Members are listed in alphabetical order by country.
Sasagawa Koichi is a professor at the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, Hosei University.
Han SoongHee is Professor of Lifelong Education at the Department of Education, Seoul National University, Korea. His academic interests include comparative studies in lifelong learning, popular adult education and learning ecology. He is the co-coordinator of network 5 on Core Competences within the ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning.
Won-Pyo Hong is an assistant professor, teacher education programme at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Imun-Dong, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul, Korea, 130-791; e-mail: eduhong@hufs.ac.kr. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Department of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He then earned his Ph. D from Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. He specializes in curriculum studies, and his scholarship includes theory and practice with regard to school curriculum, curriculum policy analysis, and global and multicultural education. Recently, he is interested in redirecting the nature and role of school curriculum from transmitting content knowledge in subject areas to developing students’ core competencies.
Andra Fernate is Doctor of Pedagogy (Dr.paed.), a senior researcher of the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, the Faculty of Education and Psychology, the University of Latvia. She aslo works as academic staff in the interuniversity Master's programme "Educational Treatment to Diversity" and councilor of doctoral school "Human Capacity and Life-wide Learning in Inclusive Context of Diversity". She is also vice-rector of studies, an assistant professor in the Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE). Her PhD Thesis "Transdisciplinary approach to physical literacy research" offers an innovative approach for research of physical literacy. Her scientific interests encompass researches on pedagogy and sport science with focus on sport pedagogy and psychology. Her main research fields are new generation learning quality, effectiveness and quality assurance in higher education, quality of learning outcomes (core competences, social cultural approach) and sports education as pupils' long-term development and health facilitator.
Dr. Saemah Rahman is associate professor in Educational Psychology. Currently she is a Deputy Dean for Undergraduate studies, Alumni and Industrial Relations at the Faculty of Education, Universiti kebangsaan Malaysia. Her research interests include learning and metacognition, thinking skills, learning to learn skills and integration of ICT in teaching and learning. Her current research projects are: 1) Using metacognitive approach to develop expert learner, and 2) Knowledge construction in mobile learning environment and 3) Developing competent learner for lifelong learning.
Dr. Kua Wongboonsin obtained his A.M. and Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. His fields of expertise include Demographic Analysis, Population and Development. He is Vice-President for Research Affairs, Chulalongkorn University. He is also a faculty member of the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University. During 1990s, he took directorship at the Institute of Population Studies, a former name of the College of Population Studies. He has also participated in these professional societies: the Thai Population Association (Member, President 1995-2000); the Social Science Association of Thailand; Population Association of America; the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
