This workshop is a component of the wider Curriculum Innovation in Basic Education project. It was initiated jointly by the UNESCO Asia Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok, funded by the Japanese Funds-in-Trust, and in partnership with the International Bureau of Education (IBE), Geneva. The overall project goal is to reinforce the capacities of curriculum developers in the area of curriculum reform of basic education. It is a follow-up to the seminar on capacity building for curriculum specialists in East and South East Asia that took place in Bangkok in December 2000. This seminar brought together directors and heads of curriculum departments from the 11 participating countries in order to decide on a framework for the preparation of situation analyses of national processes of curriculum change. These analyses were drafted and updated for the Vientiane seminar. At the workshop in Lao P.D.R., the participants discussed issues related to consultation processes in curriculum reform, the structure of the curriculum and monitoring and evaluation. They furthermore identified specific national needs in capacity building for target groups according to their national priorities. An Interim Report of the workshop was drafted. As a follow up to this meeting, the situation analyses are now being finalised. They shall serve to develop training materials that will contributed towards building of national capacity for curriculum development at the central and regional/local levels.
Participating Countries - Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Viet Nam
