Wilfried Admiraal

Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching, Netherlands

Wilfried Admiraal (Leiden University) is full professor Educational Sciences and director of Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching. He graduated in Social Psychology and in 1994 he defended his PhD-thesis on teachers’ coping strategies with stressful classroom events. His research interest combines the areas of teaching, technology and social psychology in secondary and higher education. He is chair of the research program Student engagement and achievement in open online higher education of the Centre for Education and Learning of the strategic alliance of the universities of Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam. He is and has been involved in various national and international educational projects on the use of technology in secondary education, teacher education and higher education. Admiraal supervises about 30 PhDs and published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is president of the Netherlands Association of Educational Research (VOR) and the Council member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and the World Educational Research Association (WERA). More information on projects and publications:

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/wilfriedadmiraal/

ORCID profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1627-3420

Rana Dajani

Rana Dajani, Hashemite University, Jordan

Rana Dajani is associate professor, former center of studies director of Hashemite University (Jordan), Yale and Cambridge visiting professor, a Fulbrighter of two programs, Jordan to the United States, in 2000 and 2012. She defended her PhD in molecular cell biology at the University of Iowa. She is a Higher Education Reform Expert, Writer in Science and Nature, Speaker at many famous international forums: TEDxDeadsea and TEDxPSUT, World Islamic Economic Forum 2012 and World Science Forum 2015 and 2017. Rana is one of the most influential women scientists in Islamic World, 12 among 100 most influential Arab women 2015. She received many awards for her contribution to science and education.

She developed a community-based model “We Love Reading” to encourage children to read for pleasure received many global awards, such as UNESCO International Literacy Prize 2017, Science, Technology and Innovation Award UN 2019, World Literacy Council Award 2018, Clinton Global Initiative 2010, Library of Congress best practices 2013, World Innovation Summit in Education Award 2014… Author of the books: Five scarves, Doing the impossible: If we can reverse cell fate why can’t we redefine success, Nova Publisher 2018. Reviewed by Nature.

Profile in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Dajani

Roger-François Gauthier

Roger-François Gauthier , National Education and Research, France

Roger-François Gauthier, who was General-Inspector for Administration, National Education and Research in France, initially graduated in Classical Studies, Law and Political Sciences. He is both a French scholar in Education science and a person who has been involved for years as an actor of the Educational policy in his country. He contributed to foster the idea that an educational policy is not just a question of sending students to school, if quality is not there: he decided to promote curricular policies, insisting on the need for the various systems to be more attentive to the meaning and to the content of education. The issue of knowledge and school knowledge in contemporary societies became then central to his reflection at an international scale. He taught Educational policies at Paris-Descartes La Sorbonne University, basing mainly his approach and teaching methodology on methods related to compared Education. He has been consulted as an expert by many governments, national and international organizations, as UNESCO, the International Organization for francophone countries (OIF), or the Standing International Conference for Inspectorates (SICI). Invited to give lectures in various universities and research centers, and author of a great number of articles and books, he belongs to the editorial board of the French “Revue international d’éducation de Sèvres”.

http://www.afae.fr/biographies-presidents-de-lafae/roger-francois-gauthier-biographie/

Marek Tesar

Marek Tesar, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr Marek Tesar is the Associate Dean International and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. His work focuses on educational policy, philosophy, pedagogy, methodology and curriculum, and draws on his background as a qualified teacher as well as his extensive knowledge of international education systems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, edited 8 special issues, and written numerous editorials and afterwords. He edits 3 educational book series with renowned publishers, is Editor of 6 academic journals, and sits on 20 international editorial boards (see below). In 2016 Marek led a team of international and local experts in Indonesia to establish a research centre of excellence for early childhood education, care and parenting, that serves the South-East Asia region (SEAMEO). While his research is mainly focused on the early years, he has substantial experience and knowledge of educational systems more generally. Since 2018, Marek has been leading a team of New Zealand early childhood experts to deliver a curriculum framework, and teaching and parenting programmes in China. Marek has conducted consultancy and research work in many countries around the world. More information on projects and publications:

https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/m-tesar

Keith Barton

Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Dr. Keith C. Barton is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Adjunct Professor of History, at Indiana University, where he prepares social science teachers and educational researchers. His scholarship focuses on the history, human rights, and the social sciences in preparation for civic participation, and he has conducted research on teaching and learning in the United States, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, and Singapore. He has been a visiting professor at the National Institute of Education (Singapore); Victoria University (New Zealand); the University of Ulster; and Uppsala University.

Chi Thanh Nguyen

Vietnam National University Hanoi - University of Education

Chi Thanh Nguyen is Associate Professor Doctor, the Dean of Faculty of Teacher Education in Vietnam National University University of Education (VNU-UEd) from 2018 up to now. His academic career started as a mathematics teacher at high school in the period of 1991-2001. After that he held his Master and PhD degrees from Grenoble University, France. He had a Post-Doctorate position at the LDAR Research Center at the University of Paris VII, France. After his came back to Vietnam, he had a post as lecturer at the VNU-UEd. Also, he was invited as a visiting professor from Dalarna University (Sweden) and then Hiroshima University (Japan), and has been the Head of Department of Scientific and International Cooperation Affairs in 2013-2014. He has been working at some private educational system for several years as Director of Assessment and then as principal from 2015 to 2018. His research interest is about using technology in mathematics education, mathematics teacher professional development, mathematics curriculum development and didactic of mathematics.

Khanh Trung Nguyen

City Open University, Vietnam

Khanh Trung Nguyen received a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Toulouse 2 (Jean Jaures University, France). He used to be a researcher at Nantes University (France) and at Vietnam's Institute of Education (IRED). Currently, he is a part-time lecturer at the Open University of Ho Chi Minh City. He is a founder and director of Viet Emile Education Joint Stock Company (EVE). Education in general is his field of study. In recent years, he has conducted many international comparative studies and translated works related to «learning». These works have been published as books, journal articles as well as articles on popular magazines. He is also a regular contributor to local and international educational forums. His recently published books include: Family education: comparisons between French and Vietnamese parents, Vietnamese and Finnish education. Nguyen Khanh Trung’s articles for the general public can be found here: http://nktrung12.blogspot.com/

Hoa Nguyen

Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia

Dr Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen (PhD, University of Queensland, Australia) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia. She specialises in teacher education/development, mentoring, TESOL and sociocultural theory. She has experience training pre-service and in-service teachers in Asia and Australia. She enjoys working with teachers, in their role as mentors to student teachers and early career teachers and has a strong commitment and passion to develop teachers’ professional learning. She has also held visiting and honorary positions at University of Sydney, Kings' College London, University of Leeds, and University of Oxford. See further information on her work at https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-hoa-nguyen

Quang Cuong Ton

Vietnam National University Hanoi - University of Education

Quang Cuong Ton is a senior lecturer with extensive teaching experience on teacher education, educational technology and management skills and worked during 16 years for a Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Education, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-UED). The university provides a new model of teacher training in Vietnam, develops research and service in educational management and leadership, collaboration with other institutions in Vietnam and overseas. As an honor and prestige expert, Head of Department of Learning Theories and Instruction Technology and Dean of the Faculty he is responsible for the development of curricula, learning methodology and technology, leadership and management instruction at the Faculty of Teacher Education, VNU-UED. Since February 2018 he leads the first one in Vietnam Faculty of Educational Technology which provides new educator generation – “edutecher”.