Wednesday, December 19, 2007

2nd IPEC Conference of Educators during GPF Manila











The second International Prefessors Educational Conference recntly held at the Manila Hotel as part of the broad Global Peace Festival last December 11-13 was participated by thousands of international and national educators from various parts of the world.






The Philippine Teachers’ Association for the Research of Principles (PTARP), headed by Dr. Samuel M. Salvador, hold the 2nd International Professors Educators’ Conference (IPEC) at the Manila Hotel gathering around 2,100 foreign and local top educators. The Conference theme was “Institutionalizing the Culture of Heart in the Family, Schools, and Society.”












During the Opening Ceremony held at the Manila Hotel at 9:00 am, 11 December 2007, Dr. Hyun Jin Moon addressed the pool of faculty from various universities and colleges emphasizing the culture of heart as the basic of education.

The Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education, Dr. and some representatives from the Department of Education co-hosted the IPEC as it tackled some points on Values Education.
PTARP which is the major host of the confernece aims to generate keen interest in the academe for the promotion and development of Values Education based on universal standards of morality and ethics.






The conference was co-sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation. UPF was founded in the hope of building a world in which peoples, cultures and races, religions, and nationalities live together in harmony, mutual respect cooperation and universal co-prosperity. Global Peace Festival (GPF 2007) was initiated by UPF to fulfill this vision with the theme, “One Family Under God”.










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