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Programme

The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii (IICEHawaii) is a multidisciplinary conference held concurrently with The IAFOR International Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment – Hawaii (IICSEEHawaii). Keynote, Featured and Spotlight Speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. Registration for either of these conferences permits attendance in both.

This page provides details of featured presentations, the conference schedule and other programming. For more information about presenters, please visit the Speakers page.

Conference Outline

Friday, January 10, 2020Saturday, January 11, 2020Sunday, January 12, 2020

09:15-10:00: Conference Registration

10:00-10:05: Announcements | Theatre 320 (3F)
Brian Aycock, IAFOR, Japan

10:05-10:25: Featured Cultural Presentation | Theatre 320 (3F)
Hawaiian Oli Opening
Uncle Bruce Yoshio Keaulani, Living Life Source Foundation
Aunty Kehaulani Lum, Living Life Source Foundation

10:25-10:40: Welcome & Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners | Theatre 320 (3F)
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan

10:40-10:50: Welcome on Behalf of University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | Theatre 320 (3F)
Nathan Murata, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA

10:50-11:20: Keynote Presentation | Theatre 320 (3F)
Harrie Vredenburg, University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, Canada

11:20-12:20: Keynote Panel Presentation | Theatre 320 (3F)
Educational Outreach and OER

12:20-12:30: Conference Photograph | Pakaloka Charlot Courtyard

12:30-13:30: Lunch Break

13:30-14:00: Keynote Presentation | Theatre 320 (3F)

14:00-14:30: Featured Presentation | Theatre 320 (3F)

14:30-14:50: Coffee Break

14:50-15:40: Keynote Panel Presentation | Theatre 320 (3F)
Challenges of Liberal Arts Universities

15:40-16:00: Coffee Break

16:00-17:00: Conference Poster Session

17:00-18:00: Welcome Reception

09:00-10:40: Parallel Session I

10:40-10:55: Coffee Break

10:55-12:10: Parallel Session II

12:10-13:10: Lunch Break

13:10-14:25: Parallel Session III

14:25-14:40: Coffee Break

14:40-15:55: Parallel Session IV

16:00-17:00: Featured Presentation

18:00-20:30: Official Conference Dinner (optional extra)

09:00-09:40: Featured Cultural Presentation
Lei Making Workshop

09:40-10:40: Parallel Session I

10:50-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-12:15: Parallel Session II

12:15-13:15: Lunch Break

13:15-14:30: Parallel Session III

14:30-14:45: Coffee Break

14:45-16:25: Parallel Session IV

16:30-16:45: Closing Session

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on December 02, 2019. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.

Accepted abstracts of confirmed presenters are available here.

The above schedule may be subject to change.

Featured Presentations

  • Global and Educational Engagement through Innovative Technology and Pedagogies
    Global and Educational Engagement through Innovative Technology and Pedagogies
    Panel Presentation: Ann Hartman, Ger Thao & Yuko Ida
  • Education, Work, and Sustainability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Education, Work, and Sustainability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Panel Presentation: Deane E. Neubauer, David P. Ericson & Alexander J. Means
  • The Future of Liberal Education
    The Future of Liberal Education
    Panel Presentation: April Nozomi Goodwin & Reed Dasenbrock
  • Pacific Solo: A Voyage to Nemo North in the Middle of the North Pacific Garbage Patch
    Pacific Solo: A Voyage to Nemo North in the Middle of the North Pacific Garbage Patch
    Featured Presentation: Lowell Sheppard

Final Programme

The Conference Programme contains access information, session information and a detailed day-to-day presentation schedule. All registered delegates who attend The 5th IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii receive a printed copy of the Conference Programme at the Registration Desk on arrival. Only one copy of the Conference Programme is available per delegate, so please take good care of your copy.

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available on December 02, 2019. The final Conference Programme will be available on December 20, 2019.

Previous Programming

View details of programming for past IICEHawaii conferences via the links below.

IICEHawaii2019IICEHawaii2018IICEHawaii2017
IICEHawaii2016
Global and Educational Engagement through Innovative Technology and Pedagogies
Panel Presentation: Ann Hartman, Ger Thao & Yuko Ida

This panel will present a unique and innovative East-West Center capacity building program for graduate student leaders from over 30 countries in the Asia Pacific/US region. The EXCHANGE, EWC Education Program’s flagship program, builds capacity on various levels using innovative technology and pedagogies. The program brings students together across cultures and disciplines each week for eight weeks, to learn from distinguished guests and one another through performance, presentations, activities and food. All of this is planned by an international team of students, including interns from the College of Education at UHM, and supported by EWC staff with the goal of connecting students to the pressing issues, innovations, cultures, and challenges of the US-Asia Pacific region and preparing them for action toward positive change.

Panelists will share their work as a team from different perspectives. Ann Hartman will discuss the program design and administration from her leadership role as the Dean. Ger Thao will share the insights as the planning coordinator/program mentor to rich and diverse international participants across national and geographic borders. Yuko Ida will examine her experiences as a curriculum developer, team trainer, and an activity leader. They will share highlights and challenges as well as possibilities of the direction for international leadership developments.

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Education, Work, and Sustainability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Panel Presentation: Deane E. Neubauer, David P. Ericson & Alexander J. Means

With an emerging new era of technology change – frequently referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Work 4.0 – education institutions will face challenges unlike any that have previously confronted them. Of particular concern are how evolving developments in technology – especially in artificial intelligence, robotics, and deep machine learning – have the potential to drastically transform labour markets and upend the world of work. The papers in this panel grapple with how the technological changes associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution raise distinct problems and possibilities for the sustainability of current social and education systems. The first paper by Deane E. Neubauer, “The Challenge for Sustainability within Higher Education in an Era of Rapid Technology Change”, considers the idea of sustainability in relation to the historical functions of higher education: knowledge production, knowledge transmission, knowledge conservation and sustaining public good. The presentation explores how these historic functions may be changing within this significant period of rapid technology change. The second paper by David Ericson, “Sustaining the Tradition of Liberal Education: How Robotics and Artificial Intelligence May Save the Arts and Humanities”, suggests that the job altering impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution directly threatens the long held normative belief in the efficacy of education and the connection between the educational system and the social and economic system. Perhaps counterintuitively, the presentation will tease out the implications and how these changes may not only sustain liberal arts education but encourage it to flourish as never before. The third paper by Alexander Means, “Education for a Post-Work Society: Beyond Solutionism, Collaborationism, and Techno-Realism”, synthesises and contrasts various perspectives on the future of work and technology including solutionist, collaborationist, accelerationist, and techno-realist perspectives. It argues that a crucial element missing from these post-work theories is a failure to consider how a sustainable post-work society requires alternative paradigms for conceiving educational value, knowledge, and mass intellectuality.

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The Future of Liberal Education
Panel Presentation: April Nozomi Goodwin & Reed Dasenbrock

A comprehensive undergraduate experience encompasses a broad survey of the humanities, arts, social sciences, multicultural and global education, as well as mathematics, science and technology. These disciplines are essential components of a liberal arts education that prepares students with the skills and knowledge to navigate an increasingly complex and dynamic future, regardless of disciplinary major. In recent decades, decreasing enrollments and shrinking budgets have begun to threaten the very existence of many of these programs. In response, some leaders are selecting to eliminate liberal arts majors in favor of supporting career and workforce preparation programs, while others are piloting innovative curricular redesign across disciplines that coherently integrates liberal arts programs with professional and career pathways. Many are currently caught in the struggle to determine the best path forward. In this contentious financial and political environment, higher education leaders across the country would benefit from guidance to address this pressing issue. This panel will share the findings of our study which utilized the policy Delphi method to engage a panel of education experts in an iterative conversation around how to manage decreasing enrollments in liberal arts courses and programs. The goal was to generate a robust set of policy options designed to enable higher education leaders to optimally respond to the myriad internal and external threats to the liberal arts disciplines. Pedagogical considerations and policy implications will be discussed.

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Pacific Solo: A Voyage to Nemo North in the Middle of the North Pacific Garbage Patch
Featured Presentation: Lowell Sheppard

Lowell Sheppard has swapped a bicycle for a boat. Having cycled the length of Japan more than once to raise awareness and money for sustainability development causes, Sheppard is preparing for a 2-3 month solo crossing of the North Pacific, through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. He hopes to raise awareness for oceans and the increasing pollution in them. Lowell will share the thinking behind this mission and suggest concepts for individuals and organisations to consider when making strategic decisions. Lowell has recently launched Navigate22, an ethics consulting firm, aimed at helping individuals and organisations navigate the ethical complexities of the 21st Century with a sustainable 22nd Century in view.

Lowell Sheppard, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and published author, ethicist and social entrepreneur has spent a lifetime in the Sustainable Development sector. He is known by many for his work with HOPE International Development Agency over the last 40 years which has taken him to war and disaster zones and areas of extreme poverty.

He began his environmental activism in 1992 by planning a large environmental rally in Hyde Park for church groups across the UK called “Whose Earth” in the run up to the Earth Summit in Rio. He spends his time between two residences. One is a solar powered log house in central Japan and the other a 40-foot sailboat in Tokyo Bay which he is readying for his solo voyage.

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