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Programme

Conference Outline

Monday, March 24, 2025Tuesday, March 25Wednesday, March 26Thursday, March 27Friday, March 28Saturday, March 29

13:00-16:00: Pre-Conference Workshops

17:00-19:00: Welcome Reception & Check-in | The Public Red Akasaka

Conference Venue: Toshi Center Hotel

10:00-11:00: Conference Check-in & Coffee | Subaru Room (5F)

11:00-11:05: Announcements | Orion Hall (5F)

11:05-11:30: Welcome Address & Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners | Orion Hall (5F)
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

11:30-12:15: Keynote Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

12:15-12:30: Conference Photograph | Orion Hall (5F)

12:30-13:45: Lunch Break

13:45-14:30: Keynote Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

14:30-15:30: Keynote Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

15:30-16:00: Extended Coffee Break | Subaru Room (5F)

16:00-17:00: Conference Poster Session 1 | Orion Hall (5F)

19:00-21:00: Conference Dinner | Shunju Tameikesanno
This is an optional ticketed event

Conference Venue: Toshi Center Hotel

09:15-09:45: Conference Check-in & Coffee | Subaru Room (5F)

09:45-10:00: Announcements & Welcome Address | Orion Hall (5F)

10:00-10:45: Keynote Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

10:45-11:15: Keynote Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

11:15-11:45: Featured Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

11:45-13:00: Lunch Break

13:00-13:30: Featured Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

13:30-14:00: Keynote Presentation | Orion Hall (5F)

14:00-15:00: Moderated Panel Discussion | Orion Hall (5F)

15:00-15:30: Extended Coffee Break

15:30-16:30: Conference Poster Session 2 | Orion Hall (5F)

Conference Venue: Toshi Center Hotel

08:30-09:15: Conference Check-in & Coffee | 6F

09:15-10:55: Onsite Parallel Session 1

10:55-11:10: Coffee Break

11:10-12:50: Onsite Parallel Session 2

12:50-13:05: Coffee Break

13:05-14:20: Onsite Parallel Session 3

14:20-14:35: Coffee Break

14:35-16:15: Onsite Parallel Session 4

16:30-18:10: Coffee Break

16:30-18:10: Onsite Parallel Session 5

Conference Venue: Toshi Center Hotel

08:30-09:15 Conference Check-in & Coffee | 6F

09:15-10:55: Onsite Parallel Session 1

10:55-11:10: Coffee Break

11:10-12:50: Onsite Parallel Session 2

12:50-13:05: Coffee Break

13:05-14:45: Onsite Parallel Session 3

14:45-15:00: Coffee Break

15:00-16:40: Onsite Parallel Session 4

Conference Venue: Online via Zoom

07:55-08:00: Message from IAFOR

08:00-08:45: Keynote Presentation

08:45-09:00: Break

09:00-10:40: Online Parallel Session 1

10:40-10:50: Break

10:50-12:30: Online Parallel Session 2

12:30-12:40: Break

12:40-14:20: Online Parallel Session 3

14:20-14:30: Break

14:30-16:10 Online Parallel Session 4

16:25-16:30: Message from IAFOR

*Please be aware that the above schedule may be subject to change.

Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity.
As of January 5, 2025, ACEID2025 has received over 940 submissions from 75+ countries and territories - including: Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.

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Important Information Emails

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Conference Programme & Abstract Book

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on February 10, 2025. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.
The Conference Programme & Abstract Book will contain session information and a detailed day-to-day presentation schedule. The final schedule, along with details on how to access the online sessions and what to prepare for your presentation, will be available on the Conference Website from February 10, 2025.

Featured Presentations

  • Education for Good Global Governance
    Education for Good Global Governance
    Jun Arima, Brendan M. Howe
  • The Forum
    The Forum
    From London to Tokyo: The Forum’s Intellectual Journey Continues

Featured Speakers

  • Jun Arima
    Jun Arima
    IAFOR & University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Dexter Da Silva
    Dexter Da Silva
    Keisen University, Japan
  • Beth Hedva
    Beth Hedva
    Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences, Canada
  • Brendan Howe
    Brendan Howe
    Ewha Womans University, South Korea
  • Davy Tsz Kit Ng
    Davy Tsz Kit Ng
    The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Chi-Shing Tse
    Chi-Shing Tse
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Michael Menchaca
    Michael Menchaca
    University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, United States
  • Melina Neophytou
    Melina Neophytou
    IAFOR, Japan
To be announced

Previous Programming

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

ACEID2024
ACEID2023 ACEID2022 ACEID2021
ACEID2020 ACEID2019 ACEID2018
ACEID2017 ACEID2016 ACEID2015
Education for Good Global Governance
Jun Arima, Brendan M. Howe

Good governance involves reconciling conflicting interests, generating collective good, providing security for all, and respecting the rule of law. At the state level, these aspirations manifest in the instruments of government. Internationally, however, we aspire to achieve similar goals but in the absence of formal governing mechanisms. Global governance represents both the attempts to govern internationally and the production of policy guidelines and best practices for national governments. Global governance faces many challenges, including climate change, pandemics, demographic timebombs involving both growth and shrinkage of youth sectors, democratic recession, authoritarian populism, and the humanitarian crisis of forced migration and refugees. While the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has democratised access to information, it has not necessarily led to the propagation of knowledge. Education plays a crucial role in allowing global citizens to make informed choices when it comes to the construction of governance structures and selection of their representatives. This panel focuses on the importance of dissemination of principles of good governance in the face of these challenges. Participants will address responsibilities towards others, including future generations, of those who govern, and of the citizens of the world.

Read presenters' biographies
The Forum
From London to Tokyo: The Forum’s Intellectual Journey Continues

After successful Forum discussions in Kyoto, London, and Paris, IAFOR is bringing this intellectual caravan to Tokyo, continuing its intellectual journey around the world.

The Forum is a series designed as a platform for international, intercultural, interdisciplinary—and inclusive— discussions, joining experts and practitioners alike in an interactive and open dialogue format.

IAFOR invites all conference delegates to participate in The Forum to discuss on-the-cusp topics derived from our conference programmes.

Jun Arima
IAFOR & University of Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Professor Jun Arima is the President of IAFOR, and the senior academic officer of the organisation. In this role, Professor Arima is the Honorary Chair of the International Academic Advisory Board, as well as both the Academic Governing Board and its Executive Committee. He also sits on the IAFOR Board of Directors.

Jun Arima was formerly Director General of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), UK from 2011 to 2015 and Special Advisor on Global Environmental Affairs for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan, from 2011 to 2015. He has previously held various international energy/environment-related positions, including: Head of Division, Country Studies, International Energy Agency (IEA); Director, International Affairs Division, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, METI; and Deputy Director General for Environmental Affairs at METI’s Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau. In the COP (UN Convention on Climate Change) 14, 15 and 16, he was Japanese Chief Negotiator for AWG-KP.

Since 2015 Jun Arima has been a Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches Energy Security, International Energy Governance, and Environmental Policies in the Graduate School of Public Policy. (GraSPP). He is also currently a Consulting Fellow at the Japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He is also Executive Senior Fellow at the 21st Century Public Policy Institute, Principal Researcher at the International Environmental and Economic Institute (IEEI), Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow, at the Asia Pacific Institute of Research (APIR), Senior Policy Fellow on Energy and Environment, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and was the Lead Author, the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).

Dexter Da Silva
Keisen University, Japan

Biography

Dr Dexter Da Silva is currently Professor of Educational Psychology at Keisen University in Tokyo. He has taught EFL at junior high school, language schools, and universities in Sydney, Australia, and for more than two decades has been living, and teaching at the tertiary level, in Japan. Professor Da Silva was educated at the University of Sydney (BA, Dip. Ed., MA), and the University of Western Sydney (PhD). He has presented and co-presented at conferences in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States, co-edited two books on Motivation in Foreign Language Learning, and written or co-written articles and book chapters on education-related topics, such as trust, student motivation, autonomy, and content-based language teaching. He is a past editor of On CUE Journal, past president of the Asian Psychological Association, regular reviewer for conferences, proceedings, journal articles and book chapters, and regularly co-chairs and participates in the Organising Committee of conferences on Motivation, Language Learning and Teaching, and Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.

Previous Presentations:

Panel Presentation (2024) | Communication and Education for Peace
Featured Panel (2020) | Educating Children in Vulnerable Communities
Beth Hedva
Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences, Canada

Biography

Dr Beth Hedva, has been called by United Nations ambassadors and national associations to assist in a variety of humanitarian missions across the globe. She has trained and upgraded psychologists and volunteer recovery workers in the two deadliest natural disasters of the century – the 2004/5 tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia and the 2010 Haitian earthquake; supported post-civil war healing in Sierra Leone; developed and lead multigenerational-genocide trauma recovery in post-Vietnam Cambodia; facilitated recovery from colonisation, and tackled racism between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. A licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist, international lecturer, and trainer of helping professionals, Dr Hedva is a former Director of the International Council of Psychologists and Canadian Chair of the Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention.

Dr Hedva's reputation grew from blending emerging and contemporary clinical psychological practices with ancient and indigenous cultural healing and spiritual approaches to develop a uniquely flexible integrative strategy for individual and community health and wellness. Award-winning author of Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness: A Guide to Emotional Healing and Self Renewal, she is listed in the 12th Edition of The World Who’s Who of Women, Marquis Who’s Who in America; and the American Biographical Institute’s Hall of Fame for Humanitarian Contributions in Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Brendan Howe
Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Biography

Brendan Howe is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, where he has also served two terms as Associate Dean and Department Chair. He is also currently the President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, and an Honorary Ambassador of Public Diplomacy and advisor for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the East-West Center (where he is currently enjoying a second term as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow), the Freie Universität Berlin, De La Salle University, the University of Sydney, Korea National Defence University, Georgetown University, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Educated at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent at Canterbury, Trinity College Dublin, and Georgetown University, his ongoing research agendas focus on traditional and non-traditional security in East Asia, human security, middle powers, public diplomacy, post-crisis development, comprehensive peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He has authored, co-authored, or edited around 100 related publications including Society and Democracy in South Korea and Indonesia (Palgrave, 2022), The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers (Lexington Books, 2021), UN Governance: Peace and Human Security in Cambodia and Timor-Leste (Springer, 2020), Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development (Routledge, 2018), National Security, State Centricity, and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016), Democratic Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2015), Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014), and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).

Previous Presentations

Panel Presentation (2024) | Communication and Education for Peace
Keynote Presentation (2023) | Internationalisation, Education and Development Cooperation in East Asia
Featured Discussion (2023) | IAFOR’s Collaborative Efforts: AAS and the IAFOR Research Centre
Davy Tsz Kit Ng
The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Biography

Dr Davy Tsz Kit Ng is currently an Assistant Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He was previously an IT Panel Head at a local secondary school in Hong Kong and a Visiting Scholar at the Division of Integrative Systems and Design, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Education and Technology from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), a Master of Education in Educational Psychology, a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and a postgraduate qualification in ICT Education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong. His research interests lie in the areas of Generative AI literacy, the metaverse and STEAM education, and technology-enhanced pedagogic innovation.

He has published around 50 articles, many in Q1 journals, and authored a book on AI literacy that obtained the China New Development Award from Springer Nature in 2023. His work is informed by recent research on using ChatGPT in self-regulated learning and conceptualising AI literacy and the metaverse. He was a recipient of the Research Postgraduate Student Publication Award at HKU, the Social Innovation Leadership Award at CUHK, and the Outstanding Paper Award in the International Postgraduate Roundtable and Research Forum at The Education University of Hong Kong. He has been named in the 2024 Stanford's List of World's Top 2% Scientists in Education.

Chi-Shing Tse
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Biography

Professor Chi-Shing Tse currently teaches in the Department of Educational Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He also serves as the university’s Director of the Doctor of Education program and the Associate Director at the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies. His research spans several interdisciplinary fields, including autobiographical memory, learning sciences and technologies, psycholinguistics, and psychological well-being, reflecting a broad commitment to understanding complex cognitive and affective processes. In addition to his work as an educator and researcher, Professor Tse is involved in student affairs, holding the role of Associate Dean of Students at the university’s United College, where he plays a role in promoting the holistic development of students, placing a strong emphasis on mental health and well-being.

Michael Menchaca
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, United States

Biography

Michael Menchaca is a professor at the Department of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, United States. He specialises in distance education, and has designed, implemented, and coordinated online and hybrid programs for over 20 years. He serves as editor for the IAFOR Journal of Education: Technology in Education Edition. He was an IT specialist for many years in the public and private sector. As an educator, he teaches and conducts research in the areas of online learning, technology integration, and social justice with technology.

Melina Neophytou
IAFOR, Japan

Biography

Dr Melina Neophytou is the Academic Operations Manager at IAFOR, where she works closely with academics, keynote speakers, and IAFOR partners to shape academic discussions within The Forum, bring conference programmes together, refine scholarship programmes, and build an interdisciplinary and international community. She is leading various projects within IAFOR, notably The Forum discussions and the authoring of Conference Reports and Intelligence Briefings, and she oversees the Global Fellows Programme.

Born in Germany and raised in Cyprus, Dr Neophytou received her PhD in International Development from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2023, specialising in political sociology, the welfare state, and contentious politics. She received an MA in International Development from Nagoya University, with a focus on Governance & Law, and a BA in European Studies from the University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

Her research interests currently focus on the Japanese welfare state, family values within Japanese society, and their relationship to family policies. She is particularly interested in state-society relations by uncovering how informal social ideas influence formal social policy.