Planning Grant - South Africa Partnership

该奖项支持美国和南非为国际社会科学研讨会举行的计划会议，以促进合作研究和教育。计划会议将于2002年1月在南非比勒陀利亚举行。该计划小组的七名美国参与者希望建立一个更连贯、更协调的国际社会科学议程，包括将重点放在研究、教育和培训上。如果成功，目标是扩大合作，将非洲、加勒比和南美洲的其他国家包括在内。规划会议的组织者小威利·皮尔逊。他将与南非西开普省大学的泰伦·比勒托里乌斯合作。组委会将由来自美国和南非的同等数量的代表组成。在为期五天的时间里，工作组将为2002年底或2003年初举行的研讨会确定适当的地点、时间和主题。在南非期间，该小组计划会见学术界(主要是社会科学教师)、商业和政府资助社区的成员。这将使讨论放在更广泛的社会背景下进行，因为它涉及解决创新、经济发展、社会福利和劳动力发展问题的政策和做法。这些讨论将发挥至关重要的作用，使委员会成员能够更深入地了解南非最重要的社会科学相关问题。规划会议将作为组委会成员之间(电子和口头)对话的开始。计划会议的最终成果将是一个研讨会。由此产生的合作和伙伴关系将加强美国和南非之间的发现和理解，同时促进教学、培训、接受高等教育的机会和课程改革。

This award supports a U.S.-South Africa planning meeting for an international social science workshop to foster collaborative research and education. The planning meeting will take place in Pretoria, South Africa in January 2002. Seven U.S. participants in the planning group wish to establish a more coherent and better coordinated international social science agenda, including a focus on research, education, and training. If successful, the goal is to expand the collaboration to include other countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.The organizer of the planning meeting, Willie Pearson, Jr. of Georgia Tech, will work with his counterpart in South Africa, Tyron Pretorius of the University of the Western Cape. An organizing committee will be comprised of an equal number of representatives from the U.S. and South Africa. Over the course of five days, the group will determine appropriate location, time, and topics for a workshop to be held in late 2002 or early 2003.. While in South Africa, the group plans to meet with members of the academic (primarily social science faculty), business, and government funding communities. This will allow for the discussion to be placed in a broader societal context as it relates to policies and practices that address issues of innovation, economic development, social welfare and workforce development. These discussions will serve a vital function by permitting the committee members to gain a deeper understanding of the most significant social science related issues in South Africa. The planning meeting will serve as the beginning of a dialogue (both electronic and verbal) among the organizing committee members. The end product of the planning meeting will be a workshop. The resulting collaboration and partnerships will enhance discovery and understanding between the U.S. and South Africa while promoting teaching, training, access to higher education, and curriculum reform.