Regional workshop on Mindful Communication for ASEAN Integration

Reporting and photo by Khun Nayheak

Bangkok (5 July 2016): Scholars and professors in the region have gathered here at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, for a week workshop on “Mindful Communication for ASEAN Integration” supported by UNESCO.

The workshop — a UNESCO-IPDC funded project – is to introduce the Asia-focused curriculum which has developed for the UNESCO-IPDC project

It will take a value-based approach to the production and consumption of mass media, with a special emphasis on the role of media in ASEAN community building and promoting social harmony. This course also takes a crucial approach to the study of the role of the media in society, said Dr. Kalinga Seneviratne from Singapore.

All the participants are very pleased to see and wait how its design curriculum work and possibility insert into their own universities curriculum studies.

Professor Hommala Phensisanavong who is from Lao has a short quick reflection idea during attending this workshop saying that the course program is very good if it can going to place at National University of Laos since they have not yet have any even tentative agenda studies focusing on this kind of Mindful Communication for ASEAN Integration course while “right now, we are joining an ASEAN community integration”.

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) — Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Lao, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.