Winter training program for teachers of East Asia history

The foundation will conduct winter training program for some 200 history teachers from four regions of the country – Seoul, Busan, Daegu and Daejeon.

With regard to the training program, the foundation set up the `East Asia History Academy’ in June, 2007 to hear opinions from the attending teachers and was selected as the training institute by the education authorities of the four cities in May 19, 2008.

The program will proceed at the foundation’s grand hall at 11th floor Jan. 12-14 in Seoul and at the job and education center of Daejeon Polytech University Jan. 12-16. In Daegu, it will be held at the 214 room of the humanities building of the Kyungpook National University Jan. 15-17 and in Busan at the small auditorium of Busan Museum Jan. 10-21.

Lecturers and subjects are as follows ▲‘East Asia development summary’ (Jeong Yeon-Youngrak High School, Yoo Yong-tae – Seoul National University▲‘East Asia and Korea’(Kim Jeong-il-Chuncheon Education University, Han Myeong-ki – Myungji University) ▲‘East Asia and China’ (Kang Jin-a – Kyungbpook National University, Jo Young-hun- Hongik University)▲‘East Asia and Japan’ (Park Jung-hyun-Yangjae High School, Park Su-cheol – Chonnam National University) ▲‘East Asia, what and how to teach?’(Hwang Ji-sook- Sinlim High School, Shin Seon-ho- National Institute of Korean History.

The foundation received applications from hopeful history teachers Dec. 1-5 and notified the results through the foundation homepage in Dec. 10 and official letters to the schools.

The envisioned setup of East Asia-related subjects in 2012 has significance in that it is the first initiated by the nation with the goal of self-reliant overcoming of the history conflict among the three nations in Northeast Asia – Korea, China and Japan – and opening the peaceful future in East Asia.

The incoming training session is meaningful as it lays the groundwork for the newly-launched subjects, maximizes the training performance via curriculum formation based on the demand from history education front and provides stage for strengthening network for exchanges of teachers and experts.

The foundation plans to provide more chances for the training sessions by classifying the program into three categories of basic-medium-advanced levels, extending the coverage to nationwide until the year 2012.