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Please see program of the day and below this costs for the conference:

 9.30 am

Registration: Tea, coffee and morning tea available on arrival.

10:00am

Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome from SCEAQ President (Dr Angelina Ambrosetti)

10.15 am - 11.00 am

Session 1

Keynote Address: Associate Professor Paul Williams, Griffith University.

Civics education for political participation in later life: Are we doing it right in schools?

11:05am – 11:45am

Session 2

Adele Rice AM

Informed and responsible citizenship: The power of education.

11:50am – 12:25pm

Lunch

12:30pm – 1:10pm

Session 3

Tegan Heywood and Stephen Driver, Hillbrook Secondary School

Thinking citizens: Engaging young people through Philosophical Inquiry.

1:15pm – 1:55pm

Session 4

Kirsten Murray and Maria Mead, Parliamentary Education Office

  • Get involved! Avenues for active citizenship in the classroom.

2:00pm – 2:40pm

Final Session

Kim Wright and Dr Jan Oosthoek, Primary and Secondary examples

Primary: Voting and Classroom Democracy; Acknowledgement of Country

Secondary: Enacting Community Change: Active Citizenship, Student Engagement, and the Brisbane 2032 Olympics

2:40pm – 2:45pm

Resources on the SCEAQ website

and

CQU Micro-Credential Offer

2:45pm – 3:00pm

Evaluation

Conference Close


A is for ACTIVISM: Social Issues in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Literature

  • 09 Aug 2023
  • 3:30 PM
  • Online
  • 18
  • 11 registrants

Registration

  • A is for ACTIVISM: Social Issues in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Literature. Presenter: Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright AM, President of IBBY. This webinar will survey a range of contemporary responses to social issues in children’s and YA literature, and how social activism is reflected in texts by both Australian and international authors. It will canvas the concerns explored in works which are variously provocative, endearing, passionate, and innovative. In short, it will offer an alphabet of themes in stories which do what the very best works of children’s literature have always done – to challenge young readers to empathise, be curious, and to think deeply about others, rather than becoming complacent, unimaginative and unfeeling. Such stories encourage children and young people to bear witness to the reality of the world around them and ultimately to contribute to society as global citizens and will explore the concepts of democracy and active citizenship in the Civics and Citizenship v9 curriculum.
  • A is for ACTIVISM: Social Issues in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Literature. Presenter: Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright AM, President of IBBY. This webinar will survey a range of contemporary responses to social issues in children’s and YA literature, and how social activism is reflected in texts by both Australian and international authors. It will canvas the concerns explored in works which are variously provocative, endearing, passionate, and innovative. In short, it will offer an alphabet of themes in stories which do what the very best works of children’s literature have always done – to challenge young readers to empathise, be curious, and to think deeply about others, rather than becoming complacent, unimaginative and unfeeling. Such stories encourage children and young people to bear witness to the reality of the world around them and ultimately to contribute to society as global citizens and will explore the concepts of democracy and active citizenship in the Civics and Citizenship v9 curriculum.
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A is for ACTIVISM: Social Issues in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Literature presented by Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright AM, President of IBBY. 

This webinar will survey a range of contemporary responses to social issues in children’s and YA literature, and how social activism is reflected in texts by both Australian and international authors. It will canvas the concerns explored in works which are variously provocative, endearing, passionate, and innovative. In short, it will offer an alphabet of themes in stories which do what the very best works of children’s literature have always done – to challenge young readers to empathise, be curious, and to think deeply about others, rather than becoming complacent, unimaginative and unfeeling. Such stories encourage children and young people to bear witness to the reality of the world around them and ultimately to contribute to society as global citizens, and will explore the concepts of democracy and active citizenship in the Civics and Citizenship v9 curriculum.

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