The APCoP was formed during covid, in order to bring the region closer together, to share information, to encourage collaboration, to link up better with the international community, and ultimately, to address the issues more specific to the Asia-Pacific.
Since in genesis in 2021, we have been organising webinars offered from different parts of the region: Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Mainland China, etc., with a good reception. We have mainly been seeing each other online.
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At New Orleans, we met each other face to face, many for the first time. We also meet some new faces. There seems to be a genuine interest in getting together to promote the scholarship and research in service-learning, and to address issues specific to the ethnic, cultural, language, political and other contexts specific to the region and specific countries.
We are now planning to organise an international/regional conference together in 2024.
This is the main reason why I decided to participate in the Board of Directors of IARSLCE - to make the name more worthy of the “international” in the name. I am so glad that we are moving in that direction.
2 comments:
Wonderful development Stephen. Perhaps call it “Greater Asia Pacific…” so as to encompass S and SE in an intentional way. SL has yet to take a real foothold in S Asia, e.g. Pakistan but it is often spoken about as an expression of the liberal arts approach for education.
Wonderful news. Perhaps expand name to be “Greater Asia Pacific”
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