International Association of Esperanto Teachers
The International Association of Esperanto Teachers (in Esperanto: Internacia Ligo de Esperantistaj Instruistoj , abbreviation: ILEI ) is a global professional association of teachers of the planned language Esperanto based in Rotterdam . The year of foundation was 1949.
history
ILEI was founded in Bournemouth on August 12, 1949 . Before the Second World War there was already a predecessor association called Tutmonda Asocio de Esperantistaj Instruistoj (the year it was founded here was 1908).
The first board of directors (1949) consisted of the English president Violet C. Nixon, the Swedish treasurer and secretary Einar Dahl, the French Jeanne Dedieu and the Dutch P. Korte.
President
The following persons have held the presidency since 1985:
- István Szerdahelyi (1985–1987)
- Edward Symoens (1988-1991)
- Stefan MacGill (1991–1993)
- Duncan Charters (1993-1998)
- Mauro La Torre (1998-2003)
- Radojica Petrović (2003-2009)
- Stefan MacGill (2009-2013)
- Mireille Grosjean (since 2013)
goals and tasks
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Aims:
- Education for the appreciation of one's neighbor and respect for life and nature.
- Improvement of international understanding.
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Tasks:
- Offering Esperanto in schools of all kinds.
- Targeted teaching of Esperanto in any environment and at all levels.
- Research into pedagogical problems in language teaching and provision of assistance.
- Publication of modern teaching materials, specialist magazines, books and information materials.
- Implementation of international meetings (ILEI congresses, seminars, etc.).
- Administration of international exams for the ability to use and teach Esperanto.
- Establishing contacts with governments and educational institutions, possibly with other organizations with similar objectives.
- Establishing and managing homepages and discussion forums on the Internet.
Board
The board leads the association, after the election by the highest authority, the Komitato .
The current board was elected in 2018 and consists of the following people:
- Mireille Grosjean (President, Switzerland)
- Ivan Colling (Vice President, Brazil)
- William Harris (Finance, USA)
- Karine Arakaljan (Finance, Armenia)
- Elena Nadikova (Secretary, Russia)
- Jung Yuro (Japan)
- Radojica Petrović (Serbia)
Departments
ILEI has 39 departments, 13 representatives and 12 official contact persons. ILEI is currently represented in around 70 countries worldwide.
ILEI journals
- Internacia Pedagogia Revuo
- Juna Amiko
Projects
- Interkulturo (IK) - Internet pages of the participating school classes and youth groups all over the world
- Flugiloj de Malfacila Vento - training seminars and provision of methodological material for young Esperanto teachers
Congresses
ILEI congresses take place every year in different countries with varying technical, cultural and tourist programs; also with a symposium on the respective congress topic and a language festival.
- ILEI congresses (selection)
- Congress 2007 in Ranzan , Japan: Women and Esperanto Culture
- 2008 Congress in Porto-Novo, Benin: Esperanto teachers for planet earth
- Congress 2009 in Krakow , Poland
- Congress 2010 in Matanzas , Cuba
- Congress 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Congress 2012 in Kunming , PR China
- Congress 2013 in Sieber (Herzberg am Harz) , Germany: Esperanto lessons for all generations
- Congress 2014 in Montevideo , Uruguay: Linguistic Justice in Practice - Experiences and Trends in Latin America
- Congress 2015 in Ostend , Belgium: Great peace after great wars
- Congress 2016 in Nyíregyháza , Hungary: New ways of learning
- Congress 2017 in Busan , South Korea: Education for Prudent Tourism
- Congress 2018 Madrid , Spain: Esperanto as a cultural legacy
- Congress 2019 Čačak , Serbia: Learning in virtual groups
Web links
- Official website
- Homepage of the German section
- ILEI-worldwide
- Magazines:
- Supported projects (or cooperation):
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internacia Ligo de Esperantistaj Instruistoj starigxis! In: La Juna Vivo, septembro 1949 , p. 355.