1. Ad-Hoc Committee on the Advancement of Early Careers in CIE Survey
The Ad-Hoc Committee on the Advancement of Early Careers in Comparative and International Education (AECCIE) seeks to promote the advancement of early careers in comparative and international education. The AECCIE invites the participation of recent graduates and early career professionals in the survey below to identify the career needs of recent comparative and international education graduates.
Survey link: http://tinyurl.com/CIESearlysurvey
2. Call for Proposals - CIES Higher Education SIG - CIES 2016
Six Decades of Comparative and International Education: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
60th Annual Conference, March 6-10, 2016 Vancouver, B.C.
Dear Members of the CIES Higher Education Special Interest Group,
The 2016 CIES Conference call for proposals is out. The early-bird deadline for proposal submission is September 15, 2015 and the final deadline for all submissions is October 15, 2015.
This year's theme, Six Decades of Comparative and International Education: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, explores how the CIES and the field of Comparative and International Education have evolved over the decades, and where they are (and/or should be) going
The Higher Education SIG (HESIG) promotes the study, research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge about issues related to higher education theory, policy, and practice. Our HESIG invites all comparative researchers, policymakers, practitioners, representatives of international organizations, local and global non-governmental organizations, and members of the civil society to share their Higher Education insights and experiences and stimulate forward-looking debates. CIES membership is required to present at the CIES 2016 HESIG Program.
HESIG sessions and posters at the CIES Conference will articulate the many questions your proposals will raise, and serve as the SIG’s platform for our 2016 Conference meetings and conversations. The program committee will give preference to individual papers and group panels that cross disciplinary boundaries, involve researchers from different countries and institutions, and connect academic scholarship with practitioners’ work. Of course, all ideas and proposals are welcome. Proposals must comply with CIES submission requirements. We will also ask our HESIG members to help review proposals.
Submission Guidelines are available at: http://www.cies.us/news/225952/CIES-2016-Conference-Call-for-Proposals.htm
Volunteer to review Proposals
If you have any questions, please contact the Program Co-Chairs, Esther E. Gottlieb, at gottlieb.26@osu.edu and Gerardo Blanco Ramírez, at gerardo.blanco@umb.edu
3. Call for Journal Articles - Educational Studies Moscow
The journal Educational Studies Moscow / Вопросы образования is pleased to announce a special issue on the “Recruitment, Education, and Retention of Teachers: Issues and Challenges in the Region.” This issue is guest edited by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor of Comparative and International Education at Columbia University, and Elena Anatolieva Lenskaya, Dean of the Education Management Faculty and Director of the Development Department at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.
In the 21st century the profession of teaching is becoming more important than ever, as students need to be prepared to contribute to a quickly evolving globalized economy and to live in a world replete with rapidly developing new technologies. Moreover, in the decades since the fall of the USSR, nations in Central and East Europe, the Caucasus region, Central Asia and Mongolia have undergone profound social and political changes, including in many cases educational reform. This calls for an examination of the teaching profession in those areas, what its goals are, and how it may or should develop.
We therefore welcome research on any aspect of recruitment into teaching in the regions named above. Potential topics may include but are not limited to teacher salaries, hiring and retention, teacher education, training and professional development, admissions criteria to teacher education programs, educational policy, infrastructure in school systems, or assessment of curricular and teaching effectiveness.
Please send queries or manuscripts via email to: Ivan Eubanks, Chief Editor of English Issues — ieubanks@nes.ru. Please put “Teacher Recruitment” in the subject line of your message.
To ensure consideration, completed manuscripts should be submitted by October 1, 2015.
All submitted research articles will undergo a double-blind peer review. Other materials will be evaluated for publication by the journal’s Editorial Board. Original work in English is preferred, but work in Russian will be considered. Authors selected for publication will have their work translated and distributed twice—once in English, once in Russian.
Educational Studies Moscow / Вопросы образования is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly that has been published by the Russian National Research University, “Higher School of Economics,” for the past ten years. The work of scholars in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities is welcome, and research on the history, philosophy, sociology, psychology and economics of education regularly appears in the journal. You may learn more about the journal’s scope and mission at our website: http://vo.hse.ru/en/.
4. Hellenic Pedagogical Cosmos Journal - May 2015
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5. 8th World Environmental Education Congress “Planet and People – How can they develop together"
The international World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) addresses education for environment and sustainable development. It is THE meeting point for everyone working with education for environment and sustainable development and those having an interest in the field. WEEC 2015 is an opportunity to learn more about the latest in environmental and sustainability education, to discuss with people from all over the world, to share your own work and to learn from others.
For more information: http://weec2015.org/
6. Registration is now open for the International Colloquium on Languages and Cultures in School and Society
Registration is now open for the I International Colloquium on Languages and Cultures in School and Society, to be held in Soria, Spain, July 1-3, 2015. The deadline for early registration is May 30th, 2015.
The Colloquium is organized by the School of Education, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, and will revolve around the following
topics:
- Individual, school and societal bilingualism/multilingualism
- Multi/Inter/Transculturalism in families, schools, and society
- Impact of bi/multilingualism on language, culture, & identity
- Impact of multi/inter/transculturalism on language, culture, & identity
- Use of students' native languages in the classroom
- Promotion of minority languages
- Bilingual and immersion programs
- Impact of immigration on families
- Ethnic and cultural identity issues
- Ethnic and cultural differences between teachers and students
Other topics considered pertinent by the Organizing Committee Presenters represent universities from Brasil (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Pontificia Catolica de Sao Paulo), Mexico (Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla), Canada (Universidad de Manitoba), EE.UU. (New Mexico State University, Arizona State University) and Spain (Universidad de Burgos and Universidad de La Rioja).
Click here for program and general information about the Colloquium. You can also visit www.languagecultureidentity.com, or email Francisco Ramos at framos@lmu.edu, or Isabel Sanz at isasanzji@gmail.com
7. CALL for PAPERS GENDER AND EDUCATION
SPECIAL ISSUE: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Education Work
SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS: Dr. Sarah A. Robert, Dr. Heidi Pitzer, Dr. Ana Luisa, Muñoz García
This special issue will explore intersections of gender and education work in a global, neoliberal reform context By education work, we purposefully leave the interpretation open and encourage submissions illuminating the contributions of multiple stakeholders in education projects. Gender is involved in educational policy (Stambach & David, 2005), embedded in the historical conceptualizations of school actors (David, 1980; Smith & Griffith, 2004) and the gendered persons who negotiate the boundaries of new assemblages of governance, the economy, and education (Ball & Junemann, 2012). However, the gendered aspects of the current neoliberal context have been undertheorized. The feminine and feminized nature of educating constructs women and men as in need of surveillance and discipline. This links with current neoliberal “solutions” such as merit pay, high-stakes testing, standardization, hyper-credentialing, the publishing of ratings/rankings and other so-called performance indicators. Through the demand for accountability, policies and discourses require that education workers be made visible— sometimes as technicians, other times as professionals—but these same policies treat their work as an absent presence (Apple, 1983; Lather, 1994). How are policies and notions of education work gendered in these new assemblages? While scholars have recognized how neoliberalism reshapes “the good teacher” (Connell, 2009) and redefines “teacher quality” (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2006) in harmful, constricting manners, there has been less consideration of how gendering of teaching allows for and furthers this reshaping. What or who is the emergent “global teacher” (Maguire, 2013; Robert, 2014)?
This special issue seeks contributions that examine how gendered and neoliberal logics intertwine to shape the boundary work of educators (early childhood, primary, secondary, higher education, and informal settings) (Seddon, Ozga, & Levin, 2013); we aim to highlight the ways in which educators negotiate these two forces in and through their work.
Within the boundaries of neoliberalism, gender, and education work, papers could address the following themes:
• Conceptualizing the global-to-local movement of neoliberalism
• Demands of and for affective labour
• Intersectional inequities naturalized and neutralized within/by neoliberal discursive regimes
• Neoliberal subjectivities, entrepreneurial selves
• Historicizing the transformation of education work/workers
• Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) and neoliberal visions of education-to-work
• Migration and schooling
• Sexuality and the body in the neoliberal school/curriculum
Prospective contributors are invited to submit an expression of interest and extended abstract of up to 750 words by June 22, 2015 to Sarah Robert at: saraharobert@gmail.com.
By July 20, 2015 the guest editors, working in conjunction with the journal editors, will contact all contributors and inform them of the outcome of their submission. At that stage, a selection of authors will be invited to submit a full paper for the Special Issue by 14th September 2015. It should be noted that an invitation to submit a full paper does not guarantee publication as all papers will be subject to the double-blind referee process utilised by Gender and Education. The special issue is anticipated to be published in Volume 28 of the journal, which appears in print throughout 2016.
8. Request for Submissions - Teaching Comparative Education SIG
The Teaching Comparative Education SIG (TCE SIG) invites all university faculty and instructors to submit work as part of the Comparative Education Instructional Materials Archive (CEIMA), an ongoing project of the TCE SIG, partially funded by CIES. CEIMA collects and posts comparative and international education instructional materials from universities worldwide on a web-based archive (http://www.ciestcesig.org/ceimahome/) to enhance instructional practice, promote inter-university dialogue, and document the dynamic and evolving nature of the field through its platform and resource sharing. Examples of work collected and posted in CEIMA include descriptions and explanations of in-class activities, paper and presentation assignments, small-scale ethnographic research projects, and other innovative instructional materials along with accompanying course syllabi on comparative and international education topics. To access CEIMA, its collected materials, or submit new materials, please go to the TCE SIG website (http://www.ciestcesig.org/) and click on “CEIMA” in the upper right navigation bar. From that next page, you can access information and materials obtained through CEIMA, or submit your own materials by following the instructions provided in the “Submit Materials” section. Please send any and all questions regarding CEIMA or the Teaching Comparative Education SIG to ciestcesig@gmail.com.
9. Humanitarian Partnership Conference Call for Proposals
THE 3RD ANNUAL HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE 2015
Theme:
“Establishing new partnerships and strengthening existing partnerships between implementing agencies, government, learning institutions and the private sector”
Conference Information
Venue: The BOMA Inn, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: 15th to 17th September 2015
Humanitarian practitioners and academicians in Africa and around the world will be hosting the 3rd Annual Humanitarian
Partnership Conference (HPC) in Nairobi, Kenya on the 15th to 17th of September 2015. In the face of the ever changing humanitarian environment, HPC seeks to bring together actors from the humanitarian field, academic sphere, private and public arena to respond to the needs of the humanitarian sector through a partnership approach.
The specific objectives of the conference are to come up with recommendations on how the humanitarian sector needs to engage with:
Private Sector, in delivering effective humanitarian interventions while observing humanitarian principles.
- Academia, in maximizing the opportunity to improve the quality of training and research in the humanitarian sector
- Microenterprise initiatives, especially in first phase of response.
For more information click here or visit humanitarianpartnershipconference.wordpress.com
Job Postings
Chief of Party/Project Director | FHI360 (Posted 5/20/2015)
Sr. Research Associate | FHI360 (Posted 5/20/2015)
Director, Literacy | Room to Read (Posted 5/13/2015)
Senior Project Officer, Policy Analyst, Education Research | UNESCO (Posted 5/6/2015)
Research Officer | UNESCO (Posted 5/6/2015)
Research Officer (Higher Education) | UNESCO (Posted 5/6/2015)
Click here to view all openings posted on the CIES Website.
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