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
Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University
Founder of Chen Yidan Foundation, Core founder of Tencent
Vice Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University
Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of HongKong
Honorary President and Professor, Institute of Higher Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; Former President of Beijing Normal University (2001-2012)
Research Director, Professor, University of Helsinki UNESCO Chair on Educational Ecosystems for Equity and Quality of Learning (2018-2026)
Director and Associate Professor, Department of Education and Human Development, Graduate School ofEducation, Peking University
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
Secretary-General, Yidan Prize Foundation
Research Fellow, Institute to Education Innovation and Practice, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Associate Researcher, Guangdong Museum of Art Academic committee Member of Children's Museum Research Center
Deputy Head of Whittle School and Studios Shenzhen
Director and Professor, School of Foundations in Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University
Chief of Section for Educational Innovation and Skills Development, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok, Thailand
Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University
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
Executive Publisher, ZHONG Read & City for Humanity. Associate General Manager of Sanlian Life Media Co., Ltd
Deputy Curator of Guangdong Museum
Chief Principal of Shenzhen Mingde Experimentary School (Group)
Director of Intelligent Industry Research center, Tencent Research Institute; Youth Mentor of Tencent
Director of the Development Education Research Centre and professor of Development Education, Institute of Education, UCL
Programme Director and Associate Professor, UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education
Headteacher at the Harrogate Grammar School
Subject Leader for Science, Corbridge Middle School, UK
Youth Advisor, UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education
Vice President Chair of Learning through Play, The LEGO Foundation
Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology,Temple University; Member of National Academy of Education (the U.S.)
Executive Director of Lab of Learning Sciences and Tenured Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Peking University
Professor of Practice on Educational Research, University of Wales and University of Cumbria
Co-founder and Director of Informal Learning, Exploratorium Tinkering Studio
Head of China, LEGO Education
Principal Investigator at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Director of International Training and Education Program and Senior Professorial Lecturer, School of Education, American University
Deputy Head of Division, Early Childhood and Schools, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD
Director and Tenured Professor, The Lab for Lifelong Learning, Tsinghua University
Head of Playful Learning Programme, LEGO Foundation (Denmark)
Vice Principal of X-lnstitute; Professor of Tsinghua University
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
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries
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)
Professor of School of Aerospace Engineering an Dean of Xingjian College, Tsinghua university
Principal of Shenzhen Shenzhou Tianli College; Founding Principal of Shenzhen College of International Education
2011 Students in Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP), Tsinghua University; R&D Engineer, Huawei Technologies Co. LTD
Chair Professor and Executive President of X-Institute
Professor, Dean of School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen