Yidan Education Forum 2022

Learning Ecosystem for the Future: Family, School, Society

Families, schools, and communities are facing pressing challenges amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, human conflict, and environmental and natural threats. How should we cultivate our children to have the ability coping with the uncertain future? Through literacy education, children will have grit and become lifelong learners; Through sustainability education, we can reduce the harm to nature and the environment; Through developing education ecology, all stake holders could work together and build a better future. In Yidan Education Forum 2022, we discuss topics such as the Future Learner Competency Frame, sustainability education, learning through play and lifelong learners, and the development of education ecology. (Click here to download the forum agenda)


Date:November 12-13, 2022

Speaker

Xudong ZHU

Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

Charles Yidan CHEN

Founder of Chen Yidan Foundation, Core founder of Tencent

Chen WANG

Vice Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

Rui YANG

Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of HongKong

Binglin ZHONG

Honorary President and Professor, Institute of Higher Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; Former President of Beijing Normal University (2001-2012)

Hannele Niemi

Research Director, Professor, University of Helsinki UNESCO Chair on Educational Ecosystems for Equity and Quality of Learning (2018-2026)

Wenqin SHEN

Director and Associate Professor, Department of Education and Human Development, Graduate School ofEducation, Peking University

Ming LI

Professor; Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation under the auspices of UNESCO (UNESCO ICHEI); Director of the Center for Higher Education Research of SUSTech

Edward MA

Secretary-General, Yidan Prize Foundation

Jinyuan MA

Research Fellow, Institute to Education Innovation and Practice, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Duanling LIU

Associate Researcher, Guangdong Museum of Art Academic committee Member of Children's Museum Research Center

Xin GUO

Deputy Head of Whittle School and Studios Shenzhen

Qingchen YU

Director and Professor, School of Foundations in Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

Libing WANG

Chief of Section for Educational Innovation and Skills Development, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok, Thailand

Joshua Ka-ho MOK

Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University

Yufang BIAN

Director and Professor of the Academic Committee, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality (CICA-BEQ), Beijing Normal University; Secretary General of the Family Education Committee

Dongting JIA

Executive Publisher, ZHONG Read & City for Humanity. Associate General Manager of Sanlian Life Media Co., Ltd

Lili LING

Deputy Curator of Guangdong Museum

Jiang LU

Chief Principal of Shenzhen Mingde Experimentary School (Group)

Pengyang WU

Director of Intelligent Industry Research center, Tencent Research Institute; Youth Mentor of Tencent

Douglas Bourn

Director of the Development Education Research Centre and professor of Development Education, Institute of Education, UCL

Alison Kitson

Programme Director and Associate Professor, UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education

Neil Renton

Headteacher at the Harrogate Grammar School

Meryl Batchelder

Subject Leader for Science, Corbridge Middle School, UK

Zihan XUAN

Youth Advisor, UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education

Bo Stjerne Thomsen

Vice President Chair of Learning through Play, The LEGO Foundation

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology,Temple University; Member of National Academy of Education (the U.S.)

Junjie SHANG

Executive Director of Lab of Learning Sciences and Tenured Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Peking University

Scott Boldt

Professor of Practice on Educational Research, University of Wales and University of Cumbria

Mike Petrich

Co-founder and Director of Informal Learning, Exploratorium Tinkering Studio

Yapeng WANG

Head of China, LEGO Education

Ben Mardell

Principal Investigator at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Emily Markovich Morris

Director of International Training and Education Program and Senior Professorial Lecturer, School of Education, American University

Rowena Phair

Deputy Head of Division, Early Childhood and Schools, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD

Yingqing XU

Director and Tenured Professor, The Lab for Lifelong Learning, Tsinghua University

Tobias Heiberg

Head of Playful Learning Programme, LEGO Foundation (Denmark)

Fengshan BAI

Vice Principal of X-lnstitute; Professor of Tsinghua University

Quanshui ZHENG

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chair Professor in Charge of the Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP), Tsinghua University; Founding Principal of X-institute

Fuchu HE

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries

Jun YANG

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE); Director of ShenSi Lab of Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)

Junfeng LI

Professor of School of Aerospace Engineering an Dean of Xingjian College, Tsinghua university

Yuan ZHU

Principal of Shenzhen Shenzhou Tianli College; Founding Principal of Shenzhen College of International Education

Ze ZHANG

2011 Students in Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP), Tsinghua University; R&D Engineer, Huawei Technologies Co. LTD

Shaohua XIANG

Chair Professor and Executive President of X-Institute

Zheng ZHONG

Professor, Dean of School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen