DescriptionSession Title: #IssuesInRealTime: Student conversation on World Religions
Your Name and Title: Sean Terwilliger, Dean of Global Initiatives & CTO
Your School, Library, or Organization Name: Chatham Hall School
Your Twitter Handle (@name): @seanterwilliger
Name(s) of Co-Presenter(s): Tica Simpson
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: USA, Virginia
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience: Students Teachers and Interested parties.
Short Session Description: A student led conversation on World Religions
Session Strand (use the "tag"): 2017students
Full Session Description: Chatham Hall, an all-girls boarding school in Virginia, will facilitate a discussion, live on the internet, with any middle or highschool of any gender balance that wants to participate. This is a video conference session, so audio and video will be helpful. We can take chat requests, but those will be limited.
This will be a student led conversation. The format will be conversational rather than ‘report-based’. The core topic will be 'Climate Change', but that can include any perspective on those words. The changing climate of the world (temperature, religion, gender, war, etc), the changing climate of our schools, the influx of technology, popular media, news etc. For this session (see schedule for others), the primary topics will be on the climate of world religion.
Our World Religions class has studied several of the major religions but we are an Episcopal school and want to better understand what part religion plays in the life of teenagers around the world. For example, does religion affect diet, education and/or access to education, ability to play sports or read books or question authority? Does it impact day to day life, or just holidays? How or does it affect what teenagers watch, how they respond to social media? And do the religious conflicts currently being played out on the world stage impact them, and if so how? Is there anything that teenagers can do now to lessen those conflicts or at least to help/support those impacted by them?
We invite you to join us, whenever you can and for however long you’d like! Our hope is to make this a monthly (or more) gathering, to facilitate relationship building and intercultural understanding.
The overall purpose of these sessions is to give our students global insight into the workings and thoughts of those in other areas of the world. What do we think about and why? How does our place on the planet effect our thought process? Why do we fear that which is different?
Link to GlobalEdCon Session Proposal (full URL with http://): <a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com/forum/topics/conference-proposal-webday" target="_blank">http://www.globaleducationconference.com/forum/topics/conference-proposal-webday
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Your Bio: Sean Terwilliger has been working in boarding schools, both US and abroad for nearly 20 years. This year he's thrilled to add the global perspective to his litany of duties.
Email: sterwilliger@chathamhall.org
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