How is the pandemic reshaping the education debate? Part 1: East Asia, South East Asia, Australasia

[[{"fid":"20807","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Kevin Kester","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Kevin Kester","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Kevin Kester","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Kevin Kester","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"}},"attributes":{"height":"375","width":"300","class":"media-element file-small"}}]]Kevin is an educational sociologist. He researches and teaches educational responses to conflict, peace and development in local and global contexts, and directs the Education, Conflict and Peace Lab at Seoul National University. His most recent book is 'The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century'. Kevin serves on the Editorial Boards of Educational Philosophy and Theory; Teaching in Higher Education; Journal of Peace Education; and Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. He is an active member of the Comparative and International Education Society.

[[{"fid":"20811","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Dennis Kwek","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Dennis Kwek","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Dennis Kwek","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Dennis Kwek","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"}},"attributes":{"height":"375","width":"300","class":"media-element file-small"}}]]Dr Dennis Kwek is a Senior Research Scientist with over 25 years of research experience in the UK and Singapore.  His research interests include system studies in education, policy research, classroom pedagogies, sociology and philosophy of education, teacher professional development, comparative education, postcolonial theories, and educational reforms. His methodological expertise includes mixed methods research, classroom discourse analysis, systematic reviews, and case study research. He is currently leading the Singapore’s National Institute of Education’s CORE Research Programme (2004-present), a multi-million-dollar government-funded large-scale baseline suite of empirical studies into Singaporean classroom pedagogies.

[[{"fid":"20815","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Yasushi Maruyama","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Yasushi Maruyama","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Yasushi Maruyama","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Yasushi Maruyama","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"}},"attributes":{"height":"375","width":"300","class":"media-element file-small"}}]]Yasushi has served as an editor of various academic journals, including the editor-in-chief of Studies in the Philosophy of Education, a Journal of The Philosophy of Education Society of Japan. His research interests include the philosophy of Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, ethics of teaching, professional ethics education, and postcolonialism. Among his publications are 'Tragedy of Education, the Other in Education: Beyond the Colonialism of/in Education' (in Forum of Modern Education, 2002) and 'Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Voices from Japan' (in Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020).

[[{"fid":"21117","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Professor Xiaodong Zeng","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Professor Xiaodong Zeng","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Professor Xiaodong Zeng","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Professor Xiaodong Zeng","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"}},"attributes":{"height":"369","width":"295","class":"media-element file-small"}}]]Zeng Xiaodong is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, and executive director of the UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education. Her other research interests include early childhood education, teacher pay, and comparative education.

[[{"fid":"20819","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Natasha Ziebell","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Natasha Ziebell","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Natasha Ziebell","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Natasha Ziebell","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"1"}},"attributes":{"height":"375","width":"300","class":"media-element file-small"}}]]Dr Natasha Ziebell has coordinated subjects in initial teacher education courses and developed professional learning programmes for teachers. Her research focuses on curriculum reform, curricular alignment and authorship, with a particular focus on the intended, enacted and assessed curriculum. Recent research projects include the Australian Education Survey looking at the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning and cross-disciplinary collaboration to support students with additional needs. Natasha is co-convener of the Emerging Researchers’ Group at the European Educational Research Association, Deputy Lead of the Australian Ethics and Privacy Sub-committee for the Assessment for Graduate Teachers, and Chair of the Parliament of Victoria Education Advisory Panel.