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Laura Blythe Liu, Ed.D. is Faculty of Teacher Education with Beijing Normal University’s Center for Teacher Education Research, where she previously completed a two-year postdoctoral research position focused on teacher educator international professional development. In additional to international teacher and teacher educator professional development, Laura’s current research includes sociocultural narrative inquiry, aesthetic inquiry, international views on diversity and equity, and creative pedagogies for globally inclusive classrooms. Before completing her postdoctoral work, Laura served as adjunct faculty in Literacy Methods with the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and in Multicultural and Philosophical Foundations of Education course with the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership and Educational Sciences. She completed her doctoral work in with a full scholarship award with The George Washington University’s School of Education and Human Development, where her dissertation in Curriculum and Instruction and examined one teacher education faculty’s infusion of multicultural education across a program.

• Conceptualizing Achievement in an Era of Globalization.- Teacher Educator International Professional Development.- Aesthetic Narrative Inquiry.- ntegrity as Complementary Contrasts.- Teacher Educator International Professional Development as仁 (ren).- Global Implications for Evolving Conceptions of Achievement.