EQUIS 2018 - The Asian Symposium on Education, Equity and Social Justice

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Category education; human rights; aging

Deadline: March 02, 2018 | Date: May 01, 2018-May 02, 2018

Venue/Country: Hiroshima, Japan

Updated: 2018-02-17 19:22:26 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Early Registration is only 25,000 JPY. All registered participants will be invited to the welcome reception and provided with a free, guided tour of Hiroshima Peace Park. The first 10 registrants will also receive a free ticket for the Miyajima Shrine Island Tour, which includes round-trip transportation, park entrance fee and cake with tea at a Japanese tea house.

About EQUIS 2018

Across Asia – and indeed, around the world—the age of globalization is having both positive and negative impacts on education systems and no-where is this more evident than on the right to education and access to quality education. We as educators have a moral obligation to ensure that we support the learning of the whole student and that we provide a safe, humane and caring learning environment.

We must also consider the danger of placing too much emphasis on high-stakes standardized tests. For example, both Korea and China added English to their mandatory curriculum more than twenty years ago; however, Japan, with its declining birthrate and stagnant economy, foresees high-stakes tests such as TOEIC and TOEFL as potentials keys to maintaining a competitive edge into the 21st century and has thus added English to the formal curriculum for primary school students from 2020.

Most importantly, though, educators must actively empower students and promote social justice in education because inequality in any classroom, in any school is a social injustice. The ‘right to education’ and the effort to build an equitable education system and learning environment will never be possible as long as students are not allowed to achieve their full potential.

What does it mean to be educated? How can we ensure the right to education? How can schools promote social justice in education? How can other areas disciplines, such as English, math, science, history, art, literature and social studies promote social justice educational theory and practice? How are high-stakes standardized tests affecting recruiters, administrators, teachers and students in your school? How are high-stakes standardized tests forcing you to change your curriculum and teaching?

With the theme of Social Justice in Education, EQUIS 2018 invites proposals from students, teachers, educational leaders, activists, organizers, and all people concerned with advancing the movement for social justice.

We welcome proposals of 250 words in English by Friday, March 2, 2018 on any of the following EQUIS 2018 streams:

EQUIS 2018 Submission Application

EQUIS 2018 Streams

◾Aging and Population

◾Children and Youth

◾Distance and Open Education

◾Education Administration and Counseling

◾Education for Sustainable Development

◾Education, Curriculum and Research

◾Equity and Social Justice

◾Human Rights Education

◾Health, Sex and Physical Education

◾Higher Education and Further Education

◾Language Education

◾Math and Science Education

◾Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution

◾Other Areas (please specify)