CIES BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER 2009

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▪ CIES Regional Conferences are coming up. Mark your calendars!

1) Northeastern
Dates:        October 8-9, 2009
Theme:      "Rethinking Approaches to International Development in Education" (submit abstracts to: CIESNE09@lehigh.edu)
Location:   Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA   
[Call for Abstracts] [website: http://www.lehigh.edu/education/cie/conference/]

2) Midwest
Dates:           October 23- 24, 2009
Theme:        "Current Research and Activism in Comparative and International Education: Advancing the Legacy of Gerald H. Read"
Location:      Kent State University, OH
[Call for Abstracts]

3) Western
Dates:        November 12-14, 2009
Theme:      "Education and International Engagement"
Location:    University of California, Los Angeles
[Call for Abstracts] [website: http://www.cideucla.org/]

▪ Invitation for Nominations: CIES Honorary Fellows Award (deadline: Oct. 15, 2009)

-Schriewer, J. (Ed.). (2009). Discourse Formation in Comparative Education (3rd ed.)., Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang Publishers,
(Comparative Studies Series/ Komparatistische Bibliothek, vol. 10).
To read more about this book, please visit:http://www.peterlang.de (--> English --> authors --> Schriewer)

- Gordon, J. A. (2008). Japan's Outcaste Youth: Education for Liberation, Colorado Springs, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
- Gordon, J. A. (2009). Children of the Danchi: A Japanese Primary School for Newcomers, Ethnography and Education (United Kingdom), 4 (2), 165-179.
- Gordon, J. A. (In press). Japan: "Challenges and Future Directions," in Yong Zhao (Editor), Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective, to be published by Lawrence Erlbaum/ Routledge.
- Gordon, J. A. (2008). Transnational Migration and Identity: Brazil and Japan Share a Work Force in Joern Dosch (Editor), Asia and Latin America: The Encounter of two Continents. Political, Economic and Social Dynamics.  Routledge. 
- To be published in Fall 2009, Edited book:
Challenges to Japanese Education: Economics, Reform, and Human Rights, (2009) Co-editor with Gerald LeTendre, Hidenori Fujita, and Takehiko Kariya. Teachers College Press, International Perspectives on Education Reform, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Series Editor.

- Akiba, M. and LeTendre, G. (Eds.). (2009). Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context. New York: Teachers College Press.

- Jurasaite-Harbison, E. (2009). Learning in and from Practice: Opportunities and Implications for Teachers'
Learning in Informal Contexts in Lithuania and the United States. Saarbrücken, Germany: Verlag Dr. Müller AG & Co. KG.

- Huang, L. (2009). Social capital and student achievement in Norwegian secondary schools. Learning and Individual Differences, 19(2): 320- 325.

Huang, L. (2009). Gender segregation in student career aspirations in Norwegian secondary schools. In Baker, D.P. & Wiseman, A.W. (eds). Gender, equality and education from international and comparative perspectives. International perspectives on education and society Volume 10. UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, s. 333-356.

Verger, A. (2009). WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education. Routledge.   [description]