Institute of Education London

Speakers

Lord Bhikhu Parekh

Professor Parekh is one of the UK's foremost academics and parliamentarians on the subject of multiculturalism and diversity. His distinguished career has included chairing the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, whose report – the Parekh Report, published in 2000 – made a defining contribution to the debate on multiculturalism in the UK.

Here is his personal profile (external link).

Professor Parekh spoke during the conference on multiculturalism and its impact on citizenship. Click below to see his lecture Education Citizens for a Globalising World.
Video (38 min): Mac  |  PC

Professor Krishna Kumar

Professor Kumar is director of India's National Council of Educational Research and Training, a role he has held since 2004. Professor Kumar's work has included many international publications and keynotes, and achievements during his tenure at NCERT include the implementation of a new national curriculum framework for India.

Professor Kumar delivered a lecture on developments in citizenship education in India. Click below to see his keynote Education and the Nation delivered at the conference.
Video (42 min): Mac  |  PC

Professor Tan Chuanbao

Since 2003, Professor Tan has been Director of the Center for Civic and Moral Education (CCME), School of Education, Beijing Normal University, where he was previously Vice Dean. He argues that citizenship moral education theory will become an emphasis of moral education theoretical research and that this requires international dialogue. He has consequently undertaken periods as visiting fellow in the USA, UK (IOE) and Japan. His Center is noted for its pioneering work linking citizenship and moral education.

Here is his personal profile (external link).

Click below to see the lecture The Particularity and Universality of the Concept of Citizen delivered by Professor Tan Chuanbao at the conference.
Video (33 min): Mac  |  PC  (this presentation is in Chinese)
Download presentation in English here (pdf, 1.2 MB)

Professor Audrey Osler

Professor Osler is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds and at Birkbeck, University of London. She was the founding director of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education (CCHRE) at the University of Leeds, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle. 

Here is her personal profile (external link).

During the conference Professor Osler lectured on human rights education. Click below to see the lecture Children's Human Rights, Citizenship and Schooling: Re-thinking Democratic Narratives she delivered at the conference.
Video (41 min): Mac  |  PC
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Professor Ann Phoenix

Professor Phoenix is Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Her research interests include motherhood and the social identities of young people (including those of 'race', ethnicity and gender). She recently completed an ESRC Professorial Fellowship for a programme of work on 'Transforming Experiences: Re-conceptualising identities and 'non-normative' childhoods', and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 

Here is her personal profile.

Professor Ann Phoenix delivered the lecture Globalising 'acts of citizenship': young people and schooling in multicultures. Click below to see the video from the conference.
Video (42 min): Mac  |  PC

Professor Li Ping

Professor Li is one of China's top specialists in educational and moral philosophy, comparative moral education, and political education. She has been teaching at Sun-Yat Sen University since 1982, being appointed to a chair in 1995. She holds a PhD in ethics from Renmin University. From October 2003 to February 2004 she was a visiting researcher at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Her textbook on moral education has been widely adopted in Chinese universities.

Here is her personal profile (external link).

Click below to see the lecture Pre-restriction of Cultural Tradition and Civil Education delivered by Professor Li at the conference.
Video (40 min): Mac  |  PC  (this presentation is in Chinese)
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Professor Geoff Whitty

Professor Whitty was Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, from September 2000 to December 2010. He taught in primary and secondary schools before lecturing in education at Bath University and King's College London. He then held Chairs and senior management posts at Bristol Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College before joining the Institute as the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education in 1992. Geoff Whitty is a past President of the British Educational Research Association and has been a specialist advisor to successive House of Commons Education Select Committees since 2005.  In 2009, he was awarded the Lady Plowden Memorial Medal for outstanding services to education.

Prof Whitty formally opened the conference on 19 November. Click below to see the video.
Video (14 min): Mac  |  PC

Professor Zhou Zuoyu

Professor Zhou has been working at Beijing Normal University (BNU) for nearly twenty years. He is the current and first Dean of the Faculty of Education, a new institution established in 2009 as a result of the combination of several schools and institutes related with education studies and teacher training at BNU. Professor Zhou's previous posts at BNU include Vice Dean of the School of Education and Director of BNU Office of Social Science Research. Academically, he is a Professor of Higher Education and currently serves as the Director of the Leadership Center at BNU.

Professor Zhou formally opened the conference on 19 November 2010. Click below to see the video.
Video (16 min): Mac  |  PC

Dr Hugh Starkey

Dr Starkey is Reader of Education at the Institute of Education and chair of the academic committee for the conference. He is founding co-director of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship. He directs an online MA programme in citizenship education.

His profile on the IOE website can be found here.

Dr Starkey gave a concluding keynote drawing together the conference themes. Click below to see the video:
Video (30 min): Mac  |  PC
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Dr Li Jiayong

Dr Li, Associate Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University, holds a PhD in International and Comparative Education. He has been doing teaching and research at Beijing Normal University for more than twenty years. He was the Deputy Director of the International and Comparative Education Research Institute (1999-2001), Associate Dean of the School of Education (2001-2007), and Academic Registrar of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (2007-2009). He is currently Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. 

Dr Li delivered the conference's closing remarks. Click below to see the video.
Video (30 min): Mac  |  PC

Professor Chris Husbands

Professor Husbands is Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, taking up his post in January 2011. Professor Husbands is a world-leading scholar in the field of teacher education, and has led the education faculties at the Universities of Warwick and East Anglia.

His profile on the IOE website can be found here.

Professor Husbands delivered the conference's closing remarks. Click below to see the video.
Video (30 min): Mac  |  PC