Forging New Directions

• The Bridges and Gaps of Education
  Speech delivered on the conferment of honorary Ph.D. by De La Salle University, Manila, 2009. 9 pages
  
  This summarizes four of my principal concerns during my professional life over the course of my career in education. It is a panoramic overview including work in La Lalle, the Department of Education, UNESCO, and the East West Center.
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  The Pearl of Great Price: An Environment Analysis for Values Education
  For MECS Education Congress, 1988, 11 pages
  
  The new Cory government had just gone through its first two learning years. The Education Department needed, and expected, a new vision. This was delivered at the second Educators Congress of the new government. This is perhaps my most thoroughly prepared, substantive, and somewhat prophetic speech.
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  Learning to Know
  For Melbourne symposium on Delors' Education for the Twenty-First Century, 1999 12 pages
  
  In 1997. UNESCO launched the landmark document, "Education for the 21st Century," calling on education to be built on four pillars: learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, and learning to live together. This was the keynote speech for the first pillar at the Melbourne launching of the document for Asia.
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  What Type of World
  For ACEID Bangkok Conference on Innovative Visions for a New Century 1999 5 pp.
  
  This speech attempts to set the stage for the more specific discussion to follow, articulating the context and the premises for future specific deliberations.
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  Expanding Horizons, Exploring Dialogue, Shaping Catholic Education for the Future
  CEAP/OIEC Asia Millennium congress, 2001, 9 pp
  
  CEAP was celebrating its golden jubilee and hosting the regional meeting of the International Organization of Catholic Education. The talk first situates the work of Catholic education against the larger fast changing context of education for globalization, and then challenges institutions to come to a clearer understanding of what exactly makes their education Catholic.
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  Globalization, Culture and Education
  For CIES (Comparative Int Ed Society) regional conference, Honolulu, 2003, 6 pp.
  
  Scholars and professors of international comparative education gathered to take stock of recent developments in the way comparative education was shaping, and being shaped by, increased attention to the policy implications comparative studies on the rapidly globalizing education scene.
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  Educating for Balance: Integrating Technology and the Human Spirit on a Global Scale
  For the World Council for Curriculum triennial world Conference, Bangkok, 1998, 5 pp
  
  The triennial world conference of WCCI was held in Bangkok in 1998, and as keynote speaker, it was my role to elaborate on the theme, which aims to balance the technical and human in education objectives and programs.
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  Towards a New Paradigm for Private Education in the Philippines
  For COCOPEA Symposium for Education Executives, Antipolo, 1998
  
  COCOPEA is the federation of the major private education associations in the country. This is part of an executive program for institution heads, as they re-articulate their visions and strategies for the future.