Asia Leadership Roundtable 2019
Professor Allan Walker, Joseph Lau Chair Professor of International Educational Leadership, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development and Director of The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), is pleased to announce that the Asia Leadership Roundtable 2019 will be hosted by the APCLC and the Faculty of Education of Guangxi Normal University from 10 to 12 March 2019 in Guilin, China.
Themed "The First Decade of Asian Research on School Leadership in a Global Context", this year’s Roundtable invites 60+ regional and international education scholars, practitioners, training managers, policymakers and principals from 17 societies in the region and beyond to come together to (i) reflect on what we have done to promote Asian research on school leadership in a global context; and (ii) discuss issues and challenges around the complex job of conducting Asian research on school leadership in a global context and identify an agenda for its future development.
Professor Allan Walker and Professor He Zubin, President of Guangxi Normal University will officiate the opening of Asia Leadership Roundtable 2019. Prof. Raj Mestry, Professor of the University of Johannesburg, Dr. Truong Dinh Thang, Vice Rector of Quang Tri Teacher Training College, Professor Philip Hallinger, Professor of the Mahidol University and Senior Research Fellow of APCLC, Prof Kerry Kennedy, Emeritus Professor of EdUHK and Dr Liu Shengnan, Research Fellow of APCLC and Lecturer of Ocean University of China and Professor Sun Jieyuan, Dean of Faculty of Education and Vice-President of Guangxi Normal University will deliver keynote speeches.
Professor Allan Walker, Dr Xiu Cravens, Associate Dean for International Affairs of Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Dr Lawrie Drysdale, Associate Professor of The University of Melbourne, Dr Paulo Volante, Associate Professor of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Dr Sedat Gümüş, Associate Professor of the Aarhus University, will co-present an expert panel discussion on the top school leadership issues in the global context.
APCLC Co-Director Dr Qian Haiyan, Associate Director Dr Lu Jiafang and Research Fellow Dr Chen Junjun will get together with other APCLC Research Fellows and International Affiliates to chart out global landscape about the top school leadership issues, namely Principal Leadership, System and Leadership, Shared/Distributed/Team Leadership, Leadership for Teacher Learning, Leadership for Student Development/Social Justice/Student Well-being, Leadership Development and Leadership Assessment, and expect to formulate agendas for future leadership research.
For further details, please visit the Roundtable website.
