Visiting Scholars and Students
Samuel Mendonça
Samuel Mendonça
Full Professor, Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
Samuel MendonçaFull Professor, Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
Samuel Mendonça is a Full Professor of the Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. He is Productivity Fellow 1D of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq. He is the Main researcher of the CPTEn - São Paulo Center for Energy Transition Studies, Vice Coordinator of the REDPEEL - Red de Posgrados en Educación en Latinoamérica, and the Assistant Editor of the Labour and Human Development Law Journal. He is the Founder and President of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Association, ALFE (2011-2015) and was President of the Brazilian Philosophy of Education Society, SOFIE (2018-2022). Samuel is the author of Aristocratic Education in Nietzsche: Individual Achievement (Maryland: GlobalSouth, 2018).
Gang Zhu
Gang Zhu
Associate Professor, The Institute of International and Comparative Education, East China Normal University
Gang ZhuAssociate Professor, The Institute of International and Comparative Education, East China Normal University
Gang Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, East China Normal University. His scholarship is situated at the intersection of teacher education, urban education, and comparative education. His research has been sponsored by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, China Scholarship Council, Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association, International Association on Teachers and Teaching, and the Southwest Educational Research Association. Dr. Zhu sits on the editorial boards of Race, Ethnicity, and Education (Routledge), Multicultural Education Review (Routledge), and the International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research (ERIC), and was an Assistant Editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (Routledge).
Bruce Maxwell
Bruce Maxwell
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the University of Montreal
Bruce MaxwellAssociate Professor, Faculty of Education at the University of Montreal
Bruce Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Montreal. A former humanities teacher at the college level and ethicist by training, he teaches courses on education law, professional ethics, and the history of educational ideas. He has produced a number of written works on these topics including, most recently, the coauthored book Professional Ethics and Law in Education (Canadian Scholars Press, 2022) and, as editor, the six-volume series Foundations of Education (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Steven Zhao
Steven Zhao
Steven Zhao
Steven Zhao’s research largely focuses on questions around ‘meaning,’ particularly in relation to affordance theory, complex adaptive systems, and wide cognition (e.g., distributed, embodied, embedded, extended & enactive cognition). By employing an interdisciplinary approach, his dissertation examined ‘meaning’ as a potential conceptual ground to articulate the idiosyncrasies and normativity of human ‘adaptivity.’ At Teachers College, he will be working with Dr. David Hansen to examine the relationship between education and cultural polarization with specific attention to ‘hidden curricula’ and the history of education.