Keynote speakers
BIONOTE: ULF P. LUNDGREN
Ulf P. Lundgren was educated as psychologist. He has been professor in education at Uppsala University since 2000. During 1991 – 2000 Lundgren was the first Director General for the Swedish National Agency of Education. Before he was vice chancellor of the Stockholm Institute of Education (1990), professor of education Stockholm Institute of Education (1975), professor of education and psychology at Aalborg University Centre, Denmark (1974).
His research started with studies of mathematics teaching using the Frame Factor Model, developed by Urban Dahllöf. This model was developed into i.a. principles for curriculum construction (curriculum codes) and how they interact with organisational frames. Today Lundgren’s research is oriented towards studies of educational policy, focussing the development of educational policy and educational politics during the last two centuries.
Lundgren has been member of several editorial boards and he is the editor of the e-journal Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy. Lundgren has been Expert at European Council, OECD, UNESCO, World Bank, Ministries of Education in France, Norway, Portugal and Sweden. He has acted as chairman for the Committee on a National Curriculum for Compulsory Schooling and Upper Secondary Education 1991 – 1992, and for the research programme learning and information technology - LearnIT 2000 – 2009.
BIONOTE: INGA BOSTAD
Inga Bostad is Pro-Rector at the University of Oslo. She has been an Associate Professor in philosophy since 2004, and a lecturer since 1990, at the department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. She specializes in language philosophy, scepticism and pedagogical philosophy, especially philosophy as a method in school as well as general education and liberal arts in current academia. Dr Bostad has appeared as a writer and a critic in national daily newspapers and in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. For several years she also lectured in the teacher education programme at Oslo University College. She has chaired the Non-Fiction Committee of NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad), and been on the committee of the Oslo Poetry Festival.
She was leader of the Bostad Committee, a government appointed comittee for new objective clause for primary and secondary education and Kindergarden, as well as she was the leader of the National Commission on General Education and Liberal Arts in Higher Education. Bostad has been a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley, and coordinator of a project on Norwegian Philosophy.
Bostad works primarily in language philosophy and pedagogical philosophy and she has published several books and articles within her field. Her most recent books are: Dialog og danning. Det filosofiske grunnlaget for læring (Dialogue and General Education. The philosophical basis for learning), (with Tove Pettersen; Spartacus 2006) and Søk! (Search!) (Spartacus 2006).
BIONOTE: FAZAL RIZVI
Fazal Rizvi has been a Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois since 2001, having previously held appointments at a number of universities in Australia, including as Pro Vice Chancellor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and as the founding Director of the Monash Centre for Research in International Education. He currently holds two adjunct positions in Australia, one at the University of Melbourne and the other at Deakin University.
Much of Fazal’s recent research has focused on issues of identity, culture; global mobility of students; and theories of globalization and the internationalization of higher education. His current projects include an examination of the ways in which Indian universities are negotiating pressures of the knowledge economy, as well as a more theoretical exploration of the cosmopolitan possibilities of education. Recent books are: Globalization, the OECD and Education Policy Making (Pergamon 2001), Youth Moves: Identities and Education in a Global Era (Routledge 2007), Globalization and the Study of Education (Wiley 2009), Globalizing Educational Policy (Routledge 2010).
From 1993 to 2000, Fazal edited Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. In 1996, he was the President of the Australian Association for Research in Education. He has served on a number of government bodies, including the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities, and as an international panel member on the UK’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008).
BIONOTE: KARIN AMOS
Karin Amos is Professor of Education at the University in Tuebingen since 2006. Previously she was at the University of Frankfurt and visiting professor at Vienna. She is also involved in a further qualification program of “Bosch-lecturers” at Eastern European and Chinese universities and responsible for a student stipend program, addressing students with immigrant background: Talent im Land, funded by the Bosch Foundation and the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg.
Her recent research focuses on issues of educational governance, both nationally and internationally, and the relation between the concepts of governance and governmentality. Nationally, she participates in a research group investigating changes in qualification and training of early childhood educators; internationally she takes part in a European research consortium: Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe (GOETE). Recent publications and papers inlcude: Governance and Governmentality: Relation and relevance of two prominent social scientific concepts for comparative education. She is guest editor of the forthcoming special issue of European Education on occasion of the twenty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Since 2008 she is a member of the standing research committee of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. Other functions include: co-editorship of the educational review journal: Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue and membership in the advisory board of European Education.