Topic Based SIGs |
African Diaspora SIGThe African Diaspora SIG seeks to foster a community of scholars and practitioners to engage with the historical contexts and contemporary educational experiences of Black communities across the globe. A broader analysis of the educational realities of African descendants within and outside the United States offers the opportunity to review similar and different challenges, lessons, and new possibilities. Chair: Nafees Khan, Clemson University (nkhan04@gmail.com) Chair: Kassie Freeman, African Diaspora Consortium (ADC) (kfreeman@adcexchange.org) Secretary: Rhonesha Blache, Teachers College, Columbia University (rhonesha.blache.rb@gmail.com)
Citizenship and Democratic Education SIGThe Citizenship and Democratic Education SIG seeks to create an active community of educators and researchers, to share their views and encourage productive debate on various aspects of citizenship and democratic education, in the United States and around the world. Chair: Michelle Bellino, University of Michigan (bellino@umich.edu) Chair: Ehaab Abdou, McGill University (ehaab.abdou@mail.mcgill.ca) Secretary: Erica Sausner, Pennsylvania State University (esausner@gmail.com) Web coordinator: Merethe Skårås, Oslo and Akershus University College (merethe.skaras@hioa.no)
Contemplative Inquiry and Holistic Education SIGWelcome to the Contemplative Inquiry and Holistic Education SIG! Our SIG seeks to address holistic development and integration of learners' mind, body, and spirit through contemplative means. Chair: Tom Culham, University of British Columbia (tom.culham@gmail.com) Unit Planner: Jing Lin , University of Maryland (jinglin@umd.edu)
Cultural Contexts of Education and Human Potential SIGThe Cultural Contexts of Education and Human Potential SIG aims to make the case for the necessity of including the voices of individuals often unheard and to promote better understanding and learning between and about different groups. Moreover, it is also intended to demonstrate how the underutilization of the voices of different cultures has led to the underutilization of their potential. Early Childhood Development SIGThe Early Childhood Development SIG seeks to foster exchange & strengthen linkages between ECD research and practice; help keep members abreast of new developments in the field; build linkages among various ECD networks nationally and internationally; prepare ECD thematic sessions at the next CIES conference.
Economics and Finance of Education SIGThe Economics and Finance of Education-SIG (EFE-SIG) focuses on investigating, conceptualizing, and theorizing the links between Economics and Finance of Education Policies. The EFE-SIG offers a new opportunity for scholars interested in the following topics:·
The EFE-SIG is important as it suggests a unique perspective. We aim to contribute to the perception of Economics and Finance of Education as a global issue and not just a national issue. In addition, we highlight the importance of the EFE-SIG, as currently Education Finance issues are rarely addressed from the perspective of Comparative Education. Chair: Iris Ben David-Hadar, Bar Ilan University, Israel (iris.hadar@biu.ac.il) Education, Conflict, and Emergencies SIG
Chair: Diana Rodriguez Gomez, Los Andes University (dm.rodriguez@uniandes.edu.co) Secretary: Elisheva Cohen, University of Minnesota (cohen473@umn.edu) Unit Planner: Cyril Brandt, University of Amsterdam (Brandt@uva.nl) Environmental and Sustainability Education SIGThe Environmental and Sustainability Education SIG promotes scholarly research and professional activities of those concerned with the intersection of education (broadly defined) and sustainable development. Specifically, the SIG explores how the discourse and practice of sustainable development affect educational institutions and how educational institutions facilitate the development of knowledge, skills, behaviors and attitudes needed for sustainable development.
Program Chair: Dafna Gan, Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and Arts (dafna.gan@gmail.com) Secretary: Sophy Cai, Xiamen University (caixiuying@gmail.com)
The Global Literacy SIG is organized around key issues in reading and writing instruction and assessment and larger issues and implications of literacy use throughout the world.
Global Mathematics Education SIGThe Global Mathematics Education SIG The purpose of the Global Mathematics Education SIG is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss theory, practices, and techniques related to mathematics learning starting in early childhood to tertiary education.
Globalization and Education SIGThe Globalization and Education SIG seeks to provide a forum where researchers and practitioners involved in global study of comparative and international education have meaningful conversations and exchanges of ideas related to globalization and education.
Vice-Chair: Maren Elfert, University of Alberta (elfertm@shaw.ca) Student Representative: Eric Layman , Indiana University (ewlayman@indiana.edu) Secretary: Clara Fontdevila, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (clara.fontdevila@gmail.com)
Higher Education SIGThe Higher Education SIG serves as a networking hub for promoting scholarship opportunities, critical dialogue, and linking professionals and academics to the international aspects of higher education.
Chair: Gerardo Blanco-Ramirez, University of Massachusetts-Boston (Gerardo.Blanco@umb.edu) Secretary: Meseret Hailu, University of Denver (Meseret.Hailu@du.edu) Program Chair: Christina Yao, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (cyao@unl.edu) Program Chair Elect: Gustavo Gregorutti, Andrews University (ggregoru@andrews.edu) Awards Committee Chair: Rebecca Clothey, Drexel University (rac52@drexel.edu)
ICT4D SIGICT4D (ICT for Development) is an outlet for members of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) to collaborate with, learn from, and create bonds that will heighten interest and research in this ever growing area. Chair: Haijun Kang, Kansas State University (hjkang@ksu.edu) Chair: Fatima T. Zahra, University of Pennsylvania (fatimatzahra@gmail.com) Chair: Megan Smith, IREX (megsimone611@gmail.com)
Inclusive Education SIGThe Inclusive Education SIG seeks to elicit the participation of scholars interested in educational issues specific to the multiple meanings of IE and, accordingly, to learners who are marginalized due to special educational needs. These might include: disabilities, second language acquisition, poverty, racial and ethnic discrimination, social exclusion, etc.
Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy SIGThe Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy SIG consists of CIES members, members of indigenous communities, and practitioners who want to dialogue about ways to develop alternative knowledge and how this can be used to interact with, and transform the academy. Chair: Tutaleni I. Asino, Oklahoma State University (tutaleni.asino@okstate.edu) Secretary: Jennifer Fricas, Seattle University and University of Minnesota (fricasj@seattleu.edu)
Language Issues SIGThe Language Issues SIG is a network of researchers and practitioners working to understand the role of language(s) in education, as well as the role of the languages of instruction in differing, and often contentious, political and cultural contexts. Chair: Carol Benson, Teacher's College, Columbia University (benson@tc.columbia.edu) Chair: Kevin Wong, New York University (kevinwong@nyu.edu) Treasurer: Anna Farrell, University of Minnesota (farre223@umn.edu) Communications (Secretary): Anna Kaiper, University of Minnesota (kaipe001@umn.edu) Unit Planner: Kevin Carroll, University of Puerto Rico (kevin.carroll@upr.edu) Unit Planner: Stephen Bahry, University of Toronto (stephen.bahry@gmail.com)
Large-Scale Cross-National Studies in Education SIGThe Large-Scale Cross-National Studies in Education SIG mission is to promote research related to large-scale cross-national studies in education. The SIG aims to bring together scholars and practitioners who are contributing to the analysis, critique, and development of large-scale assessment methods and results, as well as their implications for education policy.
Chair: Laura Engel, George Washington University (lce@gwu.edu)
Peace Education SIGThe Peace Education SIG brings together members of the Comparative and International Education Society with common interests in the study of peace and conflict, human rights, and social justice in education. Chair: Maria Hantzopoulos,Vassar College (mahantzopoulos@vassar.edu)
Post-Foundational Approaches to Comparative and International Education SIGThe SIG was initiated to provide a dedicated space for comparative education scholars at all career stages interesting in sharing work that draws upon post-structural approaches to social theory. Whilst Foucault is already an important reference point for many CIES members the SIG also encourages engagement with other leading voices that are less audible within CIE (e.g. Agamben, Baudrillard, Butler, Derrida, Deleuze, Lacan, Rancière, Mbembe and Lather to name but a few). Recognizing that theory itself might be viewed as a constraining metanarrative, the SIG also takes inspiration from alternative intellectual horizons that might include mysticism, indigenous knowledges and Eastern religions. In this sense, the SIG is an invitation to work with, problematize and celebrate difference in social life, using this to inspire and regenerate the field of CIE. Chair: Jonathan Friedman, New York University (j.friedman@nyu.edu) Chair: Chenyu Wang, Virginia University (cw6bc@virginia.edu) Secretary: Christoph Kirchgasler, University of Kansas (ckirchgasler@ku.edu)
Religion and Education SIGReligion and Education SIG is a newly established SIG for the purpose of comparatively explore the links between education and religion across national, historical, and civilizational contexts. The SIG will foster an interdisciplinary dialogue and international collaboration focusing on the implications from the study of education-religion links for all fields of educational research and practice. Our key areas of focus include: · Religion in Secular Schools; · Religion in Religious Schools; · Security and Religious Extremism; and, · Religious Education Curriculum around the World.Chair: Bruce Collet, Bowling Green State University (colleba@bgsu.edu) Teacher Education and the Teaching Profession SIGThe Teacher Education and the Teaching Profession SIG facilitates dissemination of information and fosters dialogues about critical issues in teaching and teacher education from national and international perspectives. Teachers/teacher educators/researchers are given an opportunity and a framework for discourse on issues, concerns, and successes pertaining to teaching and the teaching profession in each country.
Membership Chair: Sarah Lillo, University of Southern California (sarahlil@usc.edu) Webmaster: Rachel A. Jones, Michigan State University (jonesr42@msu.edu)
Teaching Comparative Education SIGThe Teaching Comparative Education SIG brings together scholars and instructors of comparative and international education from around the world. It is dedicated to understanding and enhancing the contours of course work in the field and promoting comparative and international education in higher education.
Communications Officer: Anne Campbell, Middlebury Institute of International Studies (accampbell@miis.edu)
Youth Development and Education SIGThe Youth Development and Education SIG provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in the global study of comparative and international education to debate and exchanges ideas related to youth development and secondary education. Chair: David Balwanz, University of Johannesburg (dbalwanz@gmail.com) |