Friday, November 9, 2012, InterAmerican Campus, Room 401, 12:30 -
2:30 pm
Reference #
741485
--Awarding 4 hours of Professional Development (2 hours
Face-to-Face, 2 hours post-workshop)
Facilitated by David McGuirk
Reading for Workshop:
Luisa Maffi, Linguistics, Cultural and
Biological Diversity
Studies into indigenous languages can be
used as tools for understanding and preserving biodiversity. In this
faculty workshop, participants will learn about efforts to preserve
biodiversity by understanding the linkage between preserving
indigenous languages and biodiversity conservation. An overview of
UNESCO’s efforts to safeguard traditional knowledge and the
indigenous languages that have been used to transmit such knowledge
will provide participants with the foundation of this unique
anthropological and linguistic approach to teaching sustainability.
Moreover, participants will explore classroom activities and
resources for using ‘preserving or saving’ endangered languages as a
promising educational tool for the conservation and sustainable
management of biodiversity.
Workshop Objectives:
As a result of participating in this workshop,
participants will be able to:
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Explain ways in which traditional knowledge
informs ecological conservation efforts
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Identify links between biodiversity,
cultural diversity, and language diversity
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Discuss the linguistic contexts from which
societies frame their ecological worldview
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Explain Language Endangerment and Language
Diversity
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Identify ways to integrate language
diversity and ecological sustainability into the curriculum
Workshop Assignment/ Plan of Evaluation
Evaluation will include completion of workshop and participants must
develop a discipline -specific lesson plan that incorporates key
concepts of sustainability and language endangerment issue. The
Lesson plan is due to the director of Earth Ethics Institute within
three weeks of the workshop.
Hosted by Earth Ethics Institute and MDC College Training and Development.
To register:
http://www.mdc.edu/ctd/catalog/workshops/ctd0440a.htm
