Welcome to the EASE!

On behalf of the members and the Executive Committee of the East-Asian Association for Science Education (EASE), I warmly welcome you to join our society. Following years of discussion and meetings for its preparation, the East-Asian Association for Science Education was officially established on Oct. 31, 2007, at the Founding Assembly held at Seoul National University.I am glad to share with you that the first biennial conference (2009 EASE), with the theme of "Science Education for Tomorrow (SET): Voices of East Asia" was held recently with great success on Oct. 21-23, 2009 at Taipei, Taiwan. Countries and regions in East Asia share much in terms of tradition, culture, economy, education, and so on. Thus, we frequently face certain common problems and issues unique in our science education enterprise. In order to cope with them, our Association can serve as a strong platform for science educators in our regions to exchange/share ideas and practices mutually. For that purpose, we have already started the EASE Website, E-Newsletters, Biennial Conferences, Distinguished Contribution Awards (DCA), international projects and exchange of materials and specialists. We will provide further means such as Summer Workshops for graduate students and others to enhance such exchange. At the moment, we have five constituent regions (China Mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan),however our membership is not confined to the constituent regions. Anyone who is interested in research and practice of science education in the region can join us and we welcome all of them. The constituent regions are not also limited to the current members. We are hoping to have a more extended coverage of member regions in near future. The EASE is now building firm links with other existing international science education associations (e.g. NARST, ASERA, ESERA) so that inter-regional communication and collaboration could be much more encouraged.

The Association is YOURS. Why don't you join the EASE?

Nov. 1, 2009

The 2^nd President of EASE

Prof. Jinwoong SONG ()

Seoul National University, Korea

Membership renewal needed for 2009.

visit 'membership' to download membership form to be sent to Young-Shin Park (parkys@chosun.ac.kr)

Missions of EASE

- Forstering networks among researchers

- Being a platform for collaboration and cooperation

- Contributing to policies and practices through research

- Enhancing research relevant to our culture and heritage

EASE's Aims

- To enhance the range and quality of research, teaching and learning in science education in East Asia

- To provide a platform for collaboration in science education research

- To seek to relate easearch to the policy and practice of science education

- To represent the professional interests of science education researchers

- To foster links between science education researchers in East Asia and similar communities elsewhere in the world