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Conference
Programs
| Sunday,
16th of January |
Registration
& Ice breaker party |
| Monday,
17th of January |
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Keynote presentation 1 &
2
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General oral sessions, concurrent
workshop, poster presentation, poster viewing session
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Evening social function: Great
Aussie Bar-B-Q
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| Tuesday,
18th January |
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Keynote presentation 3 &
4
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General oral sessions, concurrent
workshop, poster presentation, poster viewing session
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Establishment of International
Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO)
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| Wednesday,
19th January |
Mid-conference
excursion The Geology of Sydney Basin: the Olympic 2000 location, Blue
Mountain, & Jenolan Cave
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| Thursday,
20th January |
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Keynote presentation 5 &
6
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General oral sessions, concurrent
workshop, poster presentation, poster viewing session
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Evening activity: Sydney Harbor
Cruise
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| Saturday,
22nd January |
Post-conference
geological tour to Australia's Capital |
Conference Highlight
"Geoscience for all"
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Anybody in the world has the
right to have Geoscience education, including those disabled handicaped
people…….
"Dedicating Geoscience
to the next generation"
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Our future generation that
would work in any occupation, as a lawyer, economist, medical doctor, engineer,
scientist, etc…..eventhough their parents…..should have enough basic knowledge
about our earth system and its interaction with the human life.
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This is the responsibility
of the Geoscience Educators (with the support from industrial societis,
research instutions, government, as well as non govermental bodies)
to develop the knowledge, understanding, awareness and willingness of our
future generation to regard the earth-its nature - and its relation to
the human life as one integrated system.
"Making Geoscience interesting
& enjoyable"
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It is important to continuously
explore various method and supporting tools to provide innovative teaching
method, so that geoscience education become attractive and enjoyable.
"Geoscience education networking"
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Linkage and collaboration
among educational institutions, industries, museums, research centers,
national parks should be further developed and strengthened.
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Continues education of Geoscience
is required from the primary school up to Higher Education in University,
eventhough for long-life education ……
In order to achieve those
goals highlighted above, on the 18th of January 2000, the international
Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO) has been established. Dr. Chris
King from Univ. of Keele, UK was appointed as the chairman, whilst Dr.
Nir Orion from Science Teaching Dept. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
was assigned as the co-chairman. Furthermore, Dr. Dwikorita
Karnawati and Ms. Pri Utami from Gadjah Mada University Indonesia were
suggested to be the Indonesian representation for Council and Indonesian
Newsletter Editor respectively. |
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