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Asia Pacific Region
ASIA PACIFIC (15)
Australia, Bangladesh, China,
Hong Kong-ChinaIndia, Indonesia, Japan,
Korea, Malaysia, New Zea-land
Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore,
Sri Lanka, Thailand
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
Australia
ㆍ Professional development: Held seminars knowledge exchangeㆍ ‘ Rain Dance environment sustainability pro-gram’ : focusing on water conservation for preschool children at Cranbourne Royal Botanical Gardens in Victoria. ㆍ Action research: to revitalise OMEP Aust and to determine strategic directionㆍ Kits: Distributing ‘refugee welcoming kits’ and ‘School starter kits’ to needy children.
Hong Kongㆍ Seminars: About “learning Chinese lan-guage in early childhood education in a multilingual and multicultural environ-ment”. ㆍ Policy matters: A fight for 15 year free education.
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
India
ㆍ Training and development program: for ECCE teachers on age appropriate development. ㆍ OMEP + NAPSE(National Association of Preschool Education) : teamed up for stadardizing infrastructural requirements, childfriendly norms, minimum standards etc.ㆍ Naional study: on traditional play and games
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
Japan
ㆍ OMEP 2011 Japan Komodo fundㆍ 40th anniversary of OMEP Japan: Childcare in NZ and issues on childcare with sandbox. ㆍ Preschool visit in Tohoku: striken by earthquake and tsunami
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
Korea
ㆍWorkshop: 11th annual workshop for teachers -”Nuri curriculum, meeting with play”
New Zealand
ㆍ Workshops, seminars: to increase profes-sional development and debate of issues.
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
Pakistan
ㆍ Activities: On recovery programs for children who are victims of child abuse, malnutrition and povertyㆍ Nutrition project: implemented in all district in the Pakistanㆍ Workshops and seminars: For preschool edu-cation and parents
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
National Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
Thailand
ㆍ National education standard: first started evaluating early childhood care cen-ters for external quality assurance. ㆍ Workshop: preparation for internal and external quality assurance.
International Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
China
ㆍㆍ Teacher exchange program: Collaborating with Hong Kong to create a China-Hong Kong teacher exchange program since 2003 and it is still continued
International Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
Japan
ㆍ Japan Komodo fund Interna-tional Project: Released English-lan-guage report on the situation of ECCE post the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011. ㆍ International symposium: Education and training preschool teachers for the future, case studies on professional development in Norway and South Korea.
International Activities in ASIA PACIFIC
New Zealand
ㆍ Research: international research and sharing through academic and professional networks within Pacific region.
Education for Sustainable De-velopment in ASIA PACIFIC
China
ㆍ ESD scale development: participated in the project by collecting data in 6 early childhood centers for the pilot scale.
Education for Sustainable De-velopment in ASIA PACIFIC
Japan
ㆍ Academic workshop: Forum on post-disaster childcare from an ESD perspective, study meetings on ESD and publication on ESD practice in day care centers.
Education for Sustainable De-velopment in ASIA PACIFIC
Korea
ㆍ Part 3. Intergeneraional dialogue for ESD: Exe-cuted a project in young children’s classroom with three goals(reducing plastics, creating garden and establishing a network of new friends), 75 chil-dren and 7 teachers and 34 grandparents participated in the project.
Education for Sustainable De-velopment in ASIA PACIFIC
Singapore
ㆍWorkshop: Using the ESD rating scale
Education for Sustainable De-velopment in ASIA PACIFIC
Thailand
ㆍ New preschool curriculum: Integrating ESD concept into the curriculum. ㆍ Project: On ECO-School Guide for ESD starting from preschool to secondary education level.
WASH from the Start in ASIA PACIFIC
Australia
ㆍ Extended WASH program: Instituted at Fitzroy Crossing School for Aboriginal children in W.A and WASH was introduced at Crispins kindergarten in Poro, PNG.
WASH from the Start in ASIA PACIFICIndia
ㆍ Celebration of the Global Hand Washing Day: participated through different intiatives, all preschools have sanitation and good health in the curriculum.
WASH from the Start in ASIA PACIFIC
Korea
ㆍ Project: Introducing the purpose and the meaning of WASH project to individual and collective members of Korea and partici-pating in a case study related to WASH was encouraged through online.
WASH from the Start in ASIA PACIFIC
New Zealand
ㆍ Project: Several chapters adopted this project to put into ECE centers.
WASH from the Start in ASIA PACIFIC
Pakistan
ㆍ WASH in school: remained active in its role to enhance professionalism in the WASH in school.
Most Important Task or Priority for 2014 in ASIA PACIFIC
Workshop, Seminars, Symposium and Campaign
ㆍWorkshop, Seminars, Symposium and Campaign: Arranging and organizing workshop, seminars, symposium and campaign
(India, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand)
Most Important Task or Priority for 2014 in ASIA PACIFIC
ESD
ㆍ Advocacy: Continuing advocacy for the government’s agenda ㆍ Public awareness: Gaining more public awarenessㆍ Research: Conducting research to promote early education for Sustain-able Development
(Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, Thai-land)
Most Important Task or Priority for 2014 in ASIA PACIFIC
Website
ㆍWebsite: Recruiting members and revamping and activating the website to provide up-to-date information and resources
(Korea)