Hosted by
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University

Webinar Series 2020

Transforming Educationin the Era of New Normal
Experiences and Prospects in Asia-Pacific
June 20 - July 4, 2020

Webinar Series 2020
Transforming Education in the Era of New Normal
Experiences and Prospects in Asia-Pacific
June 20, June 27. July 4, 2020
Hosted by
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University
This webinar series aims at disseminating experiences in transforming education to respond to the
COVID-19 pandemic as well as leading a dialogue about the prospects of transforming education for asustainable Asia-Pacific in the era of New Normal.
Webinar 1: 20 June, 2020, 14:30-17:00
Transforming Higher Education in the Era of New Normal: Responses and Prospects
This Webinar aims to invite scholars from universities in East Asia to share their experiences in
responding to make changes in higher education in and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Also,presenters in this session are invited to share their insight on transformation of teaching, learning,
research, community engagement, and university governance in the Era of New Normal.
Webinar 2: 27 June, 2020, 14:00-16:00
No One Left Behind: Keeping Inclusive and Quality Education in Global Pandemic
This Webinar is to invite scholars in Asia-Pacific to exchange policies and practices inguaranteeing inclusive and quality education for all in Asia-Pacific region during and after
COVID-19 pandemic. Also, it is to invite policy maker and school teachers from different social
contexts to share their experiences and challenges in responding to the impact of COVID-19 on
school education.
Webinar 3: 4 July, 2020, 14:00-17:00
Asia Education Leader Forum: On-line Education: Experiences and Prospects
This forum aims to invite scholars and students from AELC (Asia Education Leader Course)
member universities to share their responses and insight on online education through theirexperiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is expected to provide voices of learners
in higher education to teachers and university managers to reconsider how to transform learningand teaching through online education.

Opening
Time
Opening

14:30-14:45
June 20(Saturday)
Japan Standard Time
(JST), UTC +9

List of Participants
Welcome Remarks••

Mr. Toshiya Ueki, Professor & Executive Vice
President for General Affairs, Financial Affairs andInternational Relations, Tohoku University
Mr. Tomohiro Yakuwa, Professor & Dean,
Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University

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Schedule
WebinarTime

Webinar 1
Transforming Higher
Education in the Eraof New Normal:
Responses andProspects

List of Participants
Panelist:

14:45-17:00
June 20(Saturday)
Japan Standard Time
(JST), UTC +9

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Webinar 2
No One Left Behind:
Keeping Inclusive
and Quality
Education in COVID19 Pandemic

Mr. Ka Ho Mok, Chair Professor & Vice President, Lingnan University
Mr. Weiyan Xiong, Research Assistant Professor, Lingnan University
Ms. Zhou Zhong, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
Mr. Zhiyong Zhu, Professor, Beijing Normal University
Mr. Sung-sang Yoo, Professor, Seoul National University
Mr. Robin J. Chen, Professor, National Chengchi University
Mr. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Professor, Tohoku University

Ms. Saran Yoshida, Associate Professor, Tohoku University

Panelist:

14:00-16:00
June 27(Saturday)
Japan Standard Time
(JST), UTC +9

Ms. Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa, Chief, Inclusive
Quality Education (IQE) Section, UNESCO Asia-PacificRegional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok)

Ms. Wei Zhang, Professor, East China Normal University
Ms. Kaori Suetomi, Professor, Nihon University
Mr. Fredie V. Avendano, Assistant Schools DivisionSuperintendent, Department of Education, Quezon City, The
Philippines

Ms. Zhen Chang, Beijing No.12 Middle School
Mr. Keigo Anezaki, Tokiwagi Gakuen, Sendai

Webinar 3

Panelist:

Asia Education
Leader Forum

College of Education, National Chengchi University
 Mr. Robin J. Chen, Professor
 Ms.Chuing Prudence Chou, Professor
 Ms. Fang-Yu Lin, Doctoral Program Student
 Ms. Yun Peng, Master Program Student

On-line Education:
Experiences andProspects

14:00-17:30
July 4(Saturday)
Japan Standard Time
(JST), UTC +9

School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University
 Mr. Xuefeng Qiao, Associate Professor
 Mr. Hongyang Zhu, Lecturer
 Ms. Jiao Xu, Master Program Student
 Ms. Baorong Niu, Master Program Student
School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University
 Ms. Chen Chen, Professor
 Mr. Nan Zhang, Maser Program Student
Department of Education, Korea University
 Ms. Jhong Yun Kim, Research Professor
 Ms. Yujung Ko, Research Professor
 Ms. Mina Kang, Doctoral Program Student
 Mr. Bawool Hong, Master Program Student
College of Education, National Taiwan Normal University
 Mr. Tzu-bin Lin, Professor
 Ms. Yuling Yang, Doctoral Program Student
 Ms. FeJan Chan, Master Program Student
Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University
 Mr. Hideki Kozima, Professor
 Mr. Jing Liu, Associate Professor
 Ms. Qi Deng, Master Program Student
 Mr. Keisuke Mikami, Master Program Student

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Attendee Biographies
Opening
Toshiya Ueki is the Executive Vice President for General Affairs, Financial
Affairs and International Relations at Tohoku University and is also a
Professor at the Faculty and Graduate School of Law. Prof. Ueki served
as the Dean of the Faculty and Graduate School of Law and since 2006
he has served as Executive Vice President of Tohoku University. He has
authored or co-authored articles on international law and written many
books on the subject. He has been recognized for his exceptional work in
the fields of transnational /international law.
Mr. Toshiya Uei
Professor & Executive Vice
President for General Affairs,
Financial Affairs andInternational Relations,
Tohoku University

Mr. Tomohiro Yakuwa
Professor & Dean
Graduate School of Education,
Tohoku University

Tomohiro Yakuwa is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education,
Tohoku University since 2012. He received Ph.D. in the Graduate Schoolof Education, Tohoku University in 2001. His research areas include thehistory of education in Japan, people’s history of premodern Japan, andliteracy studies. He was the Vice Dean of the Graduate School of
Education, Tohoku University from 2017 to 2019. Since 2019 he has been
the Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University since2019. His current research project examines the history of literacy and thehistory of education for rudimentary literacy in Tokugawa Japan and Meiji
Japan.

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Webinar 1:

Transforming Higher Education in the Era of New Normal: Responses and Prospects

Mr. Ka Ho Mok

Professor Ka Ho Mok is the Vice-President and concurrently Lam Man
Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University. He has
published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy,
comparative development and policy studies, and social development incontemporary China and East Asia. His recent published works havefocused on comparative social development and social policy responses
in the Greater China region and East Asia. He is also the founding Editorin-Chief of the Journal of Asian Public Policy (London: Routledge) andAsian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) as well as a Book
Series Editor for Routledge and Springer.

Chair Professor & Vice President
Lingnan University

Mr. Weiyan Xiong
Research Assistant Professor
Lingnan University

Ms. Zhou Zhong

Weiyan Xiong is a Research Assistant Professor of Lingnan University,
Hong Kong. He is also serving as the Associate Director of the MA Programin International Higher Education and Management (IHEM). His researchinterests include comparative and international education, indigenous
education, liberal arts education, and faculty professional development. He
received his PhD in Higher Education Management from the University ofPittsburgh, and used to work as a Program Coordinator of Institute forInternational Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburgh, and a
Visiting Student Researcher at Myers Center for Research on Native
American Issues of UC Berkeley.

Zhou Zhong is an Associate Professor of the Institute of Education,
Tsinghua University. She also served as the Associate Dean of the Officeof International Cooperation and Exchange in 2016-2018, Tsinghua
University. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Peking
University, MSc in Comparative and International Education and & DPhil in
Educational Studies from the University of Oxford. Her main researchinterest lies in comparative, international, interdisciplinary and crosscultural studies of higher education. Her recent research projects focus onuniversity global strategies, comparative policy studies of international
higher education, and innovative education design and evaluation.

Associate Professor
Institute of Education
Tsinghua University

Dr. Zhiyong Zhu is Professor of College of Educational Administration
Beijing Normal University. He is specialized in sociology of education andqualitative research methodology. His research interests include Tibetan
education, teacher education, school leadership, school and community,and educational policy. Currently he conducts research on doctoral
education, esp. doctoral supervision.

Mr. Zhiyong Zhu
Professor
College of Educational Administration
Beijing Normal University

4Mr. Sung-sang Yoo
Professor
College of Education
Seoul National University

Mr. Robin J. Chen,
Professor
College of Educatioin
National Chengchi University

Mr. Akiyoshi Yonezawa
Professor and Vice-Director
International Strategy Office
Tohoku University

Sung-Sang Yoo is a professor in the Department of Education at Seoul National
University, South Korea and now spend a year-long staying at California State
University, San Bernardino, USA for international collaborative research on
global citizenship education. Prior to the current position, he worked as a
research fellow of the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) andHankuk University of Foreign Studies after obtaining Ph.D. in Education fromthe University of California, Los Angeles with a specialization of Internationaland Comparative Education. As he has taught sociology of education, theories
of education development, comparative education, global citizenshipeducation, social justice transformative education and Paulo Freire, he has
actively participated in practices of international education development
cooperation programs in South-Asian countries, Sub-Saharan Africancountries, and Latin American countries. Particularly, he has paid more
attention to the role of basic primary education and teacher education/training
in developing countries so as for bringing out ‘a better education.’

Robin J. Chen is a Professor and serve as the director of Asia-PacificEducation Leadership Program/Center at college of Education, National
Chengchi University. He receive his associate degree with education policy
studies from Institute of Education, University of London in 2008, and PhD
degree with comparative education from National Chi Nan University in2008. His current main research foci are New Managerialism in higher
education, rural schools innovation leadership, and policy sociology. He
worked as the Director of Office of R & D at National Academy for
Educational Research (2011-2013), Director of General Education Center(2015-2017), Assistant Vice President for International Cooperation (20172018) at National Chengchi University.

Akiyoshi Yonezawa is Professor and Vice-Director, International Strategy
Office, Tohoku University. With a background in sociology, he mainly
conducts research on comparative higher education policy – especially
focusing on world-class universities, internationalization and public-private
relationships in higher education. He established his expertise in higher
education policy and management though working experience at Nagoya
University, OECD, and the University of Tokyo, etc. He is a board member
at Japan Association for Higher Education Research. His recent co-edited
book Researching Higher Education in Asia (Springer, 2018) was granted
the “Best Book Award 2019” from Comparative and International Education
Society (SIG Higher Education).

Saran Yoshida is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of
Education, Tohoku University since 2016. She received Ph.D. in Education
at Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo in 2012. Her
research areas include clinical psychology, health psychology, psychooncology, and behavioral economics. Her current research projectexamines impact of medical communication based on behavioral
economics on decision-making in cancer treatment. She is also engaged
in research on the preferable end-of-life discussion with young cancer
patients.
Ms. Saran Yoshida
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University5Webinar 2:
No One Left Behind: Keeping Inclusive and Quality Education in Global Pandemic

Ms. Maki KatsunoHayashikawa

Maki Hayashikawa is the Chief of Section for Inclusive Quality
Education at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Asia-Pacificsince April 2016. She oversees UNESCO’s regional programme in thefields of education policy and planning, ICT in education, learning
quality, and inclusion and gender in education, from early childhood tosecondary education. She is also the Regional Coordinator for the
SDG4-Education 2030. Maki has nearly 25 years of development work
experience, mostly working in the Asia-Pacific region with UNESCO,UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Prior
to Bangkok, Maki was based in UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

Chief, Inclusive Quality
Education (IQE) Section,
UNESCO Asia-PacificRegional Bureau for Education(UNESCO Bangkok)

ZHANG Wei is a Professor at the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction,
and Executive Director of Centre for International Research in
Supplementary Tutoring, East China Normal University. Her research
focuses on shadow education, comparative education, and education
policy. Her empirical research has included fieldwork in Japan,
Cambodia, Myanmar, Denmark and China. She has provided
consultancies for policy makers, tutoring providers and professional
associations. She also serves UNESCO as the GEM Report Fellow.
Ms. Wei Zhang
Professor
Executive Director, Centre forInternational Research in
Supplementary Tutoring, Instituteof Curriculum and Instruction,
East China Normal University

Ms. Kaori Suetomi
Professor
Department of Education
College of Humanities and Sciences
Nihon University

Mr. Fredie V. Avendano
Assistant Schools Division
Superintendent, Department of
Education, Quezon City, The Philippines

Kaori Suetomi is Professor, Department of Education, College of
Humanities & Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo since 2010. She got
Ph.D. in Education Studies at Graduate School of Kobe University. Her
research area are based on education Policy and education finance. Her
recent professional activities show that she devote herself into improving
national education policy , especially focused on school leadership andmanagement, child poverty and education, fair treatment to deprived
youth and children. She manage some interesting research projects,
comparative study of Multi-School Network between Japan and the UK,
Reforming education system for children and youth based on the ideasof well-being.

Fredie V. Avendano is Assistant Schools Division Superintendent,
Department of Education, Quezon City, The Philippines since 2013. Hereceived his Master in International Development major in Education and
Human Resource Development at Graduate School of International
Development, Nagoya University in 2007. His professional stint wasdedicated in the education sector, from classroom teacher in 1997 toacademic coordinator and master teacher until 2005 when he joined theDepartment of Education as Education Program Supervisor. He has
been closely involved in various curricular-related tasks such as
instructional development where he successfully published textbooks,
teacher’s manuals, story books and other learning materials as author,
co-author and as consultant.
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Zhen Chang is an English teacher in Beijing No. 12 High School. She
has been teaching English in high school since she graduated from
Beijing Normal University in 2001. During her nineteen years’ teachingcareer, she has been devoted to providing students with excellence inEnglish learning and equip students with essential skills and soundvalues to prepare them for life. Being a dedicated and thoughtful English
teacher, she is one of the core writers of the Senior English for China—
the textbook used by most of the Chinese students and she has been
awarded the teacher of the year twice in Fengtai District, Beijing.
Ms. Zhen Chang
English Teacher
Beijing No.12 Middle School
China

Mr. Keigo Anezaki

Keigo Anezaki works as an English teacher at Tokiwagi Gakuen, aprivate high school in Sendai. He has been teaching English since 2016.
In 2020, he was sent to a public high school under an exchange
program between public and private schools in Miyagi Prefecture,
Japan. His research focuses on effective English classes in highschools, and ways to put SDGs into high school curriculums. He is
excited to give a speech about what was going on during thisunpredictable terms in high schools in Sendai. He is going to share thesituations occurred in high schools and how teachers have tried tosupport students’ learning.

English Teacher
Tokiwagi Gakuen, Sendai,
Miyagi Prefecture
Japan

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Webinar 3:

Asia Education Leader Forum:
On-line Education: Experiences and Prospects

Mr. Robin J. Chen
Professor
College of Education
National Chengchi University

Robin J. Chen is a Professor and serve as the director of Asia-PacificEducation Leadership Program/Center at college of Education, National
Chengchi University. He receive his associate degree with education
policy studies from Institute of Education, University of London in 2008,
and PhD degree with comparative education from National Chi Nan
University in 2008. His current main research foci are New Managerialism
in higher education, rural schools innovation leadership, and policy
sociology. He worked as the Director of Office of R & D at National
Academy for Educational Research (2011-2013), Director of General
Education Center (2015-2017), Assistant Vice President for International
Cooperation (2017-2018) at National Chengchi University.

Chuing Prudence Chou(周祝瑛), received her PhD in Comparative andInternational Education from the UCLA, and a professor in the Departmentof Education at National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan.
For further information, please visit
http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~iaezcpc/en/)E-mail:iaezcpc@nccu.edu.tw

Ms. Chuing Prudence Chou
Professor
College of Education
National Chengchi University

Fang-Yu Lin, PhD student of Department of Education at National
Chengchi University, Taiwan and serves as the International Affairs
Coordinator of Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of
Taiwan now. She has been devoted to the research of higher educationinternationalization, international education, comparative education andhigher education policy. Her master’s thesis titled "The Trend and Analysisof Higher Education International Student Mobility in ASEAN+3 Area"
mainly focused on the regional student mobility in Asia.
Ms. Fang-Yu Lin
Doctoral program student
Department of Education
National Chengchi University

Ms. Yun Peng
Master Program Student
Department of Education
National Chengchi University

Yun Peng is a master student studying at Graduate Institute of
Educational Administration and Policy, National Chengchi University,
Taiwan. She also dedicates to the editorial affair in the Journal of
Education & Psychology. In college, she was major in Tourism andLeisure Management. She joined the Education Program, which is aim
at training high school teachers. Currently, she is researching about
Relationship Between High School Principals’ Technology Leadership,
Application of Smarter Classrooms, and Teaching Innovation. She
hopes the study can help improve present teaching sites and methods.
She participated in AEL 2019 summer courses at Tohoku University.

8Dr. Xuefeng Qiao is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education
Science, Nanjing Normal University. His research interests coverteacher education, teacher development and comparative education. He
was awarded the Excellent Head Teacher by Nanjing Normal University
during 2016-2017, the Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent of Jiangsu
Province during 2016-2018, and the Honorary Researcher by Universityof Strathclyde during 2017-2020. He has published over 20 journal
articles in international referred journals such as Teachers and Teaching,
Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, and Journal of
Education for Teaching.
Mr. Xuefeng Qiao
Associate Professor
School of Education Science
Nanjing Normal University.

Hongyang Zhu is a lecturer at the School of Education Science. In 2019,
he graduated from the School of Education, Renmin University of China,
with a PhD in management. He used to be a joint-training doctoral
student of Renmin University of China and Harvard University. His main
research direction is the philosophy of education and education policy.
The topics of his concern in recent years are metaphors of education,
mental models and implementation of educational policies, and the wellbeing of people in educational life in the digital age.
Mr. Hongyang Zhu
Lecturer
School of Education Science
Nanjing Normal University.

Jiao Xu is a master course student of Preschool Education of School of
Education Science, Nanjing Normal University. Tutored by Wang Li,
Associate Professor. She is interested in early childhood art education.
She attended Asia Education Leader Course in 2019.

Ms. Jiao Xu
Master Program Student
School of Education Science
Nanjing Normal University.

Ms. Baorong Niu
Master Program Student

Baorong Niu is a second-year postgraduate student in Nanjing Normal
University, majoring in curriculum and teaching theory. She is mainly
engaged in the research on curriculum and teaching. The theme of her
graduation thesis is “Research on Teachers' Classroom Teaching
Evaluation Language Based on Growth Thinking”. She won academic
scholarships for many times, and actively participated in academic
forums and made subject reports. In addition, she took an active part ininternational educational exchanges. From May to July 2019, sheparticipated in the exchange program "China Cultural Immersion
Programme: Children's Development and Educational Changes in
China" of Strathclyde. She attended the AEL course from December toJanuary 2019.

School of Education Science
Nanjing Normal University

9Ms. Chen Chen
Professor
School of Psychology
Nanjing Normal University.

Chen Chen is a Professor at School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal
University. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental and Educational
Psychology at School of Education, the University of Hong Kong in 2010.
Dr. Chen has been conducting research in the areas of achievement
motivation, parent-child relationship, social development, and wellbeing. Grounded in the hierarchical model of achievement motivation,
she is interested in uncovering the nature of achievement goals fromboth personal (e.g., grit and temperament) and environmental (e.g.,parenting and need support) factors. She is also interested in Chinese
migrant children’s social development and how it is related to personal,
family, and school factors.

Nan Zhang (Grey Zhang) is a master student in graduate school of
psychology, Nanjing Normal University. His major is basic psychology
and especially he is interested in constellation and education that both
represent the relationship between people but in different situations.
Specifically, his current research focuses on intersubjective
psychoanalysis and sand play therapy. He joined AEL 2018 summer
course in Korea University and 2018 winter course in Taipei. In his sparetime, he enjoys going photographing and journeys.
Mr. Nan Zhang
Master Course Student
School of Psychology
Nanjing Normal University.

10Dr. Jhong Yun Kim received her PhD in HRD and Adult Continuing
Education from Korea University in South Korea and her MBA from
Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. She is a
research professor of the BK21 Plus Project Group of Edu-hub in Asia
in the Department of Education at Korea University. Her researchinterests include employee development, career development, andmedical education.
Ms. Jhong Yun Kim
Research Professor
Department of Education
Korea University

Ms. Yujung Ko

Dr. Yujung Ko is Research Professor of BK21 Plus Project Group of
Edu-hub in Asia in the Department of Education at Korea University.
Her research interests include technology integration, educational usesof emerging technologies, and teacher education for teaching andlearning with technologies. For the past several years, she has worked
on how to better support preservice and inservice teachers for using
technology in classrooms. Her current works focus on 1) investigating
factors that have an impact on the use of technologies (current vs.
emerging); 2) exploring the uses of emerging technologies (e.g.,
augmented and virtual reality) for teaching and learning.

Research Professor
Department of Education
Korea University

Mina Kang is a Ph.D. student in educational technology at the
Department of Education, Korea University. She is interested in LMS(Learning Management System), Instructional Design, and education
using the latest technologies. She likes to design curriculum and write
storyboards from an educational technology perspective. Her current
works focus on 1) tools for remote video conferencing for non-face-toface learning and communication 2) learning analysis using AI.

Ms. Mina Kang
Doctoral Program Student
Department of Education
Korea University

Mr. Bawool Hong

Bawool Hong is currently majoring in educational administration andhigher education at Korea University, and my research interests arecomparative and international higher education, equity and diversity,and organizational change in higher education. My research projects
include participating as a research assistant on the “Study of the
Impact of International Mobility Programs on Students” led by agroup of ROK-ASEAN scholars, as well as a “Study on the Influenceof Foreign Faculty on Internationalization at Korean Universities.”
Both projects are currently funded by the National Research
Foundation (NRF) of Korea.

Master Program Student
Department of Education
Korea University

11Mr. Tzu-bin Lin
Distinguished Professor& Deputy Head,
Department of Education
National Taiwan Normal University

From 2015 to 2018, Prof. Lin was the head of Practicum Office in theCollege of Teacher Education NTNU. Prior to the current position in
NTNU, he was the full-time learning researcher at Bournemouth
University in the UK and assistant professor in the Policy andLeadership Academic Group in the National Institute of Education(NIE), Singapore. Currently, Prof. Lin is the committee member of the
Collaboration Center for Teacher Education, Curriculum, Instruction
and Evaluation of Basic Education under Ministry of Education,
Taiwan. During 2018 and 2019, he has been a visiting professor at theFaculty of Education, Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests
are in education policy and leadership, media literacy, comparativeeducation, and TESOL.

Yuling Yang is a doctoral student majoring in curriculum andInstruction at NTNU. Last summer, she had joined AEL course inJapan and had a fruitful experience to learn more about SDGs. During
the courses and the fieldworks, the experiences led her to read thestandards about education, and urged her to think the diversity anddifferences of education. She feels a bit pity to able to go into anotherschool to get more information about education the forum thissummer, but she is keen to share our experience about how we learn
during the epidemic and also learn from others.
Ms. Yuling Yang
Doctoral Program Student
Graduate Institute of Curriculum
and Instruction
National Taiwan Normal University

Ms. FeJan Chan
Master Program Student
Department of Human
Development & Family Studies
National Taiwan Normal University

FeJan Mina CHAN is a graduate student majoring in Early Childhood
Development and Education in National Taiwan Normal University.
She took a course called “Anthropology of Childhood” during her timeas an undergraduate student, and found anthropology attracts her verymuch. People in different cultures develop different living ways andparenting styles, even living in Taiwan altogether, the cultures aredifferent from those of Taiwanese aborigines. She is now working on
the study about indigenous children and their parents’ life experiences
and life education in preschool. Though also currently working in the
FinTech, she doesn’t lose her interest in educational studies and she
believes that different cultural backgrounds would generate different
points of view and would be very impressive.

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Mr. Hideki Kozima
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University

Mr. Jing Liu
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University University

Hideki Kozima is a professor at the Graduate School of Education, Tohoku
University, since 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science andInformation Mathematics from the University of Electro-Communications(Tokyo, Japan) in 1994. He worked as a research scientist at the National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT;
headquarter in Tokyo) from 1994 to 2008, then as a professor at the
School of Project Design, Miyagi University (Miyagi, Japan). His current
research interest includes cognitive developmental robotics, autism anddevelopmental disorders, and information technologies for education andtherapy.

Jing Liu is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Education,
Tohoku University since 2019. He received Ph.D. in International
Development Studies at Graduate School of International Development,
Nagoya University in 2013. His research areas include sociology ofeducation, international and comparative education, and education policy
studies. Since 2007 he has been conducting researches on educational
development in East and South-East Asia. His current research projectexamines education reform to promote resource sharing and school-toschool collaboration in urban China. He is also conducting joint
researches on transformation of higher education for sustainability in
Asia.

Qi Deng is a Master student in her 2nd year, who has already taken partin AEL since summer in 2019. She believes that the interdisciplinary
approach of AEL will equip her with a solid academic foundation forcomprehensive understanding on cross-cultural education. Her
professional goal is to become a successful multicultural educator andcounsellor focusing on the mental health of the clients. To achieve that,
she engages herself in not only practical training in hospital, high school
and counselling room, but also theoretical research, which aims toempower ability of human beings to care for others.
Ms. Qi Deng
Master Program Student
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University University

Keisuke Mikami is a master student in graduate school of education,
Tohoku University. His major is clinical psychology and especially he isinterested in psychological well-being of people at workplace. Specifically,
his current research focuses on understanding interaction of individual
differences (e.g., personality) and environmental factors (e.g., job
characteristics) in explaining work attitudes (e.g., job satisfaction andstress) and behavior (e.g., turnover). He joined AEL 2019 summer coursein Tohoku University and 2020 winter course in Nanjing. In his spare time,
he enjoys going jogging and watching movies.
Mr. Keisuke Mikami
Master Program Student
Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University University

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Graduate School of Education
Tohoku University