A short walk away from our hotel is one of the the two campuses of NENU. An institution with a focus on training teachers for all the levels of education in China (from ECE to PhD). NENU is the partner institution of Seneca with our Confucius Institute and on this visit we brought colleagues from our Early Childhood Education program and our Faculty of Communication, Arts & Design to explore further cooperation opportunities.
I gave a few presentations on leadership to students in the programs of politics & law and the school for language training: what to expect from our new generation of learners and the impact of AI.
Michael and Heather gave presentations at the faculty of Education (on ECE) and the School of Fine Arts. And both of them got hosted to several work lunches and dinners...
The city of Changchun has a population of about 7 million; not nearly as much influenced yet by the western world interactions as places where I visited more frequently such as Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guangzhou in the south-east provinces.
On Saturday our hosts showed us around in the city and again took us for elaborate lunches and dinners. The decisions on what ends up on the round table is always a team-effort...
Always lots of things to observe and to learn with each trip to each part of the world; it never stops amazing me. And this time I could feel - just before we left again - for a moment the "Last Emperor" in a chair like that....
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