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| SPEAKERS |
| FRIDAY 1ST JULY |
| 9.30-10.15am |
Globalization, educational trends and the open society
Martin Carnoy
(Stanford University) |
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Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago, Department of Economics. Before going to Stanford in 1969, he was
a Research ssociate at the Brookings Institution. In 1984, he was the Democratic candidate for Congress
in Silicon Valley. He has written on issues of economic policy, theories of political economy, the
economics of education, and educational policy. He has also written extensively on educational
financing issues, including the effect of vouchers on educational outcomes.
He is currently continuing his work on the privatization of education and on education accountability
reforms in the U.S.
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| 2.00-3.00pm |
International trends in education
Barry McGaw (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development)
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Barry McGaw is Director for Education in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
based in Paris. Prior to joining OECD in 1998, he was Executive Director of the Australian Council for
ducational Research (ACER) from 1985 and, before that, Professor of Education at Murdoch University in
Perth, Western Australia.
Originally he taught science and mathematics in Queensland secondary schools and was later head of the
Research and Curriculum Branch in the Queensland Department of Education. He completed his PhD in
educational psychology and psychometrics at the University of Illinois in 1972.
Barry is an Officer in the Order of Australia and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in
Australia, the Australian Psychological Society and the Australian College of Educators. He has been
president of the Australian Association for Research in Education, the Australian Psychological Society,
the Australian College of Educators and the International Association for Educational Assessment.
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| SATURDAY 2nd JULY |
| 9.00-10.15am |
Human rights and education
Abbas Rashid
(Society for the Advancement of Education) |
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| 11.30-12.15am |
Adolescence; a critical evolutionary adaptation
John Abbot (21st Century Learning Initiative)
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John Abbott is President of The 21st Century Learning Initiative in the United Kingdom and the United
States. Much of his research explores new understandings about the human brain, intelligence and memory
in order to better understand learning and how it can be further facilitated by schools and communities
around the world.
John has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the United States Agency for
International Development. He was invited by Mikhail Gorbachev to join the State of the World Forum and has
been keynote speaker at many international conferences including the Canadian Education Conference and the
USAID Annual Conference, as well as at major conferences in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa and
South America.
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| 11.30am-12.30pm |
The role of NGOs: networking for maximum impact on policy and practice
Vita Terauda (Center for Public Policy, Providus)
Iveta Silova (Baku State University)
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Vita Terauda is the Director of the Center for Public Policy, Providus which focuses on areas of
good governance, including anti-corruption, criminal justice and education policy. Previously, she was
the Executive Director of the Soros Foundation, Latvia and her public service record includes positions
in the Ministry of State Reform and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as a Cabinet-level
ministerial post carrying responsibility for public administration reform and local government affairs.
She is active in the NGO sector, serving on the boards of the Latvian Center for Human Rights and Ethnic
Studies, and the World Wildlife Fund, Latvia.
Iveta Silova works as an education advisor and researcher at the Centre for Educational Innovations
in Baku, Azerbaijan. Over the last 10 years, she has worked in the Baltics, Central Asia and the Caucasus
for the Open Society Institute, UNICEF, USAID and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE). She is currently pursuing research on globalisation, education borrowing and education policy
efforts addressing educational inequities in the transformation societies of the former socialist bloc.
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| 2.30-3.30pm |
Strategies for effective intercultural communication for school
children: from local NGO initiatives to systemic change
Oleg Smirnov, Ukraine, Head of the Board of the Integration and Development Center for Information and
Research |
| 2.30-3.30pm |
Community participation in education
Zikani Kaunda, Malawi, Executive Director for Creative Center for Community Mobilization |
| 2.30-3.30pm |
School drop outs: different faces in different countries
Zhanar Rakhimzhanova, Kazakhstan;
Indra Dedze, Latvia;
Bolormaa Tsetsegee, Mongolia;
Qodirov Shodibeg, Tajikistan.
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| 2.30-3.30pm |
The role of media in education advocacy
Jeremy Druker
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