"Children, Childhood and Schools: Reaffirming our
Commitments"
C.W. Post Hosts Summer Institutes for Educators: July
6 - 31, 1998
Four nationally renowned educators - including one of the nation's leading
experts on child development as well as the founder of the School Development
Program at Yale Medical School- will be keynote speakers at the 1998 Summer
Institute of Learning sponsored by the School of Education at the C.W.
Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville.
The thematic summer program, "Children, Childhood and Schools:
Reaffirming Our Commitments," will be held July 6 - 31, and will feature
14 three-credit master's level courses and networking sessions. The institutes
are open to educators and teachers of all levels. Courses taught by C.W.
Post faculty and invited specialists range from "Children's Poetry
in Action: For Better or Verse" to "Counseling the Student Athlete:
A Developmental, Multicultural Perspective."
In addition to its regular offerings, the Summer Institute will present
four special lectures that are free and open to the public. They include:
* Monday, July 6: Dr. James Comer, Associate Dean of the Yale University
School of Medicine and the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry,
Yale Child Study Center. He is best known for founding the Comer School
Development Program in 1968, an organization that promotes the collaboration
of parents, educators and community to improve the social and emotional
growth of children. Dr. Comer will speak from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the
Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. He will discuss "The School Development
Program: A Vision for Educational Reform."
* Tuesday, July 14: Dr. Elliot Eisner, Professor of Education and Art
at Stanford University. He specializes in arts education, curriculum,
and educational evaluation. His published works include 15 books, among
them: Educating Artistic Vision, Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered,
and The Enlightened Eye. Dr. Eisner will speak from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. His topic is "Problematic Assumptions
about Schooling and Some Promising Possibilities."
* Monday, July 20: Dr. David Elkind, Professor of Child Development
at Tufts University. He is best known for his popular books The Hurried
Child, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, and Parenting Your Teenager. He
currently co-hosts the Lifetime Television series Kids These Days. Dr.
Elkind will speak from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the Hillwood Commons Lecture
Hall on "The Ties that Stress."
* Tuesday, July 28: Dr. Nel Noddings, the Lee L. Jacks Professor of
Child Education at Stanford University's School of Education and Professor
of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She
is the country's leading authority on the importance of caring in education.
Some of her books include Awakening the Inner Eye: Intuition in Education,
The Challenge to Care in Schools, and Educating for Intelligent Belief
or Unbelief. Dr. Noddings will speak from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the Hillwood
Commons Lecture Hall. Her presentation will be on "Setting Standards
Locally."
According to Dr. Jeffrey Kane, Dean of C.W. Post's School of Education,
"The Summer Institutes will address the environments in which we raise
and educate children. Institute participants will come away with an appreciation
for the unique challenges and profound struggles children face."
For lecture reservations and information about the Summer Institutes,
or for more details on degrees offered in education, contact Joanne Blas,
Associate Dean of C.W. Post's School of Education, at (516) 299-2134 or
jblas@titan.liu.edu.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
