Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi from Teachers College, Columbia University comes to GSICS as a Visiting Professor

Professor Keiichi Ogawa invited Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi of Teachers College, Columbia University to GSICS as a Visiting Professor from April 1 to May 15, 2024. Professor Steiner-Khamsi is a world-famous scholar in comparative and international education research, and a former supervisor of Professor Ogawa during his doctoral studies at Columbia University.

Professor Steiner-Khamsi is highly recognized as a leader in theorizing educational borrowing and continuously contributes to the theoretical development in the context of global governance in education. She also serves as the Director of the Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG) and UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy at Geneva Graduate Institute. She has been named the “William Heard Kilpatrick Professorship of Comparative Education” by Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor William Heard Kilpatrick was a successor of John Dewey at Teachers College and known as a giant in educational philosophy.

In GSICS, she delivered an intensive course on “Education Policy” and offered an overview of the theoretical aspects of education policy borrowing/transfer at the global level. She also has provided a recent viewpoint of empirical examination by utilizing the “World Education Reform Database (WERD)” which is collected by a research team from Stanford University and the University of Toronto. Part of the lecture was open to the public as a hybrid seminar of the Japan Society for International Development (JASID) Kansai Branch, attracting more than 150 participants (Link to the Seminar)

On May 9, 2024, Kobe University will co-host a hybrid symposium “Exploring the Global Reform Scripts of Development Partners: Comparative Retrospective Analyses” in collaboration with Teachers College, Columbia University, and KIX EMAP Hub. Professor Steiner-Khamsi will deliver a keynote speech and we have invited renowned researchers and practitioners to the symposium. (Link to the symposium announcement).