CIES BULLETIN, MAY 2008

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  CIES News/Announcements:
    2009 CIES Conference: Please mark your calendars- click here for more information.
Dates:     22-26 March, 2009
Place:     University of South Carolina
     
    ▪ Would you like to join or create a SIG? You will find more information here. To view SIGs websites, please click here.
     
    Podcasts from CIES 2008 Conference now on iTunes University!
     
    ▪ Invitation for Nominations: Gail P. Kelly Award
     
    CIES PHOTO GALLERY

The 80th Anniversary of the Turkish Education Association was the scene in which three CIES ex-presidents were invited to speak (Donald Adams, Mark Ginsburg, and Steve Heyneman) - Pictures taken by Dr. Huseyin Sirin.

CIES 2008 New York City

  Miscellaneous Announcements:
     
    New Palgrave Book Series with Professors John N. Hawkins (UCLA) and W. James Jacob (University of Pittsburgh)
     
    Iveta Silova and Gita Steiner-Khamsi examine education in the post-socialist world in: "How NGOs React:
Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mogolia
" [click here to visit the book's website]
     
    ▪ CICE Call for Papers [PDF]
     
    National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (deadline: Nov. 7, 2008)
     
    The Harold J. Noah Alumni Award in International and Comparative Education (deadline: Sept. 15, 2008)
     
    New State Department resource for American college students studying overseas: "Students Abroad"
     
    Faculty Position: Visiting Associate Professor, International and Comparative Education at Teachers College
     
    Consultants needed for Seward Incorporated ADB-funded education project in Samoa
     
    Canisius College Teaching Fellowship
     
    New publications from the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) of the University of Hong Kong:

- Nancy Law, Willem J Pelgrum & Tjeerd Plomp (eds.) (2008): Pedagogy and ICT Use in Schools around the World: Findings from the IEA SITES 2006 Study (Publishers: CERC and Springer)
[http://www.hku.hk/cerc/Publications/CERC-23.htm]

- David L. Grossman, Wing On Lee & Kerry J. Kennedy (eds.) (2008): Citizenship Curriculum in Asia and the Pacific (Publishers: CERC and Springer) [http://www.hku.hk/cerc/Publications/CERC-22.htm]

- Vandra Masemann, Mark Bray & Maria Manzon (eds.) (2007): Common interests, Uncommon Goals: Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and its Members (Publishers: CERC and Springer) [http://www.hku.hk/cerc/Publications/CERC-21.htm]

- Peter D. Hershock, Mark Mason & John N. Hawkins (eds.) (2007): Changing Education: Leadership, Innovation and Development in a Globalizing Asia Pacific (Publishers: CERC and Springer) [http://www.hku.hk/cerc/Publications/CERC-20.htm]

- Mark Bray, Bob Adamson and Mark Mason (eds.) (2007): Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods (Publishers: CERC and Springer) [http://www.hku.hk/cerc/Publications/CERC-19.htm]

     
    Global Urban Educational Exchange Program in Porto Alegre, Brazil- August 13-26, 2008
     
    European Education: Issues and Studies- Quarterly journal published by M. E. Sharpe. Editors: Iveta Silova & Alexander W. Wiseman, Lehigh University. Deadline for Manuscripts: July 1, 2008.
     
    International Youth Foundation Vacancy: Vice President for Education (Baltimore, Maryland)
     
Call for Reviewers: International Studies SIG of AERA - Review proposals for the 2009 annual meeting. Contact David Miller, AERA International Studies SIG Program Chair, at dmiller@air.org. [www.aera.net]
     
  Other Conferences:
     
    The Social Capital Foundation (TSCF) Conference, Malta, September 19-22, 2008.
     
    Call for proposals: 2nd Pacific-Rim Conference on Education: Teaching and Learning in a Globalized Society, Normal, Illinois. Deadline June 30, 2008
   
 

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