The University has a very special role in Hong Kong as the principal provider of teacher education and of research and development in education and learning. Those responsibilities include not just education for and learning by traditionally school-age learners, but also education and learning for and by adults, including older adults. The University work in this latter area gives it a particular responsibility in  (1) fostering public debate about elderly learning and education; (2) promoting public awareness of the benefits of elderly learning and of the issues that it raises; and (3) undertaking research and development in elderly education and learning.

 

Accordingly, the brief of the EdUHK Elder Academy includes not just the provision of traditional learning opportunities for the elderly, but also:

 

 

Some of the EdUHK Elder Academy activities are to be provided through the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development. Others are provided through the different academic units responsible for particular areas of the University's scholarly work.

 

The Centre for Governance and Citizenship (CGC) is an Institute-level research centre of the Education University of Hong Kong. The Centre is committed to conducting interdisciplinary scholarly research and facilitating public discourse on governance issues and citizenship studies, including citizenship education. It is dedicated to creating an active research platform whereby the themes of Governance and Citizenship can be brought together within an interactive and mutually reinforcing framework to pioneer a new research agenda that contributes towards theory building in "Governance and Citizenship" as a holistic concept.

 

The Centre promotes interdisciplinary dialogue; facilitates intellectual debate and public discourse; and builds regional and international research networks. It aims to contribute towards quality academic output, to be disseminated both locally and internationally, via academic and curriculum publications, as well as the public media. Its research outputs help to inform curriculum and pedagogy design and thus learning improvements in schools. The Centre is active in developing partnership with other research bodies, the education community, and civil society organizations.

 

The CGC is UNESCO Chair partner in the theme of minority education.

 

The Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education, EdUHK

• promote religious education, spirituality education, life education, holistic education and values education through teacher professional development, pedagogical and curriculum development, and research;

• organize events and activities in religious education and spirituality education that address the spiritual needs of students, teachers and the public for the promotion of spiritual well-being; and

• help educational practitioners and the public deepen their understanding of various religious and spirituality traditions, and to enhance communication and dialogue among various traditions.

The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization

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The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation aims to create an internationally-leading social sciences and humanities institute whose high- impact knowledge creation and dissemination actively shapes agendas and informs debates to meaningfully effect lived human experiences. It will achieve this through understanding complex social issues associated with globalising processes through innovative, mixed-method multidisciplinary research. With a focus on disseminating research through high-impact channels, engaging in partnerships and supporting high-quality researchers and doctoral students, we seek to contribute to knowledge construction and influence research developments, public debates and policy agendas.

 

The Institute for aims to create a vibrant research environment which supports excellence, innovation and collaboration amongst theorists and problem-oriented researchers who examine contentious and critical social issues. The Institute supports its members through mentoring and training schemes, and helps to develop career pathways for early career researchers and doctoral students. Open to new ways of thinking about and studying social phenomena, membership is drawn from diverse disciplines and areas of study. In cooperative spirit and practice, Institute researchers share a commitment to lead high-impact knowledge creation that has a meaningful and measurable effect on lived human experiences.

 

The research agenda is concerned with complex and often contradictory meanings of citizenship, social inclusion and globalisation at the local, national and transnational levels. The Institute's research streams and support structures foster the study of complex social problems from a number of academic vantage points. In this way the differing manifestations of migration; tensions of transnational governance; viability of the nation-state; impact of globalising processes on concepts and experiences of identity, belonging, heritage and citizenship; lived politics of inclusion and exclusion; tensions in the human rights' discourse; critical importance of cultural heritage; and related questions of justice and development are explored systematically and holistically.

 

There are four research streams - Culture and Heritage; Development and Human Rights; Diversity and Identity; and Governance and Security which support an overarching in-principled research agenda and foster opportunities for meaningful collaboration and professional development among researchers, students and external stakeholders with shared interests and priorities.

 

 

 

 

Prof Fethi Mansouri

Director, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

 

The University of Ulster UNESCO Centre

 

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The UNESCO Chair, held by Professor Alan Smith, is located in the School of Education on the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster. Established formally in 1999, the Chair has a core programme of work in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy. Following on from the work of the Chair, the UNESCO Centre was established in 2001, engaging in research, development and teaching.

 

The UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education, Hong Kong University

UNESCO Chair on Teachers as Lifelong Learners, Farhangian University of Iran

International Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University, India