Higher Education Support Program (HESP)
of the Open Society
Institute (OSI)
is pleased to invite
the junior faculty teaching at the social sciences and humanities departments
at the institutions of higher education in the countries of Central,
Eastern Europe, the
Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS)
and Mongolia to participate
in the 2002 sessions of its
Summer Schools Program
The Summer Schools
Programcontributes to HESP's on-going efforts to promote change in
higher education in post-communist countries at the classroom level. The
goal of the Summer Schools is to provide young university teachers of the
social sciences and humanities with the experience and tools for updating
the courses they teach, both in terms of content and teaching methods. The
Schools focus on developing curricula, training in and dissemination of methods
that promote interactive, cooperative learning, discussion and development
of critical thinking. The Schools provide teaching materials, practice and
support that will enable the participants to utilize and share this experience
at their home university departments. By targeting university teachers in
their home regions, often in their own languages, the Program encourages
the widest dissemination of new knowledge and skills, and aims to facilitate
participant interaction within the regional and global academic communities.
In the summer 2002,
HESP is supporting a diverse program of forty-one Schools offering a variety
of courses in subjects and topics within the social sciences and humanities
and in interdisciplinary fields. The Schools present models for course design,
selection of materials and assignments, effective methods that facilitate
learning in class and through a variety of extracurricular activities - all
of which are transferable to the participants' home teaching environments.
Each School will invite 25-30 junior university teachers for 2-4 weeks to
engage in a variety of learning and curriculum and teaching methodology development
activities facilitated by international teams of highly qualified resource
persons.
How to apply
This Brochure contains
a detailed listing and description of the Summer School sessions offered from
June-September 2002. Interested junior faculty members, who satisfy eligibility
criteria and teach in the discipline areas same or related to the themes
of the Summer Schools, are invited to apply by writing to the organizers
of the specific Schools according to the Contact Information for Applicants
provided for each School. The applications are accepted and participants
selected separately for each individual School. As a rule, all expenses of
the participants from countries of Central, Eastern Europe, NIS and Mongolia,
are covered by the organizers. All participants are required to have an adequate
command of the working language of the Schools to be able to engage actively
in advanced academic activities. Please note that the Schools will normally
have a deadline for submitting applications for admission between 6-8 weeks
before the starting date of the School.
General Program inquiries
Oleksandr Shtokvych
E-mail: oshtokvych@osi.hu
Tel.: +36 1 235 6153
Marianna
Jó
E-mail: mjo@osi.hu
Tel.: + 36 1 235 6152
