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2009 CIES Conference in Charlotte, South
Carolina Dates: 22-26 March, 2008 Theme: "The Politics of Comparison" Place: Francis Marion Hotel, Downtown Charleston, SC |
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| ▪ UREAG News (and Travel Grant information) | |||
| ▪ Honorary Fellows Award- Call for Nominations (deadline: September 29, 2008) | |||
| ▪ Joyce Cain Award- Call for Nominations (deadline: November 10, 2008 ) | |||
| ▪ Have you registered to participate in the CIES forum? This is a space designed for ongoing discussions. Please go to: www.cies.us/forum | |||
| ▪ Have you visited the new site of the New Scholars? Contact Dr. Linda Furuto (lindafuruto@post.harvard.edu) with any feedback you might have. | |||
| ▪ Would you like to join or create a SIG? You will find more information here. | |||
| ▪ Dr. Erwin Epstein at Loyola University Chicago (eepstei@luc.edu) is CIES' new historian. We would like to thank Dr. Elizabeth Sherman Swing, Professor Emerita of Education, Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia) for many years devoted to CIES as our past historian. | |||
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CIES members' publications: 1) "Comparative and International Education: Issues for Teachers" -Edited by Karen Mundy, Kathy Bickmore, Ruth Hayhoe, Meggan Madden, Katherine Madjidi (publication date: July 2008) 2) "South-South Cooperation in Education and Development" -Edited by Linda Chisholm and Gita Steiner-Khamsi (publication date: December 2008) 3) "Globalizations and Education: Collected Essays on Class, Race, Gender, and the State" by Carlos Alberto Torres (publication date: January 2009) 4) "A Wayward Journey of Love and Dreams: France and Italy in the 1950's" by Joseph Di Bona (joseph.dibona@duke.edu). Righter Publishing Co. Inc. P.O. Box 105 . Timberlake, NC. 27583. 5) "Economic Development, Education, and Transnational Corporations", by Mark Hanson (mark.hanson@ucr.edu), University of California, Riverside. New York : Routledge, 2008. 192 pp. 6) "Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate" by senior author and editor, Beverly Lindsay who is a Professor and Senior Scientist of Higher Education and International Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University. 7)
"Going to school in the Middle East and North Africa" by Kwabena
D. Ofori-Attah, Ph.D (kofori-attah@adelphia.net)
Greenwood Publishing Company, 2008. |
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| ▪ Call for Chapter Proposals: "Globalizing Minds: Rhetoric & Realities in International Schools" (deadline: Nov. 1, 2008) | |||
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▪ A Search for
International Educators Who Have Knowledge or Interest in
Cognitive Neuroscience- please contact Helen Abadzi at the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank (habadzi@worldbank.org) and click here for more information. |
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| ▪ The Harold J. Noah Award in International & Comparative Education (deadline for nominations: Sept. 15, 2008) | |||
| ▪ RIED/IJED General Call for Papers | |||
| ▪ RIED/IJED Call for Papers: Special Edition on Education, Citizenship, and Interculturalism (deadline: Sept. 15, 2008). | |||
| ▪ Special Issue of Theory and Research in Social Education: "Histories of Social Studies Thought and Practice in Schools and Communities" - Call for Submissions (deadline: March 1, 2009). | |||
| ▪ Three positions based in UNESCO, Paris (France) | |||
| ▪ Positions at CARE: [Senior Education Advisors] and [Education Program Manager, Yemen] | |||
| ▪ Volume 11 in the International Perspectives on Education and Society Series published by Emerald Publishing - Call for Chapter Proposals (deadline: Nov. 30, 2008). | |||
| ▪ The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, which specialises in scholarly research on education systems in the Mediterranean region, has launched its new website at http://www.um.edu.mt/emcer The website also gives free access to Centre’s peer-reviewed biannual publication, the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, now in its 25th issue. You can register to receive an alert when a new issue is available by emailing the MJES editor at ronald.sultana@um.edu.mt | |||
| ▪ A note from the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) about the senseless death of one of our strongest advocates for peace and reconstruction of war-torn societies, Jackie Kirk. | |||
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For those of you who would like to share your remembrances of
Jackie Kirk and all the people who have lost their lives in
Afghanistan: - you could go to the CIES forum section for Jackie Kirk - and/or send your remembrances to children@theirc.org for the memorial book that the IRC is putting together in Jackie Kirk's honor (INEE will share the final book back with members when it is completed). |
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Other Conferences: | ||
| ▪ The 7th International Conference on Comparative Education and Teacher Training, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society will be held in Sofia, 30 June - 3 July 2009. Click here for more information. | |||
| ▪ The Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance, organized by CAPWIP in partnership with the UN/ISDR and WEDO- October 19-22, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. | |||
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Asia-Pacific Conference on International
Education- 18-20 October 2008, Shanghai, China International Education for National Development: Policy Guidance, Teaching-Learning Quality, Innovative Partnerships. [Registration information] |
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| ▪ The 2009 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education will be held in January 8-10, 2009, Singapore. Please visit http://www.e-case.org/2009 for details. | |||
| ▪ The Fall 2008 Conference of the California Council on Teacher Education- Theme: “Internationalizing Teacher Education: Creating Global Competent Teachers and Teacher Educators for the 21st Century” October 16-18, 2008, at the Kona Kai Resort, San Diego. | |||
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