CIHE’s Ruth Hayhoe to deliver keynote address and series of lectures in China

April 3, 2016   |   Uncategorised

Ruth Hayhoe will be in China for three weeks from April 15 to May 9. She will be a keynote speaker at a conference on East-West Reciprocal Learning in Education at Southwest University in Chongqing from April 17 to 19. This event celebrates the 110th anniversary of Southwest University and the 3rd teacher education symposium in the SSHRCC supported partnership between University of Windsor, OISE, Southwest University, Beijing Normal University and Northeast Normal University.

From April 21 to 24 she will visit Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, a long-time partner of OISE in joint doctoral education and research on women and minorities in education. Her lecture there will be on “The Idea of a Normal University.” From April 24 to 29, she will give a series of lectures at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming on themes around teacher education, higher education and history, as well as religion and education. From April 29 to May 4 she will be based in Guangzhou, giving lectures and collaborating with scholars at South China Normal University and National Sun Yat Sen University.

Her final stop, from May 4 to 9, is Hong Kong, where she will be doing a seminar at the Comparative Education Research Centre of the University of Hong Kong, as well as spending time at the Hong Kong Institute of Education which is about to be re-titled the Education University of Hong Kong.