How Can Comparative Education Give Hope in Difficult Geo-Political Times?

How can Comparative Education Give Hope in Difficult Geo-Political Times? 

Date: July 7, 2025 (Monday)

Time: 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm 

Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU [Map]

Language: English

Registration: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5d6J2fQfFz82dmu

(Please note that this is an in-person event. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis.)

Lecture

Speaker:

Professor Ruth Hayhoe Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto

This talk will focus on sharing recent publications in comparative education that may give hope for the future in our current difficult geo-political times. One of them is a new book from the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, entitled Diversity of Voices in Making History in Comparative and International Education: Critical and Forward-Looking Perspectives from World Regions, with co-authored chapters from nine world regions. Another is The Bloomsbury Handbooks of Crises and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education, with four volumes dealing with Values and Ethical Change, Context, Crises and the Ethics of Care. It is co-edited by Mary Drinkwater and Yusef Waghid, with chapters from scholars around the world. The talk will be followed by a dialogue featuring Professor Hayhoe and members of the HKU Faculty of Education. During this discussion, they will explore related research and share reflections on how we can maintain hope and move towards a preferred future in these difficult times.      

About the Speaker

Ruth Hayhoe is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her Asian engagements have included First Secretary for Education, Science and Culture in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-1991), Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (1996) and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (1997-2002), now The Education University of Hong Kong, where she holds the title of President emerita.  Recent books include China Through the Lens of Comparative Education (2015), Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story (2016), Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives (2018), Authentic Chinese Educational Thought (2022) and Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities (2023). In 2002 she was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government and the title of Commandeur dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Government of France. She holds honorary doctorates from the Hong Kong Institute of Education (2002), the Open University of Hong Kong (2015) and Victoria University in Toronto (2019), with a 4^th to be conferred by the University of St. Joseph in Macao on July 5, 2025.

Dialogue

Discussants:

All are welcome!

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