Keynote Speaker_XVII WCCES 2019
XVII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies. The Future of Education
Professor N’Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba, Ph.D
Africana Studies and Research Center
Cornell University, USA.
May 20-24. Riviera Maya, Cancun Mexico.
Conference: “Temporality, Human Geography and Comparative Education: A Sankofa Perspective”
Biosketch: N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is an internationally renowned Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education, social institutions, gender at Cornell University (New York, USA) where she is also a member of the graduate fields of Education; Global Development, and the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA). She is the outgoing President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Vice-President of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of UNESCOS’s Inter-governmental programme for the Management of Social Transformations (MOST), and past President of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). At Cornell she has served as Director of the former Cornell Program on Gender and Global Change (GGC) and as Director of the Graduate Studies (DGS) of Africana Studies. She is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and Extraordinary Professor in the Education Policy Studies Department at the Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Professor at the Abidjan Business School-École de Commerce (ABSEC) at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), and Research Affiliate in the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance of the University of Houston (Houston, Texas). She has been a Carnegie Diasporan Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, a Ford Foundation/Cornell Africana Studies Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University (Japan), Chercheur Associé in Centre de Recherches Architecturales et Urbaines (CRAU) at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and Resident Fellow at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in Paris (France). She is a member of many research networks including CODESRIA. She has published extensively articles in peer-reviewed journals on higher education, ICT, equity, gender, and knowledge production. Her authored, edited and co-edited books include Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity; Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect – Africa’s Development Beyond 2015; Women and Higher Education in Africa: Re-conceptualizing Gender-Based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge (translated in Spanish and French with translations in Chinese and Arabic in progress); Higher Education in Africa: Crises, Reforms, and Transformation; Cyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy, and Knowledge Production; African Voices in Education. Les Africaines dans la Politique: Femmes Baoulé de Côte d’Ivoire. She has received many academic awards and honors. She studied at Université d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Université Lyon II (France) earning 2 Licenses and 2 Maîtrises in History and Sociology, and the University of Chicago (Chicago, USA) where she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Education (Economics and Sociology) in 1982.
XVII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies
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