After 18 months of careful negotiation the Presidential Council of WAAE are pleased to announce the following invitation to the next WorldSummit for Arts Education to be held in Beijing December 2-6 2016.
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Dear Arts Educators,
We are very glad to announce the 6th World Summit of the World Alliance for Arts Education and first world arts education summit to be held in Mainland China on December 3rd to 6th of 2016, co-hosted by UNESCO member organizations forming the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE,) Beijing Board of Education (BBE), Ministry of Education (MOE) of China, and E-Platform International Science and Technology (EPI).
Arts Education for Sustainable Development is the theme of the summit. We aim to build international partnerships that will support world-wide arts educator’s engagement in China. We also aim to advance the role of arts education within the 21st century. The focus of the summit aligns with the over-arching goals initiated by UNESCO for the post 2015 agenda.
This unique summit will profile arts education in China and also global arts education. The summit, supported by the Chinese Government, will provide a showcase for demonstrating and exchanging arts education pedagogies that promote public arts education. As an example, the summit will include academic presentations (in Chinese and English), classroom observations, school tours and a partnership day.
The summit will gather many leading k-12 schools and higher education institutes across China and member organizations of WAAE (InSEA, WDA, IDEA, ISME). The summit will be held in the prestigious arts school, Beijing Thirty Five High School or Beijing Normal University. Here, in Beijing, we will present Chinese traditional arts performances and teaching workshops profiling traditional and current pedagogies for engaging in arts education study and exchange. The Chinese government will invite China’s leading arts schools and institutes to participate in the summit with a vision for building partnerships with international participants
During the summit, the Beijing Arts Education for Sustainable Initiative will be drafted and signed, fostering a commitment to international collaboration. D
On behalf of the Beijing Board of Education (BBE) and WAAE we will be accepting up to 100 international arts education scholars and practitioners to register and participate in the summit. There is limited space and hence we will accept the first 100 registrations.
A call for peer academic papers and workshops:
- Deadline for proposals: June 15
- Notification of acceptance: July 15
- Early registration: August 15
- Final registration: November 15
Proposals should include a title, names of authors (and professional affiliation), a 500 word abstract and a statement of technological needs sent to Dequan Li by June 15, 2016.
The accepted paper may publish in the local journal and the summit report will submit to UNESCO.
Please contact Dequan Li, lidequan@epi.org.cn Dequanli@sina.cn for registration details. Attached is a registration form.
Upon completion and return of the registration form, an official invitation letter will issue to the registrants for applying visa.
Regards
Li, Dequan
Representative of INSEA China, Representative of WAAE China Summit, Executive Director of E-Platform International (EPI)
Phone: 86-010-64528225 Cell: 6-1369917806
Address: Room 602, Fl 6, Fangzheng International Building, North 4th Ring West Rd,
Haidian District, Beijing China