Invitation
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We would like to draw your attention to the International Conference “Excellence: Education & Human Development” that will be held in 1-4 July 2009, in Athens, one of the world’s oldest cities with a huge recorded history and cultural heritage.
The conference solicits original contributions in the following areas:
1. National and International Policy in Gifted Talented Education
Patterns & planning models (holistic approaches & specific components).
• Implementation and Evaluation
(Researches, good practices, standards, values, quality indicators).
• Educational methods
(Research, evaluation, teaching, learning Teachers, supporting & mentoring, etc).
• Multidisciplinary & Multicultural Programs Development
(Sciences, Philosophy, Visual Art, Music, Literature, etc).
• Application of new technologies in performance and educational contexts
• ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
(Networks, databases, e-Learning, on-line training programs, etc).
2. Pedagogy for Gifted Talented Students:
• Behaviour and Pedagogy.
• Recognition
(Needs, individual differences, intervention and development, current practices, policy & legislations, initiatives & plans).
• Integrated Services
(Guidance and counseling, pear to pear networking, supporting & mentoring, etc).
• Performance Sciences
Performance enhancement research for talented students
(musicians, dancers, athletes etc).
• Traditional heritages and new horizons in giftedness and creativity
(Research and programs for talented students in Art, Sciences, Athletics, etc).
3. Talent Development & Human Harmonic/Balanced Development:
• Child Development
(Genetics, Pedophychiatrics, Paediatrics, Child Mentoring, identification “unique” needs, etc).
• Sports Medicine
• Performing Arts Medicine
(Medical Problems and health-promoting behavior for performing Artists
Dance Medicine and Sciences
Music Medicine and Sciences
Musicians’ health and well-being, etc.
• Preventive Medicine
(prevent, evaluation, support, diagnosis, therapy etc).
• Orthopedics
(Myoskeletic system development for Athlet, Dance, Music Talented, etc).
• Health Sciences and Education confluences in “euphuism”
(Enhances the health, well-being, training, and performance of talented by cultivating educational and medical excellence).
(Embiomechanics, Kinaesthetic, Kinesiology, etc).
• Neurosciences in Education (Brain research, etc).
4. Scientific excellence
• Philosophy of Sciences
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences
• Mathematical Brain and Music
• Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence,
etc.