Prof. Dr. Gerry Leisman is a Full Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Haifa in Israel and concurrently Professor of Restorative Neurology at the University of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. He studies the relation between movement and cognition developmentally, examining mechanisms of self-organizing systems in the brain applied to fetal, neonatal, infant, and child development of sensation/ perception, memory, cognition, consciousness, death, autism, movement, and gait. He was one of the first to identify functional disconnectivities in the brain. He has been influential in examining mechanisms of self-organizing systems in the brain and nervous system applied to cognition exemplified by his work in movement-cognitive interaction, memory, kinesiology, optimization, consciousness, death, autism, and developmental disabilities. He has likewise applied optimization strategies to movement and gait, cognition, and coma recovery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences in 1990, Senior Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in 1986, Life Fellow of the International Association for Functional Neurology & Rehabilitation in 2010 & its Lifetime Achievement Award 2011. He has published hundreds of papers and texts in the Neurosciences, Developmental Sciences, Cognitive Science, Biomedical Engineering, and in the Systems Sciences literature.

Prof. Dr. Fred Dervin

Prof. Dr. Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the ‘intercultural’ and mobility/migration (over 200 articles and 80 books). Dervin has made extensive contributions to revising the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research.

Prof. Dr. Kobus Maree

Prof. Dr. Kobus Maree is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria (UP) for more than 20 years. His research interests include: drawing on and constantly updating integrative QUALITATIVE-quantitative career construction counselling for all people (in individual and especially group contexts) to rekindle their sense of meaning, hope, and purpose. He is/has been a member of several national and international career counselling bodies, including the National Career Development Association (USA), the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Vocational Psychology (SVP) (USA), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) (USA), the Psychology Association of South Africa (PsySSA), and the Association of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). He was awarded the Stals Prize of the SA Academy of Science and Arts for Exceptional Research in Psychology (2014), a fellowship of the IAAP (2014), the PsySSA Award for Excellence in Psychological Science (2015), honorary membership of the Golden Key International Honour Society (2015), and fellowship of the PsySSA (2017).

Speaker/Presentation

Time in Beijing

Introduction

14:00 - 14:10 pm

Prof. Dr. Gerry Leisman

The Brain in the Classroom

14:10 - 14:40 pm

Prof. Dr. Kobus Maree

Innovating Career Counselling: Key to Transforming Education and Facilitating Sustainable, Decent Development for All

14:40 - 15:10 pm

Prof. Dr. Fred Dervin

The Right to Interculturality in Education

15:10 - 15:40 pm

Q&A

15:40 - 16:00 pm