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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.