Concurrent Sessions
Panel Schedule
October 26, 2017
11:15-12:30 PM - Concurrent Sessions I
Room 308 - Participatory action research and educational development: South Asian perspectives
Huma Kidwai, World Bank; Erik Byker, University of North Carolina; Matthew Witenstein, University of Redlands; Radhika Iyengar, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Rohit Setty, University of Michigan; Payal Shah, University of South Carolina; Shabnam Koirala-Azad, University of San Francisco.
Room 310 - Comparative approaches
- A comparative exploration of teaching inequality in international comparative education (Bernhard T. Streitwieser, George Washington University; Romina Giselle Kasman, Organization of American States)
- The comparative impact of pressures to build a world class university and increase English-language publication (David Post, Penn State University)
- Secondary school transformation in post-Soviet countries: research trends in regional data collection and theory building in multi-case cross-national studies (Elena Minina, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Institute of Education)
- The power of place: Toward study abroad for social change (Jennifer M. Pipitone, College of Mount Saint Vincent)
Room 311 - Epistemology, objectivity, ethics
- Let the world sing: Soundscapes, arts-based educational research, and shifting epistemologies in comparative and international education (Derrick Tu, York University)
- Intertwining considerations for analytic honesty (Gia Cromer, George Mason University)
- Cross-cultural curriculum development: A question of comparative epistemologies (Anne Vera Cruz, Boston College & Paul Edward Madden, Boston College)
- Problematizing objectivity in comparative education research (Brian D. Denman, University of New England)
Room 312 - Higher education in CIE
- Teaching comparative education to undergraduates and non-specialists: Navigating the epistemological waters (Richard Bamattre, University of Minnesota Twin Cities & Laura Wangsness Willemsen, University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
- Politicizing the technical: Higher education reform in the Middle East and North Africa (Elizabeth Buckner, OISE, University of Toronto)
- Critical comparative case study and inclusive research: An integrated approach to the study of Vietnam's higher education reform efforts (Mary Beth Marklein, George Mason University)
- An investigation of ways in which the U.S. government's higher education research paradigms and programmatic offerings have been shaped by perceptions of national security (Kristen Allen, George Mason University & Hanover Research)
October 26, 2017
1:30-2:45 - Concurrent Sessions II
Room 308 - Positionality, justice, and methodological mishaps: Navigating complexity in CIE research
Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco; Meagan Call-Cummings, George Mason University; Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College; Karen Ross, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Payal Shah, University of South Carolina
Room 310 - Participatory methodologies and decolonizing discourse
- The messy discourse of menstrual hygiene management (Lina Heaster-Ekholm, University of Massachusetts Amherst & Sahara Pradhan, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Examining the implications of ethical tension points of a Photovoice project with English language learners (Meagan Call-Cummings; Melissa Hauber-Özer; Christie Byers, George Mason University)
- Exploring participatory methods with young adolescent girls: Hearing, seeing, and understanding (Sandra Stacki, Hofstra University)
- How can locally-driven small data transform knowledge hierarchies in international education and development? Evidence from an NGO’s practice in Malawi (Yu-Chen Chiu, University of Pennsylvania)
Room 311 - Policy, agendas, citizenship, decolonizing discourse
- Questioning the hegemonic discourse on international large-scale assessments (Heitor Santos, Swarthmore College)
- How Freirean pedagogy and transnational feminism serve as guiding frameworks for avoiding the fallacy of misplaced concreteness: A critical examination of global citizenship and citizenship education (Lauren DeCrosta, University of Maryland)
- Parental Involvement, Adolescent Romance, and Educational Attainment in Rural China (Xiaoran Yu, Xinwei Zhang, Damian Wyman, Peggy Kong, Lehigh University)
- Re-envisioning educational research: the international agenda on “what works” in research and the effect on equality/inequality (Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Oslo and Akershus, University College of Applied Sciences)
- Successful failure: The problem with policy borrowing in RAND's “Education for a New Era” in Qatar (Rehenuma Asmi, Allegheny College)
Room 312 - Methodological innovations
- Boundary objects and international education: Investigating collaboration and partnership within a field course in the Brazilian Amazon (Matthew Aruch, University of Maryland)
- Using the extended case method to rethink ethnographic research on education (Andrew Frankel, University of Virginia)
- Interrogating intercultural learning (Lauren Collins, University of Denver)
- Secret gardens: Investigating how teacher-parents in Ontario navigate school choice for their own kids (Julie Chami Lindsay, OISE, University of Toronto)
- Girls Education in Afghanistan - Complexities of Research and the Need for Innovation (Shama Dossa, Habib University)
October 27, 2017
12:30-1:45 - Concurrent Sessions III
Room 308 - Who watches the watchmen if not each other? Collective reflections on the generation of knowledge about Cuba
Brendan DeCoster; Timothy Reedy; Jeremy Gombin-Sperling; Melanie Baker; Hang M. Le, University of Maryland-College Park (all authors)
Room 310 - Gender and intersectionality in CIE research
- Ending the gender digital divide in Myanmar: A problem-driven political economy assessment (Sheila Scott with Swathi Balasubramanian and Amber Ehrke, IREX)
- What does it mean to practice choice? Gendered performances of education, piety, and empowerment by Muslim professional women in Pakistani rural communities (Ayesha Khurshid, Florida State University)
- Research considerations in a study of global LGBT rights movements (Naomi A. Moland, Teachers College -- Columbia; Melissa Mott, Teachers College – Columbia)
- Intersectionality rising: Student protests in the United States and South Africa (Carol Corneilse, Independent researcher; Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, South Africa-Washington International Program; Phyllis Slade Martin, George Mason University
Room 311 - Questions around immigrant and migrant voice in CIE research
- Bridging the gap: Exploring the factors behind career-struggle of South Asian skilled immigrant women in Toronto (Rozalina Omar, OISE, University of Toronto)
- A cross-sectoral research: Multi-dimensions of migrant worker policy in Japan (Fumitake Tsukatani; Daisuke Fujii; Takayuki Ogawa; Mie Shigemitsu, Osaka University of Economics [all authors])
- Problemazing migrant children, migrant school, migrant education, and urbanization in China: A Photovoice Project (Jingjing Lou, Beloit College)
- Images in the mirror: The first Tibetan newspaper and a new public pedagogy (Andrew Frankel, University of Virginia)
Room 312 - Conceptual and methodological insights into reimagining CIE research
- Cosmopolitanism and Rabindranath Tagore: Linking international agendas and policies (Sumona Roy, OISE, University of Toronto)
- Sense, spirit, synchrony: Toward an experiential comparative education (Diane M. Hoffman, University of Virginia)
- Mapping the shaping of the intellectual landscape of comparative and international Education: Wrestling coloniality of modernity in research by border-engaging and de-centering/de-peripherizing (Jose Cossa, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University)
- Impact evaluation: Science or ideology? (Steve Klees, University of Maryland)