Upcoming Events

• October 10-12: Fall Conference - Understanding Violence: Tools for Educators
  Conference: Seattle University

October 10-12: The Ernest Becker Fall Conference at Seattle University

EBF Fall Conference: Becker-based Tools for Educators

Last year's eye-opening Fall conference on Understanding Violence: Tools for Educators and Communities left us wanting more. The focus of this year's annual conference (Oct 10-12 at Seattle U) expands on the theme, featuring educators from all over who are using Becker to help their students understand and reduce violence, and see cultural criticism at work. We have an incredible group of educators coming to present how they bring Becker to their students. Sheldon Solomon, Greg Bennick, and Jim Hernandez will be back, and new voices, from Bethlehem, PA, Louisville, Ky, and Thunder Bay, ON, will also share their work.

In this conference we want to not only share what these innovative educators are doing, but also to promote the use and continued development of Becker-based materials and concepts in the classroom. These are tools for helping students develop critical thinking skills and ways for understanding and reducing violence in their lives and in the world. Our goal is to build and share a toolkit of Becker-based learning activities and materials that all educators can easily access through our website. Our first tool, now online, is Neiad Ammary's set of discussion questions for each chapter of Denial of Death. We have posted these questions on the EBF website in our brand new "tools for teaching" section.

We're looking for more! If you have designed or want to design any learning activities or materials that could help people relate Becker's work to their studies and/or their own lives, please let us know. Sound exciting? Register now for the Fall Conference.

EBF website supports chapters

The Ernest Becker Foundation wants to help you publicize your local Ernest Becker chapter and Web site. We will list you on our EBF Chapters page and provide links to your Web pages. If you would like technical information on developing a Web site, please email Neil Elgee.