PROGRAMME
Opening
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Opening Address
JANG Sang-Yoon
Vice Minister of Education, Republic of Korea
JANG Sang-Yoon
Vice Minister of Education, Republic of Korea
Mr Sang-yoon Jang is the current Vice Minister of Education of the Republic of Korea. He served as a Director General for Planning and Coordination Policy, and Deputy Minister of the Social Policy Coordination Office of the Prime Minister's Secretariat. He obtained his Master’s degree in Policy Studies at Texas State University, USA. -
Opening Address
HONG Seok-in
Ambassador and Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
HONG Seok-in
Ambassador and Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Hong Seok-in is currently the Ambassador and Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MOFA), Republic of Korea. Prior to assuming the current position, he worked as Consul-General for Korean Consulate General in Honolulu, U.S.A. He also worked as Minister of Korean Embassy in the United States of America. He was Director-General for Public Diplomacy and Cultural Affairs, MOFA, Republic of Korea. He studied French Language and Literature at Korea University (B.A). -
Congratulatory Address
Christopher CASTLE
Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
Christopher CASTLE
Director
The Division for Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
Christopher Castle has more than 30 years of development experience in the areas of education and health, working at UNESCO since 2004.
After holding a position at UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, he transferred to UNESCO Headquarters where he served as Chief of the Section of Health and Education until November 2022, before taking on his current role as Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development.
Mr Castle holds a BS in International Studies and French from The American University, and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. -
Welcoming Address
LIM Hyun Mook
Director, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)
LIM Hyun Mook
Director
Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)
Hyun Mook LIM is currently the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a UNESCO Centre based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Prior to assuming this position, he worked as Assistant Secretary General for Education at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, where he had started his professional career in 1992. He has taught at Sungkyunkwan University as a visiting professor. He received a Ph.D. in Political Thought from Sogang University, Republic of Korea and M.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver, Colorado, USA. -
Opening Moderator
EOM Jeongmin
Head, Office of Research and Development, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)
EOM Jeongmin
Head, Office of Research and Development, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU)
Jeongmin EOM is currently the Head of Office of Research and Development of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a UNESCO Centre to promote Global Citizenship Education (GCED). She has been working at APCEIU since 2008 as Chief/Head of Research and Development, Education and Training, and International Teacher Exchange. With her role at APCEIU, she has been coordinating a number of educational projects, including Asia-Pacific Training Workshops on EIU, Situational Analysis of EIU, and UNDP country project on Capacity Building of Teacher Trainers in Asia-Pacific and involved in various international projects on GCED as coordinator, researcher, and resource person, particularly in relation to curriculum development, monitoring, and capacity-building. She holds a M.Ed. in International/intercultural education from the University of Alberta and a M.A. in Anthropology from the UNC-Chapel Hill, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Education at Yonsei University.
Keynote Speech
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H.E. Phout SIMMALAVONG
Minister of Education and Sports, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
H.E. Phout SIMMALAVONG
Minister
Education and Sports, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
H.E. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phout Simmalavong was born in 13th March 1960 in Xiengkhouang Province , holds a BA in History and Geography (1982), MA in Human Studies (1999) and PhD in Sociology (2009) from Freiburg University.
H.E. Phout Simmalavong has worked in several positions in the area of education, notably as a senior lecturer at Vientiane Pedagogical University (1982-1995), as Dean of the Faculty of Social Science (2004-2013) and as a Vice President of Post Graduate, Research and International Cooperation at the National University of Laos (2014-2019). Since 2019 H.E. Phout Simmalavong has been working for the Ministry of Education and Sports of Lao PDR. Between 2019 and 2021, he was Deputy Minister of Education and Sports. In April, 2021 H.E. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phout Simmalavong was appointed by the Lao Government as Minister of Education and Sports.
H.E. Phout Simmalavong has published and co-edited a number of journal articles in the field of Social Science including “The Rice Rituals and Modernization: A case study of Lao PDR”, Palm Leave Publication, 2011.ISBN 819099143-4.
[Plenary Session 1] Multidimensionality of GCED in the Face of Multiple Crises: A Moderated Conversation over Urging Issues of Violence and Climate Change
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Presenter
Patrick DOLAN
UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement & Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, Ireland
Patrick DOLAN
UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement & Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, Ireland
Engagement, the first in the Republic of Ireland. The UNESCO Chairs programme, part of the UNESCO University Education and Twinning Programme, advances research, training and programme development in all of UNESCO’s fields of competence by building university networks and encouraging inter-university cooperation through the transfer of knowledge across borders. Professor Dolan conducts a programme of work within and supported by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre (UCFRC) that spans a range of global partnerships involving universities, NGOs, international agencies and youth organisations encompassing research, education, and policy development activities.
Professor Dolan has worked with and for families as a practitioner, service manager, and academic for over 35 years. He has completed an extensive body of research on family issues including longitudinal research on adolescents, their perceived mental health, resilience and social support networks and has published in a wide range of academic publications. His major research interests are Civic Engagement in Children and Youth, Family Support, Reflective Practice and Service Development, Youth Mentoring Models, Empathy Education, Prevention of Youth Radicialisation, Adolescents Resilience and Social Networks. -
Presenter
LEE Jae-Young
Professor, Kongju National University, Republic of Korea
LEE Jae-Young
Professor
Kongju National University, Republic of Korea
After graduating from The Ohio State University, I have been a professor of environmental education at Kongju National University since 2001. Until 2021, I was the Director of the National Center for Environmental Education, and for the past four years, I have been the Vice-Chair of the UNESCO ESD Korea Committee. For the past 20 years, I have been conducting research and practice on environmental education, sustainable development education, and ecological transition education both in and out of school. Recently, I have been working on developing environmental education standards to foster 'global ecological citizens' as a new humanity in the era of climate crisis. Since moving to a small seaside town in the western part of the Korean Peninsula 14 years ago, I have been engaged in sustainable community building activities and researching event-centered environmental education methodologies that connect communities to the earth and nature to culture. -
Moderator
Karena MENZIE-BALLANTYNE
Senior Lecturer, Central Queensland University, Australia
Karena MENZIE-BALLANTYNE
Senior Lecturer
Central Queensland University, Australia
Dr Karena Menzie-Ballantyne is a Senior Lecturer and teacher-educator based at CQUniversity Australia’s Bundaberg campus. Karena co-leads Empower, a research cluster of academics, PhD and Masters students from Australia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia, that specialises in practically-oriented, evidence-based research into education for global citizenship/global competence and sustainable development at system, school and classroom levels. Karena’s current research includes: working as a critical friend for the Queensland Department of Education International’s Global Competence Pilot; working with academic and education department personnel in Queensland, New Zealand and England to explore how the education for global citizenship/global competence agenda is being rollout across the respective contexts; and conducting an international Delphi study to explore the intent and terminology used by teacher educators and trainers in the field of global education.
[Plenary Session 2] GCED “Competences” as Transformative Learning for Critical Empowerment
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Presenter
Esther CARE
Professor Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
Esther CARE
Professorial Fellow
University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Esther Care works with government and non-government organisations on education reform, with a focus on 21st century skills and assessment. She coordinated the pilot of a new indicator of SDG 4.7, and works with APCEIU on global citizenship education in Asia. She is currently Technical Team Lead with the AliVE initiative in East Africa on assessment of life skills and values through, across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. From a career in academia spanning 20 years at the University of Melbourne, Esther moved to Washington DC in 2015 to work with the Brookings Institution as Senior Fellow to continue her exploration of the 21st century skills global shift in education. She is the author of publications focussed on 21st century skills, as well as psycho-educational assessment, formative assessment, education system reform, and collaborative problem solving. -
Presenter
Călin RUS
Director of the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara, Romania & WG leader of Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) by Council of Europe
Călin RUS
Director of the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara, Romania & WG leader of Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) by Council of Europe
Calin Rus is director of the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara, Romania, and Associate Professor at the West University of Timisoara. Since 1998, he was constantly involved as expert in projects and activities of the Council of Europe related to intercultural education, education for democratic citizenship and human rights education. He was member of the expert group that developed Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and a lead expert of the Council of Europe’s Education Policy Advisors Network. He has experience in research, training of teachers and of teacher educators, development of support materials and curriculum development based on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture in different countries, especially in Europe, including in connection with aspects related to global citizenship and education for sustainable development. -
Presenter
LEE Moosung
Professor, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
LEE Moosung
Professor
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Moosung Lee is a professor of educational policy at Yonsei University. Prior to joining Yonsei University, he held appointments as Centenary Professor at the University of Canberra and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on cross-national comparison of educational policy and practice. He has published extensively in the area (over 110 papers). His work has been recognized by international scholarly communities; as examples, he received the Richard Wolf Memorial Award by the IEA in the Netherlands and several awards from AERA’s division and SIG. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, Korean Foundation Fellow, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar, and Yonsei Outstanding Visiting Scholar. His work has been supported by UNESCO, AERA, the Australian Research Council, the University Grants Council in Hong Kong, the Korea Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies, ESRC (U.K.), and the International Baccalaureate Organization. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Multicultural Education Review (Routledge) and the senior associate editor of the Journal of Educational Administration (Emerald). -
Moderator
Aaron BENAVOT
Professor, University at Albany-SUNY, USA
Aaron BENAVOT
Professor
University at Albany-SUNY, USA
Aaron Benavot is Professor of Global Education Policy at the University at Albany-SUNY (USA). His scholarship has explored diverse educational issues from comparative, global and critical perspectives, most recently focused on global citizenship education, climate change and sustainability education. For 8 years Aaron worked at UNESCO, first as Senior Analyst and then as Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, an independent, evidence-based report analyzing progress towards international education targets. Aaron is currently Lead of Indicator Development for the MECCE project, which is developing robust indicators to inform intergovernmental and national policy making on climate education. Aaron also co-founded NISSEM, a community of academics and practitioners advocating for the inclusion of global and humanistic themes and social and emotional learning in textbooks. Aaron recently completed a feasibility study of global citizenship competence for APCIEU, and an article (with J. Williams) “Can we transform global education without transforming how we monitoring progress?” in the Journal of International Cooperation in Education.
[Plenary Session 3] Transforming Education for Transformative Learning (PANEL DISCUSSION)
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Panelist
Michael BOAKYE-YIADOM
Director-General, Institute for Educational Planning & Administration at University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Michael BOAKYE-YIADOM
Director-General, Institute for Educational Planning & Administration at University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom is the Director-General at the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) – Under the Auspices of UNESCO, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, USA; his Master of Educational Administration and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
As the Director-General of IEPA, He has been instrumental in getting the Ministry of Education in Ghana to nominate IEPA and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) to be implementors of GCED in Ghana. He personally led the IEPA team to organise two workshops on GCED in Ghana in 2022 and is overseeing the research and development of a trainer’s manual for GCED to train teachers in Ghana for the year 2024.
In June 2022, The President of the Republic of Ghana appointed Dr. Boakye-Yiadom as the National Convenor for the Transforming Education Summit (TES) and was instrumental in Ghana’s participation in the Summit which was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from the 16th to 20th September 2022.
As Education and Student Affairs Enthusiast, Dr. Boakye-Yiadom’s research interests include international and contemporary issues in higher education and student affairs; leadership development in education; diversity and inclusion in education; educational experiences of underrepresented populations; and school improvement.
Michael is a scholar-practitioner passionate about improving quality education in Africa.
Prior to joining the IEPA faculty, he served as Dean of Students at Hiwassee College in Madisonville, Tennessee, USA; Residential Coordinator at Ohio University; and a senior staff at the University of Cape Coast.
His global engagements with colleagues in educational institutions across the world are supported through collaborative research and innovations. Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom is married to Mrs. Becky Boakye-Yiadom, a public health practitioner, and together they have two adults and two children. -
Panelist
Christopher CASTLE
Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
Christopher CASTLE
Director
The Division for Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
Christopher Castle has more than 30 years of development experience in the areas of education and health, working at UNESCO since 2004.
After holding a position at UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, he transferred to UNESCO Headquarters where he served as Chief of the Section of Health and Education until November 2022, before taking on his current role as Director of the Division for Peace and Sustainable Development.
Mr Castle holds a BS in International Studies and French from The American University, and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. -
Panelist
Karena MENZIE-BALLANTYNE
Senior Lecturer, Central Queensland University, Australia
Karena MENZIE-BALLANTYNE
Senior Lecturer
Central Queensland University, Australia
Dr Karena Menzie-Ballantyne is a Senior Lecturer and teacher-educator based at CQUniversity Australia’s Bundaberg campus. Karena co-leads Empower, a research cluster of academics, PhD and Masters students from Australia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia, that specialises in practically-oriented, evidence-based research into education for global citizenship/global competence and sustainable development at system, school and classroom levels. Karena’s current research includes: working as a critical friend for the Queensland Department of Education International’s Global Competence Pilot; working with academic and education department personnel in Queensland, New Zealand and England to explore how the education for global citizenship/global competence agenda is being rollout across the respective contexts; and conducting an international Delphi study to explore the intent and terminology used by teacher educators and trainers in the field of global education. -
Panelist
Umair MUSHTAQ
Senior Manager Development, The Little Art, Pakistan
Umair MUSHTAQ
Senior Manager Development
The Little Art, Pakistan
Umair Mushtaq is an arts manager, specializing in program management, leadership training, and youth development. His passion lies in promoting gender equality, peace and conflict resolution, youth and women empowerment, and quality education for children and young people through various art mediums. His projects Artbeat – National Painting Competition and Exhibition, Tamasha – Theatre for Young Audiences, and Lahore International Children’s Film Festival (LICFF) have fostered cross-cultural understanding, social awareness, and empathy among children and young people. Through his programs, he has empowered individuals to think critically, engage in intercultural dialogue, and contribute meaningfully to their communities and the world. Umair strongly believes that these efforts embody the values of GCED by promoting respect for diversity, ethical responsibility, and active participation in shaping a more just and sustainable global society. -
Panelist
Berika SHUKAKIDZE
Director, National Center for Teacher Professional Development, Georgia
Berika SHUKAKIDZE
Director
National Center for Teacher Professional Development, Georgia
Berika Shukakidze graduated from Tbilisi State University with Master’s degree in Economics in 1995. In 2002 he acquired Master’s degree in Education Administration from University of Nebraska at Omaha. He completed his doctoral study at Ilia State University in 2013. The dissertation topic: Comparative Study: Impact of Family, School, and Students Factors on Students Achievements in Reading in Developed (Estonia) and Developing (Azerbaijan) Countries (Canadian Center of Science and Education).
He has more than 16 academic works completed.
From 2006 to 2010 he worked as the head of programs and later on analytical departments at the Ministry of Education and Science. He has been the director of the National Center for Teacher Professional Development since 2018.
Research interests
Secondary and higher education administration and supervision, comparative education, teachers’ professional development, school finance, football management, cost effectiveness analyses of football. -
Panelist
Didi SUKYADI
Vice Rector, Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia
Didi SUKYADI
Vice Rector
Students and Academic Affairs , Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Didi Sukyadi is faculty staff of English Education Department, Indonesia University of Education. He got his Master’s degree from London University in 1997, and doctoral degree from Linguistics Program, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta in 2005. In addition to teaching semiotics and language testing in both graduate and undergraduate programs, currently he is also the Vice Rector for Academic and Student’s Affairs, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia His main interests include semiotics, language testing, and multimodality. He has published his research in The New English Teacher, TEFLIN Journal, Parole Journal, and K@ta Journal, and his latest article was published in Language Teaching Journal, Cambridge University Press, and Asian Englishes, Taylor & Francis. He has published two book chapters in Routledge and other books published by his university press. He presented his papers in ASIA TEFL, TEFLIN, Thai-TESOL, TESOL Convention, and other international conferences. He is a member of TESOL International USA, IATEFL UK, ASIA TEFL, and TEFLIN. He initiated annual Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN) in 2008 and founded Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL), a Q2 Scopus indexed journal. -
Moderator
HAN Kyung-Koo
Secretary-General, Korean National Commission for UNESCO
HAN Kyung-Koo
Secretary-General
Korean National Commission for UNESCO
I am the Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. As a cultural anthropologist trained at Seoul National University (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), I taught anthropology at Kangwon National University, and helped develop the Division of International Studies at Kookmin University as its dean. In 2009, I joined the newly founded College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University and served as its dean until 2020.
I have served as member of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, the Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation for the Environmental Movement, and the Presidential Commission for Sustainable Development.
I have also served on the editorial boards of the Korea Journal, Sahoewa yeoksa (Society and History), and Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, and was Editor of Hanguk munhwa inryuhak (Korean Cultural Anthropology) and of the Korean Social Science Journal. I was President of the Korean International Migration Studies Association, the Korean Society for Education for International Understanding, and the Korean Society for the Study of Overseas Koreans, as well as Vice President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Korean Society for Environmental Sociology.
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