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Professor Stephen Andrews (HK)
Dean, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Opening Address
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Professsor Cheng Kai Ming (HK)
Chair Professor of Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
What is Education?
Professor Cheng was Dean of Education, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor of the University. Trained as a mathematician, he was a school teacher in Physics and Mathematics, and became a principal before he pursued doctoral study at the London Institute of Education. He taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Visiting Professor from 1996 to 2006. He has been a consultant with the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP and the Asian Development Bank. His research areas mainly focus on education policy and planning.
He has undertaken various projects related to policy-making, legislation and institutional evaluation in various jurisdictions across continents. Recently, he has been involved in discussions about education refroms in the U.S. In addition, he is a member of the National Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform in China. Locally, he is member of the Education Commission and was instrumental in the comprehensive refrom which started in 1999 and is still on-going.
Professor Albert Yee (US)
Fellow of the American Psycholgical Association
Are Parents Educators?
Professor Yee is a cultural and social psychologist whose distinguished teaching and researching career spanned over 40 years, from teaching underprivileged and gifted kids to being professor and academic dean in the U.S. and East Asia: Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Retired in 1995, this fourth-generation Chinese American was a G.I. in the Korean War when he was young. Then in 1972, he assisted planning U.S. President Nixon's groundbreaking Chinese visit, and helped draft the provisions of the Shanghai Communique for educational, scientific, and cultural exchanges between America and China.
He has published over a hundren journal articles in international newspapers; and 12 books, including his latest, Raising and Teaching Children For Their Tomorrows. He also edited a book called Whither Hong Kong (1999), about the conflict between humanitarianism and autocracy in colonial Hong Kong. In 2012, he chaired Hong Kong's territory-wide survey of pre and primary education aimed at improvements.
Home education should begin as soon as a child is born. Why is early childhood education so important? How do parenting styles influence a child's growth into adulthood and the society as a whole?
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