Prof. Ruth Hayhoe
University of Toronto, Canada
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto, Canada
- Appointed to serve on the international advisory board of the University of Macao (most recently)
- Director, Hong Kong Institute of Education (1997-2002)
- Associate Dean for Graduate Studies (1996-1997)
- Visiting Professor at Nagoya University, Japan (1996 for six months under a Japan Foundation Fellowship)
- Chair of the Higher Education Group at OISE (1993-1995)
- First Secretary for Culture and Education at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-1991)
- Academic career at OISE (since 1986)
- Postdoctoral work at OISE (1984-1986)
- Lecturing at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education in London (1983)
- Undergraduate teaching at Fudan University in Shanghai (1980-82)
- Professional career began as a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong (1967-1978)
- Exposure to East Asia, and especially Hong Kong and China, has given her a lifelong fascination with Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions, and a desire to bridge the contrasting educational and philosophical worlds of East Asia and North America
- Has had a particular interest in the “Dialogue among Civilizations” and has organized a number of large-scale conferences relating to this
- Trustee for the historic New York-based United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (2000-2010), and Secretary (2003-2010) – actively involved in an Asianization process that resulted in all of the Board’s Programs and the President’s office being moved from New York to Hong Kong under the leadership of the first Asian Chairman of the Board
- Research has mainly related to Chinese higher education and educational relations between East Asia and the West – has been interested in the ways in which cultural values and epistemologies from Eastern civilizations may provide a resource for new thinking in global higher education development
- Research interests: the intersection between Asian ways of knowing and women’s ways of knowing, and questions of gender in cross-cultural leadership, topics stimulated by her personal experience of institutional leadership in an Asian context
- Completed a study of the lives and ideas of eleven influential Chinese educators in 2005, developing a set of Portraits which illustrate the continuing value of the Confucian educational heritage. Obtained two major grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) in 2011 and 2006
- Made Honorary Fellow, University of London Institute of Education (1998)
- Awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government (2002)
- Awarded Commandeur dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques by the Government of France (2002)
- Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Education by the Hong Kong Institute of Education (2002)
- Appointed as Zhijiang Honorary Chair Professor in Education at the East China Normal University in Shanghai (2002)
- Holds an advisory professor title at more than ten other universities in different regions of China
- Awarded a Lifetime Contribution Award by the Higher Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society of the USA (CIES) – 2009
- Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the CIES, at the Society’s Annual Meeting in Montreal (May, 2011)
