Welcome to the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Education
Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience Japan, explore Osaka and Kyoto, join a global academic community... 



The International Academic Forum in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Lincoln University (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and its global partners is proud to announce the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Education, to be held from October 25-28 2012, in Osaka, Japan.

Call for Papers Now Open: Abstract Submissions Deadline July 1 2012
To submit a paper through the online system, please click on the submissions tab above


The Asian Conference on Education is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics and independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. Since its inception in 2009, ACE has welcomed over one thousand academics and practitioners to its annual Osaka event. The 2012 conference will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education. Academics working in Japan and Asia will be encouraged to forge working relationships with each other, as well as with colleagues from Europe and the US, facilitating partnerships across borders.

Conference Theme: Learning and Teaching Through Transformative Spaces

As previous Asian Conferences on Education have shown, education and lifelong learning can be seen as a solution to a host of local and global problems whilst globalized education systems are becoming increasing socially, ethnically and culturally diverse. Nevertheless, knowledge is often defined through discourses embedded in Western paradigms, whilst globalised education systems become increasingly determined by dominant knowledge economies.

The Fourth Asian Conference on Education extends these discussions to consider the pedagogic challenges of developing transformative spaces for learning and teaching. The conference organizers encourage submissions that consider learning and teaching through one of the following sub-themes, although submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome:

- Challenges and transformations in learning and teaching
- Virtual spaces: digital technologies and communications
- Connections and disconnections in learning and teaching
- Learning and teaching in glocal spaces of transformation
- Space, Architecture and Learning
- Global education and education for sustainable development
- 'Englishes' and cultural communications
- (Inter)cultural communications & understanding: challenging and preserving cultural differences
- Leadership in in learning and teaching
- Bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national education

For more information about submitting a proposal, please click on the submissions tab above.
We hope to see you (again) in Osaka in 2012!  

ACE 2012 Conference Co-chairs

Professor Sue Jackson
Pro-Vice-Master, Learning and Teaching, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender, Birkbeck, University of London

Professor Michiko Nakano
Professor of Education & Director of the Distance Learning Center,
Waseda University, Tokyo


ACE 2012 Programme Advisers

Professor Mary Stuart
Vice-Chancellor, University of Lincoln

Professor Judith Chapman, A.M.
Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University & Fellow, St Edmund's Hall, Cambridge University

Professor David Aspin
Professor Emeritus of Education & Former Dean, Monash University, Melbourne

Professor Tien-Hui Chiang
Professor of Education, National Tainan University



Call for Papers Now Open: Abstract Submissions Deadline July 1 2012

To submit a paper through the online system, please click on the submissions tab above


Publishing Opportunities: Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed IAFOR Journal of Education. For more information about the journal, click here.

The Asian Conference on Education is organized in affiliation with conference partners Birkbeck, University of London (UK), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and the National University of Tainan (Taiwan), and Laureate International Universities.



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