Ganesh Bahadur Singh is a Reader of Curriculum and Evaluation in the
Faculty of Education of Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has been
associated with Tribhuvan University for the last fifteen years. His involvement
in the education field is in teaching, training and research. He has contributed
to several studies on assessment practices in the Nepalese education system.
He was involved in formative research on classroom teaching and learning
practices in Nepalese primary classrooms for seven consecutive years until
2008 and served as programme developer and radio serial script writer in the
Enter-educate Radio Programme for Health Workers for about five years. He
has been a consultant for various organizations, including ADB, World Bank,
UNESCO, UNDP, ESAT/Danida, DUE/Danida, CEC/UK, NFHP, CEDPA, JHU Nepal,
JICA Nepal and CARE Nepal. Currently, he is associated with the development
and implementation of critical thinking methods in Nepalese education.
Akina Ueno is a Researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
She holds a Master of International Education and Development from
the University of Sussex, UK. She has taught English and trained teachers
in primary and secondary schools in Japan, and currently she works with
the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia as an Education project consultant. She
also works with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia, as
an advisor for the Development of National English Textbooks for Lower
Secondary School project. Her research interests include teacher education,
teacher motivation, and pedagogy for nurturing non-cognitive skills in South-
East Asian countries.
Cresantia Koya Vaka’uta is the Associate Dean of Research and
Internationalization in the Faculty of Arts, Law and Education at the University
of the South Pacific, where she has worked for the last fourteen years. She
teaches in the areas of curriculum development and design; education in
small island developing states; and culture and multiculturalism in education.
Her research interests include Education for Sustainable Development,
Pacific indigenous research methodologies, Pacific pedagogies, Citizenship
Education, the student learning experience, art as a social learning tool, Pacific
research and evaluation, and transformational leadership. Her research and
community work over the past decade has focused on active engagement in
education and art and culture engagement in her home country, Fiji, and the
wider Pacific. Specific areas of interest include policy, capacity development
and leadership. Dr Koya is passionate about the need to enhance and increase
Pacific research and to foster discourse from the Pacific islands in the areas of
education and development, and the need to protect indigenous knowledge
and cultural heritage.