North Carolina Teaching Asia Network (NCTAN) opens up the door to East Asia by providing free seminars for K-12 teacher in North Carolina. The varieties of methods such as on-site face-to-face, on-line simulcast, or on-line courses are provided for the teachers who are looking for a way to improve curriculum on East Asia. NCTAN is under the initiative of Columbia University's Wheatherhead East Asia Center.  The Office of NCTAN is located at UNC-Wilmington.  Please see below for contact information.

The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), funded by the Freeman Foundation, is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia in world history, geography, social studies, and literature courses.

Launched in October 1998, this nationwide program is a collaboration of the East Asian Studies programs of five national institutions: The University of Washington's East Asia Resource Center, Indiana University's Asian Studies Program, Columbia University's East Asia Curriculum Project, and the Five College Center for East Asian Studies to undertake a national, multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate curriculum improvement in Asian studies at the secondary level.   For more information, please go to http://www.nctasia.org/

North Carolina Teaching Asia Network

Yoko Kano
Director, NCTAN
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
601 S. College Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28403-5954  

kanoy@uncw.edu
Fax: (910) 962-7712
Tel: (910) 962-7575