Creating Community: Learning Together 8 (CCLT8) is an informal, supportive conference, taking place on Sunday, December 22, from 12:00-17:00 at Otsuma Women’s University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. 

Students and teachers are invited to share their experiences, ideas, perspectives, and puzzles, related to the theme “Stories of Collaborative, Sustainable, and Transformative Learner Development.” 

Collaborative: 

• involving learners collaborating with each other, with their teachers, or with the groups communities, and networks outside the classroom

Sustainable: 

• being sustained over the academic year(s), or beyond 

Transformative: 

• involving learners or teachers developing new understandings, ideas, perspectives, or ways of learning/teaching

To involve both learners and teachers in exploring these aspects of learner development, we aim to keep presentations informal and interactive, so digital displays/poster presentations will be the main format of the day. 

Multiple digital displays/posters sessions will take place at the same time, in three rounds of 40 minutes, with spaces for discussion and reflection at different points. 

It’ll be great to see you there!

James Underwood & Ken Ikeda 

(CCLT8 co-organizers)