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| Korea-Japan Teachers’ Exchange Continues for its 18th Year |
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| Date 2018-01-16 |
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Korea-Japan Teachers’ Exchange Continues for its 18th Year -
KNCU
holds the 2018 Korean Teachers’ Visit to Japan Programme - Korean Teachers to Visit Japan for 7 Days to Discuss Cooperative Ties and Educational Agendas
The KNCU announced that it would hold the 2018 Korean Teachers’ Visit to Japan Programme over seven days from Jan. 16 to Jan. 22, as part of the Korea-Japan Teachers’ Exchange Programme. The Korean delegation of 97 people comprises educational officials and KNCU staff members, and will be headed by KNCU Secretary-General Kwangho Kim. The delegation members will visit the boards of education, schools and students’ families in the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and the prefectures of Gifu and Aichi, to deepen their understanding of Japan’s educational agenda and discuss cooperative ties between the Republic of Korea and Japan. This year’s programme will focus on education for sustainable development, global citizenship education and education for the disabled.
The Korea-Japan Teachers’ Exchange Programme, being held for the 18th time this year, started as part of the UNESCO Korea-Japan Teachers’ Dialogue in 2001, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education of Korea and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. The programme was organized by the KNCU and the Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO in Japan with the aim of promoting friendly ties and understanding of the educational agendas of the two countries. As part of the programme, Japanese teachers have also visited Korea annually since 2005 and are scheduled to make a tour of Korean educational institutions in July this year.
The programme was begun after a visit to Korea in March, 2000 by the then Japanese Minister of Education, Hirofumi Nakasone, during which he suggested the idea of a teachers’ exchange to help improve Korea-Japan relations to his Korean counterpart Yong-Lin Moon. The programme has continued annually in spite of repeated political conflicts between the two countries, with a total of 1,996 Korean and 589 Japanese education officials taking part between 2001 and 2017.
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