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International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia

12/11/2008 - 12/13/2008 HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, Hong Kong, CHINA

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We invite you to join us at the First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The conference will bring together researchers from a variety of diciplines to focus on the implications of intra-regional flows of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia for educational practices and youth development. We welcome papers that elucidate changing patterns in Asian popular culture as well as papers that explore implications and applications of youth engagement with popular culture inside and outside the classroom.

We welcome researchers and scholars from Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology, Language and Literacy, Music, Visual Studies, Asian Studies, Education and other disciplines that take popular culture seriously to join us in this event.
The first two days of the conference will be devoted to academic presentations. The third day of the conference will also feature practical workshops for local teachers on popular culture and pedagogy.

The conference will run for three full days from 11-13 December 2008. Registration begins at 8.30 am on 11 December. The conference will close at 5.30 on 13 December

There will be a full programme of plenaries and academic papers on all three days.
The third day of the conference will also feature practical workshops by international presenters for local secondary school teachers. Conference participants are also welcome to join these workshops.