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The Asia-Pacific Network for Moral Education 5th Conference, 11-13 June 2010
Moral Education in Asia's Globalising Societies: Concepts and Practices
Call for Abstracts
Dear Friends in Moral Education:
The 5th annual conference of APNME will be held in Nagasaki from 11th
to 13th June, 2010. I sincerely hope you will be able to participate in
this conference and provide our global discussion with your valuable ideas
and experiences.
We are now inviting abstracts of 100 words maximum to be submitted by 28th February 2010. The theme for this conference is Moral Education in Asia's Globalizing Societies: Concepts and Practices. We particularly welcome symposium presentations with a maximum of four
presenters and a discussant. Presentations may also take the form of individual/joint
papers, or roundtable discussions. The draft outline of the conference
is given below.
Nowadays we live in globalizing societies in the context of an economically
globalizing world. Politically, the Asia-Pacific area is under considerable
focus as a developing area. However, the issue of how we should or could
construct moral education for the future in the Asia-Pacific area as a
whole has not yet been sufficiently discussed and agreed. So far, moral
education is not globally connected. Rather, we seem only to highlight
the special characteristics of each region or nation, which could be characterized
as Localization. Investigating the globalization of moral education in
the Asia-Pacific region, in interdisciplinary, theoretical and practical
ways will help us frame our future identity. This important and timely
topic can be explored through various themes, according to the interests
of each researcher and practitioner.
Nagasaki is an appropriate place to discuss such themes, because of its
historical connection to the Asia-Pacific region, its religious background
and the peace movement. Moreover this AMPNE conference will be held in
congregation with the 16th conference of the Japanese Association for Methods
of Moral Education, which will widen the circle of discussion. It will
also provide an opportunity to observe moral education lessons in an elementary
school.
I look forward to welcoming you to Nagasaki for this conference in June
2010.
Kohtaro Kamizono
Conference Organiser, University of Nagasaki, Faculty of Education
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