Thematic Conference Summaries

• Closing Summary
  For the Educators' Congress of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Baguio, 1987, 3 pp.
• It fell upon me, as Deputy Minister at that time, to summarize the main points and decision of the first Educator's Congress of the Aquino administration. I received more comments on the style than on the substance of this presentation.
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  Summary and Synthesis
  For the Educators' Congress of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports, Baguio, 1988, 4 pp.
  
  An assignment to repeat the widely appreciated effort to summarize in the same way as at the previous year's conference.
  
  
  Closing Synthesis"
  For the UNESCO APEID conference on information technology and innovation, Bangkok, 2000, 4 pp.
  
  This is typical of the summaries people have come to expect of me. Instead of just repeating what other have said, I have tried to highlight and synthesize previous points, with a framework or imagery that people find easy to remember, in this case, the imagery of a "kokala," or a flower wreath traditonal in the Pacific countries.
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  Review of Conference Proceedings
  For the APEID conference on secondary education, Bangkok, 2002, 5 pp
  
  Again, this summary situates the main conference points within a framework, this time using Hawaiian lore to report on the oceans, valleys, mountains, rains, and winds of secondary education.
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  Conference Highlights
  For the APEID conference on innovation, Shanghai, 2003, 4 pp.
  
  In this summary, I picked out the principal concerns and possibilities that emerged. There was an awareness of the need for values education, of the impact of technology, of the homogenization or "MacDonaldization" of education, and an awareness that innovations around Asia were plentiful, but that they needed to be further institutuionalized. I set the summary against the autumn in Shanghai, and the spring that innovation brings.
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  Closing Address
  For the joint SEAMAEO-APEID conference on poverty, access and diversity, Bangkok, 2004, 4 pp.
  
  Another summary here. This time I focused, not on what was said, but also what was left unsaid, and the importance of the implications of the main points discussed.
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  Summary and Conclusion
  For the APEID conference on sustainable development, Bangkok, 2007, 6 pp.
  
  This summary follows the conference sub-themes, and emphasizes that sustainable development is not just another conference theme, but must be at the heart of the goals of education, and indeed of society at large.
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  Towards a Consensus on the Development of Creative Industries
  For UHNESCO Symposium on Culture and the Creative Industries, Jodhpur, India, 2001, 3 pp.
  
  Meeting in luxury tents in the middle of the Rajastan desert, cultural workers and cultural industry representatives worked to hammer out a carefully negotiated Jodhpur statement on the essential role of developing cultural industries s part of national development. L Aside of steering the negotiations on the final wording, I delivered at the end a synthesis of what went on, using as a framework the architecture of the fort ruins in which we were located.