[Maths-Education] Charlotte Conference 2007(U)

[Alan Rogerson]

Dear Friends,
I send you the latest Update2 for our Charlotte USA 2007 Conference and 
hope you will be able to attend!
We would also appreciate any publicity you can give the Update on email 
lists, newsletters, etc.
Best wishes
Alan

*The Mathematics Education into the 21^st Century Project & The 
University of North Carolina Charlotte*

*9th Annual International Conference *

"*Mathematics Education in a Global Community"*

*September 7 -- 12, 2007,Charlotte, North Carolina, USA*


*Conference Update No. 2 November 28, 2006*

*(Please email *_*arogerson at inetia.pl* <mailto:arogerson at inetia.pl>_* 
for full conference details)*


*1. Conference Program Details: "Meet the World in Charlotte"!*

    *

      We have already received almost 100 proposals for
      papers/workshops, comprising innovative contributions from
      Australia, Asia & the Pacific Islands, the Middle and Far East,
      Europe and of course North America.

    *

      In addition to world-renowned mathematics educators such as Fayez
      Mina (Egypt), Erik De Corte (Belgium), David Royster (USA), Ludwig
      Paditz (Germany), Douglas Butler (UK) and Azlan Zanzali
      (Malaysia), the following are also planning to attend: Gail
      Burrill (former NCTM President), Donna Berlin, Bradford
      Hansen-Smith and Agnes Tuska (USA), Gary Flewelling and Doug
      Franks (Canada), Judy Mousley and Peter Grootenboer (President and
      Secretary of MERGA, Australia), Liv Gronmo (Norway), Andreas
      Filler and Peter Baptist (Germany), Mark Applebaum and Roza Leikin
      (Israel), Lynne Tozer (New Zealand), and many more.

    *

      We are especially pleased that several Principal Directors will be
      attending to present papers on their NSF Funded projects in the USA.

    *

      Margaret Fryska will be speaking about two important ongoing
      European Union funded Projects for which she is the Polish
      Partner. One Comenius Project is producing lots of innovative
      real-life and mathematics materials for students, the other
      Socrates project plans to design a Teacher Training Course on
      Modelling in Mathematics for lower secondary and primary school
      mathematics teachers.

    *

      The programme promises to be rich and varied and we are looking
      forward to the exchanges of ideas and experiences! If you would
      like to see the list of proposals so far please email me.


*2. Deadlines*

    *

      *December 31: NEW deadline* for receipt of your Proposal to
      present a paper or workshop. This should be less than one page and
      include your name, the title and short description of the proposal.

    *

      *As Soon as Possible and before June 30th*: Deadline for receipt
      of your *Paper/Workshop Summary* including an *Abstract*. We are
      planning to have a separate list of *abstracts* to help
      participants better choose the sessions they wish to attend.
      Please help us in this by including *at the start of your final
      paper* an abstract which should NOT be longer than 15 lines
      (font12). If you want to see a *MODEL paper formatted exactly as
      we require* to guide you in formatting your paper correctly,
      please email me.


*Conference Update No. 1*

*1. Deadline for Proposals moved to Dec 31*

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for proposals for 
papers/workshops at the conference has been extended. Our earlier 
deadline of Sep 30 was really to encourage as many as possible to send 
in proposals to help us plan the programme and also have some idea of 
how many participants are planning to attend. Thank you to those who 
wrote in already to propose or to register, from this we already know 
that the conference should be very well attended! Please note 
paper/workshop proposals are accepted on a first come-first served basis 
and especially with workshops there will be a limit on how many we can 
include -- so please help us and yourselves by sending in proposals as 
soon as possible and well before the new extended deadline!


*2. Planning Meeting held in Budapest Oct 7, 2006*

David Pugalee and Patsy Douville were both in Budapest last weekend and 
Margaret and I joined them so we could meet Saturday evening for a 
Conference Planning Meeting, which covered all aspects of the 
conference. The meeting was enjoyable and successful and planning is 
moving ahead strongly at both the international and local levels. Once 
again we wish to thank especially David and the whole LOC in Charlotte 
and of course the UNCC for their very strong local support. Some recent 
developments discussed at our meeting are detailed below.


   3.

      *Special Local and USA Teachers Weekend Programme*

In addition to the full International Programme, Sep 7-12, we are also 
organising a very special *Local Teachers Weekend Programme*, which will 
commence with the Welcome Reception on Friday Sep 7 and finish Sunday 
afternoon, Sep 9 (teachers are also able to join us on the Excursion all 
day Monday -- this is optional of course). The Teachers Programme will 
include some papers/workshops in the international programme (specially 
selected to be more relevant) and other sessions for local teachers held 
in parallel with the International Programme. This special programme 
will enable busy teachers (from Charlotte, North Carolina or elsewhere 
in the USA) to attend our conference and sample the international 
flavour, as well as attending sessions specially designed to be relevant 
to them and their local issues. More details to be announced later, but 
there will be for example:....


*4. A Special Plenary Forum* for all participants on *Sunday, Sep 9* to 
discuss *"Math Education in the USA"*.

We are pleased and proud to announce that Professor David Royster (UNCC 
and formerly of the NSF) has agreed to chair and lead this important 
session, and Professor Erik De Corte (Belgium) has also agreed to chair 
a follow up (parallel) session later on Sunday. Both David and Erik have 
a wide experience of math education issues in the USA, for example Erik 
lived and worked  during the academic year 2005 -- 2006 as an invited 
Fellow at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral 
Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford.


*5. Our Academic Programme - "Meet the World in Charlotte"*

We coined this phrase in Budapest because we believe it will be a 
highlight especially for USA math educators to come to Charlotte and 
really "meet the world" in the persons of many other "movers and 
shakers" in educational innovation in other countries! It will also be 
an opportunity for all our international friends to meet and enjoy the 
company of their USA counterparts, and of course to find out more about 
math education in the States. In addition to Erik De Corte (mentioned 
above), there will be Plenary Talks by *Professor Azlan Zanzali 
(Malaysia)* and *Douglas Butler (UK)* of Autograph fame. We have also 
been in contact recently with many *NSF Projects in Math Education in 
the USA* and we are delighted to report that several of them will be 
sending their NSF Project Leaders to present papers and workshops about 
their past and current work in innovation in the USA!


*6. Arrival and Departure from Charlotte International Airport*

Those arriving in Charlotte by air (or indeed also by train or bus) 
should make their own way to the Conference Hotel. Please tell us your 
exact flight details when you know them, and we can then put you in 
touch later with other participants arriving on the same flight or at 
the same time -- it would save time and money to share a taxi (for 
example) with others! Later we will give you more details of taxi/bus 
possibilities from the airport, train and bus stations.


*7. Local Contacts in Charlotte & the Partners Programme *

We have recently been in touch with the *Charlotte Chamber of Commerce* 
to help us contact potential local sponsors for the conference, and also 
the *Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority* with whom we will be working 
locally to help participants become more aware of the lovely City of 
Charlotte while they are attending our conference. There are also 
opportunities for pre- and post-conference tours for those interested: 
not far away are Washington DC, the beautiful beaches of North Carolina 
(it will be warm enough in September to swim!), the Blue Ridge Mountains 
and so on. There will be special tours locally for Partners, including 
one to local wineries and a tour of the City of Charlotte featuring its 
museums and other cultural centres and...... shopping (Charlotte has 
some of the largest and most interesting Shopping Malls in the USA Patsy 
assures us!)


*8. Professor Azlan Zanzali *will be giving a Plenary Lecture entitled 
"Continuing issues in

mathematics education: The Malaysian Experience": My plenary talk will 
center on the continuing issues in mathematics education (focus on 
content, pedagogical and psychological assumptions that we make and 
their impact on teaching and learning mathematics) with Malaysia as an 
example.




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