Cooperative Learning in Japan & the World
Celebration of the 30th Aniversary of IASCE

This will be the 2nd international conference in East Asia dedicated to the study of cooperation in education, after the successful 2004 Singapore conference. From its founding in the 1970s, IASCE has encouraged the dissemination and development of cooperative learning and related educational practices. The significance of cooperative learning has been recognized all over the world, and the waves generated by cooperative learning have reached Asian shores, blending with Asia’s own promotive educational activities. This conference is a celebration of the efforts of IASCE and its past 30 years of achievements. It will set the stage for generative conversations on future developments in education.

This conference is being organized jointly with JASCE’s 5th national conference. Although JASCE is a young organization, formed only in 2004, Japan as a country has many decades of experience with cooperative learning in multiple forms and settings. We at JASCE see this conference as an opportunity to share our rich history with colleagues from other countries and to contribute to the development of cooperative learning around the world.

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This conference offers educators an opportunity to explore formal and informal educational models, strategies, and practices for successful cooperation in education. Conference participants will have an opportunity to visit Japanese schools which have extensively implemented cooperative learning. In conference sessions employing a variety of formats, participants will share resources and expertise and will interact with colleagues from a diverse range of educational contexts. The languages of the conference will be Japanese and English. Some sessions will be solely in either Englsih or Japanese, while others will be bilingal with translators.

CONFERENCE STRANDS

The conference invites presentations that address theory and practice, as well as various forms of research in the following areas:

• Building Cooperation in Schools and Communities with Diverse Needs
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration between Cooperative Learning and Other Instructional Methods
• Cooperative Learning for Inclusive Education
• Implementation of Cooperative Learning with Information and Communication Technology
• Cooperative and Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
• Overviews of the past, present, and future of Cooperative Learning in Japan and the World

Presentation topics outside of these strands will also be considered.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, June 6th, 2008 at Inuyama city school district
In the morning school visitations are scheduled at Inuyama city schools. Particpants will travel by chartered bus.
The afternoon will be devoted to a tour of famous heritage sites, including Inuyama Castel, a national treasure, offering panorama views of the area from the top floor.

Rendezvous of school visitation tour (Fushimi Montblanc Hotel)

Saturday and Sunday, June 7th-8th at Chukyo University in Nagoya
The main conference will include stimulating, interactive keynote presentations, paper presentations, roundtables with informal interaction as well as experiential workshop sessions by leaders in the field. Learn new skills and consider novel points of view. Learn how to apply workshop contents to your respective content areas and diverse student populations.
An exhibition on the histroy of cooperative learning in Japan and the world will be held at the conference site.