Professor
Ruth Hayhoe is a specialist in Comparative Education and a Sinologist. From
1997 to 2002 she headed the Hong Kong Institute of Education , and is now
President emerita. She is also a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy
Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto (OISE/UT), where she served from 1986 to 1997, including
appointments as Chair of the Higher Education Group and Associate Dean. Before
that she held teaching positions at Heep Yunn School in Hong Kong, at Fudan
University in Shanghai and at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education in
London, as well as holding a diplomatic post at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing
from 1989 to 1991. She is the author
of about 75 articles and book chapters, as well as several books on Chinese
education and East West relations in education, including China¹s
Universities and the Open Door (New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1989), China¹s Universities 1895-1995: A
Century of Cultural Conflict (CERC, University of Hong Kong, 1999), and Portraits of
Influential Chinese Educators (Hong Kong: CERC, University of Hong Kong and Europe:Springer,
2006). She has also edited many books, including East West Dialogue in
Knowledge and Higher Education (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), Knowledge Across Cultures: A
Contribution to Dialogue among Civilizations,
(CERC,University of Hong Kong, 2001) , and Education, Culture and
Identity in 20th Century China (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
Professor
Hayhoe holds MA and PhD degrees in Comparative Education from the University of
London Institute of Education and a BA degree in Classics from the University
of Toronto. She obtained a
Certificate of Education (Distinction) from the University of Hong Kong in
1977, and a Diploma of Theology (Distinction) from the University of London in
1978.
Advisory Professor to ten universities
in different regions of China, she has directed two major projects in
collaboration with Chinese Normal Universities in joint doctoral training and
educational research, with the support of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). She has also done extensive consultancy work for
both the World Bank and CIDA on China-related projects. In 2000 she was appointed trustee of
the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and from 2004 to 2010 she served
as Secretary of the Board. From 2002 to 2003 she served as a
member of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government. From 2005
t0 2010, she was Principal Investigator for a major research project, supported
by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, entitled
³China¹s Move to Mass Higher Education: Implications for Civil Society and
Global Cultural Dialogue.²
From
1998 to 2001 she was a member of the Education Commission in Hong Kong, and she
is a Past President of the Comparative and International Education Society,
based in the United States. In
1998, she was conferred the title of Honorary Fellow by the Institute of
Education, University of London. In 2002, she was named Commandeur dans l¹ordre
des Palmes Académiques by the Government of France, and was conferred a Silver
Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government. In November of 2002 she was
conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Education by the Hong Kong Institute of
Education. She was also named Zhijiang Chair Professor in Education at the East
China Normal University in Shanghai in 2002. In 2009, she was conferred a
Lifetime Achievement Award by the Higher Education Special Interest Group of
the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) and in 2010, she was
named an Honorary Fellow of the CIES.
Since
spring of 2002, she has been on a half-time appointment at OISE/UT, teaching
several courses there in the autumn, then living in Delray Beach, Florida, from
mid-December to early May of the following year.