Hasan Huseyin Aksoy
Hasan Huseyin Aksoy is a Professor in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Ankara University (Department of Educational Administration) in Ankara, Turkey. He took his Bachelor in Educational Administration and Planning in1985, and his Ph.D. also in Educational Administration and Planning in 1995, both at Ankara University. His teaching and research interests are Economics of Education, Politics of Education, Vocational and Technical Education; Critical Pedagogy. He has numerous publications in local and international journals. He has been a Visiting scholar at the University of Cincinnati, OH, USA for two years and the Freie University, Berlin, Germany for one year. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of such national and international academic journals as International Journal of Educational Policy, Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, Elestirel Pedagoji (Critical Pedagogy in Turkish), Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences and Journal of Mülkiye.
Dave Hill
Chief / Founding Editor, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, www.jceps.com; Emeritus Research Professor of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, England; Research Fellow of Research Center of Contemporary China in Wuhan University (RCCC), Wuhan, China; Visiting Professor of Education at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Honorary Doctorate, Centro de Estudios Lationamericanos de Educacion Inclusiva (CELEI), Santiago Chile; Director of the (independent) Institute for Education Policy Studies (est. 1989) www.ieps.org.uk; Founding organiser with Kostas Skordoulis of annual ICCE (International Conference on Critical Education).
Marxist political and Trade Union Activist, Candidate in 13 elections (1 Euro-, 4 Parliamentary, 7 municipal), Labour Party General Election Candidate 1979, 1987 UK Parliamentary Elections; Trade Union and Socialist Coalition General Election Candidate 2010, 2015 UK Parliamentary Elections; former leader of Labour Party Councilors in East Sussex; former elected trade union Regional Chair; former `shop steward’/ union representative for 10 years; organizer of various marches and demonstrations.
Katarina Popović
Katarina Popović, PhD is Professor at the Department for Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of, Belgrade, Serbia. She is also Secretary General of International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), visiting professor for adult education and lifelong learning at few European universities, president of the Serbian Adult Education Society, vice-president of ISCAE – International Society for Comparative Adult Education, co-chair of the Academia and Education Stakeholder Group and member of Coordination Mechanisms in HLPF platform (UN SDG review process). Dr Popović is editor in chief of the journal “Andragogical studies”, member of International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, UNESCO/UIL Honorray Fellow, author of numerous publications, articles and books on education and lifelong learning and certified trainer (Swiss) in adult education.
Maria Nikolakaki
Maria Nikolakaki is Professor of Pedagogy and Education at the University of Peloponnese, Greece. She is widely considered to be a leading expert on democracy and critical pedagogy. Professor Nikolakaki holds two BA degrees and two MA degrees in education and received her doctorate (Ph.D) from the University of Athens in 2000. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London (UCL) (2001-2002) and at the University of Athens( 2002-2003). She was Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA), Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University (UK) and the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico (PUAB), and is a Researcher at the Marxist School of Wuhan University. She has published extensively in the areas of neoliberalism and critical pedagogy, lifelong learning, mathematics education, citizenship education, and teaching methodology. Her publications include the books: The Anatomy of Neoliberalism and Education (her latest book, 2021), Critical Pedagogy in the New Dark Ages (Ed. With Noam Chomsky, Henry Giroux, Cornelius Castoriadis, Howard Zinn, Paulo Freire and others), Critical Perspectives in Educational Policy: The Changing Terrain of Power and Knowledge (co-written with Tom Popkewitz), The Modernization of Mathematics Education in Greek Primary Schools, The Myth and the Reality of Greek Education: Cross-curricularity and Team Teaching in Schools, Globalization, Technology and Paideia in the New Cosmpolis (Ed.), Towards a School for All: Cross-curricularity and Inclusion in Greek Primary Schools (Ed.), and Education of the Pre-school Age. She also edited Paulo Freire's book Pedagogy of Hope, and Pedagogy of Autonomy in Greek (2022). She has published more than 100 articles in journals and conference proceedings.
Didacus Jules
Didacus Jules had a long distinguished, multidimensional career focused on education, social transformation and organizational re-engineering. Dr. Jules is currently the Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) – a regional integration grouping of eleven Member States.
His career experience covers national, regional and international experience with the following highlights:
His qualifications include BA (Hons) UWI; MSc Curriculum Univ. Wisconsin-Madison; PhD Education Policy University of Wisconsin-Madison and EMBA UWI.
Board appointments include: Caribbean Center for Educational Planning UWI Mona; Knowledge, Innovation & Exchange Program (KIX); Global Partnership for Education (LAC region); Chancellor’s Commission on UWI Governance; the Caribbean Climate Accelerator; World Bank Task Force on Caribbean Education Strategy 2020.
Njoki Wane
Dr Njoki Wane, a professor at the University of Toronto, is currently serving as Chair in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). An accomplished educator, researcher and educational leader, Professor Wane headed the Office of Teaching Support at OISE from 2009 to 2012 establishing its priorities and activities while recognizing equity as a central dimension of good teaching. From 2011 to 2014, Professor Wane served as Special Advisor on Status of Women Issues, contributing to research and policy development concerning the intersectionality of gender with race, disability, sexual orientation and aboriginal status, and the impact of these issues on the lived experiences of women faculty, staff and students at the University of Toronto. From 2018-2021; she also served as the advisor the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Vice-President, Human Resources and Equity. She also served as Director, Center for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) at OISE from 2006 to 2014. An award-winning teacher, Professor Wane was the recipient of many awards, the most recent one being The President of Toronto Teaching Award. She is well published with her most recent book being: From my Mother’s Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada.
Paolo Vittoria
Paolo Vittoria is Professor of social education at Federico II University of Naples. He taught for a long time at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Co-Director of Educazione Aperta. Rivista di Pedagogia Critica. Columnist of Il Manifesto newspaper. Among last books Critical Education in international perspective - co-authored with Peter Mayo for Bloomsbury.
Emilio Lucio-Villegas
Emilio Lucio-Villegas is Professor on Adult Education at the University of Seville, Spain. Since 1991, he holds a PhD in Pedagogy with a Thesis on Participatory Research in Adult Education. His works focused on Adult Education and Participatory Research. He is author or coauthor of articles, chapters and books in Spanish, English and Portuguese. He also holds three positive evaluations (from1998 to 2016) of his research activities. He has been Head of the Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación at the University of Seville (1992-1995). From 2008 to 2013 he was Head of The Paulo Freire Chair at the University of Seville. He holds the Phyllis M. Cunningham Award for Social Justice presented in 2010 in Sacramento (USA). Emilio Lucio-Villegas has participated in research at national and international level. He was member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Research on the Education of the Adults (ESREA) from 2008 to 2019. At present time he is editor of the book series ‘Research on the Education and Learning of Adults’ published by Brill, and convenor of the Network: ‘Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Communities’.
Elsy Wakil
The Arab House for Adult Education and Development (AHAED) has appointed youth educator Ms. Elsy Wakil to the position of General Secretary. Former Executive for the Middle East & Program Director for Peace Building and Overcoming Violence at the World Student Christian Federation (2008-2019).
A member of the Greek Orthodox Church, Ms. Wakil first joined WSCF through the Orthodox Youth Movement of Lebanon in 1995. Elsy comes to the job from her previous role as Assistant General Secretary for the Middle East Ecumenical Popular Education Programme (2005-2008), where she worked training trainers in Human Rights, Popular Education and Development, She is the founder of the Lebanese Coalition of the Global Campaign for Education (Arab Network Popular Education) (2010 – till now). ANPE is member in the CCNGO as well. She has taught her specialist field of Information Technology in schools and through popular education programmes and has held a number of management and administration jobs, including administrator of the WSCF Middle East Regional Office (1995-2002) and Finance and Administration Manager for Habitat for Humanity, Lebanon. She is a GCE board member representing the Arab Region.
Constantine-(Kostas) Skordoulis
Constantine-(Kostas) Skordoulis is Professor of Epistemology and Didactical Methodology of Physics at the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches Environmental Ethics, Didactics of Science and Theory of Scientific Knowledge.
He is currently the Head of the Department, Deputy Dean of the School of Education and Academic Director of three Postgraduate Programs focusing on Science Teachers Education.
He has studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury and has worked as a Visiting Researcher at the Universities of Oxford and Groningen.
He is a Member of the International Academy of History of Science, co-Editor of “Almagest: International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas” and Member of the Editorial Boards of the journals: “Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies”, “International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences”, “Advances in Historical Studies” and “Green Theory and Praxis”.
His latest book is: “Critical Environmental Education: Current and Future Perspectives” (Springer, 2020).
Kostas has published extensively on Socio-Scientific Issues. A substantial component of his research is focuses on Marxism and Science highlighting the ontological objectivity of science in conjunction with the social character of scientific practice.
Kostas is involved in organizing the International Conferences on Critical Education with Dave Hill.
