Keynote Speakers 大會演講人

Professor Joe O’Hara

New President-Elect of the World Education Research Association (WERA)

  • Professor of Education
  • School of Policy & Practice, DCU Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland

Biography

Joe O’Hara is Full Professor of Education at the DCU Institute of Education, Director of EQI – The Centre for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection, and Affiliate Faculty Member at the Centre for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is Past President of both the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and the European Educational Research Association, and a former Head of the School of Education Studies at DCU.

His research focuses on evaluation and quality assurance, with particular attention to cultural diversity, research policy, early school leaving, and underachievement. He has served on the Teaching Council of Ireland and the Board of Irish Aid/APSO. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of EUNICE, and is a Founding Director of the Irish Evaluation Network. Joe O’Hara is President of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities and President-Elect of the World Educational Research Association.

Research Interests

Evaluation- School Evaluation, Self-Evaluation, School Inspection, Polycentric Inspection, Culturally Responsive Evaluation, Policy Influences in Evaluation, Programme Evaluation Initial Teacher Education - ICT in Teacher Education,Policy Developments in ITE, Autonomy and Accountability in Education, Gifted Education

Link: https://www.dcu.ie/policyandpractice/people/joe-ohara

Link: https://www.dcu.ie/policyandpractice/news/2024/apr/prof-joe-ohara-wera-president-elect

Professor Yuto Kitamura

  • Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Yuto Kitamura is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University and received his M.A. and Ph.D., both in education, from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He had worked at Education Sector of UNESCO in Paris as an Assistant Education Specialist and taught as an Associate Professor at Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University and Department of Education, Faculty of Human Sciences, Sophia University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the George Washington University, a visiting professor at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, and has been a member of international advisory board at the Master of Education Program at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

Research Fields

He is specialized in comparative education and educational development studies. He has conducted his research extensively on education policy in developing countries, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. He has been focusing on Cambodia and Lao PDR in recent years and conducting several research projects including a student tracer study in basic education, a teacher training study and a study on the development of higher education. His recent publication includes: The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia: Cases of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (co-editor, Springer, 2009).

Link: https://ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/people/kitamura-yuto/#:~:text=Yuto%20Kitamura%20is%20an%20Associate,%2C%20Los%20Angeles%20(UCLA)

Link: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people003139.html

Professor Maisha T. Winn

New President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

  • Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education, US

Biography

Maisha T. Winn is the Excellence in Learning Graduate School of Education Professor and Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's Equity in Learning Initiative. She is the Principal Investigator for the Futuring for Equity Lab. Her scholarship examines how non-dominant youth and communities have developed literate trajectories across a range of historical and contemporary settings within and outside formal schooling. She seeks to understand how communities that have been depicted as under resourced create practices, processes, and institutions of their own—and what we can learn from those examples to build more just, more collaborative, and more equitable futures. An ethnographer by training, Dr. Winn also engages in historical research focused on social movements in education.

Dr. Winn has authored Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms; Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; and Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education through Restorative Justice. She co-edited Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures (with Lawrence “Torry” Winn, Vajra Watson, and Kindra F. Block); Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning through the Disciplines (with Lawrence “Torry” Winn); and Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (with Django Paris). The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Review of Research in Education, Mind, Culture and Activity; and Anthropology & Education Quarterly are among the peer-reviewed journals that have published Dr. Winn’s work. Her forthcoming book, Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination, examines the role of print culture during the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and how publications produced by independent Black institutions can serve as maps of/for the future of Black education.

A 2022-23 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford, Dr. Winn is an American Educational Research Association Fellow and the Association’s President-Elect, and a member of the National Academy of Education.

Link: https://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Who-We-Are/AERA-Leadership

Link: https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/mtfisher

Professor Hsueh-Hua Chuang

President of the Taiwan Education Research Association (TERA)

  • Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Professional Work Experience

  • Program Coordinator, International Graduate Program of Education and Human Development
  • President of the Taiwan Education Research Association (TERA)
  • New President-Elect of the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA)
  • NSYSU Distinguished Professor
  • NSYSU Outstanding Research Award, 2024-2025
  • NSYSU Outstanding Teaching Award, 2014-2015
  • NSYSU Teaching Excellence Award, 2013-2014
  • NSYSU Research Excellence Award, 2011-2025
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2016-2017

Research Interests

  • Bilingual/International Education
  • Creative and Innovative Teaching
  • Multiculturalism and Learning Sciences (including culturally responsive learning environment design, language diversity and learning performance, learner identity and learning motivation)

Link: https://gpehd.nsysu.edu.tw/p/412-1146-23671.php?Lang=en

Professor Jerome E. Morris

  • Professor of Urban Education, University of Missouri – St. Louis, U.S.A.

Biography

Dr. Jerome E. Morris is the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, located in the United States. He also serves as the founder and director of the Center for Communally Bonded Research in St. Louis, an initiative that embodies his commitment to bridging the gap between academic inquiry and community needs. His research critically examines the intersection of race, social class, and the geography of educational opportunity.

In 2025, Morris was elected President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), where he is also an elected Fellow. During his AERA presidency (2026-2027), Morris is dedicated to transcending boundaries and borders in education research and to envisioning education as a transformative force for equity.

A former public-school teacher and founder of a rites-of-passage program, Morris has developed innovative conceptual frameworks that emphasize the need for authentic partnerships with historically marginalized people and low-resource communities and schools. His latest book, Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project (University of Georgia Press), melds historical and sociological analysis with poignant memoir, capturing public housing residents’ efforts to sustain their community amid the harsh realities of housing and educational inequities.

Morris’s three-decade career includes serving as a tenured full professor in the College of Education and a Research Fellow at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Behavioral Research in the U.S. He also authored the book Troubling the Waters: Fulfilling the Promises of Quality Public Schooling for Black Children (Teachers College Press) and has published extensively in leading research journals, including the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Review of Research in Education, and Teachers College Record. Morris’s research has garnered funding from distinguished organizations, including the Spencer Foundation’s Lyle Research Award to Transform Education and AERA’s research grants program.
Online Abstract Submission Registration Conference Program

 Important Dates

First Call for Papers
2026/01/15

First Deadline for Abstract Submission
2026/04/30

First Notification of Acceptance
2026/06/01

Second Call for Papers
2026/05/01

Second Deadline for Abstract Submission
2026/05/14

Second Notification of Acceptance
2026/06/15

Deadline of Early Bird Registration
2026/06/21 2026/07/20

Deadline for Regular Registration
2026/07/15 2026/08/16

Conference Program Announced
2026/09/01

Non-presenter Registration Deadline
2026/10/09

WERA Executive Business Meeting
2026/10/14 evening

Pre-Conference Activities-Workshops and Educational Tours
2026/10/15

Main Conference
2026/10/16~10/18

WERA Council Meeting
2026/10/19

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