Bob Lingard, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Professor Bob Lingard has been Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education at The University of Queensland since June, 2008. He has also been Professor at the University of Edinburgh (2006-2008), where he held the Andrew Bell Chair of Education, and the University of Sheffield (2003-2006) in the UK. From 1989-2003, he worked in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, where he was professor and for a period, Head of School. Bob has an international research reputation in the areas of sociology of education and education policy. He is the author/editor of 15 books and about 100 journal articles and book chapters. His most recent book is Educating Boys: beyond structural reform (Palgrave, 2009), co-authored with Wayne Martino and Martin Mills. He has an in-press book co-authored with Fazal Rizvi, Globalizing Education Policy (Routledge, 2009). He is editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education and editor of two books series, Studies in Education (Allen & Unwin, Australia) and Keys Ideas and Education with Greg Dimitriadis (Routledge, New York). He is also on the editorial boards of six international journals. More…
Kerry Kennedy, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
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Professor Kerry Kennedy joined the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2001. He came from the University of Canberra in Australia where he had been Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic). He has an MA and PhD from Stanford University, both in Education. He has an MEd degree from the University of New South Wales in Australia and a Master of Letters degree in History from the University of New England.
Prior to joining the Institute, Professor Kennedy had successively been Dean of Education at the University of Southern Queensland and the University of Canberra. He had also been Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at The Australian National University. While he has been at the Institute, he has been Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Dean of the Faculty of Professional and Early Childhood Education. He has won two Public Policy Research Grants, one Competitive Earmarked Research Grant and one Quality Education Fund Grant during his time at the Institute. More…
Yasmin B. Kafai, Journal of the Learning Sciences
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Yasmin B. Kafai
Born in Germany, Dr. Kafai undertook her studies on learning theories and technologies in France, Germany, and the United States. She received her doctorate from Harvard University while working with Seymour Papert at the MIT Media Laboratory. From 1994 to 2008, she was on the faculty of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
Her research on children’s learning as designers of games, simulations, and virtual worlds has received generous funding from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was one of the first educators to receive an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation in addition to a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education. More…
The 2009 Learning Conference Draft Program is now online.
For parallel session and plenary session information, please visit the Conference website.
6-9 July 2010
Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
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Kylie Radel, Lecturer in Marketing, Faculty of Business & Infomatics, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
J. Félix Angulo Rasco, Director, Lab Analysis of Educational Change (LACE) Group, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
Cathryn Teasley, Adjunct Professor, Curriculum, Instruction and School Organization, University of A Coruña, Spain
Vicki Pascoe, Discipline Coordinator for marketing and Lecturer, Marketing and Tourism, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Kris Gutiérrez, Professor, Social Research Methodology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Istance, Senior Analyst, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, OECD, Paris, France
Mary Kalantzis, Dean, College of Education and Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois Urbana Campaign, USA
Denise Newfield, Teacher Educator, School of Literature and Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1-4 July 2009
University of Barcelona, Spain
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Kris Gutiérrez
Kris Gutiérrez is a Professor of Social Research Methodology at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. Professor Gutierrez was the 2005 recipient of the AERA Division C Sylvia Scribner Award and is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences 2006-07. She was also the Noted Scholar in Residence, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 23-August 10, 2006. She has a Ph.D., in English/Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado at Boulder. More …