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Take a look at the schedule below to get an idea of what you can expect from the 3rd Asia Oceania Regional IBBY Congress in May 2017. In addition to plenary sessions and workshops, we’ll be holding the special cultural night and tours for joyful networking opportunities where you can connect with others in your field.
This congress is shaping up to be our best yet. We can’t wait to see you in Bangkok.
Opening Ceremony and Welcome
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Kasama Varavarn
Dr. Kasama Varavarn joined ThaiBBY after her retirement from the Ministry of Education where she was responsible for Primary Education, Secondary Education and Non-formal Education. Throughout her career, she had been recognized for her active involvement in the promotion of literacy, strengthening libraries and reading centers across the countries, development of books for young children and newly literates. She is also a writer of three children’s books.
Wally de Doncker
Wally de Doncker is an author and a children’s literature specialist. Again and again he tackles themes which are scarcely touched upon in contemporary children’s literature. Several of his books have been translated and adapted for the theatre, as well as musicals, film animations and dance films. During the 34th General Assembly of the IBBY congress in Mexico City in 2014, he was elected to serve as President for the period 2014-2016.
Keynote Speech: “Read=Life: Reading in the Digital Age”
Keynote Speech: IBBY in the Digital Age
Coffee Break
Takaaki Kuroda
Takaaki Kuroda is General Manager and Editor in Chief, Division of 1st to 9th Grade Education of Gakken Plus Co., Ltd. He is taking command the division which produces learning materials, workbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias covering all subjects (language, mathematics, science, history, and so on) from 1st grade to 9th grade. Gakken Plus has the largest market share in Japan with regard to learning materials for 1st grade to 9th grade.
Somboon Singkamanan
Somboon Singkamanan is highly acknowledged of her many achievements in reading promotion. Among many activities, she has held a research fellowship at the International Youth Library in Munich, published picture books in Thai, served as the Secretary General of Thai IBBY from its establishment in 1982 to 2000 and was a member of the IBBY Executive Committee from 1990-92. In 1989, her Portable Library Project won the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. Even though she is now retired, she is author of many children books.
Keynote Speech: Evolving Educational Books for Children – Fusion of Books and Technology
Keynote Speech: Thai Rice: Children Book and Digitization - Back to the Roots & Learn to Uproot
Lunch
Thomas Merrington
Thomas Merrington has over 16 years of experience within creative product and licensing industry. Covering all aspects of product design, brand strategy and live events for some of the biggest global brands, Thomas has worked on brands including In the Night Garden, Dancing with the Stars, Octonauts, Spot and Peter Rabbit
Keynote Speech : "Beatrix Potter's - Peter Rabbit: Bringing Characters to Life Beyond the Book"
Coffee Break
Asia Oceania Country Reports
IBBY Committee Meeting Dinner
“Diversity through Picture Books”
“Children’s Literature as Foundation of Life”
“The Challenge of Street Libraries as Cultural Outreach Human Activity for Overcoming Poverty”
Lunch
“Read for the Blind”
“Community Based Early Literacy as An Effective Approach for Reading Development”
“The Story of MAHAJANAKA : From Literature to Screen”
Break
“Children’s Bunko Today”
“Considerations of Retelling Folktales for Classroom”
Asia Oceania Regional Meeting of Delegations
Cultural Night @TK park
Integrating Arts and Science to Enhance Visual Literacy and Transforming Academic Research on Life-Long Reading for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Empowerment of Classic Literary Text (Manuscripts) in Comics and Film Animation as Media Learning Children's Literature
An Examination of the Role of Digital Media on the Quality of Children's Learning: Potential and Actual Media Contacts
Virtual drama in real time
A Brand New Old-Self: Glocal Subjectivity in Laskar Pelangi and Langit Biru
Lunch
Reaching Out to the World's Children for a Healthy Lifestyle: Hayley's Happylicious Series
Global Warming and Books for Children
Remaining Physical: What We can Learn from the Makers of "The Golden Age of American Picture Books"
Practice Stories: Empowering Children to Construct and Reconstruct their Own Literature on Environmental Conservation
Death and Dying in a Monster Calls: How Fiction Helps Children Cope with Grief
Freeing the Elephant -Eating BOA : Theorizing Children in Philippine Social Science Research
Break
The Representation of Death in an Indonesian Picture Story Entitled Kerlip Bintang Di Langit by Clara Ng
The Empowered Child in the Absence of a Father : a Critical Discourse Analysis of Ayroso's Mister World and His Magical Box and De Vera's Tatay, through the Winds and Waves
The Historical Influence of the Traditional Book on Digital Version
Children’s Labor in the Era of 18th and 19th Century as Reflected in “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake: Reminder of Stop Children Violence
In Their Words; Through Their Eyes
Friendly Tales Project: Monthly Storybooks for Preschoolers
International Library of Children's Literature Initiatives in the Digital Age
Book Pirates: Telling Stories in a Digitalized World
"Our Dreams of Picture Books” Project in Hong Kong
DOMAIN as a Method of Instilling Character and Improve Intelligence Compound in Lil’bee Early Childhood Bekasi City, West Java, Indonesia.
Lunch
Celebrating the Joy of Books
Do Elders have a Role in the Digital Age?
Emergent Literacy and Books for Social Development
Power of Myths, Magic and Miracles in Real World Stories
Optimizing the Longer Picture Book Collection by Using Read Aloud Technique
Break
Bringing Thai Children’s Books to the World: Overcoming Grammar-Translation Method
Comparison of Biographical Entries within Iranian Encyclopedia for Young People and Similar English Encyclopedias
Content Analysis of “Serial Anak-anakMamak” Novel for Bibliotherapy
Problems in Translation and Representation of Images of Myth, Fairy Tale, and Other Traditionals Stories ―in Translating Japanese Folk Tales into Arabic―
Keiko Harikae
Keiko Harikae is Director of Tokyo Children’s Library, teacher of children’s service at Musashino University, and translator of several children’s books such as Jenny and the cat club by Esther Averill and Miss Moore thought otherwise by Jan Pinborough.
Emiko Goeku
has been working as children’s librarian at Tokyo Children’s Library since 2007 and now in charge the research room for adults. She has become a board member of children and young adults section of Japan Library Association since 2012.
Workshop 1 “Storytelling in the Digital Age”
Tokyo Children’s Library is a special library for children and adults who work to bring children and books together. Since its establishment in 1974, the library has placed an emphasis on storytelling. It has conducted regular courses on the subject and has published a series of books about storytelling and booklets of stories good to tell. We believe that telling stories to children is the most enjoyable and powerful means to lead them to the world of literature. Even in this digital era, children enjoy ‘the reading through ears’ as the good old way to reach printed words.
Lunch
Mitsuyo Noguchi
Mitsuyo Noguchi founded Group Mokomoko in 1979 and became the first representative of the group for 20 years. She designs most of Cloth Picture Books and Cloth Toys.
Yoshiko Nakayama
Yoshiko Nakayama is the founder and representative of Aobadai, Yokohama Branch of Group Mokomoko since 1994. She is also the second representative of Group Mokomoko for 5 years.
Hiroko Terada
Hiroko Terada is the vice-representative of Group Mokomoko who’s in charge of the production and public requests.
Workshop 2 “Let's Enjoy Making Cloth Picture Books "
Group Mokomoko is one of famous cloth picture book production groups in Japan. They have been active since 1979 with more than 260 original works. Group Mokomoko joins the 3rd Asia Oceania Regional IBBY Congress 2017 to show us how to make cloth picture books which are easy to read for all children. The workshop aims to deepen the understanding of the barrier-free picture books and its necessity for children with disabilities as well as for non-disabled young children.
Asia Oceania Regional Meeting of Delegations
Cultural Night @TK park
Asia Oceania Picture Book Exhibition
Lunch
Asia Oceania Picture Book Exhibition
Break
Asia Oceania Regional Meeting of Delegations
Cultural Night @TK park
“Intergenerational Reading” What adults can do in the Digital Age to help children to become avid readers”
“Promoting reading in schools with STREAM Approach: how reading promotion is not only the job of librarians”
Lunch
“Building Characters through Children’s Literature : A Story Telling Method as a Tool of Education”
“Small Japanese Publisher's Vision: How to deliver good children's books to children in the world”
Thomas Merrington
Thomas Merrington has over 16 years of experience within creative product and licensing industry. Covering all aspects of product design, brand strategy and live events for some of the biggest global brands, Thomas has worked on brands including In the Night Garden, Dancing with the Stars, Octonauts, Spot and Peter Rabbit
“Bringing Characters to Life Beyond the Book”
Break
Closing Ceremony
Emerging Issues Related to the Development of Children’s E-book Publishing in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Changing Technology and Children’s Books in India
Digital Form in the Traditional Pages
E-Book Stories and Moral Education
Role of Digital Literature in Children's Library : Digital vs Printed Books
Lunch
Promoting Appreciation of Foreign Peoples and Cultures through Children’s Books
The State of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Children’s Books in the Philppines
Remix or Re-Myths? - Re-imaginings of Myth from an Indigenous Perspective
Finding Cosmopolites: A Cultural Study on Cosmopolitanization in Selected Indonesian Children Books
Multicultural Literature for Children in the Context of Nepal
Promoting Diversity through Elementary School’s Student Textbook: A Case Study on Elementary Student’s Digital Books in Indonesia
Eatsploring Filipino Culture and Food Representations in Selected Philippine Children’s Storybooks
Close Reading of Selected Children Stories about Philippine Indigenous Children
Break
Responses to a New World in Children’s Literature in India
Early Steps to Learning: Picture Books from AWIC’s Literacy Project
Bondan Dance, a Media to Convey Meaning
Reading for Healing
Building Character Education Using Indonesian Fairy Tale “Bawang Merah Dan Bawang Putih”
Lunch
Susana Maria Notti
Susana Maria Notti was born in San Fernando, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1962. She's a teacher specializing in Children's Literature and storyteller. In 1999, she founded "Casa de Cuentos", House of Tales, a private children's library. She has hosted and organized multiple workshops on literacy promotion techniques, such as "How to become a Literacy Promoter ". Examples of her workshops include: "Looking at oneself through the mirror of books" and "Introducing different Literacy Promotion Techniques".
Workshop 4 “Techniques for Promoting Children's Literacy ”
Teaching children to learn how to read, understand what they read, and find joy in reading, is a complex task. The workshop will give participants analysis of different techniques to foster children's love of reading. Those many creative techniques include character presentation, stories with games, correlation between word and music, different presentation techniques, narrative styles, pre and post reading activities and stories in motion. To read or to narrate? Let's find a nexus between them. Creating a criterion for selecting an appropriate children's books such as shape, content, text and image will also be discussed.
Break
Dissakorn Kunthara
Dissakorn Kunthara is a renowned architect and chairman of Wisdom Playground Foundation who successfully opts for the concept of Mind Based Learning (MBL) through the use of natural playgrounds to instill children’s love of learning. His experiment started from one school and now expanded to over a hundred schools nationwide.
Workshop 3 “How to Nurture Children’s Curiosity with Mind Based Learning ”
One of the innate qualities of human being is curiosity. It is curiosity that drives man to think, to explore, to make sense of the unknown and the uncharted territory. It is curiosity that opens the limitless discovery of knowledge in the universe to mankind. It is curiosity that makes man realize how powerful he can become when he uses his creativity coupled with imagination. Therefore, it is the responsibility of adults, especially parents and educators, to create a non-restrictive or natural environment that sparks children’s curious minds. In this workshop, the Chairman of Wisdom Playground Foundation, Dissakorn Kunthara will demonstrate how Mind Based Learning (MBL) plays an important role in opening up children’s minds that leads to their love of learning.
Lunch
Etsuko Nozaka
Etsuko Nozaka is an International Project Supervisor of International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA), board member of JBBY, and part-time instructor for several universities in Tokyo. Since 2003, she has introduced Dutch children’s literature in Japan, and her translation of Grandpa, I never forget you awarded at the 50th Sankei Children's Book Award Grand Prix. She is also a writer of Kind Monster Wapper, which won Takahashi Gozan recommended prize in 2010.
Avery Fischer Udagawa
Avery Fischer Udagawa is a translator who works with International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA). She studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College (USA) and holds an MA in Japanese from The University of Sheffield (UK). She currently teaches Japanese at International School Bangkok. Her translations include the novel J-Boys: Kazuo’s World, Tokyo, 1965 by Shogo Oketani and “House of Trust” by Sachiko Kashiwaba in Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction - An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories.
Workshop 5 “Wonder World of Kamishibai ”
Kamishibai is a form of storytelling originated from Japan. It involves with the unique ways of delivering a story to children by using illustrations and texts. Kamishibai emerges around 1930s in a traditional shopping and residential area of Tokyo, and has been widely spread not only in Japan but all over the world. Kamishibai has its own distinct format and features that make it different from picture books and any other form of storytelling. It involves a certain number of loose sheets of thick paper that have a drawing on the front and text on the back. The performer needs to place the sheets into the stage (butai) in the correct order, facing the children, and sliding out the pages one by one while reading the text. The workshop aims to spread the joy of Kamishibai to wider audience and stimulate the use of Kamishibai for pre-schools, schools and libraries around the world.
Asia Oceania Picture Book Exhibition
Lunch
Asia Oceania Picture Book Exhibition
Break
Meet at Lobby on the ground floor
Post Tour Program 1 - Visit "Wat Thatthong Kindergarten" - the kindergarten in the temple
Post Tour Program 2 - Appreciate Thailand’s artistic and cultural legacies of the Rattanakosin era at "Rattanakosin Exhibition Hall"
Post Tour Program 3 - Visit "Darun Bannalai" ThaiBBY’s children library in Bangkok’s charming neighborhood
*Agenda is tentative and subject to change
