 Dr. Gaby Weiner |
Lecture topic: Too Much Talk and Not Enough Action? Trends in Research on Gender and Education in Europe and the Anglophone World
Gaby Weiner currently holds honorary professorial positions at Edinburgh University, Stirling University and Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and works also as professor of teacher education at Umeå University in Sweden, where she served full-time (1998-2005).
Professor Weiner has written and edited a number of publications on social justice, gender, race and ethnicity including Feminisms in Education (1994); Equal Opportunities in Colleges and Universities (1995, with M. Farish, J. McPake & J. Powney); Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Educational and Social Change (1999, with M. Arnot & M. David), and Kids in Cyberspace: Teaching Antiracism using the Internet in Britain, Spain and Sweden (2005, with C. Gaine). She has also been responsible for two book series: Gender and Education (with R. Deem) and Feminist Educational Thinking (with L. Yates and K. Weiler). She is currently completing a book (with Lucy Townsend) on the uses of auto/biography in educational research. Her main research interest at the moment is the lives of immigrants who came to Britain at the end of the 1930s, in particular their wartime and immediate post-war experiences. |
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 Dr. Jane Roland Martin |
Lecture topic: Making Research on Women Count
Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Jane Roland Martin is an internationally renowned philosopher of education, curriculum theory and educational studies in relation to gender. Her honors include being the recipient of Bunting (1980) and Guggenheim (1987) fellowships, serving as president of the Philosophy of Education Society (1980-81) and being named the Distinguished Woman Philosopher (1991), by the Society for Women in Philosophy. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Umea in Sweden (1995) and was selected to be the John Dewey Lecturer for the John Dewey Society (1996), received American Educational Research Association's Willystine Goodsell Award (1998), and was selected to be the American Educational Studies Association George Kneller Lecturer (2002).
An acclaimed author, Dr. Martin's most influential works include Educational Metamorphoses: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Culture (2007), Cultural Miseducation: In Search of a Democratic Solution (2002), Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy (2000), Changing the Educational Landscape: Philosophy, Women and Curriculum (1994), Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families (1992) and Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman (1987). |
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 Kolawole Babatunde |
Lecture topic: "Major Factors Affecting Girls’ Education in Northern Nigeria—A Grass Roots- Based Approach"
An educationist and facilitator/trainer in development program planning and management, Kolawole holds a Master’s degree in Educational Management from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (1995) and a Bachelor’s degree in Education (B.A.ED History, Hons-1988) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He has over twelve years experience in community development and participatory program/project development in the NGO sector. To promote girls’ education, he has conducted research to identify factors affecting girls’ education in six northern Nigerian states and has used the findings to influence government policy. He has also engaged with teachers and their unions to bring about desirable changes in girls’ education at the school-community level, including efforts to prevent violence against girls in and out of school, and to mainstream HIV/AIDS education. At the community level he has been able to promote citizens’ rights to education through the capacity building of community leaders.
Kolawole issues an annual newsletter on girls’ educational issues and a monthly news bulletin of Farmers Development Union. His research works include Influence of Information Management on Human Resources Management: Case Study of the Polytechnic, Ibadan (1995); Management of Colleges of Education in Nigeria: Case Study of St. Andrews’ College of Education, Oyo (1995); and The Origin and Development of Primary School Education in Ibadan Municipal Government Area of Oyo State: 1893-1950 (1988). |
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 Ruth Sweetser |
Ruth Sweetser is president of the 100,000-member American Association of University Women. She has been a member of the Gender Equity Advisory Committee of the Illinois State Board of Education since 1996. Appointed to the Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois in 1997, she chaired its Education and Training Working Group. She serves in the Graduate College at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she works to strengthen relations between the university and business and industry. She develops programs to meet needs of industry; represents the university in areas of education and professional development, training and work force preparation, and research collaboration; and manages relationships with companies.
Sweetser has a bachelor’s degree from Hope College and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, where she was a Ford Foundation Fellow. With a major in German language and literature, she is fluent in German and knows “French for survival.” Since 1990, she has presented more than 200 keynote speeches, workshops, staff development programs, and presentations on educational equity. She has received numerous awards and is listed in Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in Technology. |
