CIES BULLETIN, JANUARY 2008

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  CIES News/Announcements:
    2008 CIES Conference in New York, NY
Dates:      17-21 March, 2008
Theme:    "Educational Equity Around the World"
Place:      Teachers College, Columbia University
     
     Ongoing Elections: Have you voted? (deadline: February 18, 2008)
     
    CER Survey 2008 (deadline: February 10, 2008)
     
    ▪ CIES is searching for a potential conference planning agency. Please click here for more information.
     
    ▪ Would you like to join or create a SIG? You will find more information here.
▪ New SIG initiatives: ICT4D SIG (Informational Technology for Development), and Inclusive Education SIG.
     
  Miscellaneous Announcements:
     
    ▪ CIES members' publications:

- Irving Epstein of Illinois Wesleyan University is the general editor of the recently published Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide (Greenwood Publishing, December 2007). Longstanding CIES members also participated in this publication.

     
    ▪ "Education for All by 2015: Will we make it?" - Publication of the sixth edition (2008) of the Education for All Global Monitoring report, published by UNESCO and Oxford University
Press.
     
    Position Available at Juárez and Associates
     
    UREAG general announcement
     
    MSU's new Center for Adult and Higher Education
     
    Call for papers: Book on "Holocaust Education in Central and Eastern Europe: International Pressure, National Policies, and Classroom Practice".
     
  Other Conferences:
     
    Mediterranean Comparative Education Society Conference in Malta. May 11-23, 2008.
     
    6th International Conference on Comparative Education and Teacher Training, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 1-4, 2008.
     
    International Conference "Issues of Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Modern Education System" - Narva, Estonia (April 17-19, 2008).
     
    Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society Conference, Kaya Kwanga, Maputo, Mozambique, July 18-20, 2008.
     
    The NYU International Education doctoral students are hosting a conference on March 13 and 14 in New York City - "Exploring Quality & Equity in Education: Innovation and
Challenges in Comparative and International Contexts".
     
    Illinois/Indiana National Dissertation Workshop: “East Asian Education”
Indiana University Bloomington, May 8-9, 2008
   
 

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