Professor Gillian Dowley McNamee
Subject Title — Conversations with Children, Teachers, and Educational Researchers About Tomorrow
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Dr. Gillian McNamee received her Masters in the Science of Teaching from the University of Chicago with 2 years of mentoring in the kindergarten classroom of Vivian Gussin Paley, 1974-1976. She then completed her Ph.D. in Education, Reading and Language from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to and during her graduate studies in education psychology, she taught fifth grade science, served as a preschool language arts teacher, kindergarten teacher, and substitute early childhood teacher. Dr. McNamee has deep training and experience working in classrooms as a teacher, and is an accomplished early childhood classroom teacher.
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Professor Ovid J.-L. TZENG
Subject Title — The reciprocal relationship of reading acquisition and brain developments
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Taiwan Linguistics and Psychology Scholar, former Chairman of the Cultural Construction Committee of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, Academician of the 20th Humanities and Social Sciences Section of the Academia Sinica, Founding Member of the Chinese University of California Association of Chinese Scholars, and Political Member of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. Minister of Education and Vice President of the Academia Sinica.
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Professor Yoichi Sakakihara
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Subject Title — Quality of Life of Children
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M.D., Ph.D., Director, Child Research Net (CRN); Professor, Graduate School of Ochanomizu University; President, Japanese Society of Child Science. Specializes in pediatric neurology, developmental neurology, in particular, treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Asperger’s syndrome and other developmental disorders, and neuroscience. Born in 1951, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 1976 and taught as an instructor in the Department of Pediatrics before assuming current post.
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