KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote 1: Rekindling people’s sense of hope and purpose during the Covid-19 pandemic: The power of group (self- and) career construction counselling
Prof. Dr. Jacobus Gideon (Kobus) Maree
University of Pretoria
Prof. Kobus Maree (DEd (Career Counselling); PhD (Learning Facilitation in Mathematics); DPhil (Psychology)) is a full Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria. His main research interests are career construction (counselling), life design (counselling), emotional‐social intelligence and social responsibility, and learning facilitation in mathematics. He links research results to appropriate career choices and to life designing.
Prof. Maree has authored or co‐authored 100 + peer‐reviewed articles and 55 books/ book chapters on career counselling, research and related topics since 2009. In the same period, he supervised 30 doctoral theses and Master’s dissertations and read keynote papers at 20 + international and at 20 + national conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arumugam Raman
Universiti Utara Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Raman is a faculty member at the School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia. His research interests include Educational Technology, Instructional Technology, Computers in Education, Educational Research Methodology, Technology and ICT, Statistics for Educational Research and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). He has engaged in many research projects and has received a total of five grants from the university, national (FRGS, RAGS) and college (Leads). He is better known as an Educational Technologist and he is currently teaching ICT in Education, Research Methods and Statistics in Education. Besides, he has written international articles and books which have been published at national as well as international levels. Furthermore, he is also a member of professional bodies namely, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Internet Society (ISOC) and Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia.