Nikolaj Blichfeldt

PhD student, University of Copenhagen

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Nikolaj Blichfeldt is PhD student at Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. His research topic is "Climate change with Chinese characteristics“. The aim of his fieldwork in China is to observe firsthand the ways in which citizens engage with climate change related projects in Hangzhou, and to interview relevant stakeholders. By conducting interviews with participants in climate projects, he seeks to examine the interpretations of the low-carbon concept as well as the interpretations of public participation that underlie citizen and civil society engagements with climate change initiatives. Through participant observation he aims to gain an understanding of the meaning of low-carbon initiatives to the people who participate in them.

Francois Victor Tochon

PhD

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Francois Victor Tochon is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he headed World Language Education for 6 years. He worked on intercultural issues related to bilingualism in various countries, looking for new ways to organize language teaching and learning. In 2009-2011, Prof. Tochon received a Title VI award from the U.S. Department of Education to create, research and evaluate instructional materials that take a “deep approach” to language teaching.

Katrina Liu

PhD

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Rcihard Miller

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Richard Miller received his M.M. and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the Music Department here at the UW-Madison with a focus on the history of Korean and Japanese music, and also has a B.A. in Asian Studies from UW-Madison with a focus on the history of Japanese colonialism in Korea.Richard conducts research on the history of Asian popular music from the standpoint of mestizaje theory, and on issues related to providing East Asian expertise to the field of teacher education. He also chairs the CEAS Library Committee, is a member of the CEAS Steering Committee, the Wisconsin China Initiative Steering Committee, the International Academic Programs Faculty Advisory Committee for Greater China Study Abroad, and the International Institute Academic Planning Committee.

Tom Popkewitz

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Thomas S. Popkewitz, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research is about politics of knowledge as it relates to issues of social inclusion and exclusion in educational research, focusing on research paradigms, the changing terrains of knowledge about teaching and teacher education, and reforms in subject research, among other foci. He has also conducted national and international studies of educational policy, school reform, and teacher education. Some of his books are: Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform Science, Education, and Making Society by Making The Child; A Political Sociology of Educational Reform; Power/knowledge in teaching, teacher are: education and research; Struggling for the soul, The politics of schooling and the construction of the teacher; and Governing children, families and education. Restructuring the Welfare State. His books and articles have been translated into eight languages.