Aug 1st: Summer Noted Scholars
Public Lecture:
Toward a Research-based Pedagogy
12:00PM, Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310
Dr. Zhang Hua, Professor & Dean, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Foundations of Education, Graduate School of Education Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China
Bio:
Dr. Zhang Hua is a professor and the dean of 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; and 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.
Public Lecture:
Scholarship as Leadership: Carving New Pathways in Education
3:30PM, Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310
Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets), Professor of Human Development and Indigenous Studies, Antioch University, USA
Bio:
Dr. Carolyn Kenny, Ph.D. (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. Dr. Kenny previously held the position of Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California Santa Barbara and an Associate Professor in First Nations Education at Simon Fraser University. She has served as a Visiting Professor in many universities in Canada, Europe, and Japan. Her professional practices include Music Therapy and research in Indigenous communities.
She is a Board Certified Music Therapist and, as an Indigenous scholar, considers the practice of research in Native communities to be an important aspect of her identity as a “professional”. Her lifelong research interests include the role of the arts in the revitalization of Indigenous societies, music therapy theory, and policy research with Native women. She has published and presented in many venues around the world. Her works have been translated into French, Portuguese, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Japanese, Norweigan, German, and Inuktituk. Her latest publication, Music and Life in the Field of Play: An Anthology, is a selected collection of her works over the last thirty years in both Indigenous Studies, Music Therapy, and the role of the arts in social change. Her areas of interest also include cultural studies, philosophy and theory of science, phenomenology, narrative inquiry, and education.