CIES BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER 2006

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  CIES News/Announcements:
   
▪ We are preparing for the 2007 Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Please click here for more information.

 
    ▪ CIES Call for Nominations: Click here for more information.
 
 
    ▪ Would you like to join or create a SIG? You will find more information here.
 
    ▪ You are invited to attend the CIES Western Regional Conference (in collaboration with CICE). Oct 5-7, 2006. Fermont, CA.
 
  Miscellaneous Announcements:
   
▪ Members share with the CIES community their recently published books (click on the titles):

   - Benavot, A. & C. Braslavsky (Eds). (2006). School Knowledge in Comparative and   
                   Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary 
                   Education
.
Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) and Springer.

   - Dull, L. (2006). Disciplined Development: Teachers and Reform in Ghana. Lanham,
                 MD:
Lexington Books.

   - Iram, Y. (Ed). (2006). Educating Towards A Culture of Peace. Greenwich, CT:
                  Information Age Publishing Inc.


   - Tatto, M. T. (2006). Reforming Teaching Globally. Oxford, UK: Symposium Books.

   - Zajda, J. (Ed). (2006). Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education: The role of the 
                    State
. Dordrecht: Springer. 

   - Zajda, J. (Ed). (2006) Education and Social Justice. Dordrecht: Springer.

 
    Call for manuscripts for book series 'Globalisation and Comparative Education" and "Rethinking the Comparative Education Methodology" based on 2006 CIES conference.
   
CICE Call for papers: Assimilation, Integration, or Isolation? Framing the Education of Immigrants (Vol. 9, Issue 1). Deadline: October 6, 2006.
   
New Comparative Education Course at Northwestern University: Invitation for Comments.
   
MA in Cross-cultural and International Education (MACIE) program at Bowling Green State University: click here for information.
   
New IEA comparative research study on teacher education: click here for more information.

IEA position available for post-doctoral research associate survey specialist.
 
    Researcher at UCLA seeks international collaborators for a cross-cultural investigation of teacher-student relationships in classrooms. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information.
     
  Other Conferences:
    1st Pacific-RIM Conference on Education: Emergent Issues and Challenges in Education, Sapporo, Japan, October 21-23, 2006.
 
    Workshop on Reforms of Higher Education in Tokyo, Sept. 27-29, 2006.
 
    International forum: Teacher Professional Development for Quality Education for All. Shangai, China, 27-28 October, 2006. (Submission deadline: September 30, 2006)                                                                                                                  

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