Speakers

Professor Jean Clandinin

Professor Jean Clandinin (BA University of Alberta, MEd University of Alberta, PhD University of Toronto) is Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development (CRTED) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.  She is a former teacher, counsellor, and psychologist and is past Vice President of Division B of AERA and is the 1993 winner of AERA’s Early Career Award. Since 1997, she has been a University of Alberta Senior Scientist for the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. The CRTED was established in 1991 as a Faculty wide centre for research for teacher education.  Many members of the CRTED have been involved with IIQM activities and conferences.  Professor Clandinin is part of an ongoing inquiry into teacher knowledge and teachers’ professional knowledge landscapes.

Jon Coles

Jon Coles is Former Director General for Education Standards at the Department for Education. He became the Director General in May 2008. Before then, he spent three years as director of 14-19 Reform, leading the drive to raise participation post-16 and attainment at 19, reduce numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs), reform curriculum and qualifications and develop the new Diplomas. He also led work to raise the participation age and to develop a new planning and performance management system for post-16 education and training, through the transfer of funding for 16 to 19-year-olds from the Learning and Skills Council to local authorities. Previously, as director for the London Challenge in the then Department for Education and Skills, he was responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to improve secondary education in London. Before that, Jon was responsible for taking the 2002 Education Act through Parliament, having written the White Paper which preceded it. A qualified secondary teacher, his previous posts have included implementing the infant class size pledge, developing future strategy for ICT in schools and a strategy for e-government, on secondment to the Cabinet Office.

Professor Stephen Heppell

Stephen Heppell is Professor in New Media Environments at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University. He is also Emeritus Professor at Anglia Ruskin University, Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, Newport, CEO at Heppell.net and Executive chairman at Learning Possibilities.

Stephen's "eyes on the horizon, feet on the ground" approach, coupled with a vast portfolio of effective large scale projects over three decades, have established him internationally as a widely and fondly recognized leader in the fields of learning, new media and technology.

Stephen's ICT career began with the UK government's Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) in the early 80s, after he had been teaching in secondary schools for some years.  Stephen founded and ran Ultralab for almost a quarter of a century, building it into one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world. He left it in 2004 to found his own global and flourishing policy and learning consultancy Heppell.net which now has an enviable portfolio of international projects all round the world.

Professor Zeus Leonardo

Zeus Leonardo is an Associate Professor in the department of Language and Literacy, Society and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on critical social thought in education. Professor Leonardo's current research interests involve the study of ideologies and discourses in education with respect to change. Much of his work is interdisciplinary and draws insights from sociology, contemporary philosophy, and cultural studies. In particular, he engages critical theories to inform his analysis of the relationship between schooling and social relations, such as race, class, culture, and gender. His research is informed by the premise that educational knowledge should promote the democratization of schools and society. He is an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at UC-Berkeley.