Dr. François Victor Tochon
Dr. Francois Victor Tochon is a Professor in the Departments of Curriculum & Instruction and French & Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is heading graduate studies in World Language Education. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (Université Laval) and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Ottawa University), and received the equivalent of Honorary Doctorates from two universities in Argentina and Peru. In 2015 Tochon received an official appointment as Honorary Professor from Henan University of Technology in China from its University President. In China, this is a highest recognition, far beyond the honorary doctorate.
In 2007-2008, he was awarded grants from Spencer and Tubitak—National Science and Technology Foundation of Turkey—to study ways to internationalize Education through e-portfolios, world languages and intercultural semiotics. In 2009-2012, Professor Tochon received an award from the U.S. Department of Education to create, research and evaluate personal learning environments for a “deep approach” to languages and cultures, with a focus on Turkish. It allowed his research team to format an innovative interface between language policies and classroom curricula and practices. Professor Tochon's article The Key To Global Understanding: World Languages Education. Why Schools Need to Adapt published in the Review of Educational Research (79/2) received the 2010 Award of Best Review of Research from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Among his books are: Tropics of Teaching: Productivity, Warfare, and Priesthood (University of Toronto Press), Apprendre en groupe (France University Press); Eduquer avant l'école (Montreal University Press); Recherche-intervention (Quebec University Press); Signs and Symbols in Education: Educational Semiotics (Deep University Press); The Foreign Self: Truth Telling as Educational Inquiry (Atwood). His 2014 book Help Them Learn a Language Deeply was a best seller in the U.S. and is a best seller in China. It is being translated in Chinese, Turkish, and Spanish. Professor Tochon received the 2012 Award of International Excellence from the University of Granada, Spain, and is a Professor of their Campus of Excellence. He has been awarded the 2013-2014 medal of the Council Chairperson of the Lions Club International in Taiwan, and the 2013-2014 medal of the Chairperson of the Lions Club International Foundation seated in Chicago. He is among the 1% most visited profiles of LinkedIn, and 1% most downloaded authors from Academia. He is now International Ambassador for isIPAL, has received the 2015 Excellence in Diversity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Education, the 2015 International Scholar Award of Shanghai Normal University. In August 2015 he received the Eminent Scholar Award from the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. |
Professor Tochon developed the concept of Deep Approach to languages and cultures, Deep Education, and Deep University. Professor Tochon is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Deep University. With 20 partner universities around the planet he created Deep University Press, and Deep University, a start up supported by the Lions Club International Foundation, is creating deep connective mass online courses (cMOOCs). See here: http://www.deepuniversity.net/
Professor Tochon is a specialist in applied semiotics. He was the co-editor and then Chief editor of the International Journal of Applied Semiotics. Briefly on the Board of the Semiotic Society of America, he worked on intercultural semiotics and was the president of the special interest group of Semiotics in Education of the American Educational Research University, looking for deeper ways of organizing language teaching and learning. He is also President of the International Network for Language Education Policy Studies (INLEPS): http://www.languageeducationpolicy.org With twenty-five books and more than hundred fifty articles and book chapters to his credit, Professor Tochon has also been Visiting Professor in several universities including Rio Cuarto (Argentina), Griffith and Southern Queensland (Australia), Brussels, Leuven, Mons (Belgium), BFSU, BLCU, Capital Normal, Chongqin, Henan University of Technology, ISST in Shanghai, Nanjing, Nanjing Aeronautic, Shanghai Normal, South China Normal, SISU, Yanbian University, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Normal (China), Akershus (Norway), Lyon, Paris V Sorbonne, Nanterre, Reims, Rennes, West Indies (France), Granada (Spain), Freiburg (Switzerland), MUST, NCKU, NKU, Tajen (Taiwan), Boğaziçi, METU-C, Suleyman Demirel, Suleyman Şa and Yildiz (Turkey), Arizona and Princeton (USA), etc. He is currently published in 14 languages. Introductions to his work in different languages are presented here: http://www.deepuniversity.net/introductions.html |
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