Teacher In-Country Fellowships to Asia (TICFA) Program Korean Studies Workshop Program Marita Cullen and Linden Danks, with students from the Daeil Foreign Language School, prior to teaching session, 2001 | Leader/s | Dates | Outline | Past Participant Comments | The Asia Education Foundation's (AEF) TICFA Program is a professional development program that aims to provide Australian educators the opportunity to experience first hand the peoples, cultures and issues of the countries of Asia and to enhance skills and discipline knowledge of the studies of Asia. The Korean Studies Workshop program is a highly prestigious professional development program that includes in-depth university lectures on Korean history, culture and arts, politics and economy and field trips to sites of both historical and contemporary relevance. The workshop is generously organised and funded by the Korea Foundation, a Korean government initiative. The program aims to skill educators from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and the United Kingdom to enable them to teach about Korea in their school curriculum. The program also enjoys the generous support of the Australia-Korea Foundation. In 2000, the AEF adopted a strategy to target key education leaders from specific education associations to participate in the program. The aim of this strategy was to promote the study of Korea in Australian schools among those best placed to provide the leadership required to achieve this aim. The 2002 Australian delegation will include participants from each State and Territory selected through the Access Asia representative. In addition, Deans of Education at Murdoch University, Flinders University, University of Tasmania, University of Melbourne and University of Technology, Sydney have been asked to nominate a teacher educator to participate in the program. These universities will be delivering post-graduate programs on the studies of Asia to Australian teachers in 2002. The Korean Studies Workshop Program very generously receives financial support from the Australia-Korea Foundation. Go to the top of the page Tour Leader/s Ms Grette Toner, Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), ACT Tour Dates The dates of the 2002 Korean Studies Workshop Program are: Date of departure from Australia is Sunday 30th June 2002 Date of return to Australia is Wednesday 17th July 2002 Although every attempt has been made to ensure that this information is accurate, please note that these dates are subject to change. Go to the top of the page Tour Outline Day 1 Depart Australia Day 2 Arrive in Seoul and hotel check-in, visit Australian Embassy for briefing and lunch Day 3 Opening Remarks by President of the Korea Foundation and President of Korea University Korean Economy and Korean Language Seminar Tour of Campus and University Museum Welcome Dinner Hosted by President of Korea University Day 4 Korean Society, Korean Politics and history of Korean Art SeminarsTour of National Museum of Korea Dinner with Korean Traditional Performances at Chongdong Theatre Day 5 Korean Education System and Family System Seminar. Visit Daeil Foreign Language High School for teaching workshops and discussion with Korean Teachers. Home visit Day 6 Korean Management and Architecture Seminars Lunch at Insa-dong & tour of Changduck Palace Day 7 Free Day Day 8 Korean History and Religion Seminar. Background information about a Korean movie and screening of movie. Day 9 Korean Mass Culture Seminar followed by Traditional Korean Music Performance. Visit the Yejiwon Culture Institute and demonstration of traditional Korean customs. Day 10 Inter-Koreans Relations lecture and excursion to Panmunjom. Tour of Panmunjom.Toky Day 11 Visit Suwon and tour of Samsung Electronics, Co. Tour of Yong-in and local Korean village. Day 12 Hotel check out and tour to Haeinsa Temple. Dinner at Haeinsa Temple and watching drumming ceremony Those who wish to attend the wee-hour morning chanting may choose to stay over at the temple. Day 13 Hotel check out and tour of Pohong Iron and Steel Company. Tour of Kyungju (the ancient capital of the Shilla Dynasty (AD 2- 935). Day 14 Visit to Kyungju's Historical & Cultural SitesOsak Day 15 Return to Seoul, lunch and hotel check-in. Free time in SeoulTrav Day 16 Evaluation session and closing ceremony Day 17 Depart Seoul for Australia Day 18 Arrive Australia Although every attempt has been made to ensure that this information is accurate, please note that these details are subject to change. Go to the top of the page Past Participant Comments The Korean Studies Workshop Program has provided us with a unique opportunity to go beyond the superficial - to enable us to begin to understand the complexities of Korea as a land of proid and beautiful people who treasure their past and work for their future and the future of their children. Karen Brown, Billabong High School, NSW The opportunities for learning about Korea were plentiful. The program strengthened my view about the importance of first hand experience rather than learning about a place through print or visual texts. The program has positioned me in a way that I can now comfortably speak, teach and develop materials in a knowledgeable way about Korea. Lia Tedesco, Department of Education, Training and Employment, SA The program was extremely well run with opportunities to experience Korean culture and hospitality first hand…I would encourage teachers to put their hand-up for this program, it was especially valuable for those of us who were economics teachers because this was a significant strand within a number of the lectures. Kim Jackson, Kingsgrove North High School, NSW Go to the top of the page Contacts Further information on the TICFA program is available from: Ms Kristi Sheldon, Manager, In-Country Programs k.sheldon@asialink.unimelb.edu.au Mr Aaron O'Shannessy, Project Officer, In-County Programs a.oshannessy@asialink.unimelb.edu.au Asia Education Foundation Sidney Myer Asia Centre The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia Telephone: 03 8344 4800 Facsimile: 03 9347 1768