Program

SUMMER SESSION ІІI

11-21 September, 2011

Kichkine - Kyiv, Ukraine

ADVANCES IN TEACHING COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF NEW EASTERN EUROPE

The lectures and colloquiums of the resource faculty will be aimed at providing theoretical background for sociological analysis of New Eastern Europe’ cultural peculiarities and everyday life. Besides, professors will dwell on the teaching methods of the correspondent issues. There is a set of the master-classes, lectures and colloquiums devoted to a specific teaching methods in application to the teaching sociological agenda within BA Curriculum followed by practical session for practical part. Practical part of the summer session is devoted to group discussions of improvement of concrete participants’ syllabi, teaching materials, experience and research-based teaching methods for advance of teaching Sociology of New Eastern Europe.

The other important activity will be presentation of the elaborated teaching modules of the sourcebook “Sociology of New Eastern Europe” by participants under the guidance of the RT. Special attention will be paid to the pedagogical issues in frames of every teaching module, i.e. tasks for students, collected comparative data, visual and other teaching materials. Following group-discussion will be devoted by all participants and resource faculty on how to optimize teaching process and improve teaching material of the module.

Readings for the summer session will be available at the website of the project www.evd-reset.org prior the session to make the participants ready for the lectures and debates on the issues. Also the site as usual hosts the project library which includes the books and articles on the themes of the project, readers of previous sessions, teaching materials presented by participants.

Participants of the project have an assignment to improve their syllabi with the teaching modules (topics) that they have been developed during past two years and to equip them with teaching materials to be presented, discussed and improved during the course of the third project year.

Daily Program

Date	Activity / Theme	Format, Content, Resource Faculty
September 11, 2011, Sunday	Arrival and accommodation of participants and the first part of resource faculty

18.00-22.00	Dinner
September 12, Monday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
9.30-10.15	Opening session	O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk
10.15-11.30	Cross-Cultural Sensitivity in Comparative Data Interpretation	Lecture by Eugenii Golovakha followed by Q&A discussion

11.45-13.00	Cross-Cultural Sensitivity in Comparative Data Interpretation	Colloquium by Eugenii Golovakha followed by Q&A discussion
13.00-15.00	Lunch
15.00-17.00	Group consultations on teaching modules	O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk, S.Babenko,

17.15-18.30	Individual and group consultations on teaching modules	E.Golovakha, N.Genov
18.30-22.00	Dinner
September 13, Tuesday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	Teaching about Global Trends in Eastern Europe in Sociology Courses	Lecture by Nikolai Genov followed by Q&A discussion

11.45-13.00	Teaching Political Participation in Sociology of NEE	Lecture by Ch. Haerpfer followed by Q&A discussion
13.00-15.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Individual and group consultations on teaching modules	N. Genov, E.Golovakha,

17.15-18.30	Individual and group consultations on teaching modules	O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk, Ch.Haerpfer
18.30-22.00	Dinner
September 14, Wednesday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	Round-Table: How to teach comparative research in teaching courses by participants.	Moderator: Ch. Haerpfer

11.45-13.00	Active Methods in Teaching Sociology of NEE	Colloquium by S.Babenko
13.00-15.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Individual and group consultations on teaching modules	Ch. Haerpfer, C.Wallace, N.Genov, O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk, S.Babenko

17.15-18.30	Participants’ presentations, discussions and groups work on teaching issues of the topic
18.30-22.00	Dinner
September 15, Thursday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	European Identities: Research Results for Teaching Sociology of NEE	Lecture by C.Wallace followed by Q&A discussion

11.45-13.00	Problems of Interpretation of Sociological Data in Teaching Comparative Sociology	Lecture by Viktor Vakhstein followed by Q&A discussion
13.00-14.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Individual and group consultations on teaching modules	Ch. Haerpfer, C.Wallace

17.15-18.30	Individual and group consultations on teaching modules	O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk, S.Babenko
18.30-22.00	Dinner
September 16, Friday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	How to teach European Identities in teaching courses by participants.	Moderator: C.Wallace

11.45-13.00	Frame-analysis as Microsociology Method: Observation of Interactions in Everyday Life	Lecture by Victor Vakhstein followed by Q&A discussion
13.00-14.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Final Presentation of the Teaching Topic “Religion in New Eastern Europe” - participants' team, curators of the group N.Genov, A. Gorbachyk

17.15-18.30	Final Presentation of the Teaching Topic 'Symbolic Representations of European Identity in NEE Countries - participants' team, curator of the group O.Kutsenko, C.Wallace
18.30	Dinner
September 17, Saturday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	Final Presentation of the Teaching Topic 'Political and Social Participation in NEE Countries participants' team, curators of the group Ch. Haerpfer, A. Gorbachyk

11.45-13.00	Final Presentation of the Teaching Topic 'Media Representation of Europeaness in NEE Countries' participants' team, curator of the group O.Kutsenko, C.Wallace
13.00-14.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Final Presentation of the Teaching Topic "Values change in NEE" participants' team, curator of the group C.Wallace, O.Kutsenko

17.15-18.30	Discussions in working groups on teaching modules
18.30	Dinner
September 18, Sunday	free time
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-18.00	Study-Tour: “…”
18.30	Dinner
September 19, Monday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	Comparative Sociology as an Inquiry and a Teaching Discipline	Lecture by Andrey Rezaev followed by Q&A discussion

11.45-13.00	Comparative Sociology as an Inquiry and a Teaching Discipline	Colloquium by Andrey Rezaev
13.00-14.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Case Studies for Teaching Qualitative Comparative Sociology of NEE	Lecture by Oksana Danylenko followed by Q&A discussion

17.15-18.30	Final Presentation of the Teaching Topic 'Inequalities in NEE Countries	participants' team, curators of the group O. Kutsenko, S. Babenko
18.30-22.00	Dinner
September 20, Tuesday
8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	Visual Methods in Teaching Sociology of NEE	Colloquium leaded by Lyudmila Males

11.45-13.00	Round table: How to use visual methods in teaching courses by participants.	Moderator: Lyudmila Males
13.00-14.00	Lunch
15.00-16.30	Round-Table: How to use case studies in teaching courses by participants. Moderator: Oksana Danilenko

17.15-18.30	Round-Table on Curriculum on Sociology in NEE Universities improvement O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk, S.Babenko, A.Rezaev
18.30-22.00	Dinner
September 21, Wednesday

8.00-9.00	Breakfast
10.00-11.30	Closing session Discussion of the Summer session feedback and outcomes, planning activities for final session in May.	Leaded by O.Kutsenko, A.Gorbachyk, S.Babenko
12.00 Departure of visiting professors, participants, and staff

Anticipated results, outcomes

Presentation, discussion and finalizing of the modules for the sourcebook “Sociology of New Eastern Europe”;
Teaching modules are developed as teaching complexes on the core sociological dimensions of European societies in comparative perspective (social inequality, participation, values, and identities) and cases on New Eastern European societies.
Development of the undergraduate curriculum in sociology in home Universities via discussions of specific teaching methods and practices and implementation of participants these teaching methods to their teaching
Academic networking and cooperative results of the working groups' activities, experience exchange between junior and senior faculty from different European Universities.