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| The IL/IN East Asian Education Network was established
in 2005 as a collaborative initiative to support networking and
exchange of research on East Asian education among faculty and
graduate students at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
and Indiana University-Bloomington. The Network has quickly grown
from a small core group of participants from the two campuses to
more than 40 attendees in the second year from Minnesota, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. The network’s first event was hosted by EAPS on September 23, 2005. A panel discussion, Educational Transformation in East Asia, was preceded by a networking lunch and followed by a dissertation workshop. The network convened for the second time on April 22, 2006 for a dissertation workshop hosted by the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) at Indiana University. The day-long meeting was designed as a dissertation workshop, in which participating Indiana and Illinois students and faculty discussed one chapter from three students' dissertations. Indiana and Illinois doctoral students served as discussants for each workshop session. The third meeting in October 2006 featured a keynote address on “The Transformation of Chinese Higher Education from Elite to Mass Institutions” by Dr. Jing LIN, associate professor of education policy and leadership at the University of Maryland. The fourth gathering was held in Bloomington, In on April 21, 2007. This meeting was again a dissertation workshop, with three presenters and respondents. Ran ZHANG, dissertation presenter at the Fall 2005 event, offered, “I appreciate the workshop’s small group format which made for extensive interaction and exhcnage among participants in a way that larger, more formal conferences do not allow.” Lei WANG presented on “Schooling, Girls’ Identity and Educational Expectation in Rural Shanxi, China” in Spring 2006. She commented, “It was nice to see so many people interested in studying East Asia. I received good feedback.” |
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The Center for East Asian and
Pacific Studies at University of Illinois 230 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street Champaign IL 61820 phone: 217.333.7273 fax: 217.244.5729 eaps@uiuc.edu |
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