Prof. Adesoji A. Oni

Education / Training

Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honours

• He has won several awards includes:
• Winner, Fafunwa Educational Foundation Award – As best Ph.D Thesis Award In Nigerian Universities Faculties of Education. September 23, 2006.
• Winner of 2008 $10,000 Text Book Writing grant for a Textbook Titled: Teacher Education Systems in Africa in Digital Era. Sponsored by Council for Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA) Senegal.
• Visiting Scholar of African-Korean Education Collaborative Exchange Programme. Institute of APEC Collaborative Education (IACE) in close collaboration with the African Development Institute (ADI) of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and Pusan National University, held between January 26 and February 9 2015 in Pusan and Seoul, South Korea.
• Fulbright Fellowship as a Visiting Scholar to Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, U.S.A. July 2003- May 2004. Winner of 2022 Shining Star Achievement in Research Award of Noam Chomsky Global Connections Award, Given by The Society of Transnational Academic Researchers (Star Scholar Network). This award recognizes influential scholarly contributions in any discipline or language, whether they be in the form of scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters, or other expressions of scholarly collaboration. It recognizes an exemplary publication, not an individual or individuals.
• Inducted to the International Educators Hall of Fame, 1850 E 17th Street, Suite# 103, Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA on 26th December 2020.
• United State Congress (House of Representatives) Certificate of Recognition as a Distinguished Inductee into the International Hall of Fame. December 27, 2020.
• The Rooney International Visiting Scholar. Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA. USA. August 27 – December 20, 2018.