Curriculum Development in International Convention and Conference Management at Meio University,Okinawa, Japan

Abstract

Many factors, political, economical, and environmental, are conducive to the introduction of a specialized convention and conference management curriculum in Okinawa, Japan. Recent changes in the Japanese government's industrial policies to expand and reinforce the Okinawa Free Trade Zone by 2005 is one such factor. To handle this increase, Okinawa will require an infrastructure that will support and maintain this expansion, which includes educating the workforce with a sound convention and conference university curriculum in Okinawa. Therefore, this study documents the process and results of a convention and conference management curriculum development endeavor between Meio University in Nago, Okinawa, Japan, and the University of Houston in the United States.     

《坛经》中的教学艺术初探——读禅悟教之一

《坛经》中蕴含着丰富的教学艺术资源,主要有巧譬妙喻、诗化偈颂、反诘导悟、默传意会、机锋问答和随方解缚等,有些对今天的教学仍具有重要的启示意义。     

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Comment on Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

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