On June 2, 2019, the Faculty of Education of East China Normal University and the College of Education of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign started a seven-day International Academic Week. Professor Nicholas C. Burbules and Dr. Liuwei with eight students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign visited East China Normal University. Teachers from the Faculty of Education, Bu Yuhua, Cheng Liang, Li Lin, Wang Zhankui, Dong Xuan, Wang Lijia and Gao Xingyuan and 10 students participated in related activities.
This academic week sponsored by the Department of Education and the Institute of Schooling Reform and Development includes teacher-student seminars, frontier reports, school visits and cultural visits. It attracts teachers and students from different departments of the faculty of education. On June 3, the teachers and students of the two schools held symposiums to exchange views on their respective research and in-depth cooperation in the future.
On behalf of the Department of Education, Professor Cheng Liang welcomed Professor Nicholas C. Burbules at the teacher's symposium, and briefly introduced the Department from the aspects of discipline, faculty, student structure and international exchanges. Subsequently, the participants introduced their respective research fields and expertise, including basic theories of education, philosophy of education, educational anthropology, teacher professional development, teacher ethics, philosophy of children and school reform. Based on the common research fields and interests, they laid the foundation for future cooperation in research and publication of papers.
Professor Nicholas C. Burbules thanked the Department of Education for its various arrangements. He believed that in addition to personnel visits, the two schools could also increase in-depth ideological exchanges. He highly agreed with Cheng Liang's idea of holding round tables around related topics and expressed his expectation for the return visit of teachers and students from East China Normal University in September.
At the student symposium, the host, Mr. Li Lin, first welcomed the students who participated in the activity, expressed expectations and encouragement for their sharing, and introduced the main research directions of our students to American students. Then Jami Swindell, a PhD student from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, introduced the main research directions of American students.
Next, a total of 18 students from China and the United States presented their research one by one. They shared the origin of their research, the research issues they focused on, the specific design of the research framework and the sample selected by the research institute, and so on. After sharing with one of the students, others also have in-depth discussions on their own points of interest, through such exchanges, students have deepened their thinking on their own research.
After the symposium, they still had a lot of interaction, thank others for their positive sharing and display, and look forward to the opportunity to publish their research results in the future!
