BRIDGE-AsiaTE Seminar/Webinar 22026.8.16 {en}
Date: 19 August 2026
Time: 4:30–6:00 pm AEST
Format: Online via Zoom
Registration link: https://events.humanitix.com/bridge-asiate-asia-capability-in-teacher-education-national-priorities-and-regional-engagement-ajhft46m
Asia Capability in Teacher Education: National Priorities and Regional Engagement brings together scholars examining how policy, curriculum, language, worldview and institutional structures shape teacher education across the Asia-Pacific.
This second seminar/webinar in the BRIDGE-AsiaTE series explores the system-level enablers and constraints that influence whose knowledge is recognised, how teachers are prepared, and how Asia capability is understood and enacted in education.
Associate Professor Nadeem Memon will draw on Islamic Pedagogy to challenge the assumption that mainstream teacher education is worldview-neutral. His presentation considers how faith-informed traditions can enrich understandings of educational purpose, ethical formation, teacher identity and human flourishing while supporting pluralism and professional standards.
Professor Michael Singh and Dr 李晓莉 (Li Xiaoli) will critically examine how Asia capability is framed through national priorities concerning security and prosperity. They will explore multilingual epistemology, Early Years Learning and the structural tensions that shape Australians’ engagement with Asian languages and intellectual traditions.
Ritter (Ruoxin) Wang will examine China’s recruitment of elite university graduates into school teaching. Drawing on interviews with graduates without formal initial teacher education, the presentation highlights the gap between policy-enabled entry pathways and the pedagogical, mentoring and professional learning structures needed for sustainable teacher development.
This webinar will be moderated by Associate Professor Michael Mu (Adelaide University).
Together, the presentations invite participants to rethink teacher formation beyond narrow institutional, linguistic and epistemological boundaries, and to consider how more inclusive, locally grounded and regionally engaged approaches might strengthen teacher education across the Asia-Pacific.
Further information at https://events.humanitix.com/bridge-asiate-asia-capability-in-teacher-education-national-priorities-and-regional-engagement-ajhft46m.
Source: BRIDGE-AsiaTE Seminar/Webinar 2 on 19 August 2026, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online „CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.“
