The Northeast Asian History Foundation, which leads Korea’s education on East Asian history, believes that a high quality education in the history of East Asia, one with vision and historical introspection, is extremely important. It is difficult to produce an alternative discourse for the future and the peace of East Asia without new understandings regarding regional history. The session will provide a forum for a straightforward and serious discussion of the philosophy, contents, and methodology of education in East Asian history, and of the East Asian discourses. The participants will also have the opportunity to learn from the experiences of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany, which contributes to historical reconciliation and to establish new understandings of Europe through research and cooperation. The Foundation is especially interested in initiating education in East Asian history and developing new understandings of East Asia and practical methodologies. The primary objective of the Foundation and of this session is to explore future directions for understanding in East Asia and history education in this globalized world by reviewing the experiences of knowledge exchange in East Asia and sharing a vision for the future beyond a nation-centric view of history.

- Moderator
MIYAJIMA, Hiroshi (Professor, Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University)

- Roundtable Discussion
FUMA, Susumu (Professor, Kyoto University)
WADA, Haruki (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
WANG, Xin Sheng (Professor, Peking University)
CHEN, Wen Shou (Professor, Beijing University and Researcher, Taiwan Institute)
Eckhardt FUCHS (Deputy Director, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research)
BAE, Young Dae (Senior Staff Writer(journalist), Manager of Book Critic Team, JoongAng Ilbo)
OH Byungsoo (Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

- Rapporteur
KIM, Jeonghyun (Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)