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ABOUT
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Prof. Ruth Hayhoe
Prof. Jing Lin
Prof. Qiang Zha
Dr. Jun Li
Dr. Julia Pan
Dr. Cristina Pinna
Prof. Mingdong Huang
Prof. Guangli Zhou
Graduate Assistant: Ji'an Liu
Graduate Assistant: Yuxin Tu
Graduate Assistant: Xiaoyan Wang
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Ruth
Hayhoe's research has mainly related to Chinese higher education,
with a special focus on how different Western models of the university
have influenced Chinese universities over the 20th century. In the
late 1980s she developed a course in international academic relations,
looking at universities as actors in the global political economy,
and relating the literature of comparative higher education to that
of international relations. With the collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1991, and the emergence of a Dialogue among Civilizations, she
became interested in the ways in which cultural values and epistemologies
from Eastern civilizations may provide a resource for new thinking
in global higher education development. Her focus has been on the
potential contribution of Chinese educational and philosophical
thought, and her most recent book, Portraits of Influential
Chinese Educators, provides a historical overview of Chinese
educational thought which is illustrated through narrative accounts
of 11 important educators of the 20th century. The present research
project on "China's Move to Mass Higher Education: Implications
for Civil Society and Global Cultural Dialogue" aims to present
portraits of contemporary Chinese universities of different types,
that may further illustrate aspects of Chinese educational thought
and culture. For more information about Prof. Ruth Hayhoe, please
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Dr.
Jing Lin is professor of international education policy at University
of Maryland, College Park. She received her doctoral degree from
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1990. From 1991 to 1999, she
worked as an assistant and associate professor at McGill University
in Canada. She has been working at University of Maryland since
2000, in the area of international and comparative education. Jing
Lin has done extensive research on Chinese education, culture and
society. In particular, she has systematically studied social changes
in China and educational reforms going on in that country since
1978. She is the author of four books: The Red Guard's Path
to Violence (1991), Education in Post-Mao China (1993),
The Opening of the Chinese Mind (1994), and Social
Transformation and Private Education in China (1999). Her research
has focused on issues of gender, ethnicity, class and private and
higher education development. Her current research focus is on higher
education expansion in China: policy, civil society and civilizational
dialogues.Jing Lin's research also concentrate on peace education,
environmental education, and spirituality education. She published
Love, Peace and Wisdom in Education: Vision for Education in
the 21st Century in 2006, and a book she co-edits, entitled
Educators as Peace Makers: Transforming Education for Global
Peace, is forthcoming.
Prof.
Qiang Zha is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education,
York University. He holds
a PhD in
Higher Education, earned at the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). As a Chevening
Scholar, he received a Master of Arts degree (with distinction)
in Comparative Education from the University of London Institute
of Education in 1994. In 1996, he was a visiting scholar to the
Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. His research interests
include comparative higher/education, international academic relations,
globalization and education, the internationalization of higher
education, East Asian and Chinese higher education, differentiation
and diversity in higher education, theories of organizational change,
and research methods in education. He has written and published
widely on these topics. In 2004, he was a co-recipient of the UNESCO
Palgrave Prize on Higher Education Policy Research, which is sponsored
by Palgrave-Macmillan Ltd. Currently, Dr. Qiang Zha focuses his
research on this SSHRC project.
Dr.
Jun Li's academic and teaching experience is in the field of International
Education Policy with emphases on comparative and international
education in East Asia, educational policy analysis applied to diverse
societal settings, transformation of higher education and global
dialogue, teacher education policy, and civic education and civil
society.
Dr.
Julia Pan is the Senior Coordinator of International Initiatives
at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and is an associate
member of the Graduate Faculty in University of Toronto. 
Dr.
Cristina Pinna received her Ph.D. in “Modern and Contemporary
History of East Asia” from the Faculty of Political Science
of the University of Cagliari in Italy in 2006. Her doctoral dissertation
is entitled, "The higher education system in the People's Republic
of China: Juridical-historical analysis of the grand reforms of
Deng Xiaoping". Her primary research interest has focused on
political and international affairs in the East Asian region, particularly
South and North Korea and the People’s Republic of China.
Her interest has moved to the analysis of the Chinese higher education
reform and its political and economic implications in the international
context. At present, she is carrying on her postdoctoral studies
at the OISE/UT and at the Graduate School of Education (Peking University),
and her project is managed and financed by the University of Cagliari.
Her current research interest is about the internationalization
process in higher education, looking in particular at the contemporary
situation of European and Chinese accademic relations.
Professor
Mingdong Huang received his PhD in Huazhong University of Science
and Technology, M.Ed. from Huazhong Normal University and B.Ed.
from Beijing Normal University. Dr. Huang is an associate dean of
the School of Education Science of Wuhan University. His academic
interests include educational law and policy, fundamentals of higher
education, higher education administration, etc. He chairs a comparative
research project about university faculty's legal status in China,
the U.S. and France. Dr. Huang has published over 80 articles, mainly
in China and abroad, and has published/coauthored 14 books. He has
attended several national and international conferences in China,
and is now a visiting scholar at OISE/U of Toronto.
Professor
Guangli Zhou is a professor at Huazhong University of Science and
Technology (HUST), where he holds appointments in Higher Education,
Law, and Policy Analysis. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Hunan
Normal University, and Ph.D. in education from HUST. He has worked
as a postdoctoral fellow at the Law College of Wuhan University
for nearly three years, and as a visiting scholar at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education of University of Toronto (2006-2007).
Dr. Zhou is now Chair of the Institute for Education Policy and
Law at HUST.
Ji'an
Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the higher education program at OISE/UT
and has been working as a graduate assistant for this project since
September 2006. Before joining OISE/UT, she worked as a journalist
for China Education Daily in Beijing.
Yuxin
Tu is a PhD student in the higher education program in OISE/UT and
has been working as a GA for this project since Sep 2006. Before
coming to Canada, she received her MA in Comparative Education in
the Institute of Education, University of London in 2005 working
with Prof Andy Green and Dr Edward Vickers. The title of her MA
dissertation was "Higher Education Restructuring in an Era
of Globalization: A Comparative Study of Policy and Practice in
Higher Education Sector in the United Kingdom and China Mainland
since the 1980s." After taking courses in OISE and exploring
different areas in higher education, she has become particularly
interested at the development of civil society in China and the
role of higher education in promoting it. Besides, her research
interests also include: Comparative and International Education
(History, philosophy, culture and educational development in Confucius
heritage societies in East Asian, e.g. China and Japan); International
Studies of World-class Universities (Economics of higher education;
Institutional administration); Policy Analysis (Higher education
reform; Development of private higher education; Social transition
and education development).
Xiaoyan
Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at OISE/U of Toronto. Had graduated from
Queen's University, she shifted her research interest from educational
leadership to policy studies. Her current academic areas are is
in globalization, internationalization, national and institutional
policies on international students.