Visiting Scholars
Associate Professor Tan Cheng Yong
Director, Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Talk:
- Advancing quantitative research on the influence of educational leadership on student learning in educational effectiveness research
- SES, Parenting and Student Learning Outcomes: What can we Learn from Synthesizing Decades of Evidence?
Visiting period: 4 May to 29 May 2026
Professor Gao Zheng
National Academy of Education Administration
Visiting period: February to April 2026
Dr Zhang Yanhong
Associate Professor, School of Education Science
Guangxi Minzu University
Research Collaboration with A/P Jiang
Visiting period: August to December 2025
Professor Cheryl Craig
Emeritus Professor
The Australian Catholic University (ACU)
Talk:
- Getting published
- Embodied Knowledge
Visiting period: 17 November 2025
Dr Romina Madrid Miranda
Senior Lecturer, Educational Leadership
University of Sterling
Talk: Rethinking Educational Leadership through Networked Learning Systems: Exploring the Role of System Leadership Across Contexts
Visiting period: 15 October 2025
Professor Manabu Sato
Emeritus Professor
The University of Tokyo
Talk: Framing thoughts to redesign (character) education through Leadership
Visiting period: 17 September 2025
Professor Deng Zongyi
Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the IOE-Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
Talk:
- Evolution, Not Revolution: Curriculum and Assessment Review in England and its implications for Singapore
- Thinking and Theorising About Education in an Educational Way: The Construction of Life-Practice Pedagogics
- Translating 21st Century Competencies into Curriculum: A Dialogue with Didaktik and Rethinking Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI
- Contemporary Curriculum Theorizing: Crisis and Resolution Revisited
- Writing Academic Articles for Prestigious International Journals: An Unorthodox Approach
Visiting period: 25 August to 29 August 2025
Professor Kerry Kennedy
Chairman Professor of Curriculum Studies and Advisor (Academic Development)
The Education University of Hong Kong
Talk:
- The Role of AI in the School Curriculum: Policy and Practice in East Asia
- Asian Students Conceptions of Citizenship: Implications for Citizenship Education in Singapore
- Patriotic Education in Chinese Contexts: The Cases of Hong Kong and Mainland
- Life Education: How fo Values and Character Education Contribute?
Visiting period: 13 January to 17 January 2025
Associate Professor Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
Educational Linguistics in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Talk: Towards More Linguistically and Culturally Curricula
Visiting period: 15 October 2024
Professor Alex Yeung
Emeritus Professor
The Australian Catholic University (ACU)
Talk: Education, Policy and Well-being: Building Equitable Futures
Visiting period: 27 September 2024
Dr Zhao Zhenzhou
Assistant Professor
The Education University of Hong Kong
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Talk: The meaning of life in China's civics curriculum: A comparative historical study on worldview construction
Visiting Period: 31 May 2024
Dr Juan P. Dabdoub
Assistant Professor of Theory of Education and member of the Education, Citizenship & Character Research Group
University of Navarra
Talk: Framing thoughts to redesign (character) education through leadership
Visiting period: 27 May 2024
Dr Charleen Chiong
Education and Social Policy Researcher
Talk: Families, the State and Educational Development in Singapore
Visiting period: 3 April 2024
Dr Olli-Pekka Malinen
Lecturer in Special Needs Education
University of Helsinki
Talk: Teachers' Perspective of Inclusive Education: Overview of 15 years of research from Finland, East Asia and South Africa
Visiting period: 7 March 2024
Miss Sun Ting Ting
Email: tingting.sun@nie.edu.sg
Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages
Dalian Maritime University
Visiting period: 01 December 2022 to 30 November 2023
Professor Michael S. Sherwin
Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
Visiting period: 20 to 24 November 2023
Professor Michael S. Sherwin, o.p. is Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome who writes and teaches in the area of Virtue Ethics and the Psychology of Love and Moral Development. A native of San Francisco, California, he has taught and lectured throughout Asia Pacific and is keenly interested in the relationship between Eastern and Western conceptions of human agency.