1. Invitation for Nominations for the CIES Honorary Fellows Award
The Honorary Fellows Award was established by CIES in 1982 to honor senior members of the society who through a period of life-long service and contribution to the field of comparative and international education as evidenced by scholarship, teaching, research and technical service have advanced the field qualitatively and significantly. The award was established to recognize those scholars who have made the most marked contributions to growth in the field.
The criteria for selection of CIES Honorary Fellows are as follows:
- An outstanding record in two of the following areas in comparative and international education, and an adequate involvement in the third area:
- Scholarly research and publication
- Teaching and mentoring
- Policy, planning, evaluation, technical assistance and administrative activities
- A significant contribution to the development and quality of the Society
- A long and distinguished career spanning more than 30 years; normally the candidate will be 60 years or older
- Long and active membership in CIES, including the years immediately prior to nomination
The CIES Awards Committee invites nominations for the Honorary Fellows Award to be considered in 2014, named in 2015, and awarded at the annual CIES meeting in 2016. Nomination of candidates must be supported by the following items:
A letter of nomination by the chief nominator outlining the case for the nomination, with input if desired by the other nominators, and signed by the chief nominator.
- A minimum of five supporting letters from five current members of the CIES outlining the candidate’s strengths in each of the relevant areas. Additional letters from non-CIES members may be added at the discretion of the nominator.
- A copy of the candidate’s full academic curriculum vitae for the entire career.
These documents should be submitted by email attachment to the chair of the Honorary Fellows Sub-Committee. The nominator is requested to preserve a hard copy of the entire package with original signed letters to be sent to the CIES Archives after the nomination and decision process is completed. Advance notice may be given to the sub-committee of an impending nomination, and nominators are welcome to email to the Sub-committee Chair (below) for clarification of the process.
Nominations of candidates for the Honorary Fellows Award should be submitted to the Honorary Fellows Sub-committee Norma Tarrow (norma.tarrow@csulb.edu).
Deadline for submission of nominations: November 1, 2015
2. Call for Manuscripts: Comparative and International Education/Éducation comparée et internationale (CIE/ECI)
The peer-reviewed journal, Comparative and International Education/Éducation comparée et internationale (CIE/ECI) welcomes the submission of manuscripts for review. CIE/ECI is the official journal of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada and has been in existence since 1972. We are devoted to publishing scholarly writing on (formal and non-formal) education in a globalized world, from comparative and international perspectives. CIE welcomes Canadian comparative studies including research on indigenous and cross-cultural research and as well comparative research about other education settings and topics. The journal accepts manuscripts in both French and English that use a variety of methodological approaches, draw upon a wide range of theoretical frameworks, and speak to diverse contexts. Author submission guidelines can be found at http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cie-eci/
3. South Asia Special Interest Group Book Series: Call for Chapter Proposals
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce that the South Asia Special Interest Group at the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) will be working on a series of South Asia Education publications through Palgrave Macmillan publishing house. The series title is: South Asia Education Policy, Research and Practice. The first call under this series is titled: The Practice of Participation in Educational Development: Exploring the Roles, Goals, and Limits of Participatory Action Research in South Asia.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR?
- NGO’s or individuals working on education projects in the region who focus on Participatory Action Research (PAR) as defined in the attached proposal
- University Professors working on methods under PAR
- Researchers and scholars working on PAR and education in the South Asia region
- Government officials using PAR approach for project evaluations
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR IN A CHAPTER PROPOSAL?
1000-1200 words content with title and abstract speaking to one of the following sections:
- Using PAR as a development approach to education policy
- Using PAR as an educational approach to development
- A critical review of the relevance and impact on policy discourse and practice
- Showcase of some of the recent/ongoing educational applications of PAR
BY WHEN AND TO WHOM?
Content proposal along with 150 words authors’ bios to be sent to sasig.cies@gmail.com, copies to Matthew Witenstein at Matthew.Witenstein@cgu.edu and Radhika Iyengar at radhikaiyengar@gmail.com, by August 15th 2015.
For more details, please read the attached proposal. If you have any questions please send an email to sasig.cies@gmail.com. Please use APA style referencing in your article. Include 1 inch margins. Each article will be sent to reviewers for a blind review process
The South Asia SIG looks forward to receiving your contribution.
Sincerely,
SA SIG Executive Board &
Dr. Huma Kidwai, Senior Editor to the Volume
Dr. Rohit Setty, Senior Editor to the Volume
Dr. Radhika Iyengar, Senior Editor to the Volume
Dr. Matthew Witenstein, Senior Editor to the Volume
Dr. Erik Byker, Senior Editor to the Volume
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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/.
7. 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/
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Special Issue: Cultural and Academic Adjustment of Refugee Youth in Educational Settings
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are over 10 million refugees spread around the world living in varying conditions including refugee camps, temporary shelters, and permanent resettlement in other countries. The United Nations has specified in conventions, and researchers have concurred, that education is essential for refugee children’s social, psychosocial, and economic adjustment. However, in temporary spaces of refuge access to education is limited and generally of a low quality, with inadequate resources (Dryden-Peterson, 2011). Research suggests that refugee students continue to experience challenges in countries of resettlement (McBrien, 2005), and those with interrupted or no prior formal education are particularly at risk (Dooley, 2009).
The International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR) is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on the Cultural and Academic Adjustment of Refugee Youth in Educational Settings. The issue is intended to look at challenges and effective practices in various countries of temporary asylum and permanent resettlement of refugee youth. The editors hope to receive submissions that report on empirical work on refugee students at all levels of education: primary, secondary, and higher education; formal, informal, and non-formal (Brock, 2011); and in diverse national contexts. We welcome methodological approaches that rely on quantitative, qualitative, and/or participatory methods.
IJIR is concerned with intercultural relations, including topics such as acculturation; intercultural communication and interactions, and cultural diversity in educational settings. Please go to http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-intercultural-relations/ to learn more about the IJIR its Aims and Scope.
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11. CANDE SIG Call for Proposals
Dear colleagues:
The CANDE SIG welcomes proposals for the 2016 Annual CIES meeting in Vancouver, B.C. to be held from March 6-10, 2016. Our SIG welcomes research done using a diverse range of methodologies and conceptual frameworks related to citizenship and democratic education at the school, local, national and international levels.
Colleagues are welcome to submit proposals for individual and group papers and proposals in relation to democratic and citizenship education. In addition to such contributions, we welcome submissions that respond to the theme of this year’s conference: Six Decades of Comparative and International Education: Taking Stock and Looking Forward. Papers relating to the conference theme might address how the theory, content, processes and measurement of citizenship and democratic education have changed since 1956, when CIES was founded. What would we like to see in the future, and how will we achieve it?
All proposals must be submitted via the CIES 2016 conference website on or before October 15, 2015 (early bird deadline is September 15, 2015). Please make note that the final submission deadline for the 2016 conference is in October rather than in December (as was the case last year). Submission guidelines are available at: http://www.cies.us/news/225952/CIES-2016-Conference-Call-for-Proposals.htm
Up to five papers/posters will be assigned per SIG panel. Proposals not selected for the CANDE SIG highlighted sessions will be considered for the general pool. CIES membership is required to present and those submitting proposals to CANDE SIG will be asked to participate in the review of one or two submissions. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
Please feel free to write either of the CANDE SIG co-chairs with your questions and suggestions. We wish you a very pleasant next few months!
Felisa Tibbitts [ftibbitts@hrea.org] and Kristina Brezicha [kfb126@psu.edu]
Co-Chairs, CANDE SIG
12. Publication Opportunity for Papers Presented at CIES 2015
A list of journals accepting papers that were presented at the 59th annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society with the theme of “Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globally” is now available on the conference website www.cies2015.org.
Please direct all publication inquiries to the respective journal editors.
Journal editors or book publishers interested in adding a call for submissions to the list should contact Dr. joan.Osa Oviawe at joo26@cornell.edu
13. Spotlight on China – Call for Book Proposals
Spotlight on China is a new book series recently launched by Sense Publishers. Over the past decades China has experienced unprecedented economic liberalization, industrialization, mass migration, urbanization, and privatization, which have contributed to the rise of China as an emerging economic superpower. At the same time, China is also facing unprecedented challenges, including rising unemployment, socio-economic disparity, corruption, and environment degradation. Spotlight on China aims to bring together international scholars with contributions from new and established scholars to explore the profound social and economic transformation that has resulted from the market economy and its concomitant impact on education and society in China. The Series includes authored and edited collections offering multidisciplinary perspectives and most contemporary and comprehensive analyses of recent social and educational changes in China.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal please submit the following: a 500-word summary of your book proposal, including the title; focus and research questions; the connection to the book series; the theoretical and/or conceptual framework; the major themes to be explored; a draft table of contents; type of book: single author, edited, etc.; 10 keywords; a 150-word biography for each author/editor; confirmation that the contents of the book have not been published elsewhere; also include your CV.
For more information about this series or contribution, contact the Editors Shibao Guo (guos@ucalgary.ca), Yan Guo (yanguo@ucalgary.ca) or Michel Lokhorst (m.lokhorst@sensepublishers.com).
14. Call for Nominations for CIES Higher Education SIG Awards Committee
The CIES Higher Education SIG announces our Annual Awards Call for Nominations that honors publications and individuals whose academic work focuses on international and comparative issues in Higher Education. Four categories will be honored: 1) Best Article, 2) Best Book, 3) Best Dissertation, and 4) Life-Time Contribution. The Awards Committee makes a particular effort to ensure the creation of a broad slate that speaks to the diversity of the CIES membership in terms of geography, institution, gender, and race/ethnicity.
All CIES members are invited to make nominations. Self-nominations are also welcome. We expect that nominations are made with the prior approval of the candidate and that nominations should include some background information about why you think that the submission is worthy of receiving an award. The CIES Higher Education SIG is also seeking new members for the awards committee.
Please send requests for the nomination form and then all nomination packages to Rebecca Clothey, Chair HE-SIG Awards Committee at Rebecca.a.clothey@drexel.edu
by August 15, 2015.
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15. Call for Contributions: CRES International Journal in the Social Sciences, ARES (Association pour la recherche sur l'éducation et les savoirs/
Association for Research on Education and Knowledges)
Proposals should use the form below. Abstracts for proposed papers must arrive no later than September 15, 2015, and should be sent simultaneously to the guest editors and to the journal co-editors:
Sarah Fichtner fichtnersarah@googlemail.com Catherine Agulhon catherine.agulhon@orange.fr
Kathryn Anderson-Levitt kandersonlevitt@ucla.edu Nathalie Bonini nathalie.bonini@univ-tours.fr
Stéphane Bonnery stephane.bonnery@wanadoo.fr
Proposals are welcome from all social science disciplines, and papers may be written in English or French. The theme issue will appear as part of number 16 of Cahiers de la recherche sur l’éducation et les savoirs, to appear in Spring 2017.
(The Editorial team reminds readers that the journal also includes a non-themed section for which you are welcome to submit articles on any topic regarding education and knowledges.)
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