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First Announcement Welcome
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8/12/03|
First Announcement Welcome September
8 - 11, 2003
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Office of the National Education Commission of Thailand (ONEC), in collaboration with international alliance of education reform, cordially invite you to the Third International Forum on Education Reform: Education Decentralization Revisited: School- based Management. This forum has been a venue for policy makers, researchers, school administrators and teachers, community leaders and private sector as well as educators to exchange views as well as current development of education reform worldwide. Active participatory approach from forum's participants through keynotes, panels, roundtables, paper presentations, and demonstrations has been praised as a distinguish characteristics of this 400- people event.
Background In July 2001, representatives from 12 countries gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, to present and showcase progresses of education reforms with the hope that this idea sharing would shed light on educational improvement in their respective countries. A conclusion drawn from that forum, the First International Forum on Education Reform: Experiences in Selected Countries, intellectually indicated that most countries deem education reform as a promising chance to maximize learners' quality of life through schooling as well as lifelong learning. As such, ONEC, with the collaboration of many international organizations and embassies in Thailand, has instituted this forum into the calendar of educators worldwide to explore ways, means, progresses, and possible collaboration of current educational reforms. For example, the Second International Forum on Education Reform: Key Factors in Effective Implementation, which was successfully held in September 2002, welcomed more than 400 participants from 23 countries to broaden a comparative perspective on key success factors of existing reform implementation. To follow this tradition, the Third International Forum on Education Reform will explore the notion and sustainable practices of School- based Management (SBM) contributing to learning improvement in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos PDR, Luxembourg, Malaysia, New Zealand, The Philippines, the Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uzbekistan, and Thailand.
About the Forum
Theme and Sub - Themes The main theme of this year's conference is "Education Decentralization Revisited: School- based Management" that will highly review, reflect, and redefine the current movement of education decentralization as a major push for education reform in 27 countries. Along this discovery path, SBM, an abbreviated initials of School- based Management, will be comparatively re-examined in many aspects, with different names including "School-Site Management" or "Self- Managing School" (Caldwell and Spinks, 1998). Even though the difference in its term is still arguable, the main idea of SBM directly refers to "an education decentralization of authority to education institution to improve its performance". Therefore, this forum can be developed into 4 sub-themes to reflect the nature of SBM as follows:
From those sub-themes, areas of discussion reflected in roundtable discussion, demonstration session, and paper presentation will be expanded into various topics (curriculum development, learner-centered approach, resource management), types (schooling and non- schooling system), and levels of education (primary, secondary, and tertiary education). Conference
Activities
Publication Research papers, keynote speech, texts, and summaries of group discussions from every session will be documented in the form of a proceeding paper to be issued in February 2004.
Call for Paper All participants are invited to submit papers on the said themes that highly focus on the empirical evidences of SBM. Each paper should concurrently present the main idea as well as empirical result in following sub-themes:
Each participant will be able to submit only one abstract (600 words) by July 31, 2003. A panel of experts will select those papers to be presented at the Forum. Relevance to the theme of the conference, freshness, and originality of the approach are among the major considerations in the selection. Each accepted paper will be assigned to an afternoon's parallel session to be presented by the author for 20 minutes. Only accepted papers with availability of the presenters will be compiled into the official proceedings.
Date
Venue
Directions to the Hotel Upon
arrival at Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport, you have options
for reaching the Ambassador Bangkok Hotel. All ground transportation
is extremely comprehensive and comparatively inexpensive. Airport
Bus: Airport buses busying between Don Muang Airport and the major
downtown destinations will cost you only 70 Baht. The bus stop is
at platform of International and Domestic Passenger Terminals. You
can catch the airport bus no. A-3 (one-hour drive) that goes to
the Ambassador Hotel. Taxi: Upon arrival you can contact Taxi Stand in front of the Arrival Hall at the International Passenger Terminals and inform that you wish to go the Ambassador Bangkok Hotel. A driver will safely take you to the destination with 50- Baht surcharge and the normal charge indicated in the meter. In addition, you may want to proceed upstairs, to the Departure Hall and catch a taxi that has just dropped the passengers. In the latter case, the surcharge will not be taken.
September in Thailand is at the end of rainy season. In Bangkok, the average temperature is 28o C. The rainy season is still pleasant time to visit Bangkok as downpours are usually short, with the sun returning within a few hours.
Visa Participants from overseas should hold a valid passport or travel document. Some nationalities may be also required to obtain entry visa to Thailand. Kindly contact the nearest Royal Thai Embassy or consulate in your locality or visit www.mfa.go.th to check requirement of entry visa to Thailand.
Currency Exchange In Bangkok, exchange facilities for cash and traveler cheque are available in banks, hotels, and foreign exchange booths located in tourist areas. Major international credit cards, such as American Express, Diners Club and VISA are accepted by major banks, restaurants, hotels and shops.
Language The official language of the conference will be English. Thai translation will be provided only in the morning sessions.
Registration Fee
Payment Information Non- Thai participant To
make registration payment,
Please also indicate to the Bank the following: "Payable in
US. Funds drawn on a US. Bank." 2.The registration process will be done only after the Forum Organizer receives the posted registration form as well as authorized bank draft/cashier cheque. 3. Please kindly mail the complete bank draft/cashier cheque to
4. Due to limited seats of the forum venue, participants are asked to make early registration. Thai participant การแสดงความประสงค์สมัครเข้าร่วมการสัมมนาการปฏิรูปการศึกษานานาชาติ
สามารถกระทำได้โดย 1. ซื้อเช็คธนาคารหรือดราฟเงินสด สั่งจ่าย
2. ส่งใบสมัครและเช็คธนาคารหรือดราฟมาที่
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Weather
Registration
and Call for Paper