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SIG-SGLSCD
Special Interest Group for School Guidance, Life Skills and Career Development |
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Purposes:
- Advance research and knowledge exchange in the related areas of school guidance and counselling, life skills and career development for all students, including those with learning difficulties, disabilities, giftedness, special talents, and other diverse learning needs.
- Bring together counselling professionals, special educational needs coordinators, career education teachers, curriculum developers, policy-makers, teacher-educators, teachers, community members, business professionals, and researchers interested in school guidance, counselling, and career development of students with learning difficulties, disabilities, giftedness, talents, and other diverse learning needs.
- Provide workshop sessions for children with learning difficulties, gifted learners, students with other diverse needs, parents, teachers, counselling professionals and special educational needs coordinators.
Conveners:
Professor YUEN, Man Tak
Honorary Research Associate, CAISE, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: mtyuen@hku.hk
Mr. LEE, Brian S. F.
Honorary Research Associate, CAISE, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: briansflee@yahoo.com.hk
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SIG-GECTD
Special Interest Group for Gifted Education, Creativity and Talent Development |
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Purposes:
- Advance culturally relevant research and knowledge exchange in the related areas of gifted education, creativity, and talent development.
- Bring together teachers, curriculum developers, special education needs coordinators, teacher-educators, specialist advisers in gifted education, counsellors, psychologists, guidance practitioners, administrators, policy-makers, community members, business professionals, and researchers interested in innovative research and practice in gifted education, creativity and talent development.
- Identify and promote inclusive practices that enable gifted and talented learners to be suitably challenged and extended in mainstream classrooms.
- Provide occasional practical workshop sessions for gifted students, parents, teachers and guidance practitioners.
Conveners:
Professor YUEN, Man Tak
Honorary Research Associate, CAISE, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: mtyuen@hku.hk
Professor CHEUNG, Wai Ming
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: cwming@hku.hk
Dr. CHAN, Serene
Lecturer, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: schan15@hku.hk
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SIG-SILYIN
Special Interest Group for Social Integration and Lifelong Learning for Post-school Youths with Individual Needs |
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Purposes:
- Bring together people from different professions to contribute to innovative ideas of social integration and lifelong learning.
- Identify and celebrate good practice in promoting social integration and lifelong learning.
- Provide a vehicle for sharing innovative ideas in social integration and lifelong learning.
Convener:
Ms. CHANG, Hazel Delfina
Founder of The Rock Foundation (www.therf.org)
Email: hazel@therf.org
Advisor:
Mr. TSE, Andrew C. Y.
Honorary Research Associate, CAISE, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: atse2314@gmail.com
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SIG- IncludED
Special Interest Group for Included Educators Network – IncludED Network
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Purposes:
- Foster meaningful partnerships and networking between pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and academics through co-creation and co-reflection on inclusive and innovative curriculum components, pedagogies, and teaching resources
- To bridge policy and theory to practice through experiential learning for members to adapt inclusive and innovative curriculum components and pedagogies into real classrooms
Conveners:
Miss PRASAD, Alya
In-service secondary school Biology teacher, SEKSS(WK)
Miss WONG, Rachel
In-service primary school English teacher
Email: includednetwork@gmail.com
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SIG-TIE
Special Interest Group for Translanguaging and Inclusive Education
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Purposes:
- Advance research and knowledge exchange on Translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical approach that encourages teachers and students to value students’ linguistic and cultural repertoires, challenge the standard and named language ideologies and promote equitable learning, social inclusion and justice.
- Provide a platform for emergent and experienced scholars to engage in academic exchange on Translanguaging research and pedagogies.
- Provide occasional seminars and practical workshop sessions for students, teachers and researchers.
Convener:
Professor TAI, Kevin W. H.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Email: kevin.tai@hku.hk
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