UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Speakers and Speeches

Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID)

Speakers and Speeches

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	Sheldon Shaeffer Director, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok		Raja Roy Singh Lecture
	Dame Pat Collarbone Independent Consultant, UK		Creating Tomorrow: Building Capacity for Sustainable Change
	Carole Kayrooz Pro Vice-Chancellor Education University of Canberra, Australia		Distributed Leadership: Leadership in Context
	Dan Buckley Director, Research and Development Cambridge Education, UK		Curriculum Development for Student-centred Learning and Child-friendly Schools
	Eduardo Velez Bustillo Education Sector Manager East Asia and Pacific, World Bank, USA		Improving Teaching and Learning through Incentives: Lessons from Latin America
	Annette Gough Head School of Education RMIT University, Australia		Not for Want of Trying: Strategies for Re-orienting Teacher Education for Education for Sustainable Development
	Per Sund Lecturer School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Malardalen University, Sweden		Content Issues in ESD/ESDA in a More Overarching Way – Socialization Content and the Implications for Teacher Education in Practice
	Uthai Dulyakasem President Silpakorn University, Thailand		Reorienting Basic Education for Sustainable Development
	Prapapat Niyom Associate Professor Licensee of Roong Aroon School, Thailand		Holistic Learning for Sustainable Development
	Baldev Singh Director of Education Strategy Imagine Education Ltd, UK		The Connected World in a Connected Classroom: Implications for Teachers and Learners
	Sung-Moo Jung Executive Director Office of Policy and Planning, Korea Education and Research Information Service, Republic of Korea		Leading Future Education, Digital Textbook Development in Korea
	Chadamas Thuvasethakul Deputy Director National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand		Use of ICT in Education in Rural Schools in Thailand: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Project
	Vivian Heung Associate Professor The Hong Kong Institute of Education, SAR Hong Kong, PR China		Pedagogy for Inclusive Teaching: Learning Studies
	Kimmo Kosonen Consultant for Multilingual Education Payap University, Thailand		First Language-based Multilingual Education Can Help Those Excluded by Language
	Chinnapat Bhumirat Permanent Secretary for Education Thailand		Inclusive Education
	David Clarke International Education Specialist Thailand		The Pedagogy of the Repressed? Teachers, HIV and Sex Education
	Pratap Singhasivanon Director SEAMEO Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network, Thailand		Health Challenges of School-age Population
	Art-Ong Jumsai na Ayudhaya Director Sathya Sai School, Thailand		Holistic Development of Children and Youth
	Kevin C Kettle Programme Development Specialist SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA), Bangkok, Thailand		Advocating Cultural Education for Youth
	Janet Pillai School of Arts Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia		Challenges to Classroom Culture - Bringing Arts, Culture and Life into Teaching and Learning
	Phatravadi Mejudhon Chairman and Artistic Director Patravadi Theatre, Thailand		How the Theatre Connect What We Know to What We Have Yet to Know

Conference sub-themes:

I. Strengthening the Teaching Profession for the 21^st Century

• School leadership and change management
• Management and multi-grade teaching in small schools
• Curriculum development for student-centred learning and child-friendly schools
• Quality, standards, effectiveness and professionalism of teachers
• Teacher training in a globalizing world
• Status and working conditions of teachers

II. Reorienting Teacher Education for Sustainable Development
• Pedagogy for sustainable development
• Addressing sustainable development priorities through content
• Values and ethics education
• Climate change

III. Harnessing the Potential of ICT in Education
• Policy making in ICT in education
• Capacity building in ICT for teachers, teacher educators and teacher education institutions
• ICT for more innovative teaching and learning
• Indicators of ICT in education
• Innovative practices of ICT in education

IV. Bridging the Social Divide through Inclusive Education
• Early childhood care and education
• Gender mainstreaming
• Special needs education
• Mother-tongue and multi-lingual learning
• Alternative education, including non-formal and informal approaches

V. Nurturing the Holistic Development of Children and Youth
• Health education
• HIV and AIDS prevention, reproductive health and sexuality education
• Physical education and sports
• Intellectual and emotional development of children and youth

VI. Bringing the Arts and Culture into Education
• Arts education
• Cultural and linguistic diversity
• World heritage education

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