Conferences

APNME conferences provide a forum for educators, professionals, early-career researchers and students from various disciplines, and with specific interests in the Asia-Pacific region, to come together for the sharing and exchange of ideas, perspectives, experiences, practices, research and resources on teaching and learning in the areas of moral education, values education and citizenship education. While APNME remains firmly focused on the Asia-Pacific, participants have come from Africa, Europe, North America and South America.

APNME Conferences are held once a year and typically rotate from one venue to another upon the invitation of a local sponsoring university or institute. In keeping with the vision of APNME as a professional network, the format is in some ways more that of a symposium than a traditional academic conference. APNME prefers to limit invited keynote presentations to no more than one senior educator from the host’s region or country, who is asked to provide a local context to the conference theme, and seeks to allow for as much exchange, sharing and interaction among colleagues as possible. The conferences encourage and welcome open debate in identifying, reflecting, deliberating on and discussing any issues related to moral, values or citizenship education and development, and addressing moral issues and values questions. Effort is made to dedicate a considerable proportion of the event to dialogue and discussion of presentations and to community time. A school visit and cultural excursions, activities or evenings are a popular feature of the conference and are often built into the main programme.

The occasion of the annual conference also offers itself to the holding of APNME’s Annual General Meeting as well as the opportunity for the APNME community to come together to exchange information about the contexts for moral education, to report on research projects and to talk about how to promote and strengthen moral education through drawing on a variety of disciplines, perspectives and practices. A special effort is made to reach out to and include younger educators, including those studying for masters or doctoral degrees in related fields. Views and opinions expressed by presenters or participants during APNME conferences (including invited speakers) do not necessarily reflect (and are not expected necessarily to reflect) those of APNME.