Colloquium Program

Program

CEHD Alumni Panel and Networking 

Friday, April 5, 2024

5:30 - 7:30 PM

Campbell Hall, Campbell 1

The Colloquium

Saturday, April 6, 2024

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Room 317, Blegen Hall

Friday, April 5, 2024

5:30 - 5:40 PM: Welcoming Remark

Welcome Speech

5:40 - 6:40 PM: CEHD International Alumni Panel

Program Director for CEHD International Initiatives

Alumni of Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD

Dr. Noro Andriamanalina

Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Initiatives

Alumni of the Educational Policy and Administration Program, CEHD

Director for Student Engagement at International Student and Scholar Services

Alumni of the School of Social Work and Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD

6:40 - 7:30 PM: Networking and Dinner

The Friday session will take place at Campbell 1, 51 E River Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Saturday, April 6, 2024

8:30 - 9:00 AM: Registration

9:00 - 9:30 AM: Breakfast

9:30 - 9:50 AM: Welcoming and Panel 1: Role of International Students in Creating Diverse Community and be part of the Knowledge Co-creation

CISC President

CISC Director of Programing

CISC President

10:00 - 10:50 AM: Panel 2: Educational Kaleidoscope: Stories of Transformation from Southeast Asia

Session Moderator: Ky Nguyen

Unveiling Indonesia’s diverse high schools: Fostering global educational dialogue

Success narratives of Cambodia’s educational development: A discourse analysis of the state of success and progress.

Simulation to vocation: Improving the transition system from school to work among learners with disabilities in a public school in metro Manila

Community learning strengthens governmental family education initiatives from within

11:00 - 11:40 AM: Keynote: Dr. Bhaskar Upadhyay

As a former science teacher, Dr. Upadhyay is interested in research and teaching that addresses issues of science teaching and learning in high-poverty urban schools. At the K-12 level, he not only wants to examine how science teaching and learning can be improved in the classrooms but also look at issues of access, ethnicity, and race that surround science education in our urban schools.

In addition, his research focuses on how social justice and equity can be achieved through science education. In this regard, I examine the nature and purposes of science education for students from high-poverty, immigrant, and minority families. He use the theories of critical pedagogy, culturally responsive and culturally relevant pedagogy, social justice, constructivist learning, and context based instruction to understand and critically examine these issues in the context of science teaching and learning.

11:50 AM - 12:50 PM: Lunch Break

1:00 - 1:50 PM: Panel 3: Education Mosaics: Unveiling the State and Future of Education Across Nations

Session Moderator: Natasha Hernadez

The education system in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's higher education: Challenges and opportunities

Reexamining existing policy practices for the minoritized languages of Bangladesh

Gender, nationalism, and Kurdish women’s higher education  in post-revolutionary Iran

2:00 - 2:50 PM: Panel 4:  Whispers in the Classroom: Discussing the Educational Mysteries

Session Moderator: Yewon Kang and Satomi Mitani

Reading the “air”: Uncertainty and paradoxical situation for school teachers in Japan

Korean language and cultural education of marriage immigrant women in South Korea

In search of new possibilities: Alternative education in China

Toward a future like no other: STEM integration at Yungu school

3:00 - 3:40 PM: Keynote: Dr. Ronald Asiimwen  

Dr. A has research and clinical experience practicing in the U.S. and in his home country of Uganda. His research program integrates multicultural perspectives to study how trauma affects parenting, child/youth outcomes, and overall couple and family relationship functioning in underserved communities in the USA and in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also has research interests in measurement and scale development, alongside the development of systemic family therapy in Africa. Dr. Asiimwe is driven to discover culturally responsive systemic interventions to support families in underserved communities, negotiate crises, improve parenting, relationship functioning, and overall mental health. He has pioneered the training of the evidence-based emotionally focused therapy (EFT) in Uganda, East Africa and is currently conducting research to explore the cultural acceptability and applicability of the EFT model in the Ugandan/East African settings.

3:40 - 4:00 PM: Closing Remarks

The Saturday session will take place in @Blegen Hall, Room 317, 269 S 19th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455