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Professor Cynthia Coburn
School of Education and Social Policy,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Cynthia E. Coburn is Professor at the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Cynthia has two related lines of research: 1) the relationship between instructional policy and teachers’ classroom practices in urban schools; and 2) the role of research and other forms of information in policymaking about instruction. In 2011, she was awarded the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association in recognition of her contributions to the field of educational research in the first decade of her career. In 2015, she was elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, honoring “exceptional contributions to and excellence in educational research.” She is currently co-Principal Investigator of the National Center of Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP), and a member of the DREME Network investigating coherence of early mathematics instruction. Cynthia has a BA in philosophy from Oberlin College, and a MA in Sociology and a PhD in Education from Stanford University.
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School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Bob Lingard works in the School of Education at The University of Queensland. His research area is the sociology of education. His most recent books include, Globalizing Educational Accountability (Routledge, 2016), National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment (Routledge, 2016), The International Handbook of Global Education Policy (Wiley, 2016), and Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education (Routledge, 2014). Bob is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and also of the Academy of the Social Sciences in the UK. He is also Editor of the journal, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education and of the Routledge New York book series, Key Ideas in Education.
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Associate Professor Mere Berryman ONZM
Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education,
The University of Waikato,
Hamilton, New ZealandMere is an Associate Professor at the University of Waikato. Her early research involved collaborative work with schools, Māori students, their families and communities through the formation of culturally responsive relationships. This work merged with the inception of Te Kotahitanga, and was further built upon in 2014 with Kia Eke Panuku. This iterative professional development initiative aimed to promote Māori students’ educational success as Māori by combining understandings from kaupapa Māori and critical theories with policy. Ongoing evidence of educational disparities for Māori continues to make this work a priority. Mere publishes in this field.
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Herbison Lecture Speaker
Associate Professor Leonie Pihama
Te Ātiawa, Ngā Māhanga a Tairi, Ngāti Māhanga
Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute
The University of Waikato,
Hamilton, New Zealand
Associate Professor Leonie Pihama is a mother of six and a grandmother of three. She is the Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato, and Director of Māori and Indigenous Analysis Ltd, a Kaupapa Māori research company. Leonie is a leading kaupapa Māori educator and researcher and was a recipient of the Hohua Tūtengaehe Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Health Research Council). She has completed a Fulbright Scholarship with the University of Washington, and in 2015 was awarded NZARE's ‘Te Tohu Pae Tāwhiti Award’, for excellence in Māori Educational Research.
Leonie has extensive expertise connecting her to a wide-range of communities, iwi, and Indigenous networks worldwide, which enables her to relate to people throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. She has served on the Māori Health Committee for the Health Research Council and on a number of key boards including Māori Television and Te Māngai Pāho, and was recently appointed to the Board for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Leonie is currently the Principal Investigator on three Health Research Council projects.
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