What, Why and How of Educational Programmes For Social Innovations in Asia
Shairose Irfan Jessani, an academician, leading a school based teacher professional development unit. She has done Masters in Science (Chemistry) from Karachi University, Pakistan and Masters in Education (Teacher Education) from Aga Khan University – Pakistan. She has contributed both at school and community level as well as worked with Government and Non Government organizations for different educational projects. Her interest areas are innovation in curriculum, assessment and teacher leadership. She has presented papers in international conferences at Aga Khan University on topics like STSE approach of teaching science, ICT integration in science teaching and innovation for social change.
Identity, Ecology, and Modernity: Khasi in Transition in Bangladesh
AKM Mazharul Islam is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. After completing graduation with honors and masters in anthropology from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, he did a Master of Science in Applied Anthropology from Minnesota State University, USA. He has been also involved with BRAC, ICDDR, B, UNICEF, Save the Children, and Johns Hopkins University in different research activities. Some of his articles are published in national and international journals. He wrote one book and contributed some book chapters. A member of American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, and Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, he is also the editor of anthropologist and founder of anthropublic.
Again, Blueprint for Tranformation or Business As Usual ?
Chun Kwong HAN obtained the PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a senior professor (VK6), Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), and honorary professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman 2004-2010. He was the founding president of Management Science/ Operations Research Society of Malaysia, and founding president of Customer Relationship Management and Contact Centre Association of Malaysia. His managerial experiences included a two-year secondment to the senior management team at the Multimedia Development Corporation. At UPM, he has served as director of Centre for Research on Information Management and Policy Action and director of Electronic University.
A metaphorical study on teaching individual creativity in Asia: Indian Alap and Vietnamese Dao
Prof. Dr. Gisa Jähnichen, obtained her Magister (Bachelor & Master) in Musicology and Regional Studies on South East Asia from Charles University Prague, PhD in Musicology from Humboldt University Berlin (Germany), and completed her University lecturer thesis (Habilitation) in Comparative Musicology at University Vienna (Austria). Since 2009, she is Professor in Musicology at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Working in different international organisations such as the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, the International Council for Traditional Music with its many Study Groups, she is known as editor and author of numerous academic pubilcations.
Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda,MMus, lecturer on North Indian music at the University of Visual and Performing Arts in Colombo, is currently a PhD student at Universiti Putra Malaysia. His research is funded by a Sri Lankan HETC scholarship. His expertise in Hindustani vocal music was acquired at Bhathkhande Music College and Banaras Hindu University in India. Also, he has gained his knowledge on North Indian music from great gurus residing in Lucknow and Banaras. Presently he is supervised by Gisa Jähnichen on popular and traditional music in Malaysia as well as on general issues of human society, philosophy and cultural studies.
Leadership through inspiring and influencing: military leaders vs. business leaders
Dr. Hamid Hassan is Associate Professor at FAST School of Management, FAST-NU, Lahore Campus. He received his MSc. and PhD degrees from University of Tsukuba, Japan. He studied and taught at the University of Tsukuba. During his stay in Japan he conducted research about the Japanese Lifetime Employment System and the applicability and scope of the performance-based compensation systems (i.e., Stock Options) in the Japanese Business Model. Dr. Hamid has presented and published his research work in a number of international forums. He also has research papers in international journals to his credit. One of his published papers received an ‘Award for Encouraging Research’ from the ‘Japanese Association of Administrative Sciences.’ His teaching and research interests include Human Resource Management, Employment Systems, Stock options and Workforce management.
Effectiveness of Leadership styles in small business: It depends on what you are looking for
Dr. Hamid Hassan is Associate Professor at FAST School of Management, FAST-NU, Lahore Campus. He received his MSc. and PhD degrees from University of Tsukuba, Japan. He studied and taught at the University of Tsukuba. During his stay in Japan he conducted research about the Japanese Lifetime Employment System and the applicability and scope of the performance-based compensation systems (i.e., Stock Options) in the Japanese Business Model. Dr. Hamid has presented and published his research work in a number of international forums. He also has research papers in international journals to his credit. One of his published papers received an ‘Award for Encouraging Research’ from the ‘Japanese Association of Administrative Sciences.’ His teaching and research interests include Human Resource Management, Employment Systems, Stock options and Workforce management.
Developing and Evaluating Teaching Material for Entrepreneurship Management Course
Su-Chang Chen is a professor at the department of Marketing and Logistics Management in National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received MBA degree from institute of Management Science in National Chia-Tung University in 1972 and Ph. D. degree from the department of Industrial Education in National Changhua University of Education in 1999. His research interests include vocational and technological education, human resource management, and business administration.
Resilience of China’s Patent Regime: the Approach to Clean Energy Innovation
Yujing Yang, I am the Ph.D. candidate of Law School, Chongqing University, P. R. China. During Sept.2011 to Sept.2012, I was the visiting PhD student in Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) in the University of Dundee, United Kingdom.
My research interests are: energy law and policy, intellectual property law and policy, environmental Law and policy. My Ph.D. dissertation is about the intellectual property of clean energy technologies in response to climate change.
My published paper:
Book Review on Intellectual Property and Climate Change, Journal of Review of European Community and International Environmental Law(RECIEL 21(2) 2012 ISSN 0962 8797).
Relationship between reflective practices of teacher educators and the creativity of the prospective teachers
Syed Asad Abbas Rizvi I did my Ph.D. in 2006 with the title of “an approach to develop a system of teacher effectiveness”. This was the pioneer work on assessment of teacher effectiveness in Pakistan.
I have rich experience of working in different capacities like Principal, Vice Principal, Section Head and Senior Teacher, Teacher Trainer, Resource Person, Research Advisor(for M.Ed and M.Phil and Ph.D. ) at school and university level in public and private organizations
Now a days, I m working at international Islamic University Islamabad. My basic research area is Educational Philosophy, Research and Edumatrics .Under my supervision 13 students have completed their M.Phil and 4 students are working on Ph.D. Dissertation. Have published in national and international Journals.
