FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Colleagues, Members of the IAMP:

Registration form HERE!

Please send the registration form before the 4th of April by e-mail at karoliina.vuorijarvi@mil.fi, by fax to +358 9 181 46560 or by regular mail to National Defence University, Department of Education, P.O.Box 7, FI-00861 HELSINKI, FINLAND

Those of you who attended the 7th International Conference on Military Pedagogy in Bucharest will recall that a decision was made to have the 9th International Conference on Military Pedagogy in Finland.

You are cordially invited to the 9th International Conference on Military Pedagogy organized by the National Defence University and to be held at the same time with the 5th Conference on Military Sciences.

The plan for the conferences is as follows:

May 19: Arrival in Helsinki (Helsinki-Vantaa Airport) and at the National Defence University (Santahamina). Opening of the IAMP conference: presentations and discussions.

May 20: Second day of the IAMP conference: presentations and discussions.

May 21: Participation in the 5th Conference on Military Sciences. The main theme is “The Changing Face of Warfare”. This theme will be approached and analyzed also from a military pedagogical point of view.

May 22: Second day of the 5th Conference on Military Sciences.

The organizers of the conferences reserve the right to modify the program and include e.g. some evening tours.

We invite all old and new members of the IAMP to contribute to the following planned sessions (on 19th and 20th of May; also on 22nd of May):

1) Action competence – Theory & Practice

2) The changing nature of security threats and the static nature of the military educational institutions – some new ways to arrange the military education more successfully

3) The link between leadership and military pedagogical studies

(During the IAMP conference we will get some experiences of a Pedagogical Leadership Laboratory.)

If you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact the point of contact LTCOL, Ph.D. Juha Mäkinen (juha.makinen@mil.fi). We highly appreciate information about your willingness to join us in the conferences whenever it fits into your schedule.