Keynote Speakers
Dr Daniel J BABIKWA
Dr Babiwa's academic research and plublications include matters pertaining to participatory research methods; environmental education; development studies, adult education and people-centred development; community-based natural resource management, research and training. As with education and the creating of sustainable rural communities
Dr Bob JICKLING
Bob Jickling is currently a member of the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He has been involved with issues in education, environmental education, and environmental ethics for more than 20 years. He founded the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education in 1996 and has be an editor for the past 10 years. He was also a long-serving member of the steering committee for The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication(EECOM).
Bob Jickling's research interests include philosophy of education, environmental ethics, and relationships between environmental philosophy, ethics, education, and teaching. He is an active scholar with many publications and conference presentations. He also serves on a number of academic and editorial boards.
Among his professional achievements are:
The North American Association of Environmental Education 's Global Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Education at the Global Level by an Individual"
In October 2009 Dr Jickling was invited to co-chair the 5th World Environmental Education Congress
Dr Jickling serves on various boards including the Canadian Journal of Education; the Australian Journal of Environmental Education and the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
Professor Laessoe JEPPE
Jeppe Læssøe is a Professor of Environmental Education and co-director of Research Programme for Environment and Health Education at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark. His research is focused on social learning and socio-cultural change related to sustainable development issues. The different types of change agents, their relations and competences to cope with the socio-cultural dynamics they are facing are key topics of his research. His recent publications have been on participation, enthusiasm and mediators of participative non-formal learning processes. He has also written about modern everyday life and the meaning of nature, environment and consumption, and the history of environmentalism in Denmark. In his empirical projects he works with action research, formative evaluations and qualitative interviews. Since 2010 he has been chairing a national network on development of Education for Sustainable Development which was approved as Regional Centre of Expertise by United Nations University in 2011.