The Fifth Conference

of the

The Asia-Pacific Network for Moral Education

 

 

Moral Education in Asia's Globalising Societies: Concepts and Practices

 

 

NagasakiUniversity

 Japan

 

 

11-13 June, 2010

 

 

 

Sponsored by:

The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education

 

 In association with the Japanese Association for Methods of Moral Education

 (Attendants of The Asia-Pacific Network for Moral Education are also welcomed to the conference of Japanese Association for Methods of Moral Education)

 

 

APNME Conference Organizing Committee


PROGRAMME

 

Day 1.  Friday 11thJune

(Elementary School, Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University)

Session 1  14.10-17.00pm

Moral education Lesson14.15 - 15.50pm

Makoto Nagata (The Elementary School Attached to Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University)

     Moral education lesson for 1st graders

Keiichi Hattori (The school board of Osaka-city)

      Moral education lesson for 5th graders

Post-lesson discussion16.00 - 17.00 pm

Facilitator: Kohtaro Kamizono

Comments about the lessons by Makoto Nagata and Keiichi Hattori

(translated by Kaori Okumoto, Yukiko Maeda)

 

 

(Loisir Hotel Nagasaki)

AGM

5.3 0 – 6.45 pm    APNME Annual General Meeting

7.00 pm             Optional Welcoming Dinner (4,000 yen per person)

 







 

 

Day 2.  Saturday 12th June

(at Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University)

Registration 8.30am - 17.00pm                                Entrance of Faculty of Education

Session 2   8.50 - 9.10am                                                         (SCS room)

Welcome speech to the Fifth Annual Conference of APNME in Nagasaki

Kohtaro Kamizono (Nagasaki University)

     Globalisation, Responsibility for Peace and moral Education

 

Session 3        9.15 - 10.45 am

Parallel Session A: Regional Challenges and Opportunities for Moral Education            (room 238)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Guozhen Cen

(1) Yoshiro Kanematsu     Continuity and Discontinuity of Moral Education in Japan: Encouraging high schools to make moral education relevant

(2) Gao Guoxi                     On the Orientation and Approach of Moral Education in China Today

(3) Vishalache Balakrishnan Vygotskian ZPD to ZCD in Moral Education: Reshaping Western theory and practices in a local context

 

Parallel Session B: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Moral Education        (room 206)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Yong-Lin Moon

(4) Laurance J. Splitter           Moral Education: Respecting relationships over boundaries

(5) Yong-Lin Moon,   TheRelationship between LifeGoal and Life Satisfaction with Adolescents in Korea

   Suehyeon Paek&

   Jeongyi Yoon

(6) Ann, Tzu-yu Yen,     Philosophy for Children and Education for Democracy: A Deweyan perspective

Jessica Ching-sze Wang

Parallel Session C: Character Education                                              (room 204)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Derek Patton

(7) Darmiyati Zuchdi    Character Education through Life Skills Development in Indonesia

(8) Chen Hui-Mei         A Case Study on the Ideology of Character Education in Taiwan

Chou Pei-I

(9) Hsing-Yuan Liu,     Service-learning asCharacter Education in TaiwaneseUniversities

Kuei-Lan Yu.       

 

Session 4  Parallel Sessions        10.50am - 12.20 pm

Parallel Session A: Moral Education and Religious Tradition                             (room 238)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Laurance J. Splitter

(10 ) Muhimatussolihat,       A Glimpse of Some Approaches to Values Education in Indonesia and the

Christopher Drake          Legacy of Dewantoro

(11) Muhammad Nasir Khan  The Impact of Moral Principles and Academic Ethics of Mystic Education on Societies in the Indo-Pak Sub continent

(12) A.M.Susilo Pradoko          Differences of Norms and Values Criteria in Asian society: Sadness and solutions

 

Parallel Session B: Moral Education, Human Rights and Democracy                      (room 206)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Helena Meyer-Knapp

(13) Hueyguan Cheng          A Study of Human Rights Curricula Focusing on UDHR and the Taiwanese

Context

(14) Astri Dwijayanti Suhandoko Institutional Caring in Higher Education: International “Muslim” Students' Realityin Taiwan

(15) Ruyu Hung              An Exploration of Aesthetic Pedagogy of Human Rights Education:

Neo-pragmatism, Phenomenology and Aesthetic Experience

 

Parallel Session C: Moral Education and Student Morality                              (room 204)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Minkang Kim

(16) Xianqing Wang        On the Psychological Difficulties and Moral Education of College Students' Network Anomie

(17) Ho Hsiu Hwang        Whose Moral Education? The student's or the teacher's?

(18) Ma Le Chen          Expectation and Reality: A survey of ideals and individual development of students in an MA programme

 

12.20 - 1.10pm  Lunch   

 

Session 5  Parallel Sessions 1. 15pm – 2.45pm

Parallel Session A: Cultural Traditions and Moral Education                            (room 238)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Dorrie Hancock

(19) Di You,            Moral Sensitivity: What we know and what we still need to know

Yukiko Maeda     

(20) Kohsuke Amano    Moral Education Adopting the Jigsaw Method: What are the problems of moral education classes in Japanese Public Schools?

(21) Hsing-Yuan Liu,     Constructing and Practicing a Friendly Campus by Character Education

Sheau-Ming Wu    

 

Parallel Session B: National Contexts and Moral Education                             (room 206)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator:  Nobumichi Iwasa

(22) MaosenLi         A Traditional Chinese Concept of Moral Education and its Implication for Globalization

(23) LeticiaNagao     Japanese Moral Education, Outside Japan

(24) Yong-Lin. Moon,    An Aanalysis of Dishonesty Behavior Patterns of Korean Adolescents

Hee-Sun Chang &

Jeoyng-Hyun Ryu

 

Parallel Session C: Globalisation and Modernity                                      (room 204)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator:Thomas  Kwan-choi Tse

(25) Ruyu Hung      The Meaning of Place and Pace-based Education: Confronting Homogenisation and Globalisation

(26) Yu-hui Chen          Multiculturalism and Lyotard's Discourse of Post-modernity

(27) Ssu-Yu Lu      A Study of Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship and its Implications for Taiwanese Civic Education

 

Parallel Session D: Globalization and Self-Esteem                                    (room 203)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Kohtaro Kamizono

(28) Hongyan Cheng    Moral Values among Chinese College Students in a Globalizing Society

(29) Young Yoon         Study for Distance and Difference between Education of Personality

 in Home and School

(30) I-Ling Ling         The Effects of Self-esteem and Emotional Maturity on Revenge Behavior:

An empirical study of nurses' responses to negative patients' behaviors

 

 

 

 

Session 6  Symposium 2.50 – 4.40pm                                               (SCS room)

Moral Education in Asia's Globalising Societies: Concepts and Practices

(translated by Kaori Okumoto, Yukiko Maeda and Itsuro Inage)
Chairs:
 Maosen Li (Renmin University, PRC)
    Kanji Uechi (Ryukyu University, Japan)
Speakers: Shenghong Jin (Nanjing Normal University, PRC)

What the Confucian Idea of Harmony Contributes to Education in an Age of Globalization
      Tak-Joon Jung (Mokpo National University, Korea)

The Main Characteristics of Korean Moral Education and the Direction of its Development
     Yasunari Hayashi (Joetsu University, Japan)

Moral Education in Asia's Globalising Societies: Considerations from the current situation in Japan

 


4.45pm –    Visit to Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum




6.30 pm     Social meeting and buffet with members of the Japanese Association for Methods ofMoral Education (4,000 yen per person)                        (1st floor of COOP restaurant)

             (Interpreters will be present at the meeting)











 

 

 

Day 3.  Sunday 13th June

(at Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University)

Registration 8.30 - 11.00 am                                   Entrance of Faculty of Education

Session 7Invited Lecture:  8.50 – 9.40 am (translated by Kaori Okumoto)

Speaker : Keiko Kamide (Kwassui Women's College)                                   (SCS room)

  Peace Studies for Children: Children as peacemakers

 

Session 8 Parallel Sessions and Symposium      9.45 - 10.45 am

Parallel Session A: Moral Education by Music and Comic literature                      (room 238)

(2 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 20 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Monica Taylor

(31 )Kun Setyaning Astuti  Shaping Morality through Music Learning in Formal Schools in Indonesia: An evaluation study

(32) Xiao-lei Wang      A Comparative Study of How Moral Values are Conveyed in Chinese, American English, and French Children's comic Literature

 

Parallel Session B: Moral Development Research                                     (room 206)

(2 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 20 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Chen Yen-Hsin

(33) Thomas Bienengräber   Moral Development is not Homogeneous – but what else?

(34) Minkang Kim        Universality and Ccultural Diversity in Moral Ddevelopment: From the perspective of the Dynamic Systems Approach

 

Symposium C: Teachers' Narratives and Moral Education                            (room 204)

(2 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 20 minutes discussion)

Chair: May Mei-lin Ng

(35) May Mei-lin Ng      Les Misérables in the Making (Part I): Learning from teachers' experience as moral educators

(36) Dorrie Hancock       Finding the Warmth of the ger' in Mongolian School Relationships:

                          The use of virtues recognition in language improves relationships within a school

Session 9  Roundtable and Symposium:  10.50 – 12.20 am

RoundtableA: (Japanese is also used)                                               (room 238)

Chair: Helena Meyer-Knapp

(37) Helena Meyer-Knapp     Museums Teaching the Histories of War and Peace: Victims and nationalists in an interdependent world.

(38) Karl Gustafsson         The Role of War Museums in education in China: Patriotism and morality

(39) Sayako Okuno-Shirokane,  Memory and History in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

    Yoshitsugu Hirata

 

Symposium B:     Perspectives from Thailand  (discussion interpreted into Japanese)       (room 206)

 Chair: Duchduen Bhanthumnavin

(40) Sr. Kanchana Singhsa           A Century of Ethics Instruction in Thai Primary Education(1871-1970):

                              Its mode and means

(41) Duchduen Bhanthumnavin  State-of- the-art Research into the Antecedents of Moral Behaviour in Thai Youth

(42) Duangduen Bhanthumnavin  Evidence-based Policy and Programme for Creating Moral Citizens in Thailand

 

12.20 – 1. 10 pm Lunch

 

Session 10   Symposiumand Two Parallel Sessions 1.15 – 2. 45pm

Symposium A:     Moral Education in Mongolia (discussion interpreted into Japanese)       (room 238)

Chair: Dorrie Hancock

(43) Khulan Chimedtseye,    Current Moral Education Approaches in Mongolian Schools Today

Dorrie Hancock &

Nadmidiin Begz

(44) Nadmidiin Begz,        Mongolian Cultural and Moral Values in the Current Time of Transition

Sid Sanjaabadam &       

Dorrie Hancock

(45) Batsukh Sanduijav,      The Phenomenon of Educator Peer Teacher Training of Moral

Dorrie Hancock          Education Programmes in Ulaanbaatar Schools

(46) Dorrie Hancock,        Looking towards a Nationwide Action Research Approach to Moral

John Grayzel             Education Development in Mongolia

 

Parallel Session B: School-based Research                                           (room 206)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: May Mei-lin Ng

(47) Chen Yen-Hsin,       The Moral Practice of a Taiwanese Schoolteacher: A case study

Wang-Bei Ye

(48) Wing-Wah Law     School-based Curriculum Development and Moral Education in a Global Age: The experiences of three schools in China

(49) Tso-Yi Lin,         An Action Rresearch on Developing Character-based School Culture Curriculum

Tso-Hsien Lin       

 

Parallel Session C: The Impact of Global Information Technology on Morality            (room 204)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Li Maosen

(50) Chin-Chueh Wang      A High-tech Illusion or a Solution?

Some perspectives on E-democracy in the global society

(51) Tu Yi Ju                   Moral Education in Progress: A case study at Shantou University

(52) Ruth Fallon,           Using The World Challenge to Broaden Students' World view of Social

Robin Sakamoto          Entrepreneurship

Session 11      Symposium and two Parallel Sessions       2.50 - 4.20pm

Parallel Session A: Research into Behaviour                                         (room 238)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Xiao-lei Wang

(53) Liqi Zhu,             Does Group Discussion Make Chinese Children More Pro-social or More Rational?

Monika Keller

(54) I JuChen            The Study of Behavioural Iintention of Preschool English Teacher in Participating in Early Childhood Education Ttraining and Teaching Eemployment Service

(55) Yohann Yezdi Engineer SMU Student Council of Discipline : A peer approach to ethical moderation and awareness
 

Parallel Session B: Development of Moral Education in China                          (room 206)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Christopher Drake

(56) Thomas Misco      Karl Marx and Reflective Thinking: The synthesis of Communism and democracy in China's moral education

(57) Guozhen Cen         The Status of Moral Education in the Family: Based on an investigation of family education among primary and middle school students

(58) Thomas Kwan-choi Tse Continuities and Changes in the Role Models in the School Textbooks of People's Republic of China (1997-2005)

 

Parallel Session C: Concept and Practice of Moral Education                           (room 204)

(3 papers of 20 minutes each, plus 30 minutes discussion)

Facilitator: Shenghong Jin

(59) Tu Yi Ju           Moral Education in Progress - Case Study on Shantou University 

(60) Derek Patton       Investigating the Virtues Project Effects in a Preschool

(61) Chen Guo           What is the Relationship between Concept and Practice in Moral Education?

 

Closing Plenary    4.30 – 5.00 pm                                                   (room 238)

Chair: Monica Taylor, Editor, Journal of Moral Education

 

 

Comments:

1.    In this conference English is used as the medium for communication, but many attendants are not native English speakers. Therefore, please bear this in mind by helping each other in communication and avoiding speaking too fast.

2.    As the number of presentations exceeds the expectations of the organizers, time allocations are somewhat tight. Please do your best to observe time limits in order to maintain the smooth progress of the conference.

3.    We appreciate your generosity and cooperation in helping to solve any unforeseen problems.