CIES BULLETIN, JANUARY 2009

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  CIES News/Announcements:
    ▪ 2009 CIES Conference in Charlotte, South Carolina
Dates:      22-26 March, 2008
Theme:    "The Politics of Comparison"
Place:      Francis Marion Hotel, Downtown Charleston, SC
     
    ▪ UC Press announces the transition to calendar-year CIES membership
     
    ▪ CIES Elections 2008-2009: Have you voted? The deadline is approaching (Feb. 22). Please send us an email if you did not receive an e-ballot or a paper ballot (secretariat@cies.us).
     
    ▪ Have you registered to participate in the CIES forum? This is a space designed for ongoing discussions. Please go to: www.cies.us/forum
     
     
  Miscellaneous Announcements:
     
    ▪ CIES members' publications:

- Torney-Purta, J., Wilkenfeld, B., & Barber, C. (2008). How adolescents in 27 countries understand, support and practice human rights. Journal of Social Issues, 64(4), 857-880.

- Cossa, J. (2008). African Renaissance and Higher Education: A View through the
Lenses of Christian Higher Education. Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.

- Palomba, D. (Ed.). (2008). Changing Universities in Europe and the "Bologna
Process". A Seven Country Study. (Comparative Education Studies/ Studi
comparativi in educazione, no. 2) Rome: Aracne, 2008 (287 pp.). [With
contributions of CIES members such as Jürgen Schriewer, Florian Waldow, Miguel
Pereyra and Florian Kiuppis]

- Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2008). The politics of policy in boys' education:
Getting boys "Right". New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

- Mora-Ninci, C. and Ruiz, G. (Eds). (2008). Sociología Política de la
Educación en perspectiva internacional y comparada: las contribuciones de Carlos
Alberto Torres. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila.

- Zajda, J., Biraimah, B., & Gaudelli, W. (Eds.).(2008). Education and Social
Inequality in the Global Culture. Volume 1. Dordrecht: Springer.

- Zajda, J., Davies, L., & Majhanovich, S. (Eds.).(2008). Comparative and Global
Pedagogies: Equity, Access and Democracy in Education. Volume 2. Dordrecht:
Springer.

- Zajda, J. Daun, H. & Saha, L. (2009). Nation-Building, Identity and Citizenship
Education: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Volume 3. Dordrecht: Springer.

- Zajda, J. & Gibbs, D. (Eds.). (2009). Comparative Information Technology:
Languages, Societies and the Internet. Volume 4. Dordrecht: Springer.

- Zajda, J. & Rust, V. (Eds.). (2009). Globalisation, Policy and Comparative
Research: Discourses of Globalisation. Dordrecht: Springer.

- Zajda, J. & Daun, H. (Eds.). (2009). Global Values Education: Teaching
Democracy and Peace. Dordrecht: Springer.

- Zajda, J. & Freeman, K. (Eds.). (2009). Race, Ethnicity and Gender in
Education: Cross-Cultural Understandings. Dordrecht: Springer.
 
     
    ▪ Research Positions at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and Post-doctoral Fellow or Research Officer at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)- www.aphrc.org
     
    ▪ Four Positions available at SWEDESD, Gotland University
     
   

▪ Vacancy: Associate Director of the Center for Social Studies and International Education (CSSIE)/  Indiana University

     
    ▪ 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).
     
    ▪ The Association of Latin American Scholars (ALAS) is currently soliciting
proposal abstracts for presentations at its 7th Annual Education Across the
Americas Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, scheduled for April
3rd and 4th, 2009. All proposals should be submitted via email to alas.tc.columbia@gmail.com
(no later than February 6th, 2009). For more information, visit http://www.tc.edu/students/alas/conference.html
     
   
▪ The Centre for Research in Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, HKU SPACE  announces that the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning has been published. For details, please click here: 
     
    ▪ International conference on Community Engagement and Service (PASCAL and Univ. of British Columbia), May 18-20, 2009- Please visit these sites for more information: http://www.chet.educ.ubc.ca/Conferences1.html and http://www.obs-pascal.com/
     
  Other Conferences:
     
    ▪ PISA Research Conference in Kiel, Germany from 14 - 16 September 2009
     
    ▪ IAIE/HMPI/IASCE/University of Macedonia- 2009 Conference in Athens, Greece, June 2009
     
    ▪ 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.
     
   
 

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