WORKSHOP WITH SUSAN DOUGLASS Saturday, December 1st, 2007 8:30am -
2:00pm (with optional 2:00-3:00pm session on teaching resources)
We are excited to invite you to this opportunity to learn about basic
beliefs and practices of Islam and to discuss a few contemporary
hot-button issues. We will learn about comparative geography of Muslim
regions over time and what trips students up, like seeing monolithic
regions or distinguishing between religion, language, and culture in
relation to world maps. We will also delve into historical issues
particularly relevant to world cultures, world civilizations, world
history/geography classes at the middle school level and learn about some
cultural interactions between East and West in the arts, poetry, history
of technology & science, math & Islamic art.
Susan Douglass is a renowned educational consultant at the Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown
University (ACMCU). She has an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown
University and a B.A. in History from the University of Rochester, and is
currently enrolled in the doctoral program in history at George Mason
University. During 2006, she served as Senior Researcher for the United
Nations Alliance of Civilizations initiative, and was an Affiliated
Scholar with the Council on Islamic Education for over a decade. She
conducted teacher workshop nationwide for over a decade before developing
the workshop program at ACMCU.
We feel very privileged to have Susan and are very grateful to the Center
for bringing this workshop to us free of charge. Please register ASAP to
Nora Kruk [norak@burgundyfarm.org]. Hosted by: Burgundy Farm Country Day
School, 3700 Burgundy Road, Alexandria, VA. tel. 703-60-3431.
Joseph E. Peacock
Director of Technology
Burgundy Farm Country Day School
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
tel. 703-960-3431, ext. 241
fax: 703-960-5056
joep@burgundyfarm.org
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