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FEATURED PRESENTERS &
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers
Robert Starratt, Boston College, US
Jorunn Møller, University of Oslo,
Norway
Göran Hermerén, Lund University,
Sweden
Christopher Day, University of Nottingham, England
Paul Begley, Nipissing University, Canada
PRESENTERS' BIOGRAPHIES
Paul Begley
Paul T. Begley is Professor of Education Nipissing University
and Director of the Centre for the Study of Leadership and Ethics.
This centre is affiliated with the University Council for Educational
Administration (UCEA). His current teaching and research interests
focus on all aspects of school leadership including: the influence
of values and ethics on school leadership practices, socializing influences
experienced by aspiring principals, international images of effective
school leadership, the ethics and procedures of performance appraisal,
the administrator's role in school improvement, and state of the art
pre-service and in-service practices for school leadership development
(including distance education). Because of his extensive field development
experience in Ontario and the Northwest Territories of Canada, Sweden,
Hong Kong and Australia, his work reflects a strong practitioner orientation.
Recent publications include three books: The Ethical Dimensions
of School Leadership (2003) published by Kluwer Press, The
Values of Educational Administration (1999) published by the
Falmer Press, and Values and Educational Leadership (1999)
published by SUNY Press.
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Christopher Day
Christopher Day is Professor of Education. Prior to this he worked
as a teacher, lecturer and local education authority adviser.
During the last twenty five years, he has extended his writing and
international experience through national, European and international
research projects and consultancy in Europe, North America and Australasia,
including keynote addresses and paper presentations at several national
and international conferences. He is editor of 'Teachers and Teaching:
Theory and Practice'; co-editor of the educational Action Research
International Journals. He has recently completed directing a four
year DfES funded research on variations in teachers' work, lives
and effectiveness; and co-directing a DfES project on the evaluation
of CPD. He is currently directing a 14 country project on successful
school principalship and a national ESRC funded Seminar Series on
Teacher Resilience. He has recently directed a nine country European
project on successful principalship in schools in challenging urban
contexts; a national project on school leadership and pupil outcomes;
and a national project on effective classroom teaching.
His books have been published in several languages and include The
New Lives of Teachers (2010) Routledge; Teachers Matter (2007) Open
University Press; Successful Principalship: International Perspectives
(2007), Co-edited, Dordrecht, Springer; A Passion for Teaching (2004)
London: Falmer; International Handbook of the Continuing Professional
Development of Teachers (2004), Maidenhead, Open University Press.
Effective Leadership for School Improvement (2003) (Co-authored)
London: Routledge; and Developing Teachers: The Challenges of Lifelong
Learning (Falmer Press, 1999). http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Education/People/christopher.day
Göran Hermerén
Göran Hermerén, Professor of Medical ethics, Faculty
of medicine, Lund University, Sweden, since 1991; professor of philosophy,
Lund University since 1975; and professor of philosophy of science
and humanities, Umeå University 1970-75. Homepage: www.hermeren.nu
Co-ordinator of the EU-funded research project Euro-priorities and
involved in several other EU-funded projects, mainly in ethical
aspects of different kinds of stem cell research. He has published
and edited books on research ethics as well as papers on ethical
problems, mainly concerning medical ethics, in international periodicals.
Current research and teaching interests include ethical aspects
of gene testing and stem cell research. Most recent book: Goals
of Medicine in the Course of History and Today (with Kurt Fleischhauer,
2006)
He has served on about ten governmental and parliamentary commissions
dealing with problems like criteria of death, transplantation, organ
donation and autopsies, priority setting and resource allocation
in health case as well as genetic integrity. Member of the National
Council of Medical Ethics in Sweden since its start 1987. Chairman
of the ethics committee of the Swedish Research Council (Stockholm),
chairman of the advisory board of the German reference centre for
ethics in the life sciences DRZE (Bonn) and President of the European
Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (Brussels) since
2002.
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Jorunn Møller
Jorunn Møller is Professor at the Department of Teacher Education
and School Research, and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of
Education, University of Oslo. She has been involved in a range of
research projects on educational leadership and policy change, and
is also participating in international research networks in the field
of school leadership. At present she is engaged in a five years’
project, which aims at analyzing the role of administration and institutions
in the implementation of the current educational reform in Norway.
She is also involved in the International Successful School Principal
Project, ISSPP. Address for correspondence: University of Oslo, Department
of Teacher Education and School Research, P.O.Box 1099, Blindern,
0317 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: jorunn.moller@ils.uio.no
Robert (Jerry) Starratt
Robert Starratt is a professor at the Lynch School of Education at Boston
College. Previously he was a professor at Fordham University and a principal
and teacher at schools in Denver, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. His
books include Ethical leadership (2004), Centering Educational
Administration: Cultivating Meaning, Community, Responsibility
(2003) and Building an Ethical School: A Practical Response to the
Moral Crisis in Schools (1994).
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