2012 ANZCIES newsletter

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Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society
ANZCIES
June 2012
Newsletter
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
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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 President’s Report
Queensland University of Technology
Email: j.mclaughlin@qut.edu.au Dear colleagues and friends of ANZCIES,
Vice-President
David Small Thank you for your confidence in electing me as
University of Canterbury ANZCIES President at the 2011 Annual General
Email: david.small@canterbury.ac.nz Meeting at The University of Sydney. David
Small continues as Vice President. Laura Perry
Secretary/Treasurer, also continues as the Secretary / Treasurer.
Laura Perry Managing the records and finances of ANZCIES
Murdoch University is critical, and we sincerely thank Laura for her
Email: L.Perry@murdoch.edu.au excellent work. Natt Pimpa remains the
Newsletter editor. There will be exciting times
Newsletter Editor, ahead for ANZCIES and I will count on your
Natt Pimpa contributions to work with the Executive to
RMIT University promote the Society.
Email:
Nattavud.pimpa@rmit.edu.au 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 1. We should promote the relevance of the
to also express our sincere gratitude to Elizabeth society amongst like-minded colleagues
Cassity, Nigel Bagnall and Rose Amazan from interested in comparative and
the University of Sydney for organising what international education within our
everyone agreed was a stimulating and refreshing immediate universities.
conference. 2. We should promote ANZCIES as a
supportive environment in which they
The conference was a success because of your can showcase their research to
contributions and interests in comparative and colleagues and higher degree students.
international education. With rigour and depth 3. We should invite them to participate in
of scholarship, ANZCIES conference is a forum the annual conference and make sure
for showcasing research and new ways of that we send them the information about
understanding education in Australia, New themes and deadlines. As requested at
Zealand, the Pacific and South East Asia. I thank the last annual general meeting, a
you all for participating and contributing to postgraduate workshop will be
scholarly debates and collegiality. scheduled in this year’s conference.
Thank you Athena Vongalis-Macrow
for accepting the role of the
International Education Journal: Postgraduate Workshop Convenor.
Comparative Perspectives Watch the website for updates on
conference sponsorships.
Elizabeth Cassity (University of Sydney) and 4. The gallery on the ANZCIES website
Laura Perry (Murdoch University) commenced contains photos of current and previous
in 2012 as Co-Editors for the International members. Please browse through these
Education Journal. This journal is important to photos and if you can, extend the
the Society. Elizabeth and Laura are taking on invitation to previous conference
intensive responsibility with their editorial task, attendees to return.
and I appeal to all of us to support them in this
role. I acknowledge the brilliant work by Brian World Congress of Comparative Education
Denman as the editor over the last four years, Society (WCCES)
and for his care and development of the journal.
A number of you (NSW and Victorian members)
have shared with me some exciting insights for
Recruitment of ANZCIES Membership the Society. The recent email discussions
relating to ANZCIES hosting the WCCES in
ANZCIES is a professional association of 2016 generated interesting conversations in
scholars who care deeply about education and terms of administration and funding for
keep in touch with similar societies around the conferences of such a scale. Our thoughts related
globe. For most of us, our affiliations with to the future of ANZCIES and its significance to
ANZCIES have extended beyond our research the World Congress, while we concentrate our
student days, when we were ‘tagged along’ to its work in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
annual conferences with our supervisors. We region. Our neighbours need our insights and
found that we enjoyed working with a support in both policy development and practice
community of respected scholars in comparative of education; perhaps it is time to extend our
and international education, committed to policy professional engagements to colleagues in
development and education practice at both Pacific communities.
global and local contexts.
I attended the CIES conference in Puerto Rico in
Our challenge is ‘to grow’ ANZCIES in the next April where I represented ANZCIES at the
two years. Three straightforward strategies World Council meetings. My sincere thanks to
could be utilised, starting with promoting the the Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, Associate
2012 conference. 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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Celebrating our colleague Christine Fox
In consultation with David Small, I registered an
Expression of Interest for Christchurch (New
Zealand) to host the World Congress in 2016. A tribute by Anne Hickling-Hudson on
Holding the Congress in New Zealand would behalf of ANZCIES
promote ANZCIES through the World Council
and would give us a chance to contribute to the May 2012
exciting and valuable Congresses of the
WCCES. We have two competitors to our bid. This short note is to pay tribute to Christine Fox,
The Chinese Comparative and International on behalf of ANZCIES, the professional society
Education Society (CCIES) have put in a bid for of which she has been a member for over two
Beijing Normal University to host the Congress, decades.
and the British Association for International and
Comparative Education (BAICE) have bid to Thank you Chris, for having played a key role in
host it at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. nurturing ANZCIES during two periods of your
The Chinese Society has negotiated with and has presidency and many years of membership.
the financial backing of the Chinese
Government. This year, Chris stepped down as Secretary
General of the World Council of Comparative
We pay tribute to Christine Fox, outgoing Education Societies (WCCES), a post to which
Secretary General of the WCCES. Christine has she was elected in 2005. Chris has been
been outstanding in this role for a duration of exemplary in carrying out this role of immense
five years (see tribute by Anne Hickling-Hudson responsibility. The WCCES is an umbrella body
in this issue), and her work does us proud. As comprising 36 constituent societies (including
she anticipates enjoying retirement, perhaps ANZCIES) and involving scholars in more than
current ANZCIES members think of creative 50 countries.
ways in which pioneering members can continue
to contribute to the work on the Society. Diane It advances the field of comparative education by
Brook Napier (University of Georgia, USA) was bringing together national, regional and
elected as the new Secretary General of the language-based comparative education societies
WCCES. in a common forum. It holds periodic World
Congresses, and facilitates research through
The WCCES website is being revamped. It was publication, the provision of grants, and other
interesting to note the re-design aspect, with activities. Chris as Secretary General has worked
geography given prominence. I noticed with with the WCCES President and other members
particular interest that ANZCIES was referred to of the executive in organizing and implementing
as ‘Oceania’. Perhaps we should give this some these complex activities, so that Comparative
thought at the next AGM. and International Education has become an
increasingly flourishing global field.
ANZCIES Website Update
The ANZCIES website will be updated next Chris came to the WCCES post with a stellar
month. I believe you all can agree with me the background in international education. Educated
website definitely needs a ‘face lift’. I will begin at the University of Sydney, she has been an
with the basic information, but invite creative editor in publishing and a secondary school
suggestions in terms of both content and design. teacher. She spent several years in Latin
Please forward your suggestions directly to me. America, where she acquired fluent Spanish, and
in the United Kingdom where she received
My best wishes for another productive and postgraduate degrees in educational planning and
successful year. I look forward to seeing you all development and in intercultural communication
at this year’s conference at the University of theory for professional communication.
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
After working as a trainer for AusAID, and then
Juliana McLaughlin overseas as a consultant lecturer in teacher
ANZCIES President 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 News from the new editors of IEJ
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 Hello ANZCIES members,
congratulate and celebrate you Chris!
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
Chris Fox (retiring Secretary General) and editors is to increase the visibility, access and
David Turner (Treasurer) of WCCES at the prestige of IEJ so that we can meet our potential
Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico 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.
The 4th Engaging with Vietnam Conference, co-
As we all work in challenging environments with organised by Monash University and the East-
multiple commitments, we appreciate the time West Center, will be held on 8 - 9 November
and dedication of our Editorial Board and 2012 in Honolulu. For details
external reviewers. We currently have an see http://www.engagingwithvietnam.co
opening on the Editorial Board; please contact m
either Laura or Elizabeth if you would like to
serve and are able to commit to reviewing up to
five manuscripts per year. The Australian newspaper has developed a fun
interactive map showing international HE
We have also appointed Tom Griffiths to serve student mobility patterns -
as Associate Editor and would like to appoint http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-
another person as well to serve in this role. education/student-migration-map
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 This is based on UNESCO data, so does not
you are interested. include overseas study of less than 12 months
and does not include VET, ELICOS, schools,
Cheers, etc. Click on each source country to see detailed
Laura and Elizabeth data for each.
Co-Editors, IEJ
l.perry@murdoch.edu.au and The PIE ('News and business analysis for
Professionals in International Education') is
elizabeth.cassity@sydney.edu.au another excellent news aggregator, this one
based in the UK - http://thepienews.com/
Upcoming Conferences
From the Editor
Finally, to all book authors: If you need to
promote your new book in the next ANZCIES
Below is a listing of upcoming conferences that
newsletter, please send a synopsis and
you may want to consider attending this year.
information of your book to newsletter editor
(Natt Pimpa).
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/
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