Saturday, September 26, 2009. 8:30 a.m.– 4:00 p.m. (September 18 deadline). The Korean Peninsula’s Golden Age and Nuclear Age. TEA invites you to join Dr. Mark Peterson, a distinguished expert on Korean history and culture at Brigham Young University, for a workshop for K-12 teachers. Through academic presentations by Professor Peterson and curriculum activities by TEA staff and teacher-alumni, the workshop will explore ancient Korea’s Golden Age and place on the Silk Road, sijo poetry, and contemporary issues of a divided Korea. The workshop will prepare teachers to integrate Korea into their curricula on world history and geography, poetry, and current affairs. Participating teachers will receive the Korea Society’s Silla Korea and the Silk Road curriculum guide and materials from the Korea Foundation. Registration forms available at www.colorado.edu/CAS/TEA and attached here.
Saturday, October 3, 2009. 8:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. (September 23 deadline). Puppets in Asia. This workshop will examine puppet traditions in Southeast Asia, India, and Japan. The workshop will feature lecture and curriculum demonstrations by CU professor of Theatre and Dance, Beth Osnes, and staff of the Program for Teaching East Asia and the South, Southeast, and West Asia outreach program. Registration forms available at www.colorado.edu/CAS/TEA in September.
Saturday, October 24, 2009. 8:00 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. Genghis Khan in the 21st-Century Classroom. In this workshop, sponsored by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, teachers will learn from specialists and spend time --without crowds--in the temporary exhibition, Genghis Khan (October 16, 2009-February 7, 2010). Designed for middle and high school teachers, the workshop will include sessions by the Program for Teaching East Asia, the Colorado Council for Economic Education, the Nature Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo. A total of 0.5 graduate credits are available through the Colorado School of Mines. Participation is $60 noncredit and $90 credit. For more information, registration and further information on additional workshops, contact the DMNS at 303-322-7009 or 1-800-925-2250.
Thursday, August 20, 2009. Call for Manuscripts. Asia in World History: The Twentieth Century, EAA Winter 2009. Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies. Readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not Asian studies specialists, with basic understanding of Asia-related content. EAA seeks manuscripts that encompass a wide range of topics including economic, maritime, military, political, and social history. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts about important individuals who influenced twentieth-century Asian and world history. For more information, contact Lucien Ellington at l-ellington@comcast.net.
November 1 – 6, 2009. (September 14 deadline). Conference on Best Practices in ESD (Education for Sustainable Development). Fulbright Japan will hold a conference in Portland, Oregon on the theme Best Practices in ESD. To access the online application, visit www.iie.org/ESDteacher. Applications for the conference must be completed online and submitted no later than September 14, 2009. The conference will be the inaugural event for a new Japan-U.S. ESD. Designed to bring together innovative Japanese and American teachers representing K-12 schools with focused ESD-oriented projects or programs, the bi-nationally fully funded conference will entail presentations, workshops, and site visits to Portland area ESD-focused schools. For more information on the Japan-U.S. ESD Teacher Exchange Program, contact Susan Gundersen at the Institute of International Education (IIE), ESDteacher@iie.org.
Join a National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) 30-hour professional development seminar on East Asia in your area in 2009-10, offered through the NCTA national coordinating site at the Program for Teaching East Asia, University of Colorado. The Fall 2009 seminar in Omaha is registering now. Winter/Spring 2010 sites are tentative.
Fall 2009
Omaha, NE
Winter/Spring 2010
Boulder, CO
Colorado Western Slope
Denver, CO
Milwaukee, WI
Beloit, WI
St. Louis, MO
Provo, Utah
Visualizing Japan in Modern World History
In July 2009, 28 NCTA and TEA program alumni joined TEA staff and scholars for a one-week residential workshop to explore online resources for teaching modern Japanese history through the arts. Visualizing Japan in Modern World History was made possible through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Workshop initiative.
The workshop focused specifically on innovative online resources available through the award-winning digital project Visualizing Cultures (VC), developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Teachers worked with VC project scholars, including historian John Dower and linguist Shigeru Miyagawa, both of MIT; art historians Anne Nishimura Morse, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Allen Hockley, Dartmouth College; CU historian Marcia Yonemoto; and the curriculum developers for the MIT project, Lynn Parisi, Kathleen Krauth, and Meredith Melzer. The Visualizing Cultures project consists of more than 10 instructional modules and an expansive database of primary visual sources in the form of woodblock prints, photography, and other graphics. At the workshop, teachers explored the primary sources available through the MIT project to examine Japan’s rise as a nation state in the late nineteenth century; they also developed lessons for using these materials with their own students.
Video conference lecture by John Dower at MIT
Participants of the NEH Digital Humanitites Workshop 2009
Inventing and Reinventing China: The PRC at 60
2009 NCTA Summer Study Tour to China
This summer, 18 middle and high school teachers studied in China through the auspices of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) at TEA. The teachers, all alumni of 30-hour NCTA seminars on East Asia, spent three weeks exploring contemporary China through the themes of invention and reinvention. This project was generously funded by The Freeman Foundation. The study tour was led by NCTA coordinator and TEA staff member Chris McMorran, former Cherry Creek (CO) school district teachers Jackie Johnson and John Benegar, and study tour scholars Professor Ping Wang of Princeton University and Professor Tim Oakes of the University of Colorado.
The group visited five cities: Beijing, Xi’an, Anshun (Guizhou),
Lijiang, and Shanghai. Throughout the study tour, the group visited historical sites and met with local scholars and individuals. In Xi’an, participants enjoyed dinner at a family home (see image at right). On each stop, the group considered the ways that sites, cities, and regions within China promote remembering or forgetting particular historical events or cultural differences.
In breakout sessions, teachers worked collaboratively to design new curriculum that would showcase China’s economic and cultural diversity, as well as the ways that the Communist Party continues to hold political power, especially on the eve of the 60th anniversary of
the founding of the People's Republic.
Highlights from this year’s study tour include the following:
* An intimate book discussion with Yu Hua, author of To Live, in Beijing.
* A private tour of an isolated section of the Great Wall with David Spindler, one of the foremost experts on the Wall.
* Visits to religious sites such as the Great Mosque and Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi’an and several mountaintop temples near Anshun.
* Visits to elementary and middle schools.
* A hike to Huangguoshu Falls, China's largest waterfall.
* A late-night tour of Shanghai by bicycle (see image at right).
The Program for Teaching East Asia
University of Colorado at Boulder
595 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 735-5122
Korean Studies Materials at TEA. The Program for Teaching East Asia is the recipient of a 40-volume set of introductory materials on Korea, provided through a grant from the Korea Foundation’s Reference Distribution Program. The materials enhance TEA’s collection on the Koreas in the areas of language, the arts, history, politics, economics, culture, sociology, and literature and will be available for check-out this fall.
Scholars Online Videos. Xu Wenli is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. One of China’s most recognized pro-democracy advocates, Xu spent 16 years in prison for his activities as a dissident. Visit Scholars Online to watch his videos in English or Mandarin. Also from Xu Wenli’s page is an activity incorporating incorporating Xu’s descriptions of his time in prison and the democracy movement in China.
Chinese Culture Exploratoreum. The Confucius Institute in Denver will be opening a Chinese Culture Exploratoreum at the beginning of November in the Atrium of the St. Francis Center at the Auraria Campus. It will be a multimedia, art-filled experience where students can take photos of themselves in Chinese costumes and print out their Chinese zodiac sign. This institute in Denver is the first Confucius Institute in the world to open a mini-museum of such magnitude modeled after the Exploratoreum in the Beijing HanBan office.
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