About

Chair, Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education

Dr. Daniel Schugurensky is a Professor at Arizona State University, where he coordinates the Graduate Program in Social and Cultural Pedagogy. He completed a PhD in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.. His interests include educational policy, citizenship education, school-community relations, teacher training, higher education, participatory democracy and youth engagement. Among his recent publications are Citizenship Education through Participatory Budgeting: the Case of Bioscience High School (2015), A social worker, a community development worker and an adult educator walk into a bar: on strange bedfellows and social pedagogy (2014), Informal learning, volunteer work and social action (2013), Paulo Freire (2011), Learning Citizenship by Practicing Democracy: International Initiatives and Perspectives (2010), Examining the developmental impact of youth participation in education governance: the case of student trustees (2010), and Four in ten: Spanish-Speaking youth and school dropout in Toronto (2008).

Email: dschugur@asu.edu

Ali A. Abdi (BA, MA Concordia University, Montreal; PhD McGill University, Montreal) is Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Previously, he was Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) at the University of Alberta. He is a past President of the Comparative and international Education Society of Canada (CIESC) and is currently a member of the CIES Board of Directors (2013-2016). His areas of research and teaching include citizenship and human rights education, critical social and cultural foundations of education, multicentric philosophies and epistemologies of education, and decolonization studies in education.

Email: ali.abdi@ubc.ca

Department of Educational Studies
The University of British Columbia
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Dr. Anantha Duraiappah is a development environmental economist. He has written numerous articles and books on the economics of sustainable development. He has taught at numerous universities and is a visiting professor at the IR3S at the University of Tokyo. He is a founding fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and a fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Duraiappah was the report director for the highly acclaimed Inclusive Wealth Report released at the Rio+20 Summit in 2012. He is presently the founding director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development – the first UNESCO Category 1 Institute of education in the Asia- Pacific region.
Professor Duraiappah received his PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught and researched at the National University of Singapore, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the Free University of Amsterdam. His main areas of research include new pedagogy methods for teaching and learning about Peace and Sustainable Development. He also works in the area of computational modeling of sustainable development.

Email: ak.duraiappah@unesco.org

António Teodoro is Visiting Professor at UNINOVE, S. Paulo, and Full Professor of Comparative Education and Sociology of Education, at Lusophone University, Lisbon. Vice-President for Europe of RC04 Sociology of, from ISA, between 2006 and 2014. Scientific coordinator of Iberia-American Network of Research in Education Policies (RIAIPE). Founder and chair of Portuguese Society of Comparative Education (SPCE-SEC). Founder of free trade unionism in Portugal after the Portuguese Revolution in April 1974, he was the first general-secretary of FENPROF (1993-2004). He was also Chief Inspector of Primary Education (1974-1975), member of National Council of Education (1988-1994), and Special Advisor of Portuguese Prime Minister for Education, Science, Culture and Employment (1995-1999). Editor of Revista Lusófona de Educação.

Email: teodoro.antonio@gmail.com

Webapage: www.antonioteodoro.ulusofona.pt

Dr. Alcantara earned a Ph. D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently Professor of Higher Education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the Institute for University and Education Studies (IISUE). Doctor Alcantara is Research Fellow at Mexico’s National System of Researchers and a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Science. He was also Visiting Scholar Boston College (2000-2001), and Visiting Professor at Brazil’s Federal University of Goiás (2006). His main areas of inquiry include politics and policies of higher education; equity and values in education; and comparative higher education.

Email: alcantara_armando@hotmail.com

Prof. Benno Werlen holds the UNESCO chair on ‘Global Understanding for Sustainability’ at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has taught at the universities of Fribourg, Kiel, Zurich, ETH Zurich, Cambridge (GB), Salzburg, Geneva and Nijmegen. Werlen is the founder, organizer and executive director of the International Year on Global Understanding approved by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 2013 and proclaimed by the three major science councils of the Human (CIPSH), Social (ISSC) and Natural sciences (ICSU), a Panel Member of the ‘European Research Council’ (ERC/Brussels), and an Advisor for the Taihu World Cultural Forum. Werlen is counted as one of the ‘Key Thinkers on Space and Place’ (Sage Publisher), and one of the most cited social geographers.

Ex-Officio member of the Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

Dr. Charl Wolhuter holds a doctorate in Comparative Education from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.  Currently he is Comparative and International Education Professor at North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa.  Previously he has lectured Comparative Education at the University of Pretoria and the University of Zululand, South Africa. He has been visiting professor at; Mount Union University, Ohio, USA; Brock University, Ontario, Canada; Driestar Pedagogical University, Gouda, Netherlands; University of Joenssu, Finland; Canterbury Christ University, United Kingdom; Banska Bystrica University, Slovakia; University of Crete, Greece; and The University of Queensland, Australia.  He is the current president of the Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES), and has published widely on Comparative and International Education, including the volume Charl Wolhuter, Nikolay Popov, Bruno Leutwyler and Klara Skubic Ermenc (eds), 2013, Comparative Education at Universities Worldwide (3^rd expanded edition), Sofia: Bulgarian Comparative Education Society and Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana.

Email: Charl.Wolhuter@nwu.ac.za

Chen-Wei Chang holds a doctorate degree in Social Science and Comparative Education from University of California, Los Angeles. Currently, she teaches as Assistant Professor at Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan, R.O.C.). Her research interests include sociology of education in the age of globalization, emerging issues of social justice in educational system, the reality of brain circulation in the world, and etc.

Email: chenweichang@ntnu.edu.tw

Chung Utak is currently the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a UNESCO Category 2 Centre based in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. Prior to being inaugurated as APCEIU’s Director, he served as Assistant Secretary General and Director of Strategic Programs Divisions at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, where he started his professional career in 1982. Additionally, he was the Associate Expert for the International Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century of UNESCO Headquarters from 1993 to 1995, and served as a Visiting Scholar at Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego from 2000 to 2002. His teaching career also includes his work as Adjunct Professor at Graduate Schools of International Studies at Sogang University (2002-2012) and Sookmyung Women’s University (2009-2012) in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. His academic focus was on International Organizations, Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Education for International  Understanding and Global Citizenship Education.  He holds PH.D in Political Science fromSogang University, Republic of Korea.

Contact Info

120, Saemal-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 152-050

+82-2-774-3985(Office) ∣+82-10-9375-5242(Mobile)

(Email) utchung@unescoapceiu.org

Eduardo Montes-Bradley is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, lecturer, and published author. His biographical film-portraits on writers, artists, and social activists can be found on campuses and public libraries, and they are frequently screen in academic settings and cultural centers. Montes-Bradley resides in Charlottesville where he develops and produces documentaries films of academic interest.

Email: eduardo@montesbradley.com

http://www.montesbradleyphotography.com

http://www.heritagefilmproject.com

Dr. Greg William Misiaszek is an Assistant Professor at Beijing Normal University’s (BNU), Faculty of Education, Theories of Education institute.  He also holds various positions including Co-Editor, WCCES’s journal Global Comparative Education and Associate Director, Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA.  His current work focuses on critical analysis of environmental pedagogies, with specific emphasis on ecopedagogy, through theories of globalizations, citizenships, race, gender, migration, Indigenous issues, and media, among others.  His recently published book (2018, Routledge) focuses on this analysis is entitled: Educating the Global Environmental Citizen: Understanding Ecopedagogy in Local and Global Contexts.  Dr. Misiaszek has been invited internationally to give numerous lectures on these and other topics, as well as work collaboratively with various international organizations.  In addition, his upcoming book from Bloomsbury (2019, Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development) will further deconstruct critical environmental learning and literacies (i.e., ecopedagogical literacies).  Before working at BNU, Dr. Misiaszek worked for over 17 years at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Andrus Gerontology Center, as well as an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco (USF), and California State University, Long Beach.   Dr. Misiaszek holds a Ph.D. from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education in Social Science and Comparative Education, masters in distance education (USC Rossier), and bachelors from USC in Environmental Studies (emphasis in Chemistry).

Associate Professor, Department of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden

Education: Doctor of Philosophy in Education. Stockholm University

Present position: Senior lecturer (in Swedish: Högskolelektor) Department of Education, Uppsala University, from July 2005 – Member of the Education Faculty Council, Uppsala university 2011-2017. Guest teacher at the Master for Social Education Department of Education Granada University since 2012.

Other information: Peer-reviewer for contributions for Network 25, Research on Children’s Rights in Education (EERA/ECER) since 2008- ;Expert of the Network of Experts on Social Aspect of Education and Training for the EU Commission, NESET (2011-2014);Co-coordinator for symposium Education Policies in America Latina vid Congreso de Latin americanistas Brysell 2007)

Research areas: Education policies in relation to Equity, Justice, Social Sustainability and Children’s rights.

Email: guadalupe.francia@edu.uu.se

Guillermo Ruiz is a Senior Professor of Theories of Education and Politics of Education at the University of Buenos Aires and researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. PhD in Education (UBA, 2007), Master of Arts in Education (UCLA, 2000). He was a Fulbright Scholar. Prof. Ruiz’ work examines educational reforms with specific research interests in policy transfer and education; global discourses on education; right to education; the role of State in reproducing and challenging educational and social inequality.

Email: gruiz@derecho.uba.ar

Halleli Pinson (BA, TAU; MPhil, PhD, Cambridge University) is a senior lecturer at the Department of Education in Ben-Gurion University and the head of the MA program in Management, Society and Education Policy. Pinson is a political sociologist of education, she has published extensively on citizenship education in conflict-ridden societies, education and forced migration and neo-liberal policies in the context of minority education. She is the co-author of Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-Citizen’ Child, and a co-editor of Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict. She is currently the Secretary of Israeli Comparative Education Society, and a board member of the European Association of Curriculum Studies. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the BJSE and Race Ethnicity and Education.

Email: halleli@gmail.com

Hyungryeol Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethics Education, College of Education at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. Her research interests range across civic education, sociology of education, international and comparative education and youth studies, completing a PhD on social sciences and comparative education at University of California, Los Angeles, in 2013. In her PhD dissertation, she examines cross-national variation in the influence of family background characteristics on adolescents’ democratic outcomes.

Email: hyungryeolkim@gmail.com

James H. Williams, Ed.D. is Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in International Education for Development at The George Washington University. With an undergraduate degree in religion and East Asian studies, Dr. Williams received a masters degree in English language teaching and a doctorate from Harvard University in international educational planning, administration, and policy. He has done extensive educational development work in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He worked at USAID in the Africa Bureau for two years, has taught in Japan for a number of years and serves as Director of GW’s International Education Program.

He teaches classes in education and development. His research interests include education and conflict; education for marginalized and conflict-affected populations; decentralization and administrative reform; education and health, equity and achievement in large cross-national data sets, and the internationalization of higher education.

His recent research includes work in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia as well as Japan, and, several years ago, the Philippines and Bangladesh. He is currently editing a series of books entitled (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks, Identity, and the Politics and Pedagogies of Imagining Community.

Email: jhw@gwu.edu

Jason Nunzio Dorio, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a former Visiting Scholar with the Graduate School of Education at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. His teaching and research interests center on citizenship education in universities and non-formal spaces within North Africa, Southwest Asia and Southern Europe. Additionally, he explores questions and best practices of social and environmental justice education and transformative pedagogies of GCE as a model of university internationalization at home.

Jason is an Honorary Founder of the Paulo Freire Institute-UCLA, served as the Assistant to the President of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (2013-2016), and former Director of Academic Programs for the UNESCO-UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education (2015-2017). Currently Jason is the Co-Chair of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Middle East Special Interest Group (2016-2019), and an International Peer Advisor for the Civic and Peace Education Initiative supported by the Salzburg Global Seminar at the American University in Cairo. Publications include a co-edited book (Dorio, Abdou, and Moheyeldine, 2019), The Struggle for Citizenship Education in Egypt:(Re)Imagining Subjects and Citizens, Routledge.  

Professor of Sociolinguistics and Academic Literacy at the Department of Letters and Arts (DLA), in the Center for Education (CE), State University of Paraíba (UEPB), Brazil. Member of the Research Group, Theories of Meaning: discourse and meanings (TEOSSENO), certified by UEPB and accredited by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Editor of the electronic journal Academic Discursividades.

Degree in Language and Literature at the State University of Ceará – and completed his Master and PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. His field of study focuses on Discourse Analysis with an emphasis on the topics: ‘identity production in contemporary’, ‘power relations and subjectivities’, ‘media, discourse, and meaning’. He has published books and papers about language, discourse, and identity.

Email: domingosjos@gmail.com

Professor Romão studied and concluded his undergraduate course in History by the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil), and concluded PhD in Education by University of São Paulo (Brazil). Founder Director of the Paulo Freire Institute and Director of Master and PhD Education Program in the Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). He is now Counselor of the National Education Council of Brazil, as a member in the High Education Chamber. Author of more the ten books and more than one hundred of articles published in Brazilian and International Journals. His expertise is in Evaluation, History and Sociology of Education.

Email: jer@terra.com.br

Current position:

• Assistant Professor of International Education and International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
• Co-Chair of the GW UNESCO Chair housed in the International Education Program
• Co-director of the graduate certificate program at GW in Incorporating International Perspectives into Education
• From 2007-2009, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the UNESCO Centre for Comparative Educational Research at the University of Nottingham, UK, working on two cross-national EU-funded projects in education and social policy

Education

• PhD Educational Policy Studies (specialization in Global Studies in Education), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (specialization in Language and Literacy), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BA in Spanish with certificates in ESL and Global Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research and teaching interests:

Dr. Engel’s research and teaching interests broadly focus on the intersections of globalization, citizenship, and education. She concentrates on

• global policy trends (e.g. international assessments) affecting educational policy in sub-national and national spaces;
• national and cross-national studies of education, citizenship, and social cohesion;
• education for global citizenship and competence.

Contact information

LCE@gwu.edu

Lauren Ila Misiaszek, PhD is Associate Professor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. She is Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Associate Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, and Founding Member of the International Network on Gender, Social Justice and Praxis.  http://fe.english.bnu.edu.cn/t003-ti-1-34-64.htm

Luis Miguel Lázaro Lorente. PhD. Philosophy and Educational Sciences. Full Professor of Theory and History of Education Department at the University of Valencia (Spain). Visiting Research Scholar at UCLA and Bangor University. He has carried out his duties as a teaching and research professor in the fields of Comparative Education, History of Education and Human Rights and Education at Public Universities in Spain and Latin America. Former Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Valencia. Past President of the Spanish Society of Comparative Education, and from November 2014 Vice President of the Ibero-American Society of Comparative Education.

Email: lazarol@uv.es
Twitter: @luismiguelazaro

Maria del Pilar O’Cadiz completed her B.A. at Oberlin College, with a Spanish and Latin American Studies double major and two semesters at the University of Cordoba, Spain. O’Cadiz earned an M.Ed. in Curriculum, Administration, and Teaching and M.A. in Latin American Studies at UCLA, including a year at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. O’Cadiz completed her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA in 1996, receiving the Comparative and International Education Society’s Gail Kelly Outstanding Dissertation Award, publishing this work in Education and Democracy: Paulo Freire, Social Movements and Educational Reform in São Paulo (O’Cadiz, Torres and Wong, 1998). For twenty years she provided technical assistance for expanded learning programs in Los Angeles County and conducted qualitative research on local and statewide initiatives in the field as a Project Scientist at UC Irvine. Currently, as Education Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems at UCLA, O’Cadiz contributes to the advancement of a diverse and global engineering workforce through inclusive K-20 research experiences and curricula.  She has taught as visiting and adjunct faculty at Pacific Oaks College, Antioch University Los Angeles, Cal State Fullerton, Cal Poly Pomona, and UC Irvine.

Moacir Gadotti is Licenciate in Pedagogy (1967) and in Philosophy (1971), Completed his master degree in Philosophy of Education at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1973), and his Ph.D. in Science of Education at the Université de Genève, Switzerland, in 1977. Obtained his Livre Docência at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1986). Was professor of História e Filosofia da Educação in diverse courses of undergraduate and graduate education. Received an  Honoris Causa Ph.D. from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (2000). Professor (catedrático) Emeritus of the Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo. Currently is Honorary President of the Instituto Paulo Freire, São Paulo, Brazil. Among his books, published in diverse langugaes can be mentioned the following: História das ideias pedagógicas (1993), Pedagogia da Práxis (1995) Paulo Freire: uma biobibliografia (1996), Pedagogia da Terra (2001), Educar para um outro mundo possível (2007) and Boniteza de um sonho: ensinar e aprender com sentido (2008). In these books Professor Gadotti developed an educational proposal based on a critical education of the teachers and a citizen education model for emancipation, from a perspective that is at once dialectical and integrative, oriented by the paradigma of sustentability. See Acervo Moacir Gadotti – http://www.gadotti.org.br:8080/jspui/.

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is a Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education at Cornell University in the Africana Studies and Research Center. She is the current President of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Chercheur Associé at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire), Research Affiliate at the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance of the University of Houston (Houston, Texas).  She has been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Resident Fellow of the UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning (IIEP), visiting Professor at Hiroshima University in the Center for the International Cooperation in Education (Hiroshima, Japan).  She has served as Director of the former Program on Gender and Global Change and as Director of Graduate Studies of the Africana Studies at Cornell University. She has published extensively books and articles on higher education, gender, equity, and ICT. She has served as a senior advisor for numerous national and international development agencies including units of the United Nations. She earned her Ph. D. in Comparative Education from the University of Chicago in 1982.

Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, 310 Triphammer Road, Room 210, Ithaca, New York 14850

Tel. (607) 255-7839, Fax (607) 255-0784, Email: N.Assie-Lumumba@cornell.edu

Webpage: http://www.asrc.cornell.edu/people/ndri-assie-lumumba.cfm

President, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

http://www.cies.us/?page=BoardofDirectors, http://cies2015.org/index.html, 

http://www.news.cornell.edu//stories/2013/04/assi-lumumba-elected-cies-leadership

Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science: http://www.worldacademy.org

Recent Books: English and French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWQQI3-SDkY&feature=youtu.be, http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319161655

Professor Pedro Demo, Brazilian, born 1941, holds a PhD from the University of Saarbrücken (Germany) in sociology. He defended his dissertation with highest honors in February 1971, and it was subsequently published by Anton Hain Verlag in 1973. Prof. Demo was a researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) (Institute of Applied Economic Research) at the Ministry of Planning from 1975 to 1994. In 2009, he became Professor Emeritus of the Department of Sociology at the University of Brasília, where he was Professor since 1976. He has published more than 100 books on sociology of education and social policy, as well as on scientific methodology in the social sciences. He has extensive experience in educational policy across Brazilian states and municipalities, generally focused on preparing basic education teachers within a project of “educating through research,” and “scientific education” with (Freirean) emancipatory potentiality. Prof. Demo has been Professor of Graduate Studies in the interdisciplinary Human Rights program at the University of Brasília since 2018. He maintains the blog www.pedrodemo.blogspot.com.br with more than 2000 substantial posts to discuss “learning as authorship,” particularly that of basic education teachers, and to sustain/guide local community-based partners who implement “authorial” innovations.

Professor (Catholic University in Milan, Brescia and Piacenza 2001-2016) of Intercultural Education, Methodology of educational cooperation, Communication Pedagogy, Social and Educational competencies, Adult Education and Coordinator of the Master in Intercultural Skills

Professor of Pedagogy of Community at the University of Trento, Faculty of Sociology (2015-16)

President (since 2014) of “Franco Demarchi Foundation” in Trento (Italy), research and training center for social workers

Founder (2000), Administrator (2000-02) and consultant (2003-2014) of Metodi (in Milan), professional pool for the training of social workers, community work

Founder (2000) and Scientific Director (2008-2014) of  Italian Institute of Evaluation, the center for  evaluation of social programmes, and policies;  consultancy and monitoring activities in the various areas of welfare, training, and social affairs

Founder (in 2005) and current Vice-President of Paulo Freire Institute – Italy

Author and co-author of several books (16) and scientific articles (102) in the field of Adult Education, Social Pedagogy, Educational and Social Research.

Email: piergiorgio.reggio@unicatt.it

Raymond A. Morrow is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Following completion of a Ph.D. (1981) at York University in Toronto, which included a year at the Free University of Berlin on a DAAD Fellowship, he spent two years at the Université de Montréal on a post-doctoral researcher.  He then taught sociology at the University of Alberta from 1984 to 2010, where he was also an Adjunct Professor of Educational Policy Studies. His research interests focused on three main areas:  a post-Marxist conception of critical social theory and research grounded in a critical theory of methodology (Critical Theory and Methodology, 1994); a collaborative effort with Carlos Alberto Torres to develop a synthesis of theories of educational reproduction and transformation (Social Theory and Education, 1995), as well as reinterpret Paulo Freire in relation to Jürgen Habermas (Reading Freire and Habermas, 2002); and  issues of deliberative democratic theory and citizenship, especially in relation to postcolonial and educational debates about indigenous knowledge and subaltern groups, especially in Mexico and Latin America (e.g.,  “Defending Habermas against Eurocentrism: Latin America and Mignolo’s Decolonial Challenge” in Global Perspectives on Habermas, ed, T. Bailey (2013).

Positions

• Full professor of Comparative education in the University of Bordeaux, Graduate School of Education – Ecole Supérieure du Professorat et de l’Education (ESPE)
• Director of the Laboratoire Cultures, Education, Sociétés (LACES EA4140) of the University of Bordeaux and deputy-director of the Graduate School of Education, in charge of international development and research.
• Former director of the Faculty of Education in the University Charles de Gaulle of Lille and director of the Master’s degree in Education of the Faculty.

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

• He has also been the President of the French-speaking Society of Comparative Education (AFEC) and the Editor of the international research journal “Éducation Comparée” for almost a decade.
• Currently the Vice-Chair of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) Publications Standing Committee.
• Member of the Canada Research Chairs College of Reviewers, a member of the French National Council of Universities (CNU), and produces expertise for ANR, COFECUB, FRQSC projects, European programs and French High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher education (HCERES).

Teaching and Research Interests

His fields of research include comparative education, education policy analysis, teachers’ education, and youth identity & citizenship, domains in which he has an extensive publication record.

Email: regis.malet@gmail.com

Dr. Reiko Yamada is a professor of Faculty of Social Studies, and also the director of the Center for Learning Support and Faculty Development, Doshisha University in Japan. She is a committee member of the National University Corporation Evaluation Committee. She is a former president of Japanese Association of First Year Experience and an executive director of Japanese Association of Higher Education Research. She earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles.

She published more than 7 single books including Quality Assurance of Undergraduate Education in 2012, Toshindo, Quality Assurance from the Comparative Perspective, Tamagawa University Publishing in 2013. She edited a book titled Measuring Quality of Undergraduate Education in Japan: A Comparative Perspective in Knowledge-based Society, New York: Springer in 2014.

Her recent publication includes “Gains in Learning Outcomes of College Students in Japan: Comparative Study between Academic Fields, The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2014, pp.100-118.

“Comparative Analysis of Learning Outcomes : Assessment Policy Contexts in Higher Education Learning Outcomes Assessment: International Perspectives (Ed. Hamish Coates) 2014, Peter Lang Edition, pp.33-48.

“What Makes the Quality of Students’ Learning? Focusing on the Articulation Between High School and University”, in Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia (Eds. Jung Cheol Shin, Gerard A. Postiglione, Futao Huang) 2014, Sprinter, pp.207-230.

“Structural Transformation of Japanese Higher Education: Adopting to Meet Challenges Posed by Mobility, and Massification”, Mobility and Migration in Asian Pacific Higher Education (Eds.) D. E. Neubauer and, K, Kuroda, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.83-104 (2012)Globalization and Market Economy.” In Neubauer, D.E., Shin, J. C., Hawkins, J. N.(Eds.)The Dynamics of Higher Education Development in East Asia, 2013, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.179-196.

“The Present Situation of Quality Enhancement in Japan” in Enhancing Quality in Higher Education: International Perspectives, (Eds.) R. Land and G. Gordon Routledge, pp.213-224, (2013).

Email: ryamada@mail.doshisha.ac.jp

Richard Desjardins is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 2013. He worked at the OECD between 2010-2013 on PIAAC and has been involved in large scale assessment of adult skills for nearly 20 years, contributing to the international analysis of the 1994-1998 International Adult Literacy Survey and the 2003-2007 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey. He has also been involved in education policy analysis related to education governance and provision structures, educational access and participation, learning outcomes and the impact of learning on economy and society for over 15 years.

Richard Van Heertum is currently an LAS Faculty member/Academic Advisor at the New York Film Academy – Los Angeles. He has also taught at UCLA, CUNY, the Art Institute and Drexel. Richard has a PhD from UCLA in Cultural Studies and education and an MA in Economics from SDSU. He has published four books: The Fate of Democracy in a Cynical Age: Education, Media & the Evolving Public Sphere (2009, ProQuest), Educating the Global Citizen: Globalization, Educational Reform, and the Politics of Equity and Inclusion (2011, Bentham), Hollywood Exploited: Corporate Movies, Public Pedagogy and Cultural Crisis (2010, Palgrave) and The Selling of Bohemia (2015, RJV Books). He has presented at over 20 conferences, published over 25 academic essays and chapters and hundreds of articles in the popular press on movies, music, politics and sports (Sidelines, Principally Uncertain, Ashbury Bay Press, Style Weekly, LA Weekly, San Diego Reader, San Diego Union Tribune, Slamm, etc.). While at UCLA, he served as the Program Officer for the Paulo Freire Institute and is currently working on a number of projects including a peace education initiative and a non-profit assisting sexual assault survivors through technology.

Shiva Zeynali received the B.A in English Literature and M.A and PhD in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. She has been research scholar in Texas A&M University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2015 and 2016, respectively, doing research on Students Motivation, Higher Education, Educational Justice and Global Citizenship Education. Her main research interests include Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics and Cognition.

Email: shi.zeynali@gmail.com

Positions

• Professor Education Graduate Programs at Nove de Julho University (Uninove), São Paulo and Ceará State University (UECE), Ceará, Brazil.
• Senior researcher of National Council for Scientific and

Technological Development (CNPq).

Held positions as:

• Professor Titular at Federal University of Ceará (UFC)
• State Secretary of Education, Ceará.
• Visiting Professor at University of International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB), where was academic coordinator of UNESCO Chair in Education and Innovation for Solidarity-based Cooperation.

Teaching and Research Interests

Author of several books and articles about educational reforms and policies. Current research projects on impacts of educational policies in schools and schools with good performance in poor neighborhoods.

Email: sofialerche@gmail.com

Position

• Associate Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National University
• Co-founder & Associate Researcher of Paulo Freire Institute (PFI), UCLA

Education

• D., Comparative Education, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• A., Life-long Education, Seoul National University
• A., Education, Seoul National University

Teaching & Research Interests

• International and Comparative Education
• Education and International Development
• Sociology of Education (Social Justice and Education)
• Modern History of Education in Korea