CIES - Call for Proposals
The Comparative and International Education Society is pleased to announce its 56th annual meeting, which will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico during the week April 22-27, 2012. As the oldest city under the US flag, San Juan’s rich history and culture will serve as a stimulating backdrop for this meeting.
Theme
The worldwide education revolution is the theme for CIES 2012. Over the past 150 years, the worldwide education revolution has thoroughly transformed human society. The relentless inclusion of ever more people into formal and non-formal schooling—from early childhood education to advanced university training and beyond—is a social revolution with cultural, material, and political consequences for human life around the globe. Some claim that the education revolution has fostered major improvements in the quality of social and individual life, while others are critical and highlight disappointing outcomes and persistent shortcomings of contemporary educational systems. Arguably the education revolution has created a schooled society to an unprecedented degree, and widespread education in postindustrial society has created central cultural ideas about new types of knowledge, new kinds of experts, new definitions of personal success and failure, new conceptions of the workplace and jobs, new ways to make profitable firms and to structure formal organizations, new definitions of intelligence and human talent, new styles of parenting, widespread political mobilization, new dimensions of mass religion, and more. Understanding the past, present, and future of the education revolution is a central challenge to the comparative study of education. What has been the legacy of the education revolution? What are its current challenges and promises for the future? How do the transformative and democratic effects of education interact with the
social forces of inertia and inequality that still pervade the system of education in both developed and developing countries? What can comparative and international scholarship uniquely add to debate about the emerging schooled society? These and related questions are the focus of the 2012 CIES conference.
Submission Guidelines
The CIES 2012 Conference Committee is inviting proposals that will be informative and relevant, are informed by theory and research, and that encourage opportunities for intellectual engagement. We welcome proposals for individual paper submissions, group panel submissions, and workshops. Proposals should be between 500 and 750 words and should include the a) objectives or purposes, b) perspective or theoretical framework, c) methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry, d) data sources, evidence, e) results and/or conclusions, and f) significance of the study to the field of comparative and international education.
All proposals should be submitted online at http://convention3.allacademic.com/one/cies/cies12/index.php?.
If you have submitted a proposal to CIES in 2011, you will receive an email with your login information. If submitting for the first time, you will need to create a new account.
Please take note of the following important dates:
§ Early bird submission deadline: October 1, 2011
§ Final submission deadline: October 31, 2011
§ Acceptance notification: December 19, 2011
§ Early bird registration deadline for presenters: February 8, 2012
§ Final registration deadline for presenters: March 19, 2012
Please visit www.cies2012.psu.edu for more detailed conference information. This site will serve as the main source of information about the conference and will be updated continuously. Please direct any questions to [log in to unmask].