Ulla Pajukanta Accompanied by Rista Pajukauta

Nokia Upper Secondary School, Finland

Ulla.pajukanta@nokiankaupunki.fi

Varda Bar

Ph.D.

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Fax: +972 2 566-3588

eshez@zahav.net.il

Verna J. Kirkness

Associate Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

verna.kirkness@cedarcove.ca

Verna Kirkness is a member of the Fisher River Band, Manitoba, of the Cree Nation. She joined the staff of the University of British Columbia in 1981. From 1989 to 1993 she oversaw the conception and then the building of the First Nations Longhouse at the University of British Columbia. She was the founding Director of the First Nations House of Learning/Native Indian Education programme. The building complex was officially opened in May, 1993, shortly before her retirement.. She was Director, cation from 1990. Before joining the staff of the University Verna worked in many aspects of Native American education, as a teacher, researcher, consultant and advocate. From 1974-76 she was Education Director for the National Indian Brotherhood, in Ottawa. She had been a pioneer in the movement to secure a place for native languages in Canadian schools. In 1970 she played a key role in the Manitoba Native Bilingual Program established by the provincial Department of Education, spearheading the development and implementation of Cree and Saulteaux languages as the medium of instruction in a number of Manitoba Schools.

Verna Kirkness has published several books and many articles on various aspects of indigenous life, education and development in Canada and elsewhere. These include her book Khot-La-Cha, The Autobiography of Chief Simon Baker, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, B.C. (1994). In 1999 she was awarded the Order of Canada (CM). She has honorary doctorates from three Canadian universities, and in 1990 was named both British Columbian and Canadian Educator of the Year, and awarded the Canadian "Youth Education" Excellence Prize.

Victoria Churikova

Kamchatka Ecological School, Siberia, Russia

victoria_druz@mailru.com

airport@proto.elrus.kamchatka.su

Viljo Kohonen

Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy, Head of the Department of Teacher Education,

University of Tampere, FIN – 33014, Finland

phone: + 358 3 215 6847 (office) fax: + 358 3 215 7537

kohonen@uta.fi

Ten years of post-graduate research in English language and linguistics (1969-79), resulting in a number of papers and a Ph.D.work on the development of Old and Early Middle English word order (1979).

Since the early 1970s, active research interest in foreign language pedagogy, becoming the major interest since the appointment in the present position in 1980.

Research interests expanded in the 1990s into teacher education and the teacher’s professional growth, action research and school development, and foreign language education as an integration of evaluation, language learning, teaching, curriculum and staff development and the teacher’s professional growth. Current research in progress: Experiential learning in foreign language education (first author in a book to be published by Longman, 1999); European language portfolio (director of the Finnish national project, as part of the Council of Europe project, 1998-2000).

Author of over 80 scholarly publications, the most recent ones being: "Foreign language learning as learner education: facilitating self-direction in language learning" (Council of Europe, 1992), "Experiential language learning: second language learning as cooperative learner education" (CUP, 1992), "Evaluation of quality in Finnish teacher education" (1995); "Promoting professional development in higher education through portfolio assessment" (with Annikki Järvinen, 1995); Towards new professionalism and active learning in teacher development: empirical findings on teacher education and induction (with Hannele Niemi, 1995); "Developing and evaluating teacher education in Finland: current trends and future challenges" (with Hannele Niemi, 1996); "Learning contents and processes in context: towards coherence in educational outcomes through teacher development" (1996); "Exploring new ways of inservice teacher education: an action research project" (with Pauli Kaikkonen, 1996); "Authentic assessment as an integration of language learning, teaching, evaluation and the teacher’s professional growth" (1997); "Authentic assessment in affective foreign language education" (CUP, 1999). Latest book (together with R. Jaatinen, P.Kaikkonen and J. Lehtovaara): Experiential learning in foreign language education, Pearson Education 2000.

Viviana Alexandrowicz

School of Education, University of San Diego, California, United States

vivianaa@acusd.edu

Graduate Research Associate, Ohio State University Extension, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

Interests: Employee Development Network

Wayne Taurima

School of Management, The Open Polytechnic, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

TauWay@topnz.ac.nz

Wesley Swindale

Student, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

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Winona Simms

Director, America Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto United States

wsimms@stanford.edu

Xiao Qin Ma

Student, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

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