Intl. Leadership & Collaboration
Profile of Professor M. Tariq Ahsan, PhD
Phone: +880-1711351685Profile Web: http://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/IER/909
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NYMZExIAAAA
Mohammad
Tariq Ahsan has been working at the Institute of Education and Research (IER)
of the University of Dhaka since 2001. Tariq completed his PhD on teacher
preparation for inclusion in education from Monash University, Australia in
2015 under the Australian Government’s prestigious Australian Leadership Awards
(ALAs) proogramme. He did a Master’s from the Flinders University of South
Australia in 2004-05 under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS)
programme. He has another Master’s on Education and a Bachelor of Education
(Honours) degree with high achievement and merit position from the IER,
University of Dhaka. Tariq served as the Chairman of the Department of Special
Education and Inclusion at IER, University of Dhaka in 2006-2007. Though Dr.
Ahsan’s academic career is based in Bangladesh, he put his footsteps regionally
and internationally in the areas of Educational Change and Pedagogical Reform towards
transformative skills, Digital Transformation in Education, Equity and
Inclusion in education, and Teacher preparation for futuristic education
through his research, teaching, policy reform initiatives, advocacy and
networking. Dr. Ahsan’s diversified career journey represents some unique and
solid contribution in the following areas
International Leadership and Collaboration and Entrepreneurship
Dr.
M. Tariq Ahsan has established an voluntary technical platform known as Asian
Centre for Inclusive Education (ACIE), Bangladesh, where academics from
Bangladesh, India, China, Japan, Pakistan, Australia, Canada, USA, UK are
collaborating together to promote educational reforms for ensuring equity and
inclusion in developing countries through awareness raising activities (i.e.
publications), conducting research, advocating with the Governments through
dialogue and seminars, developing networks through international conferences
etc. Academics are representing the universities in ACIE include, University of
Dhaka, SP Pune University, Cambridge University, UK; Monash University, East
China Normal University, University of Concordia Alberta, Canada; and University
of Massachusetts Boston, USA. As the secretariat of ACIE is in Bangladesh, this
platform has provided opportunity to work intensively in Bangladesh on
educational reforms and represents Bangladesh internationally. Dr. Tariq Ahsan,
under the banner of ACIE, regularly organizes international conferences and
seminars on educational reforms for equity and inclusion, which has now been an
iconic event for researchers and academicians around the world. So far, six
international conferences are being organized successfully in Bangladesh,
India, and USA, where 300-400 participants from 20-30 countries presented their
papers. The following table provides
some other international collaboration and leadership roles of Dr. Ahsan.
|
Sl. |
Period |
Description of the Responsibility |
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1 |
October 2020-June 2023 |
Gender and Inclusion Expert and Technical Proposal
Developer. Gender and Inclusive Pedagogy Expert, International
Collaborative Research of IER, Dhaka University for applying for the KIX
Global Partnership for Education through five country collaboration
(Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Timor-Leste), funded by IDRC, Canada. |
|
2 |
May-June 2021 |
Inclusion Expert for CBM Global, Netherlands.
Development of a project for disability inclusive community let education during
Covid 19. |
|
3 |
January-November 2018 |
Co-Organizer: Amar Jyoti
Charitable Trust, Delhi, India & Asian
Centre for Inclusive Education (ACIE). 5th International
Conference on Equity and Inclusion, Delhi, India,28-30 Nov. 2018. |
|
4 |
July-September 2017 |
Co-Organizer: University
of Massachusetts, Boston, USA & ACIE,
Organized an International seminar on Inclusive Education held in University
of Massachusetts, Boston, USA on 29 September 2017. |
|
5 |
2016-2017 |
National Lead (2016-17). Conducting a
comparative study in 20 Asian countries on SDG 4.7. MGIEP, India and
UNESCO-BKK. |
|
6 |
September- November 2011 |
Guest
Lecturer, Education and Learning
Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia. |
|
7 |
October 2010-February 2011 |
Organizer: Faculty of
Education, Monash University, Australia Role: Member, Organizing Committee,
Symposium on Inclusive Education in Asian Countries, 7-23 Feb 2011, held in
Monash University, Australia. 06 countries participated. |
|
8 |
19 August 2008 to 16 Sep, 2008 |
Education
Officer Intern, Dept. of Education & Early
Childhood Development, Eastern Metropolitan, VIC, Government of Australia |
|
9 |
November-December
2004 |
Team Member (2004).
Embracing Diversity: Toolkit for Creating Inclusive Learning Friendly
Environment for the Asia Pacific
Region. UNESCO-Bangkok. |