philip Altbach, Center for International Higher Education,
Boston College
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| 5:00
- 7:00 pm |
Free
time |
| 7:00
- 9:00 pm |
Closing
dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club
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Copyright © 2009 by LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas
Photo of graduates courtesy of Mesbah Haque, Xanat Flores, Diane
Floresca, Forest Flager, and Gayle Sherman. |
