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The Asian Conference on Education is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics and independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. ACE 2011 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education. Academics working in Japan and Asia will be encouraged to forge working relationships with each other, as well as with colleagues from Europe and the US, facilitating partnerships across borders.

Conference Theme: Learning and Teaching in a Globalised World

As the 2009 and 2010 Asian Conferences on Education showed, education and lifelong learning have been seen as a solution to a host of local and global problems whilst globalized education systems are becoming increasingsocially, ethnically and culturally diverse. The Third Asian Conference on Education extends these discussions to consider learning and teaching in a globalized world. The conference organizers encourage submissions that consider learning and teaching through one of the following sub-themes, although submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome:

- Challenges, resistances and negotiations in learning and teaching

- Community, culture and globalization

- Diversities, belonging and un/belonging

- Equity, social justice and social change

- Learning and teaching in a global knowledge economy

- Learning and teaching in glocal spaces

ACE 2011 Keynote Speaker

Professor David Aspin holds an Honours degree in Classics and a Ph D with a thesis on Mind and Meta-causation in ancient philosophy. He lectured in the faculties of Education in the universities of Nottingham and Manchester, before assuming the Chair of Philosophy of Education at King's College, University of London. He also taught in the Department of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education in the University of London. In February 1989 he took up the position of Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Newcastle, Auckland, Western Australia, Witwatersrand, Pretoria, Stellenbosch, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, and the University of South Africa. Professor Aspin's publications include Logical Empiricism and Post -Empiricism in Educational Discourse London: Heinemann 1997; and The School, the Community and Lifelong Learning London: Cassells 1998, and a two-volume co-edited symposium International Handbook on Lifelong Learning, Kluwer 2001. In 2006 through Springer Press he published Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning, and Values Education and Lifelong Learning. He is currently working on a second edition of the International handbook  on Lifelong Learning for publication by Springer Press in 2011

.Judith Chapman A.M., Australian Catholic University/Visiting Fellow Cambridge University

Judith Chapman is Professor of Education at Australian Catholic University. Judith began her career as a teacher in secondary schools in Australia and Europe before undertaking post-graduate studies in the USA. She was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education at ACU (1998-2003), Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the combined Faculties of Economics, Commerce, Education and Law at The University of Western Australia (1993-1998), and Director of the Centre for School Decision Making and Management at Monash University (1979- 1993). She has undertaken extensive research and consultancy for international and national authorities, including OECD, UNESCO, the World Bank, I.D.P., and the Australian Commonwealth Government. Her publications include: Values Education and Lifelong Learning (Dordrecht: Springer 2007); Lifelong Learning, Participation and Equity (Dordrecht: Springer 2006); The International Handbook on Lifelong Learning (Dordrecht: Kluwer 2001) and The School, Community and Lifelong Learning (London: Cassell 1997). Judith is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education; a Fellow of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders; and a Fellow of the Western Australian Institute of Educational Administration (of which she was formerly Patron). In 1999 she became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to higher education as a teacher and researcher. In the same year she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Rockefeller International Study Center, Bellagio, Italy to undertake work on educational reform. In 2007 she was elected a Visiting Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge University and worked as an expert consultant at OECD, Paris, preparing a report on Learning Centered Leadership. In 2008 she participated in meetings in Berlin associated with the Bertelsmann Foundation Prize in Education for 2008 on Integration Through Education and served as a Rapporteur at the OECD meeting on Improving School Leadership in Copenhagen. In 2009 she directed a project for the Catholic Education Office Melbourne on Learning for Leadership nd served as Academic Advisor for the Commonwealth Government Values in Action project. In 2010 she assumed responsibilities as Director of a 3 year study on Family School Partnerships in low SES Communities on behalf of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. Among her recent committee responsibilities she has served on the Senate of Australian Catholic University and the Council of St Catherine's School for Girls. Judith's research interests are in the area of educational policy and administration, lifelong learning; learning centred leadership; quality schooling and teaching; school improvement; education and diversity; values education; teacher education and professional learning.

Professor Monty P. Satiadarma

Tarumanagara University

Monty Satiadarma is an academic and psychologist who has lectured around the world, and who continues to practice in his native Indonesia. He was the Dean of the department of psychology at Tarumanagara University from 1997-2005, and Rector of the University from 2008-2010.Professor Satiadarma has a particular interest in educational psychology, and in music and art therapy, methods with which he treated survivors of the Indonesian tsunami on behalf of the International Red Cross and the United Nations. He is a board member and area chair of the International Council of Psychology, and a founder and board member of the Asian Psychology Association.

Professor Sue Jackson

Birkbeck, University of London

ACE 2011 Conference Co-Chair & Featured Speaker

Sue Jackson is Pro-Vice-Master for Learning and Teaching, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender and Director of Birkbeck Institute for Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck University of London. She publishes widely in the field of gender and lifelong learning, with a particular focus on identities. Sue's recent publications include Innovations in lifelong learning: critical perspectives on diversity, participation and vocational learning (Routledge, 2011); Gendered choices: learning, work, identities in lifelong learning (Springer, 2011, with Irene Malcolm and Kate Thomas); and Lifelong learning and social justice (NIACE, 2011 forthcoming). Sue is delighted and honoured that she has been involved with the Asian Conferences on Education since their inception: first as a featured speaker in 2009; then as co-Chair and keynote speaker in 2010; and is again co-Chair for the 2011 conference.

Professor Michiko Nakano

Waseda University

ACE 2011 Conference Co-Chair & Featured Speaker

Michiko Nakano is a Full Professor in the School of Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. She is currently Director of the Digital Campus Promotion Office, Director of the Distance Learning Center, and Director of Cross-Cultural Distance Learning. A former Deputy Dean of Student Affairs, School of Education at Waseda University and a former Chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr Nakano's research concentrates on the practical applications of Computer Technology as it relates to Language Teaching and Assessment. She is the co-founder of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics (PAAL), and co-editor-in-chief of its journal, and a former secretary general of the Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) Dr Nakano has edited and published more than 220 papers and books.

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