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The 2nd Honolulu Education Conference – Held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from Thursday through Saturday, March 27-29, 2025»
Welcome to HEC 2025
We welcome you to join us next spring in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA for the 2nd Honolulu Education Conference. HEC 2025 will be held from Thursday through Saturday, March 27-29, 2025.
This three-day, peer-reviewed, international conference invites in-person oral and poster presenters as well as audience. In addition, online virtual sessions are also available for participants that are unable to travel to Honolulu. For details regarding presentations, visit our submissions page.
Set against the backdrop of the picturesque Hawaiian Islands, the 2nd Honolulu Education Conference will convene leading scholars, policymakers, educators, and stakeholders from around the world to deliberate on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in the field of education.
HEC 2025 is being organized by the International Education for Sustainable Development Alliance.
About HEC 2025
In the wake of the unprecedented disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the global education landscape stands at a crossroads. The pandemic has reshaped the way we think about education. From the rapid transition to online learning to the profound impacts on student mental health, educators and policymakers have grappled with an array of complex issues. This conference provides a unique platform to examine the lessons learned and chart a course for the future.
HEC 2025 will address many of the most important contemporary themes and questions. For example, what can we learn from the pandemic about the effective use of technology in education? How can we ensure that all students have equal access to quality education, regardless of their socioeconomic background? What strategies can be implemented to support mental health within educational institutions? When considering insights into innovative teaching methods that emerged during the pandemic. how can these approaches enhance the learning experience in a post-COVID world? In the analysis of policy responses at local, national, and international levels, what has worked? What hasn’t worked and what can we do better to prepare for future crises?
With the theme of ‘Navigating the Path Forward,’ the 2nd Honolulu Education Conference encourages academics, educators, researchers, administrators and other professionals from around the world to submit abstracts in English on topics related to education of research done, or proposed research.
HEC2025 is being convened by INTESDA in association with the School of Public Policy at Chiang Mai University, Thailand; Los Angeles Pierce College, USA; and the Multicultural Center at Purdue University Indianapois (IUPUI), which has since merged with Indiana University, USA.
Final Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025
HEC 2025 Streams and Special Topics
- Administration, Policy and Leadership
- Arts & Humanities Education
- Business Education
- Culture, Equity and Social Justice
- Curriculum, Research and Collaboration
- Education Technology and Remote Learning
- Educational Testing, Measurement and Evaluation
- ESP and EAP
- General Education
- Higher Education and Further Education
- Language Education, Linguistics and ESL/EFL
- Liberal Education
- Literature and Literacy
- STEM Education and Life Science
- Special Topic: Innovations in Pedagogy
- Other Fields of Education (please specify)
Plan Your Attendance
Who Should Attend
HEC2025 is a special, international, peer-reviewed engagement for educators, academics, researchers, students and others who embrace the SDGs right to quality education, lifelong learning, innovation in the classroom, student engagement, access to education and human rights.
HEC 2025 Plenary Speakers
Jo Ann Oravec, Ph.D., is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater in the Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management. She received her MBA, MS, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Professor Oravec has written several books and over eighty peer-reviewed articles on computing, management, ethics, public policy, disability studies, and related topics. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin, the US’s first state-level council on information privacy issues. She has received more than twelve hundred academic citations of her journal articles. She has worked for public television and developed software along with her academic ventures. She has held visiting fellow positions at both Cambridge and Oxford.
Robert Reuschlein, Ed.D., is a faculty member at the Real Economy Institute. He has expertise in economic engineering and holds multiple degrees, including an Ed.D., MBA, CPA, and BSEE. Dr Reuschlein has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize multiple times. He has also authored several publications on topics such as Peace Economics, Military Keynesianism, and the Political Economy of War. He has taught academic courses on the subjects Peace Economics and Weather, Wealth, and Wars. His latest book is Weather, Wealth, and Wars (2021). Most recently, he has developed a Ukraine War game (2023) as a peace and conflict teaching tool.
Organizing Committee
Takayuki Yamada is a Charter and Founding Member of RID 2760 Rotary Club of Chubu Nagoya Mirai, where he also serves as a special advisor of the Polio Plus Committee of Japan. Over the past twenty years, he has organized and led multiple missions to South Asia and Southeast Asia to assist with immunization efforts to eradicate polio, deliver humanitarian supplies and support the SDGs. He has been a longstanding Rotarian serving on the strategic planning committee for the Rotary International Youth Exchange Program in Japan. He is the founding chairperson of INTESDA.
Michael Sasaoka oversees special programs, events and business development for INTESDA, which mobilizes ideas and raises awareness for sustainable development. Michael spent much of his formative and adolescent years growing up in Japan before returning to the USA where he earned degrees in business and Japanese. He is also a skilled Japanese-English interpreter, and has worked with the Japan Olympic Committee and various NPOs and NGOs.
About INTESDA
The International Education for Sustainable Development Alliance is a diverse community of educators, academics and nonprofit professionals founded in 2015, in part, to support the Sustainable Development Global Goals set by the United Nations. It is committed to addressing sustainable development issues through capacity building, advocacy, networking and sharing knowledge.