YI WAN

Last Updated :2026/03/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
E-mail
wanyihiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
ORCiD: 0000-0001-6691-2246

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2017/07, 2017/08, Japan International Cooperation Agency Hokuriku, Internship
  • 2022/07/01, UNESCO INRULED, consultant
  • 2024/11/01, 2025/01/31, Cardiff University, Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre, Research Associate
  • 2022/04/01, 2023/03/31, Faculty of Human-environment studies, Kyushu University, Research Associate
  • 2023/04, 2025/07, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Education, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 2025/08/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor

Educational Backgrounds

  • Kumamoto University, Exchange student, 2013/10, 2014/09
  • Kyushu University, Japan, 2016/04, 2018/03
  • Kyushu University, Japan, 2018/04, 2022/03

Academic Degrees

  • PhD(Education), Kyushu University
  • International Education and Development, Kyushu University

Research Fields

  • Social sciences;Education;Education

Research Keywords

  • Comparative and international education, area studies, International education and development

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, History of Japanese Educational Development
  2. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Foundations of Education

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Caring and empowerment:Thirty years of experience and development in girls'education in China-A case study of the"Spring Bud Project", 39(2), 18-23, 202507
  2. Life on the Watershed: An Ethnographic Study of Tracking Migrant Children's Choices After Junior High, Comparative Study of Education and Culture, 20, 20211005
  3. Necessity for school improvement and family support on dropout issues: field notes of a case study in rural northeastern China, Comparative Study of Education and Culture, 21, 20211001
  4. Note on Methodology for Rural Children's Education Research:Monograph to describe a process of data collection, Tobiume, 20210325
  5. Capacity or money? Why students choose to drop out of junior high school in rural northeast China, Educational Review, 20210302
  6. Points Systems and Migrant Access to China's Urban Public Schools, The China Quarterly, 249, 20211117
  7. Migrant children's post-primary educational trajectories:A three-year study in urban Beijing, Chinese Education & Society, 20250728
  8. ★, Regulating Low-Cost Private Schools for Poor Migrant Children in China: Standardisation or Stratification?, Educational Review, 20220526
  9. ★, Surviving the Margins: Resilience Strategies of Low-Cost Private Schools., Educational Review, 20250923
  10. ★, Discipline and moralise: gratitude education for China's migrant families, Comparative Education, 20240103

Publications such as books

  1. 2025/10, The Chinese path to gender equality: A commemorative collection for the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women., Caring and empowerment:Thirty years of experience and development in girls'education in China-A case study of the"Spring Bud Project", 2025, 10, Scholarly Book, Contributor, 中国語
  2. Educational Empowerment in China's Underserved Regions:The BNU Qiangshi Project for Quality Teachers, UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education, 2025, Report, Single work
  3. 2022/12, Evaluation of the Spring Bud Project (1989-2022)Final Report, UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education, 2022, 12, Report, Joint work, English

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. The future of AI in Education: Policy, Practice, and Research, From Insights to Action: Shaping the Future of AI in Education and Lifelong Learning, 2025/11, With Invitation, English, Beijing Normal University, National Open University, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Beijing
  2. Urban Citizenship of Rural Migrants in Reform-era China, International Symposium of Identity Politics and the Challenges of Cultural Diversity Across Contemporary Asia: Education, international relations and popular culture, 2021/02/04, With Invitation, English
  3. The implications of China's new urbanization policies for the education of migrant children, the World Social Science Forum (WSSF) 2018, 2018/09/28, Without Invitation, English, preprint
  4. To Study in Urban Public Schools: A points-based system for migrant children, the World Education Research Association (WERA) 2019 Focal Meeting, 2019/08/08, Without Invitation, English, preprint
  5. Points systems and migrant access to China's urban public schools, Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA), 2021/09/25, Without Invitation, English, preprint
  6. Empowering disadvantaged populations: insights from the transformation of rural education, UNESCO INRULED Development Consultation Meeting, 2023/07/08, Without Invitation, English, UNESCO INRULED, Beijing, preprint
  7. Empowering Rural Girls' Education:Evidence from the Spring Bud Project, Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA), 2023/11/24, Without Invitation, English, Hiroshima, preprint
  8. Comparison of the Relationship between Original Knowledge and Values and Experiences in Service-Learning: A Case Study of the Namibian Children's Garden, Third Cross-Strait, Hong Kong and Macau Service-Learning Symposium, 2023/12/02, With Invitation, Chinese, Shanghai, preprint
  9. AI and lifelong leaning, Global Lifelong Learning Week, 2024/05/27, Without Invitation, English, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, preprint
  10. Navigating After-School Service Challenges for Marginalized Migrant Populations in Urban Villages, the 15th Asian Adult Education (AAE) Annual Conference in conjunction with American Adult Education Research Conference, 2024/06/12, Without Invitation, English, published
  11. Providing Health and Welling-being Programs for children in rural China, 2024/11/15, With Invitation, English, Cardiff University, Cardiff, published
  12. Social Emotional Learning practice in rural schools of China, Comparative education seminar, 2024/01/20, With Invitation, English, UCL Institute of Education, London, published

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Beijing Normal University-Cardiff University Joint Academic Exchange Fund, Integrating Education and Social Support: Constructing Social Support Networks for Vulnerable Children, 2024/.1, 2025/.2

Social Activities

History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2024, Routledge, Others, book proposal reviewer, 1
  2. 2025, the WERA 2025 Focal Meeting, Others, reviewer, 7
  3. 2025, Education Sciences, Others, reviewer, 1