Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the 12th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Network for Moral Education (APNME) – Moral Education: Conflicting Values and Common Ground – an international conference for interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The APNME is a network of “professional educators who have an interest in, and commitment to, moral education and moral development and who care about fostering moral values in what they teach and how they teach.”
As part of the conference activities, some participants visited a vocational school; I joined the group that visited the FoGuang Shan Pu-Men High School, a private Buddhist school in Dashu district, Kaohsiung. I chose this because I was not familiar with Buddhism and I was curious about their perspective on moral education.