Dr Virginia F. Cawagas
DR VIRGINIA F. CAWAGAS - BIOGRAPHY 2008
Dr. Virginia F. Cawagas is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Education & Professional Studies, Griffith University and the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canada, and a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the UN-mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Since 2003, she has coordinated several projects for interfaith dialogue and interfaith education under the auspices of the Griffith University Multi-Faith Centre, and is presently implementing the Multi-Faith Centre in-service interfaith training program sponsored by Multicultural Affairs Queensland designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of faith leaders, multicultural workers and other interested individuals in promoting interfaith understanding and harmony.
In late February 2008, Virginia was the co-Conference Program Chair of the Asia-Pacific Interfaith Symposium on "Women, Faith and a Culture of Peace", attended by over 150 women and men from over ten countries to share ideas and experiences on grassroots initiatives empowering especially women of faith communities to build peaceful communities and nations.
Author of articles in academic journals, book chapters, textbooks in peace education, and civics and culture, Dr. Cawagas has conducted courses and workshops in global/peace education, human rights education and multicultural education in various countries including the Philippines, Australia, Canada, Fiji, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Uganda, and the US, including conflict transformation in the southern Philippines, long-standing site of Muslim-Christian conflict. She holds a Masters in Educational Management from De La Salle University and a Doctor of Education from Notre Dame University where she was also involved in establishing the first graduate program in peace and development education in the Philippines.
She has been Editor of the International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction and an Executive Board member of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction.
Dr. Virginia F. Cawagas is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Education & Professional Studies, Griffith University and the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canada, and a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the UN-mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Since 2003, she has coordinated several projects for interfaith dialogue and interfaith education under the auspices of the Griffith University Multi-Faith Centre, and is presently implementing the Multi-Faith Centre in-service interfaith training program sponsored by Multicultural Affairs Queensland designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of faith leaders, multicultural workers and other interested individuals in promoting interfaith understanding and harmony.
In late February 2008, Virginia was the co-Conference Program Chair of the Asia-Pacific Interfaith Symposium on "Women, Faith and a Culture of Peace", attended by over 150 women and men from over ten countries to share ideas and experiences on grassroots initiatives empowering especially women of faith communities to build peaceful communities and nations.
Author of articles in academic journals, book chapters, textbooks in peace education, and civics and culture, Dr. Cawagas has conducted courses and workshops in global/peace education, human rights education and multicultural education in various countries including the Philippines, Australia, Canada, Fiji, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Uganda, and the US, including conflict transformation in the southern Philippines, long-standing site of Muslim-Christian conflict. She holds a Masters in Educational Management from De La Salle University and a Doctor of Education from Notre Dame University where she was also involved in establishing the first graduate program in peace and development education in the Philippines.
She has been Editor of the International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction and an Executive Board member of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction.
