Some of the world's leading educators will be speaking at the conference, including:

	Professor Zhong Binglin President, Beijing Normal University, China
	Professor Xie Weihe Vice President, Beijing Normal University, China
	Professor Michael Apple John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Education Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
	Professor Rima Apple University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
	Dr Bill Cope Director, Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture, Melbourne, Australia
	Professor James Paul Gee Tashia Morgridge Chair in Reading, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
	Dr Elisabeth Hayes Professor, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
	Professor Mary Kalantzis Dean, Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
	Professor Gunther Kress Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
	Professor Sarah Michaels Professor of Education, Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
	Denise Newfield Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
	Dr Ambigapathy Pandian Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Universiti Sans Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
	Richard Sohmer Research Associate, Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA.
	Pippa Stein Department of Applied English Language Studies, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
	Professor George Tsiakalos Professor of Pedagogy and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

SPEAKERS