Education and Global Cultural Dialogue Conference

Robert Arnove has been a colleague of Ruth Hayhoe over 20 years as past presidents of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), as an Advisory Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Educaiton, when Professor Hayhoe was its first Director, and as a collaborator of various research and professional projects."
 

Currently, Professor Lin is leading a group of scholars to carry out an action research in China. This project involves introducing Western learning theories into China while rediscovering and reviving traditional ways of learning in the Chinese culture. The efforts to introduce participation, dialogues, community of learning, and student-centered teaching are met with great challenges but a great deal of opportunities.
 

Jingjing has done research on higher education reforms in Russia, US and China. Her current research focuses on education studies in Rural China, with a particular interest on how urbanization and migration has altered the ecology of rural schooling and how this has had impact on rural youth\'s academic aspiration and life expectation. In addition to teaching and research, Jingjing has also served as a research consultant for a few international and domestic NGOs. Her CV can be accessed from the following site: http://beloit.academia.edu/JingjingLou
 

Heidi Ross is Director of the East Asian Studies Center, co-Director of the Australian National University-Indiana University Pan Asia Institute, and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University. She earned her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature at Oberlin College, an M.A. in Education/Applied Linguistics at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Administration at the University of Michigan. Dr. Ross has taught and consulted at numerous institutions in East Asia, has served as president of the Comparative and International Education Society, co-editor of Comparative Education Review, and as Chair of Educational Studies and Director of Asian Studies at Colgate University. Ross has published widely on Chinese education, gender and schooling, and qualitative research methodology, and her books include China Learns English (Yale), The Ethnographic Eye (Garland), and Taking Teaching Seriously (Paradigm). She is currently leading two field-based projects in the PRC on student engagement in Chinese higher education and girls' educational access and attainment in rural Shaanxi.

Yimin Wang is a third-year doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department with a concentration in International and Comparative Education. She obtained her Master’s degree in China Studies from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Prior coming to Indiana University, Yimin worked as a research associate at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, where she was actively involved in several large-scale projects aiming at nationwide curriculum reform funded by the Ministry of Education. At IU, she was awarded a Proffitt Fellowship from 2008 to 2009, a pre-dissertation field trip grant in 2010, and an International Enhancement Grant in 2011.
Yimin's current research interests include environmental education (education for sustainability), College Entrance Examination in China, reforms of Chinese higher education, and Comparative and International Education. Since Fall 2010, Yimin is also teaching an undergraduate class titled Media, Culture and Education: A Global Perspective.
 

Mary Shepard Wong holds a doctorate in International & Intercultural Education (University of Southern California), master degrees in East Asian Languages and Cultures (University of California at Los Angeles) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, TESOL (Azusa Pacific University). She is a full Professor at Azusa Pacific University in southern California, where she directs both the field-based and online TESOL programs. She has taught ESL for two decades and has been in teacher education for one decade teaching in the US, China, and Thailand. She has conducted over 40 presentations and has a textbook with Cambridge University Press, an edited volume with Routledge co-edited with Suresh Canagarajah and one under contract co-edited with Zoltan Dornyei and Carolyn Kristjansson. She has served in leadership positions in TESOL, CATESOL, and CamTESOL. Her research interests include teacher identity, the role of Christianity in English language teaching, and internationalization and global competence.
 

Shuang Frances Wu is Global Learning Faculty at Azusa Pacific University's Center for Global Learning and Engagement. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy and Organization and a Master's in Postsecondary Administration, both from the University of Southern California. She received her early education in China, having obtained a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Nankai University in Tianjin. Her research interests include curriculum internationalization, foreign language education, and the role of experiential learning in intercultural competency development.