Gregery Misiaszek
Dr. Greg Misiaszek is a Freirean and a critical comparative educator. Dr. Misiaszek’s most current research is on the intersections between Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and environmental pedagogies, including Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), as they coincide and conflict with various spheres of citizenship (from local to planetary) and citizenship education models. His comparative ecopedagogical research has focused on how socio-environmental connections are taught, not taught, or mis-taught, and the local/global political reasons why. Before working at BNU, he worked for nearly 20 years at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Davis School of Gerontology helping to develop educational programs and managing transformative programs which focused on ending various types of social injustices including ageism, elder abuse, and disabilities discrimination (including fall prevention).
Lauren Misiaszek
Lauren joined the Beijing Normal University faculty in 2013. Before that, her two most recent full-time positions were as a United Kingdom Fulbright Scholar at Roehampton University in London and immediately before that for three years as a national program manager for the US Veterans Administration in Los Angeles. She has been involved with the leadership of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA since 2007. Her research and publications (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese) have focused on a wide range of issues broadly related to social justice and education. Lauren is a member of the Teaching in Higher Education Editorial Board.
Ahamed Tlili
Tlili joined the faculty of Beijing Normal University in 2021 as an Associate Professor and has since taken on multiple leadership roles, including Director of the ALECSO-SLIBNU "Smart Education" Joint Lab and Co-Director of the OER Lab at the Smart Learning Institute. Prior to this, he served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same institute (2019-2020) and held academic positions at institutions in Tunisia, Palestine, and Spain. His interdisciplinary research focuses on educational innovation, spanning artificial intelligence in education, gamified learning systems, open educational resources (OER), and inclusive smart learning environments.