2nd International Congress Of Educational Research

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Key Note Speakers
	1. "University Faculty as Intellectual/Social Entrepreneurs: Vision, Creativity, and Experiential Learning" Prof. Dr. Liora Bressler Illinois University, USA Curriculum & Instruction 393 Education Building 1310 S. 6th St. MC 708 Champaign, IL 61820 USA liora@illinois.edu Liora Bresler is a Professor at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign. Most recently, she has edited the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (2007, Springer), Knowing bodies, moving minds: Towards embodied teaching and learning (2004, Kluwer), The arts in children's lives: Context, culture, and curriculum (Bresler and Thompson, 2002, Kluwer) and International Research in Education (Bresler and Ardichvili, 2002 by Peter Lang). Her work has been translated to German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese. Bresler has won the Distinguished Teaching Life-Long Career Award at the College of Education (2004), and the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Training at the University of Illinois (2005). Most recently she was awarded the Edwin Ziegfeld Award for distinguished international leadership in art education by the United States Society for Education Through Art (2007), and the Lin Wright Special Recognition Award by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Bresler serves as an editor for the book series: Landscapes: Aesthetics, Arts and Education, for Springer. She is the co-founder (with Tom Barone, 1999-2007) and co-editor (with Margaret Latta, 2006-) of the International Journal for Arts and Education. Bresler has written about a 100 papers and chapters in leading journals of arts and education including the Educational Researcher, Studies in Art Education, and Music Education Research. She has been invited to give keynote speeches in six continents, and has given invited talks, seminars and short courses in thirty some universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and Australia.
	2. "How are transnational agencies like the OECD and transnational associations like The European Educational Research Association influencing the discourses and practices at the national and local level of education?" Prof. Dr. Lejf Moos President Elect EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (EERA) The Danish School of Education at the University of Aarhus, Copenhagen Professor II at NTNU, Trondheim Tuborgvej 164 2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark Phone: +45 8888 9511 moos@dpu.dk Lejf Moos is a Professor of Education and Director of the Research Programme on Professional and Vocational Development and Leadership at The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the President of ICSEI. Lejf has been a school teacher and a development consultant to municipal authorities before he was employed as researcher at the Danish University of Education in 1992. With colleagues he established and run a research centre, CLUE (Research Centre on School Leadership, School Development and School Evaluation). In 1999 he was a visiting professor to OISE/UT. In 2001 he founded and was appointed director of the new Research programme on Professional and Vocational Development and Leadership. He is a member of a number of international networks: Board member of NERA (Nordic Educational research Association), board member of the EERA (European Research Association), member of INEI (International Network For Educational Improvement), The OISE/UT Centre for the Study of Values and Leadership. He has been invited to be part of I Lern, International Leadership in Education Research Network, chaired by Andy Hargreaves. He serves on the editorial board of Nordic Education, the European Educational Research Journal, The International Journal of Leadership in Education, International Studies in Educational Administration (ISEA) and The School of Tomorrow (Danish). He has participated/is participating in several international research projects: Effective School Leadership in a Time of Change (With John MacBeath, Kathryn Riley, Neil Dempster et.al.), Nordic School Leaders Working Condition (project leader with researchers in all five Nordic countries), School Leaders Professional Identity (With Colin Biott, Newcastle, Ciaran Sugrue, Dublin, and Jorunn Moeller, Oslo), Carpe Vitam: Leadership for Learning (a 6 nation action research project with John MacBeath et.al), Succesful School Leadership (a 6 nation research project with Chris Day et. al.)
	3. "Democratic Education in the Age of Neoliberalism" Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.Winfried Böhm Matthias-Ehrenfried-Straße 46 D -97074 W ü r z b u r g Tel. +49 (0)931 782087 Fax +49 (0)931 782088 Born 1937 in Prag. Educated in Bank Finance and Music, followed by Studies in Philosophy, Education, Psychology, Theology, History, and Politics in various universities, among them Bamberg, Würzburg (Germany) and Padova (Italy). Dr.Böhm studied, among other famous professors, with Romano Guardini, Theodor W. Adorno and Giuseppe Flores d`Arcais. 1969 Dr. in Philosophy; 1973 Tenured Professor of Educational Philosophy, and from 1974 (till 2005) Director of the Institute of Education at the University of Würzburg. Several times Fulbright-Scholar and Fulbright-Professor in the USA. 1987-1988 Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. 1983-1999 President of the Institute for European Culture and Education at Garda Riviera (Italy). 1987-2000 President of the German Montessori Society. Director resp. Co-Director of professional Journals, among them: "Rassegna di Pedagogia" (Roma), "Pedagogia e Vita" (Brescia), "Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Pädagogik" (Paderborn), "Das Kind" (Würzburg). Visiting Professor at numerous universities in Europe (Roma, Padova, Cosenza, Salamanca, Liége), Africa (Lagos, Ibadan, Cairo), Asia (Tokyo, Teheran, Isfahan), USA (Provo, Harvard) and Latin America (Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Lima, Caracas, Panama City, México City). 1985 Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina). Member of Academies of Science, among them Messina, Prag, Padova, and Córdoba (Argentina). Author of over 40 books and more than 400 articles in various languages on Theory and Philosophy of Education, Educational History, Epistemology, and the Politics of Culture. Presently working as author and producer of both television and opera projects in addition to his ongoing university envolvement.

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