Events Calendar

'All Our Futures' conference, University of Plymouth. For further information contact Jerome Satterthwaite at jsatterthwaite@plymouth.ac.uk, tel: 01752 238890, 01752 823091, 07708107564.

Catching the Knowledge Wave? International Dialogue on Education in the 21st Century. 9:30am - 4:00pm at Friend’s House, Euston, London. For advisors, teacher educators and school leaders involved with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Initial Teacher Education and Training (ITET). This seminar invites policy makers and advisors to engage in an international dialogue on globalisation, global citizenship and education, knowledge and learning in the knowledge society, meeting the needs of 21st century learners, and enquiry, critical reflection and independent thinking in the knowledge society. For more information, please contact Sharifa Khanom, Humanities Education Centre on 020 7364 6405 or at hec@gn.apc.org.

Free teacher training programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Museum in Docklands, London. Anti-Slavery International and Inner Vision are offering these four INSET days to support and empower established and trainee teachers to deliver classes on the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Key Stage 3 History curriculum. For further information, and to book a place, contact Michaela Alfred-Kamara on 020 7501 8935 or at m.alfred-kamara@antislavery.org.

ONE8, Renaissance East Midlands young people's festival. Find out more here.

Free teacher training programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Museum in Docklands, London. Anti-Slavery International and Inner Vision are offering these four INSET days to support and empower established and trainee teachers to deliver classes on the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Key Stage 3 History curriculum. For further information, contact Michaela Alfred-Kamara on 020 7501 8935 or at m.alfred-kamara@antislavery.org.

Global Citizenship Advocates course for teachers & local authority advisors, Oxford. For further details or to book, contact Liz Allum on 0118 958 6692 or at liz@risc.org.uk The course will be held on three Tuesdays: 14 October, 13 November and 2 December 2008.

Teaching Citizenship Through Human Rights - Free CPD training. NUT Head Office, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London. Amnesty International UK, The British Institute of Human Rights and the National Union of Teachers are holding this free teacher training event for those involved in delivering Citizenship education at Key Stage 3. Find out more...

Stand Up and Take Action against Poverty and Inequality. For more information contact Tim Gee, BOND Campaigns and Communications Officer or visit www.standagainstpoverty.org.

Fostering community cohesion and global citizenship through teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 9am to 5pm, Museum in Docklands, London. This free conference is a follow-on from Anti-Slavery's four INSET days. Keynote address from Sir Keith Ajegbo, author of Curriculum Review: Diversity and Citizenship. Workshops will be held on:

• Overcoming the personal challenges in teaching about the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Exploring Recovered Histories resources for teaching about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, meeting learning objectives, strengthening citizenship, and social cohesion
• Using the physical environment to teach about the slave trade
• The role of fiction in increasing students’ understanding of the slave trade
• Teaching approaches to conveying the slave trade accurately and sensitively

The Recovered Histories education pack will also be launched at the conference and all delegates will receive a free copy. Please contact m.alfred-kamara@antislavery.org for further information.

Enterprise Week: A worldwide celebration of enterprise, which aims to unleash young people's enterprising ideas to address some of society's biggest issues. Find out more at www.enterpriseweek.org.uk and www.makeyourmarkchallenge.org.uk

January and February 2009

UNESCO World Conference on education for sustainable development. Bonn, Germany.

This conference will mark the halfway point in the UN's Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. Find out more. Please send expressions of interest to Tobias at t.troll@deeep.org.