2014 Noted Summer Scholars

Professor & Dean, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education; Foundations of Education, Graduate School of Education Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China.

Zhang Hua, professor and dean in Graduate School of Educational Studies at Hangzhou Normal University; former president of International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS); the main expert for National Curriculum Reform in China; Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research interests include curriculum studies, curriculum history, wisdom traditions (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism), curriculum reform, pedagogy, and teacher education. He has published 9 books and more than 130 papers in academic journals.

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• EDCP 585E 951: East Wisdom Traditions, John Dewey, and Teacher Education
  

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  Towards a Research-based Pedagogy

  12:00PM, Tuesday, August 5, 2014, Room: Scarfe 310

Professor School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education Arizona State University Tempe, USA

Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy is a citizen of the Lumbee Nation.  He is President’s Professor, Borderlands Professor of Indigenous Education and Justice, and Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University.   His research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous students, staff, and faulty in institutions of higher education.  More recently, he has been engaged in scholarship that seeks to explore the role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in educational research and its methodologies.

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• EDCP 585C 951: Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Education

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Looking Into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education

12:00PM, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Room: Scarfe 310

Professor, Human Development and Indigenous Studies, Antioch University, USA

Carolyn Kenny (Nang Jada Sa-êts) is currently a Professor of Human Development and Indigenous Studies in the Antioch University Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. She has published and presented extensively in both Indigenous Studies and Music Therapy. Her latest book is an edited volume (with Professor Tina Ngaroimata Fraser) titled "Living Indigenous Leadership: Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities," 2012, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. She has Choctaw and Ukrainian ancestry and was adopted into the Haida Nation 2000

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• EDST 565E 971: Connecting Qualitative Research to Educational Practice
  

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  Scholarship as Leadership: Carving New Pathways in Education

  15:30 – 17:00PM, Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Room: Scarfe 310

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education University of Hong Kong, China

Angel Lin is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She is well-respected for her interdisciplinary research in classroom discourse analysis, bilingual education, language policy in postcolonial contexts, and critical cultural studies. She has published over 90 research articles and co/authored/edited 6 research books.

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Associate Professor, University at Albany State University of New York, USA

Carol Rodgers is associate professor of education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Before coming to SUNY Albany in 2000, she taught for 19 years with the Experiment in International Living and in the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Rodgers' teaching and research interests include reflective practice, the historical roots of reflection in the work of John Dewey and early progressive teacher education efforts, reflective teacher education and professional development. She is currently interested in understanding the definition and practice of a humanizing pedagogy, both in the US and South Africa where she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011. Dr. Rodgers holds an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Bates College.

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Professor, Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Medical School

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