Saturday 12:30 - 1:20 PM
Bong Sun Hwa, Olympic ParkTel
Foreign Language Creativity in the Changing Asian Education System
David McMurray
Fukui Prefecture University, Japan
The Asian economic crisis has spurred the need for encouraging creativity
in students. This paper reviews changes in the educational systems
of several Asian countries over the past century and explores current needs
and possible avenues into the new millennium. explore the changes the Ministries
of Education in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and Japan would like to introduce
to their workforces, universities and elementary schools. Achievable lesson
plans and textbooks by several publishers that encourage creativity will
be shared with the audience to introduce the classes.
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