Alliance for International Education – Asian Branch
Huangshan Gathering
June 6-8, 2008 

“International Education: A Bridge to Intercultural Understanding”

You are invited to join us for an informal gathering of the Alliance for International Education (Asian Branch) at the Scholars Conference Hotel in Huangshan, Anhui province, the weekend of June 6-8, 2008, opening with a Friday evening dinner reception and welcoming address.

Our AIE Asian Branch will be established here. This will be our first gathering, and each of us may share the work we have been doing in our professional fields since we came together at the AIE 2006 Conference in Shanghai fifteen months ago. This is a time for us to share our thoughts, our research, and our projects so that we can be inspired by one another. Dr. Betty Chan, Director of the Yew Chung Education Foundation that sponsored the 2006 Shanghai Conference, will participate in the gathering, and later this year in October will give an opening address at the AIE 2008 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. She will also inform the AIE about our many activities in China.

If you wish to present a working paper, you are welcome to do so. If you wish to do a presentation of your current work, project or research to stimulate discussion and feedback this would also be most welcome. This is a time for us, as professionals concerned about the present and future of international education, to come together to strengthen our bonds of friendship, professional ties, and networks.

Many of you participated in the Early Childhood Education workshop at the 2006 Shanghai Conference. We are pleased to announce that Professor Kathy Sylva, from the University of Oxford, will be attending this gathering. She is particularly interested to reconnect with all the ECE specialists who attended the workshop in Shanghai. Your participation in this Huangshan gathering will further stimulate discussion and professional development in this field.

This gathering is not limited to ECE but is open to anyone in any field, professionals as well as practitioners. For those who may be attending or want to attend this year’s AIE 2008 Conference in Istanbul in October may have the opportunity to present your working papers to get early feedback.

The Scholars Conference Hotel is a new and ideal venue for this gathering. It is in the heartland of China, an ancient center of scholarship, where T’ang dynasty towns still live and function, a scenic area graced by the nearby majesty of MountHuang (Huangshan). We have secured special rates for rooms with double occupancy at RMB300 per night whereas single occupancy at RMB220 per night.