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Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society

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President’s Report ….. p.1

A Tribute to Christine Fox…. p.3

IEJ …. p.4

Upcoming Conferences ….. p.5

Contact ANZCIES

President,

Juliana McLaughlin

Queensland University of Technology

Email: j.mclaughlin@qut.edu.au

Vice-President David Small

University of Canterbury

Email: david.small@canterbury.ac.nz

Secretary/Treasurer, Laura Perry

Murdoch University

Email: L.Perry@murdoch.edu.au

Newsletter Editor,

Natt Pimpa

RMIT University

Email:

Nattavud.pimpa@rmit.edu.au

President’s Report

Dear colleagues and friends of ANZCIES,

Thank you for your confidence in electing me as

ANZCIES President at the 2011 Annual General

Meeting at The University of Sydney. David

Small continues as Vice President. Laura Perry

also continues as the Secretary / Treasurer.

Managing the records and finances of ANZCIES

is critical, and we sincerely thank Laura for her

excellent work. Natt Pimpa remains the

Newsletter editor. There will be exciting times

ahead for ANZCIES and I will count on your

contributions to work with the Executive to

promote the Society.

As ANZCIES President for 2012 - 2014, I know

I am ‘walking in the footsteps of giants of the

field’ and will appreciate your support.

On behalf of ANZCIES members, I thank Nigel

Bagnall for his stewardship of the Society over

the last two years. The sustained and growing

scholarly interest in comparative and

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international education in Australia, New

Zealand, the Pacific and South East Asia is

testament to the leadership of ANZCIES. I wish

to also express our sincere gratitude to Elizabeth

Cassity, Nigel Bagnall and Rose Amazan from

the University of Sydney for organising what

everyone agreed was a stimulating and refreshing

conference.

The conference was a success because of your

contributions and interests in comparative and

international education. With rigour and depth

of scholarship, ANZCIES conference is a forum

for showcasing research and new ways of

understanding education in Australia, New

Zealand, the Pacific and South East Asia. I thank

you all for participating and contributing to

scholarly debates and collegiality.

International Education Journal:

Comparative Perspectives

Elizabeth Cassity (University of Sydney) and

Laura Perry (Murdoch University) commenced

in 2012 as Co-Editors for the International

Education Journal. This journal is important to

the Society. Elizabeth and Laura are taking on

intensive responsibility with their editorial task,

and I appeal to all of us to support them in this

role. I acknowledge the brilliant work by Brian

Denman as the editor over the last four years,

and for his care and development of the journal.

Recruitment of ANZCIES Membership

ANZCIES is a professional association of

scholars who care deeply about education and

keep in touch with similar societies around the

globe. For most of us, our affiliations with

ANZCIES have extended beyond our research

student days, when we were ‘tagged along’ to its

annual conferences with our supervisors. We

found that we enjoyed working with a

community of respected scholars in comparative

and international education, committed to policy

development and education practice at both

global and local contexts.

Our challenge is ‘to grow’ ANZCIES in the next

two years. Three straightforward strategies

could be utilised, starting with promoting the

2012 conference.

1. We should promote the relevance of the

society amongst like-minded colleagues

interested in comparative and

international education within our

immediate universities.

2. We should promote ANZCIES as a

supportive environment in which they

can showcase their research to

colleagues and higher degree students.

3. We should invite them to participate in

the annual conference and make sure

that we send them the information about

themes and deadlines. As requested at

the last annual general meeting, a

postgraduate workshop will be

scheduled in this year’s conference.

Thank you Athena Vongalis-Macrow

for accepting the role of the

Postgraduate Workshop Convenor.

Watch the website for updates on

conference sponsorships.

4. The gallery on the ANZCIES website

contains photos of current and previous

members. Please browse through these

photos and if you can, extend the

invitation to previous conference

attendees to return.

World Congress of Comparative Education

Society (WCCES)

A number of you (NSW and Victorian members)

have shared with me some exciting insights for

the Society. The recent email discussions

relating to ANZCIES hosting the WCCES in

2016 generated interesting conversations in

terms of administration and funding for

conferences of such a scale. Our thoughts related

to the future of ANZCIES and its significance to

the World Congress, while we concentrate our

work in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

region. Our neighbours need our insights and

support in both policy development and practice

of education; perhaps it is time to extend our

professional engagements to colleagues in

Pacific communities.

I attended the CIES conference in Puerto Rico in

April where I represented ANZCIES at the

World Council meetings. My sincere thanks to

the Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, Associate

Professor Anita Lee Hong, and the Deputy Vice

Chancellor, Professor Suzie Vaughan (Teaching

and Learning) at QUT in supporting and funding

the trip.

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In consultation with David Small, I registered an

Expression of Interest for Christchurch (New

Zealand) to host the World Congress in 2016.

Holding the Congress in New Zealand would

promote ANZCIES through the World Council

and would give us a chance to contribute to the

exciting and valuable Congresses of the

WCCES. We have two competitors to our bid.

The Chinese Comparative and International

Education Society (CCIES) have put in a bid for

Beijing Normal University to host the Congress,

and the British Association for International and

Comparative Education (BAICE) have bid to

host it at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

The Chinese Society has negotiated with and has

the financial backing of the Chinese

Government.

We pay tribute to Christine Fox, outgoing

Secretary General of the WCCES. Christine has

been outstanding in this role for a duration of

five years (see tribute by Anne Hickling-Hudson

in this issue), and her work does us proud. As

she anticipates enjoying retirement, perhaps

current ANZCIES members think of creative

ways in which pioneering members can continue

to contribute to the work on the Society. Diane

Brook Napier (University of Georgia, USA) was

elected as the new Secretary General of the

WCCES.

The WCCES website is being revamped. It was

interesting to note the re-design aspect, with

geography given prominence. I noticed with

particular interest that ANZCIES was referred to

as ‘Oceania’. Perhaps we should give this some

thought at the next AGM.

ANZCIES Website Update

The ANZCIES website will be updated next

month. I believe you all can agree with me the

website definitely needs a ‘face lift’. I will begin

with the basic information, but invite creative

suggestions in terms of both content and design.

Please forward your suggestions directly to me.

My best wishes for another productive and

successful year. I look forward to seeing you all

at this year’s conference at the University of

Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Juliana McLaughlin

ANZCIES President

Celebrating our colleague Christine Fox

A tribute by Anne Hickling-Hudson on

behalf of ANZCIES

May 2012

This short note is to pay tribute to Christine Fox,

on behalf of ANZCIES, the professional society

of which she has been a member for over two

decades.

Thank you Chris, for having played a key role in

nurturing ANZCIES during two periods of your

presidency and many years of membership.

This year, Chris stepped down as Secretary

General of the World Council of Comparative

Education Societies (WCCES), a post to which

she was elected in 2005. Chris has been

exemplary in carrying out this role of immense

responsibility. The WCCES is an umbrella body

comprising 36 constituent societies (including

ANZCIES) and involving scholars in more than

50 countries.

It advances the field of comparative education by

bringing together national, regional and

language-based comparative education societies

in a common forum. It holds periodic World

Congresses, and facilitates research through

publication, the provision of grants, and other

activities. Chris as Secretary General has worked

with the WCCES President and other members

of the executive in organizing and implementing

these complex activities, so that Comparative

and International Education has become an

increasingly flourishing global field.

Chris came to the WCCES post with a stellar

background in international education. Educated

at the University of Sydney, she has been an

editor in publishing and a secondary school

teacher. She spent several years in Latin

America, where she acquired fluent Spanish, and

in the United Kingdom where she received

postgraduate degrees in educational planning and

development and in intercultural communication

theory for professional communication.

After working as a trainer for AusAID, and then

overseas as a consultant lecturer in teacher

education, she joined the University of

Wollongong in 1991 and from 1996-98 was

Director of Primary Education. Between 1992

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and 2000 she directed first the Curriculum

Research Group and then the Learning and

Teaching Research Group. Most of her research

has concerned the development of policy and

programs for teacher education and curriculum

change, with an emphasis on equity in education.

She won the UOW Vice-Chancellor's Award for

Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and

Learning in 2004.

ANZCIES is lucky to have had a member who

has during more than two decades played a role

of such brilliance in supporting not only the

Society, but also the field of comparative and

international education in general. We

congratulate and celebrate you Chris!

Chris Fox (retiring Secretary General) and

David Turner (Treasurer) of WCCES at the

Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico

News from the new editors of IEJ

Hello ANZCIES members,

Laura Perry and Elizabeth Cassity proudly

accepted the position of co-editors of the

International Education Journal: Comparative

Perspectives at the 2011 AGM in Sydney. IEJ is

the flagship journal of ANZCIES. We follow in

the footsteps of IEJ’s past editor, Brian Denman,

who brought the journal to ANZCIES from its

former home at Flinders University under the

editorship of John Keeves.

IEJ is the only comparative education journal in

Australia and one of the few English language

comparative education journals outside North

America and Europe. It is therefore poised to

play a strong role in the comparative education

field, especially but not only in the Asia-Pacific

region. Our region is becoming increasingly

important in the so-called 21st Asian Century,

which will enhance the ability of IEJ to make a

strong contribution to the field. Our goal as new

editors is to increase the visibility, access and

prestige of IEJ so that we can meet our potential

as a high quality, high impact comparative

education journal. We are investigating different

publication options so that we can develop our

access and reach. Please watch this space for

updates!

Two issues of IEJ will be published this year,

one of which is a special issue on Indigenous

Issues in Higher Education co-edited by

ANZCIES members Julie McLaughlin and Zane

Ma Rhea.

We have put together an editorial team to help us

manage the immense workload that is associated

with editing any journal. Since we do not have

editorial assistants, we believe the best way to

sustainably manage the journal is through a team

of committed academics. We have therefore

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created an Editorial Board to assist us with

reviewing submitted manuscripts and providing

editorial advice, complemented by a large group

of external reviewers.

As we all work in challenging environments with

multiple commitments, we appreciate the time

and dedication of our Editorial Board and

external reviewers. We currently have an

opening on the Editorial Board; please contact

either Laura or Elizabeth if you would like to

serve and are able to commit to reviewing up to

five manuscripts per year.

We have also appointed Tom Griffiths to serve

as Associate Editor and would like to appoint

another person as well to serve in this role.

Associate Editors play the same role as members

of the Editorial Board, as well as take on other

editorial duties as needed. Please let us know if

you are interested.

Cheers,

Laura and Elizabeth

Co-Editors, IEJ

l.perry@murdoch.edu.au and

elizabeth.cassity@sydney.edu.au

Upcoming Conferences From the Editor

Below is a listing of upcoming conferences that

you may want to consider attending this year.

The 8th Asia Pacific Association for

International Education Conference will be

hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong

on 11-14 March 2013 in Hong Kong. For details,

see http://www.apaie.org/conference/201

3/ AARE conference in collaboration with the Asia-

Pacific Education Research Association

(APERA) and the World Education Research

Association (WERA).

2-6 December 2012

The University of Sydney

For details, see

http://aare.edu.au/live/

The 4th Engaging with Vietnam Conference, co-

organised by Monash University and the East-

West Center, will be held on 8 - 9 November

2012 in Honolulu. For details

see http://www.engagingwithvietnam.co

m The Australian newspaper has developed a fun

interactive map showing international HE

student mobility patterns -

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-

education/student-migration-map

This is based on UNESCO data, so does not

include overseas study of less than 12 months

and does not include VET, ELICOS, schools,

etc. Click on each source country to see detailed

data for each.

The PIE ('News and business analysis for

Professionals in International Education') is

another excellent news aggregator, this one

based in the UK - http://thepienews.com/

Finally, to all book authors: If you need to

promote your new book in the next ANZCIES

newsletter, please send a synopsis and

information of your book to newsletter editor

(Natt Pimpa).