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Committed speakers: Prof Sally Tomlinson: U Oxford
Prof Tony Cline: U Luton
Prof Ed Cairns, U Ulster (Member, APA Ethnic Conflict Committee)

Plenary & Parallel Sessions:
Ethnicity, anti-racism
National and local administration for Equal Opportunities.
Anti-oppressive practice: working with minority families
School management and curriculum in the interests of all children
Educational assessment of ethnic minority children
Promoting skills in young children

Conference languages: Czech and English

If you research, administer policy, or practice with ethnic minority
children
and their families, you may well have a contribution which would help
Czech
professionals with their difficult problem. Workshop material is
particularly
welcome.

Or just come: join the event & meet the people: there will be films,
visits
to local provision, a reception, and an exhibition.

Submission of Papers: as soon as possible & not later than 01 05 2,000
You will be informed within 3 weeks and not later than 15 05 2,000:
Title, short resume (approx 200 words) and generous abstracts (approx
1,000

words)
Dr Christopher Alan Lewis, Psychology Department, Behavioural &
Communication
Studies, University of Ulster at Magee College, Londonderry, BT 48 7JL
+44 (0)1504 375 320 CA.Lewis@ulst.ac.uk

CONTEXT & RATIONALE:
Brno, a fine Central European city, is capital of Moravia & the Czech
Republic's second city. Approximately 200 km by rail or road from Prague
(Vienna is nearer), BRNO is an excellent base for visits to Central
Europe:
castles & renaissance towns within easy reach; un-missable Czech beer;
night

life second to none.

We are delighted to recommend interesting & beautiful visits for your
on-going travel.

Masaryk University is the country's second oldest, with 20,000 students.

This conference will complete one of the country's first Equal
Opportunities
projects, conducted in the Faculty of Social Studies, by the Department of
Psychology, a discipline which suffered heavy repression in the
Czechoslovak
Socialist Republic. The education system also carries effects of the
totalitarian regime: it successfully teaches basic skills, but is formal
in
delivery and management.

All the psychologists' research has been within the context of the Roma
community, the ethnic minority who suffer much discrimination thorughout
East
& Central Europe. The research has included an investigation of Roma
child-rearing, (relevant to anti-oppressive social work), a study of fair
assessment of children, (including Dynamic Assessment), and a project to
facilitate democratic classroom discipline.

Venue:
The Conference venue is Masaryk University's very modern Economics Faculty
1

km from the town centre. Meals and accommodation are 4 minutes away, in
comfortable, modern 2-bed rooms (bathroom between 2 rooms)

Costs:
Western participants: Waged: ¸105; Unwaged ¸75.
This includes: Meals from evening 31/8 to breakfast 4/9, (1 day before &
after conference) but excluding conference dinner.
Accommodation with 2 sharing (you can request single rooms and/or
additional

nights: ¸5 / night)

This price does not include airfare. The cheapest travel to Prague is
with
BA-Go: Supersaver return: ¸98
(We will arrange group travel if sufficient demand, and in any case we
will
meet 2 designated planes on 31 August)

Costs: Participants working in & citzens of East European countries:
Waged: 500 Krc + 250 Krc / night + 150 Krc food / day (total 1450 Krc,
$47,
for meeting, 2 nights & 3 days).
Contributors: 250 Krc / night + 150 Krc food / day (total 950 Krc, $30,
for
2
nights & 3 days).

Dr Hilary Gray, Secretary, British & East European Psychology Group