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Welcome

CIDE Newsletter #1 Winter 2005

Welcome to the first edition of the quarterly newsletter of the Comparative, International and Development Education Centre. CIDEC brings together a dynamic group of students and faculty interested in comparative and international research around a series of projects and events. We hope to highlight our activities - and our accomplishments - and keep you up to date on future events.

Please e-mail us your news, events, honours or publications at [email protected]

Canadian Global Campaign for Education Alliance

Formed in December 2004, the Canadian GCE alliance is a coalition of academics, nongovernmental organizations, and teachers unions, housed at OISE/UTʼs CIDE centre and managed by a team of OISE/UT faculty and students. Our goal is to build a broad-based coalition of non-governmental organizations, teachers unions, church based development groups, Canadian educational advocacy organizations and Canadian research organizations with an interest in promoting the universal right to education.

The Alliance is loosely linked to the Global Campaign for Education, an umbrella group that brings together national and regional coalitions of NGOs and citizen organizations to advocate for education for all and the achievement of the Millennium Development goals in education. The Canadian GCE Alliance focuses in particular on the role played by civil society organizations - both in Canada and abroad - in the achievement of the universal right to education.

The Canadian GCEʼs three primary objectives are; 1) To enhance Canadian commitment to the achievement of the universal right to education by raising public awareness, stimulating evidence-based dialogue, and demanding better funding and more effective approaches to this issue within our foreign policy agenda; 2) To support forms of research and policy dialogue that can encourage a sustained role for democratic engagement in the governance of education in developing countries; 3) To provide a forum for debate, information sharing and discussion among those Canadian civil society organizations which are active in efforts to achieve universal publicly-funded basic education in developing countries. Members include: the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, The Canadian Teachers Federation, World University Service (WUSC), Oxfam Canada, Save the Children Canada, World Vision, and faculty from OISE/UT, McGill and University of Ottawa.

We will be hosting an international forum on April 25 and 26: writing opeds, and launching a public education campaign on this issue.

For more information - and to join or volunteer - contact [email protected]

In This Issue

• Canadian Global Campaign for Education Alliance

• Cidec Seminar Series• Shahrzad Mojab• Congratulations

• Monday Group• Important Dates• Zahra Bhanji• Ruth Hayhoe • International Meeting on Citizenship and Teacher Education • Eric Jabal

• CSSE Conference• Rose Baaba Folson• Annick Corbeil

• Conferences and Events• Funding Opportunity• Kathy Bickmore

• Our Schools, Our Projects• Call for Volunteers• Higher Educational Space Between Latin America and Europe

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CIDEC Seminar Series

Wednesday March 2, 2:30 – 4:30A Reflexive Ethnography of a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israelwith Grace Feurverger, OISE/UTRoom: 11-164, OISE/UT 252 Bloor Street West

Friday March 11, 12-2Deconstructing Development Discourses: Economics, Health and Education with Karen Mundy from OISE/UTMunk Centre, Room 208 North Building

Friday April 1, 12-2Deconstructing Development Discourses IV: Sociology, History, Womenʼs Studies with Alissa Trotz from OISE/UTMunk Centre Room 208 North Building

Wednesday April 6, 12:30 - 2:30 Gender, development and peace in post-conflict recovery: NGO discourses in Bougainville with Peter Ninnes, School of EducationUniversity of New England, AustraliaRoom TBD, OISE/UT,252 Bloor Street West

Faculty Highlights: Shahrzad Mojab

Shahrzad Mojab now has all her research projects up on an exciting website! www.utoronto.ca/wwdl Her recent publications include:

Mojab, Shahrzad. (2004) Co-editor with Nahla Abdo Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.

Mojab, Shahrzad. (2005) “Kurdish women,” in Suad Joseph (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume II, Family, Law and Politics. Brill: Leiden-Boston, pp. 358-366.

Mojab, Shahrzad. (2005) “Honor: Iran and Afghanistan,”in Suad Joseph (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume II, Family, Law and Politics. Brill: Leiden-Boston, pp. 215-216.

Kelly Akerman (2003), Julia Dicum and Eric Jabal s̓ (2004) SSHRC Doctoral fellowship.

Olimpia Boido (2003), Ali Shahiduzzaman and Marnie Hope Wohl (2004) on SSHRC CGS Masters ̓Award.

Zahra Bhanji and Kayleen Oka (2004) on their OGS.

Elizabeth Wickwire for CIDA grant (administered through the IDRC) called the “Innovative Research Award” for research conducted in Nepal from 2003-2004.

Mark Evans Director of Secondary Preservice Education and CIDE faculty member, completed his Ph.D in 2005, at the University of York, UK. His thesis titled: Citizenship education pedagogy: what teachers say and what teachers do, explores a sample of secondary school teachers ̓characterizations of citizenship education pedagogy in Canada and England. Congratulations to CIDE Alumni Oben Mufum Mensah on his position at assistant professor at Temple University, Brenda Haiplik on her appointment as Project Officer, Education for UNICEF Somalia, John P. Myers for his appointment as assitant professor at the University of Pittsburg, and Melissa White, who has accepted a position as lecturer at the University of New England, Australia, to begin June 2005.

Congratulations to...

Ruth Hayhoe has just completed a study of the lives and educational ideas of eleven of Chinaʼs most influential educators in the period since 1949. The project has been underway since 1997, and has involved extensive interviews with each of the scholars, also a great deal of interaction and feedback as the project developed. It will be published in both English and Chinese. The intention is to illustrate some of the core values of

Chinese educational philosophy through the life-stories and educational contributions of these individuals. “Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators” will appear later this year.

See also Ruth Hayhoe and Zha Qiangʼs “The Role of Public Universities in the Move to Mass Higher Education: Some reflections on the experience of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China,” has just appeared in Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy (eds.) Taking Public Universities Seriously. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)


Student Profile: Zahra Bhanji

All meetings held from 12-1:30 at the 10th Floor South Lounge

March 28Locating Gender Within HIV/AID Prevention in Tanzania with Valerie Smith, PhD Candidate, CIDEC/CTL

April 4Expecting Results: Senʼs Capability Framework and Some Implications for Global Adult Education and Research with John Whitman, PhD Candidate CIDEC/AECP

Monday Group

March 14-18Midwinter break in the Ontario school system. No OISE/UT classes scheduled April 11Last day of lectures for Winter Session and full year courses May 13Grade submission date for Winter Session and full year courses. Grades will be available for viewing on ROSI (www.rosi.utoronto.ca) approximately two weeks after this date.

Important Dates

Zahra Bhanji is a Ph.D. candidate in Education Administration in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Her research interests are on international education policies with a particular focus on issues of globalization and technology affecting developing countries. Zahraʼs thesis research is on the emerging equity driven education policies of multinational technology corporations in developing countries. For the past two years, she has also been working on a research project studying Canadaʼs foreign aid policies and education. Zahra has also recently taught a Global and International Education Issues course in the Bachelor of Education program at the University of Toronto as well as courses in the International Project Management Program, School of Business at Humber College in Toronto.

Research News: Ruth Hayhoe


International Meeting on Citizenship and Teacher

Education, July 2005

Student Profile: Eric Jabal

Working title: Border-crossing students and (dis-) connected worlds: Hong Kong lessons for border-transformative international schooling

Eric Jabal is Year 3 PhD candidate in Educational Administration in the Department of Theory & Policy Studies. After working for 7 years in Hong Kong as an international schools educator-administrator, he has returned to the territory to conduct his doctoral research with senior students at eight international schools. Such schools tend to be for expatriates who need “a program of studies and a set of examinations which are continuous, consistent, and uninterrupted as they move about the world when the careers of their parents require periodic transfers from one location to another” (Blaney, 1991: 200). However, in contrast to neighboring jurisdictions Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Hong Kong allows its local (mainly Chinese) population to attend K-12 international schools. This creates unique socio-cultural-political-educational dynamics that challenge how schools help every student connect their school experiences with their sense of self. Jabal will be looking at the border transformative role of international schooling.

In July 2005, approximately 40 invited academics and policy makers from around the world who have special interests and expertise in the fields of citizenship and teacher education will meet for three days at OISE/UT to take stock of current/key developments in research, policy, practice and research in citizenship (and teacher) education across the world at national, regional and international levels; launch Issue 1 of the International Journal of Citizenship and Teacher Education; and provide an opportunity for the exploration of other initiatives in citizenship education that could be developed.

This invitational meeting will be co-sponsored by the CitizED project (http://www.citized.info/) in the UK and the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (CTL), Comparative, International and Development Education (CIDE), and the Transformative Learning Centre (TLC) at OISE/UT (OISE/UT contact: Mark Evans, [email protected]

As Eric is likely staying in Hong Kong/China for the foreseeable future, one of the beneficiaries of his doctoral research will be his son, Ben.

Annick Corbeil, an M.A. student in Theory and Policy Studies (Higher Education) is on exchange with the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, for a nine month period.

Annick will be auditing courses in South Asian studies and collecting data for her research - a qualitative study of international student perspectives and perceptions of cultural and academic experiences in transnational higher education programs in Singapore.

Rose Baaba Folsonʼs research, publications and teaching are focused in four areas: Global Economic Restructuring, International Migration & Relations, and Immigration Policies (Canada, U.S.A., Germany/EU); Sociology of Education and Development; Critical Sex Education & HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategies; The Impact of Race Purity Ideologies of the German Nazi and South African Apartheid Governments on National Policies.

Recent publications:

Folson, R. B. (2004). Calculated Kindness: Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada. (Ed.) Halifax: FernwoodPublishers.

Folson, R. B. Global Economic Restructuring and Canadian Immigration Policy (Ed.). Halifax: Fernwood Publishers.

Folson, R. B. (2005). Expatriates and Labor Migrants, in Thomas Geisen (Eds.) Labor Migration, Frankfurt/Main: IKO

Folson will be presenting “The Impact of Race Purity Ideologies of the German Nazi and South African Apartheid Governments on the Civil and Human Rights of Jewish and Black People in the 20th Century” at the International Studies Association Conference in Hawaii.


Faculty Highlights: Rose Baaba FolsonCSSE Conference

International Education Dynamics: Their Influence And Development Within The Canadian Academy

May 29, 2005 University of Western Ontario, London, ON

This special session of the CSSE Annual Conference is sponsored by CIDA and is open to all registered Congress delegates and community participants.

Discussion will focus on the globalization of higher education, its bombardment by domestic and international political agendas, and Canadian strategies for international academic development and sustainability. Confirmed keynotes include Berta Vigil Laden, Daniel Schugurensky, Garnet Grosjean, Hans G. Schuetz, J. Paul Grayson, Jane Knight, Karen Mundy, Kathleen D. Kevany, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Njoki Wane, Shahrzad Mojab, and Susan Stowe.

For more program information and Advance Registration contact:[email protected]

Student Profile: Annick Corbeil

Kathy Bickmore has a SSHRC standard research grant (on-going), “Safe and Inclusive Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Violence Policies and Programs”

This is a comparative case study analysis of current and recent policies, policy development, and program implementation for ʻsafe ̓and ʻinclusive ̓education in urban Canadian school

boards with differently-diverse student populations. The study examines ʻpeacemaking ̓(intervention for safety), ʻpeacebuilding ̓(education for overcoming problems and injustices that underlie violence), and ʻcitizenship ̓(education for social and political participation) initiatives.

Recent publications:

Bickmore, K. (2004) Education for Peacebuilding Citizenship: Teaching the dimensions of conflict resolution in social studies in A. Sears & I. Wright (Eds.) Challenges and Prospects for Canadian Social Studies. Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press.

Presented at British Assn for International and Comparative Education, September 2004: “Learning to Disagree, or just to Act Nicely: Conflict (resolution) education in Canadian public school curricula”

Anything youʼd like to highlight about students in the programme?

CIDE students with whom I am working include:• Valerie Smith, completing an MA thesis on gender equity in nonformal HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania• Sharri Plonski, embarking this month for field work on social movement learning of and in grassroots cross-party peacebuilding initiatives in Israel and Palestine• Fazilat Thaver, completing an MA thesis on citizenship education in a culture of conflict in the context of an Aga Khan University teacher training project in Pakistan• Mona Ghali, and Sharri Plonski, have been research assistants on the SSHRC “Safe and Inclusive Schools” project (above)• Recent CIDE MA graduate, Olimpia Boido, just sent a note from rural Guatemala where she is doing indigenous bilingual/ bicultural education (the topic of her MA thesis).


Faculty Highlights: Kathy Bickmore

CIES, 2005: Beyond DichotomiesMarch 22-26, Stanford University, California, USA

AERA, 2005: Demography and Deomcracy in the Era of Accountability. April 11-15, 2005Montreal, Canada

Canadian Global Campaign for Education Alliance - Forum Munk Centre, April 25-26.

CSSE/CIESC conference, May 28-31, 2005, London, Ontario.

International Meeting on Citizenship and Teacher Education, July 2005 to be held at OISE/UT

Conferences and Events

Upcoming deadline for the IDRC Doctoral Research Awards (supports field research) is April 1 2005. More information at http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-23374-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Funding Opportunity


Call for Volunteers

Conference: Canadian Evaluation Society and American Evaluation Societyʼs Joint Conference in Toronto, October 2005. Deadline for submission of papers is March 11.

Volunteers needed for this conference.

This is a great opportunity for CIDE students to meet with people from all the major international organizations - UNICEF, World Bank, CARE, CIDA, USAID, Save the Children, etc., as well as the federal & provincial government officials, other Non-profits, and research institutions. Registration fees or accommodation for the duration of the conference will be waivered for students who volunteer. For more information, please see http://c2005.evaluationcanada.ca Interested students should contact [email protected]

Ruth Hayhoe, Karen Mundy and Kathy Bickmore are working on a new Comparative Education textbook for B Ed Students. The project started with suverys of BEd. students and comparative educators in Canada. We

plan to use new themes emerging in the comparative education literature, related to global governance, the dialogue among civilizations, and citizenship education in a globalized world as a foil to help prospective teachers think critically about the social foundations of teaching and learning, and explore the rich resources of thought available to them from other cultures and civilizations.

Other Schools and Our Projects: A Preservice Education Project

Building a Common Higher Educational Space Between Latin America and Europe

An update from Jane Knight an adjunct professor in the department of CTL and CIDEC

In June 2000, the heads of state from countries in Europe (EU) and Latin America/Caribbean (LAC)

signed an important agreement (EULAC) signaling a commitment to establish a common higher education space between Europe and LAC. This is a major step forward in creating closer cooperation between higher education systems and institutions in the two regions.

Europe is making progress through the Bologna process to develop a European Higher Education Area but the challenge facing LAC is the lack of any significant collaboration or integration of higher education systems within the region. This is a critical condition for improving the quality, compatibility, transparency and attractiveness of higher education in LAC and for future inter-regional cooperation. Thus new efforts and projects are being developed to work towards these goals. CENEVAL in Mexico is leading a key project aimed at developing a Community of Higher Education in LAC and building the Common Higher Education Space between Europe and LAC.

My focus as researcher and advisor to the project is to look at the potential mechanisms, frameworks and regulations that will achieve these goals. Special attention is being given to increased mobility, improved recognition of qualifications, a competency approach to graduate profiles, a common academic credit system, improved quality assurance and accreditation frameworks, and the training/mobility of researchers.

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