Weili Zhao obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, in 2015, and is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Recipient of the 2019 Early Career Outstanding Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education SIG. With academic training in both discourse analysis and curriculum studies, she is interested in unpacking China’s current educational thinking and practices at the nexus, and as the (dis)assemblage of tradition and modernity, East and West. Specifically, her research explicates the historical–cultural–philosophical insights of Chinese knowledge, curriculum, and educational thinking, such as Yijing, Daoist, and Confucian wisdom, and puts them in dialogue with the latest Western scholarship. She has published a number of monographs and articles.
Daniel Tröhler has been Professor of Foundations of Education at the University of Vienna since 2017 and Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo since 2018. His research interests include the international and transnational developments of the last 250 years, with a focus on the 1800s and the Cold War, and relating the history of modern ideas to the history of institutions in the context of a broader cultural history by focusing on (educational) political and educational ideas and their materialization in school laws, curricula and textbooks, comparing different national and regional developments and investigating their possible mutual influences. He has published or edited over 50 books, 100 journal articles and nearly 150 book chapters in seven languages. He received the American Education Research Association’s Outstanding Book of the Year Award in 2012 for his book titled Languages of Education: Protestant Legacies, National Identities, and Global Aspirations (2011). He is currently working on the development of an ERC project proposal titled Nation state, curriculum and the fabrication of national-minded citizens.