Keynote Speakers

Paul Willis

Degree: Ph.D., Cultural Studies, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University
Career:
- - Author of《Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs》
  - Professor of Department of Sociology, Princeton University
  - Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography, Keele University
  - Head of Department, Department of Management Studies, Keele University
  - Senior Founding Editor and Joint Editor of Journal《Ethnography》
Fields of Specialty: Sociology, Anthropology, Education

Position:
- - Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
  - Professor, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Director of Centre for Effective, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Visiting Professor at Laboratorio de Economia de la Educacion, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
  - Chaor of the AERA Cooperative Learning SIG
Career:
- - Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Academy of Globalization and Education Policy, Zhengzhou University, China
  - Secretary/Treasurer of the AERA Cooperative Learning SIG
Fields of Specialty: Social Sciences, Education, Social Work, Cooperative/Peer learning

Position:
- - Professor, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Director of Postgraduate Research, SSESW
Career:
- - CDRG Lead-Education and Research Group Lead for Education
  - Vice Chair School Research Ethics Committee (SSESW)
Fields of Specialty: Philosophy of Education

Position:
- - Specially Appointed Professor, Sophia University, Japan
  - Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
  - Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo
Fields of Specialty: Sociology of education, Social stratification and social mobility, Social changes of Postwar Japan, Social educational policies

Position: Associate Professor of School of Education,Hiroshima University, Japan
Degree: Ph.D., Hiroshima University
Career:
- - Director, The Japan Society of Educational Sociology
  - Director, Japanese Association for the Study of Extracurricular Activities
  - Director, The Japan Society for Child Study
Fields of Specialty: Career Education, Youth Studies, Vocational Education & Training, Transition from school to job, Sociology of Education

Position:
- - Professor and Dean of the College of Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
  - Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Career:
- - President of Korean Association for Adult & Continuing Education
  - Executive Director of Korean Association for Higher Education
  - Member of Advisory Committees, Ministry of Education, Higher Education Division
Fields of Specialty: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Internationalization of Higher Education

Position: Adjunct Professor of Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University
Degree: Ph.D., National Taiwan Normal University
Career:
- - Professor and Chair of Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University
  - Dean of the College of Education, Chinese Culture University
  - Professor of the College of Education, University of Macau
  - President of Taiwan Association for Sociology of Education
  - President of the Chinese Society of Education
  - Vice President, RC04-ISA
Fields of Specialty: Sociology of Education, Social Structure and Education, Social Class

Career:
- - Professor and Chair of Department of Education, National University of Tainan
  - President of Taiwan Association for Sociology of Education
  - Fulbright Senior Scholar, US Department of State, USA
  - Associate editor, International Journal of Educational Research (SSCI)
  - Editorial board, The Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (SSCI)
  - Senior editor or Taylor and Francis, Springer
Fields of Specialty: Sociology of Education, Comparative Education, Education Policy