Report on the World Education Research Association 10 Years Anniversary Focal Meeting

Abstract

The World Education Research Association 10 Years Anniversary Focal Meeting was held on August 5 at the University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium, and on the 6, 7, and 8 at Gakushuin University. This focal meeting convened 1,313 participants from 65 countries and regions, two to three times the attendees at WERA meetings over the past decade. In 2009, after several years of preparatory meetings, WERA held its founding meeting in San Diego in the United States, and held a commemorative fi rst meeting in Vienna in the fall of the same year. I was one of the founding members, and with that experience, served as chair of the Organizing Committee for the 10 Years Anniversary Focal Meeting to be held in Japan. The opening ceremony of the meeting was held in the University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium. An opening speech was given by WERA President Ingrid Gogolin, a professor at Hamburg University, who expressed her hopes for the 10 Years Anniversary Focal Meeting thus.