先端教育研究実践センター年報, 2022, 22, 141-150 事業報告｜AEL Course

Asia Education Leader (AEL) Course
Summer Course 2021 and New Start of AEL Course (2022-2023)
劉靖
東北大学大学院教育学研究科

AEL Course aims to nurture internationally-minded educational professionals (IMEP) who have aninternational perspective and are able to address educational challenges in contemporary East Asia.
Specifically, it nurtures
1. Education researchers capable of undertaking a comparative analysis of educational issues in East Asia;
2. Teacher leaders who are practicing educators capable of engaging with researchers, policymakers, andother practitioners;3. Education administrators with knowledge and skills required to collaborate with partners across theregion.
AEL Course is set up by consensus among, and its summer/winter courses are hosted in turn by, six
partner institutes of five universities in East Asia from 2014. 2019-2021 was the third round of the AEL
Course. Due to the unexpected Covid-19 pandemic since 2020, we have shifted to an online course.
Summer Course 2021 (SC2021) was the 14th AEL summer/winter course. SC2021 was hosted by theCollege of Education, Korea University, between August 9-25, 2021. Under the current AEL Course
curriculum frame, WC2021 opened the following two subjects (Table 1).
Table 1 Subjects in the SC2021
SC2021(A-P) Comparative Education(KU)(K-P) Quantitative Methods in Educational Research(S-P) Instructional Methods in Life-long Education(K-P) Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Thirty-one participants from six partner institutions took part in the course. Table 2 shows the numberof students in SC2021.
Table 2 Number of Students in the SC2021
SC2021
Tohoku University
National Chengchi University
Nanjing Normal University
Korea University
National Taiwan Normal UniversityTotal83712131

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In 2021, one student from National Taiwan Normal University completed AEL Courses and received
a Certificate of Completion jointly issued by six partner institutions. By 2021, 44 students received theCertificate of Completion successfully. Moreover, Tohoku University launched two new courses titledInternational Practice and Research I & II to encourage students of Tohoku University to take part in theAEL course. Also, it aimed at upgrading the quality of education and strengthening collaboration between
partner universities in the AEL course. The course has three parts: pre-study sessions, summer/wintercourses, and AEL forums. With collaboration from AELC partner universities, we successfully organizeda pre-study series of AEL 2021 summer and AEL 2022 Winter courses. As shown in Tables 4 & 5, there
are three sessions in each pre-study series. These sessions included lectures and discussions about
educational change in Asia and provided training in English writing and knowledge and skills on
conducting fieldwork. Besides scholars from AELC partner universities, we were also pleased to invite
scholars in Japan and China to provide special lectures for AELC students in these sessions.

Table 4 Pre-study Series of AEL 2021 Summer Course
NoDateSpeakers

Topic
Dialogue on Educational Change in East Asia 1

May 31, 2021
1
(18:00-20:00)

Dr. Robin Chen(National Chengchi University)
Dr. Xuefeng Qiao
(Nanjing Normal University)
Dr. Chen Chen
(Nanjing Normal University)

June 25, 2021
2
(16:30-18:30)

Education & COVID-19: what we changed?
What we did not? And what we need to change?

Dialogue on Educational Change in East Asia 2

Dr. Jhong Yun Kim(Korea University)
Dr. Jong-Long Guo(National Taiwan NormalUniversity)

Education & SDG4: Key issues and solutions inEast Asian societies

Dr. Wu(National Taiwan NormalUniversity)

Dialogue on Educational Change in East Asia 3

Dr. Jing Liu

Education & Partnership: Good practices in East
Asian Societies

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Table 5 Pre-study Series of AEL 2022 Winter Course
NoDateSpeakers

Topic
Academic Skills Development 112

November 29, 2021
(14:00-16:00)

Prof. Frank Peddie
Graduate School of InternationalDevelopment, Nagoya University

December 17, 2021
(18:00-20:00)

Dr. Robin Chen(National Chengchi University)
Dr. Xuefeng Qiao
(Nanjing Normal University)
Dr. Jing Liu(Tohoku University)

Academic writing & Plagiarism

Academic Skills Development 2Fieldwork

Dialogue on Education Changes in Asia
3

January 22, 2022
(10:00-12:00)

Prof. Shuangye Chen
Faculty of Education, East China
Normal University

Double Reduction Policy in China

With the end of AELC (2019-2021), we were pleased to start a new round (the fourth round) of AELC
(2022-2023). On October 23, 2021, AELC partner universities jointly held AELC2022-2023 Online
Agreement Signing Ceremony. About 32 faculty members and students joined the ceremony. We reviewed
our AELC journey (2014-2021) in the ceremony by a short video. Many photos and videos were provided
by students and scholars of AEL partner universities. Also, we received individual messages from 13 AELC
students and alumni at AELC partner universities to share their experiences and reflection about AELC.

Asia Education Leader Course 2022-2023
Agreement Signing Ceremony
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第 22 号Winter Course 2022 (WC2022) was the 15th AEL summer/winter course. WC2021 was jointly hosted
by the College of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, and College of Education, National
Chengchi University, between January 27 and February 11, 2022. Under the current AEL Course
curriculum frame, WC2022 provided the following three subjects (Table 6).

Table 6 Subjects in the WC2022
WC2022(A-P) Seminar on Psychology of E-learning for Seniors and Intergenerationally(NTNU(K-P) Seminar on Issues of Education Reform&(S-P) Design and Utilization of Instruction MediaNCCU)

Twenty-six participants from six partner institutions took part in the course. Table 7 shows the numberof students in WC2022.

Table 7 Number of Students in the WC2022
WC2022
Tohoku University

3National Chengchi University

5Nanjing Normal University

10Korea University

3

National Taiwan Normal University

5Total26

In addition, with collaboration with partner institutions, Tohoku University was pleased to host two
Asia Education Leader Forums in AY 2021 to enhance exchange and communication between students
and faculty members of partner universities. The first forum, Asia Education Leader Forum: EducationalChanges towards a Sustainable Asia, was held on September 18, 2021. Ten presenters from AELC partner
universities shared their research in the forum. Moreover, the second forum focusing on the future of highereducation in Asia will be held on March 12, 2022. It will provide a platform for students and scholars from
Asia to exchange ideas about the future of higher education in Asia. We wish the forum would become anannual event for AEL students and faculty members to promote academic exchange and communication.
The summer course in 2022 will be held at Tohoku University.

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Asia Education Leader Forum Poster

AEL 2022 Winter Course Pre-study Series Poster

AEL 2021 Summer Course Pre-study Session

AEL 2021 Summer Course

AEL 2022 Winter Course Pre-study Session

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Timetable of SC2021−146−

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Timetable of WC 2022

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