LECTURE 1
date: 9.10.2018
time: 14:30-15:45
place: room RUV, Poříčí 9, basement

prof. Hanan Alexander (University of Haifa, Israel) - "Education for Peaceful Coexistence: Project DARE and the Pedagogy of Difference"

about the lecture - see the attachment

Prof. Alexander is dean at the Faculty of Education. He has many experiences in the field of "Pedagogy of Difference" and is active in opening the university environment to diverse groups of people (students of higher age, students with disabilities, of different language or ethnic minorities, women...).
After the lecture there is time for a dicussion.

Short interview with prof. Alexander

LECTURE  2 - workshop (lecture 2 and lecture 4 are same)
date: 22.10.2018
time: 14-15:50
place: room 20, Poříčí 31

Helena Anttila (JAMK - University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland) - "Developing Multicultural Competences"

In the workshop the participants deepen their awareness and skills of multicultural competences. They reflect and develop their present practices and communication in multicultural encounters. They also increase their self-awareness of their own cultural sensitivity and competence.

LECTURE 3
date: 24.10.2018
time: 16-17:50
place: room 30, Poříčí 31

Helena Anttila (JAMK - University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland) - "Review of cultural aspects in work and learning environments. Communication and interaction within multicultural contexts"

In the workshop the students increase their skills to encounter and deal with multicultural issues. They enhance their ability to recognize cultural aspects and the challenges of multiculturalism in working and learning environments. They also increase their self-awareness of their own cultural sensitivity and competence.

LECTURE 4 - workshop (lecture 4 and lecture 2 are same)
date: 25.10.2018
time: 15-16:50
place: room 37, Poříčí 31

Helena Anttila (JAMK - University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland) - "Developing Multicultural Competences"

In the workshop the participants deepen their awareness and skills of multicultural competences. They reflect and develop their present practices and communication in multicultural encounters. They also increase their self-awareness of their own cultural sensitivity and competence.

LECTURE 5 - workshop
date: 8.11.2018
time: 16-17:50
place: room 24, Poříčí 31

Thomas Spaett, Markus Heinzl-Mania and their students from the University of Würzburg (Germany)
and Ivana Márová, Dana Zámečníková (Masaryk university, Faculty of Education, Brno, Czech Republic)

Topics of the workshop

• Way of living of people with disabilities
• Accessability
• Speech and swallowing therapy for children and adults after traumatic brain injury and stroke
• Sustainable Learner-centred Teaching - Advanced Resources for Georgia and China - STAR Project

Speech and swallowing therapy for children and adults after traumatic brain injury and stroke
The supply speech and swallowing therapy for children and adults in Germany, takes place in neurologic clinical environment (stroke unit)  
and afterwards in a Speech therapy practice and continued in special schools for children. Some adults are involved in reintegration activities
n the job. However very few clinics are geared to children meanwhile adults nowdays have a wide range of options.
Starting from medical diagnostics and a linguistic and swallowing diagnostic carried out by (academic) speech therapist, the clients are  
entitled to get speech/swallowing therapy based on a treatment plan inthe areas of language, speech and swallow at the interface between  
doctors / occupational therapists / physiotherapists. The acute phase, consolidation phase and compensation phase will be described in more  
detail. The subsequent pedagogical or occupational reintegration measures are briefly presented.

Sustainable Learner-centred Teaching - Advanced Resources for Georgia and China - STAR Project
The project focuses on professional development of higher education teachers in the area of innovative pedagogical approaches. The key objective is to address the shortcomings in higher education across Georgia and China by systematically engaging HEIs in new practices with a learner-centred focus.

LECTURE 6 - workshop
date: 9.11.2018
time: 9-11
place: room RUV, Poříčí 9, basement

Thomas Spaett, Markus Heinzl-Mania and their students from the University of Würzburg (Germany)
and Lucie Procházková (Masaryk university, Faculty of Education, Brno, Czech Republic)

Topics of the workshop

• School and education
• Work and employment
• Trauma of people with intellectual disability

Trauma of people with intellectual disability
People with intellectual disabilities are within a high risk group getting trauma related disorders after critical incident.
Nevertheless there only a few research programs target this problem. The lecture clarifies major aspects on genesis and intervention.

LECTURE 7
date: 13.12.2018
time: 12-13:50
place: room 52, Poříčí 9

Judy Bradford McEnany, Ph.D. (before joining the Masaryk University she was an associate professor at Montana State University Billings, USA) - "The Brain: Your Amazement Park"

A presentation on the brain and learning. I covers the current research on what we now about how people learn,the optimal conditions for learning, and teaching techniques that optimize learning.