Welcome to CIDEC!

Welcome to CIDEC, a research centre and graduate degree program. CIDEC's mandate is to promote excellence, collaboration, and innovation in comparative and international educational research at OISE. The CIDEC community includes over 60 faculty members, adjunct faculty, and visiting scholars. More than 120 graduate student researchers with an interest in international issues and comparative methodologies in the field of education are affiliated with the Centre.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Intercultural vs. Multicultural Education:The End of Rivalries?
MULTI-SITED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Faculty of Education,
The University of Western Ontario (Canada):
November 8-9, 2013

Plenary Speakers
Professor Vanessa Andreotti, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Finland
Professor Julie Byrd Clark, Faculty of Education, Western University, Canada
Professor Rahat Naqvi, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, Canada

We invite scholars and practitioners to submit proposals by 1st June 2013.

For more information CLICK HERE

CIES 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana March 10-15, 2013

57th Annual Conference of the Comparative & International Education Society

Theme: Educational Quality: Global Imperatives and Contested Visions

23 CIDE Faculty and Students Presented including CIES President-Elect Dr. Karen Mundy

PROGRAM

The Comparative, International and Development Education Centre Presents

The Joseph P. Farrell Student Research Symposium 2013

Friday, February 22, 2013, SMART ROOM – 7-105 (10:15-4:15)

A great success - well attended and exciting presentations. Check back for webcast and powerpoint presentations.

CLICK FOR PROGRAM.

Multi-media

Congratulations CIDE graduates!

Graduate students of the CIDE program received their diplomas on June 7. Watch the event.

Watch Ruth Hayhoe's keynote address during the first Ministerial Roundtable at the International Education Forum and Expo in Hong Kong.

Read Karen Mundy and Francine Menashy's chapter titled "The World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and Private Sector Participation in Basic Education: Examining the Education Sector Strategy 2020"

Picture of Sarfaroz Niyozov Watch Sarfaroz Niyozov, CIDEC Co-Director, and the Central Asia-Afghanistan Research Group talk the challenges to education in Afghanistan.

Listen to more CIDEC webcasts.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CIDE SEMINAR FEATURING CIES VP

N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba
Cornell University
Africana Studies and Research Center
Ithaca, New York

Gender Factor in African/Diaspora Higher Education: Differing Patterns of Gaps in Access, Academic Achievements and Outcomes

Contemporary higher education in Africa and the African Diaspora has similarities and differences that result from the legacies of the Transatlantic Enslavement and the brief but equally powerful colonial rule. The gendered patterns of access, attrition, retention, performance in terms of academic achievement and social outcomes, are also determined by indigenous factors and internal policies of the different nation-states. A global comparative analysis reveals structural inequalities based on gender. The thrust of this paper is to articulate the trends and how they are reproduced, using comparative and historical analytical frameworks.

Monday May 27th, 2013

4:30-6:30 pm EVERYONE WELCOME!

CIDE Smart Room (7-105)

7th Floor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor Street West

Please check this link for webcast following the presentation: http://uoft.me/3wb

CIDEC/CREFO/LHAE SEMINAR

"The cosmopolitan mind among European Erasmus students"

Guest speaker: Prof. Vincenzo Cicchelli, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris – Descartes

This paper engages with the emerging cosmopolitan consciousness and practices that derive from young people’s experiences of the globalised world. Based on interviews with students from the Erasmus program, the focus is on awareness of one’s cultural pluralism, the place that ‘otherness’ is granted within one’s own identity and the broadening sense of one’s national belonging at various levels.

Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris – Descartes and a Research Fellow at Groupe d’Étude des Méthodes d’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (Gemass, Paris 4/CNRS). He is also the General secretary of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and editor of the "Youth in a Globalizing World" collection (Brill Publishing, Boston/Leiden). His research interests include comparative youth studies, international mobilities, transnationalism and global sociology. Vincenzo’s most recent publication is L’esprit cosmopolite. Voyages de formation des jeunes en Europe.

Thursday April 11, 2013
11:30 am-1:00 pm

CIDE Smart Room (7-105)
7th Floor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor Street West

This event is co-sponsored by the CIDEC, CREFO and LHAE, OISE, University of Toronto
Please check this link for webcast following the presentation: http://uoft.me/3p3

Centre for Ethics | Department of Political Science | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education | School of Public Policy & Governance - University of Toronto

Malignant Accountability

Yael Tamir
President of Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel (former Minister of Education, State of Israel)

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Auditiorium 1180, Bahen Centre
40 St. George Street

In democratic societies, it is important that public institutions be held accountable for their performance. But once political distrust of public institutions takes hold, it can unleash new forms of monitoring and measurement that distort institutional purposes, corrupting the practice that they were meant to control and improve. These dynamics are especially evident in the field of education, where their implications for the future of our democracies are also especially troubling.

This event is free and open to the public. CLICK HERE FOR POSTER

CIDEC Presents: Friday March 8

Susan Lee Robertson, Professor of Education, University of Bristol, UK

Teachers’ Work, Denationalization, and Transformations in the Field of Symbolic Control: A Comparative Account

Friday March 8, 2013
11:30-1:00

ROOM 12-199
12th Floor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor Street West

Light lunch provided. Please RSVP.

Link to Seminar Poster and Evite

This seminar will be webcast live at: connect.oise.utoronto.ca/cidec and webcast at http://uoft.me/3gs

Appointment of New Co-Director

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stephen Anderson to the position of CIDE Co-Director effective January 1, 2013.

Dr. Anderson’s research interests include the implementation of education policy and program change, school improvement and teacher development (classroom, school, and school district levels), and program evaluation.

Double Loss for CIDEC

Roxana Ng

Our esteemed and dear colleague, Roxana Ng, died on January 12 after a short battle with cancer. Roxana's serenity, warmth, and intelligence will be will be sorely missed by the entire CIDE community.

Roxana requested that donations be made to InterPares in lieu of flowers. We are also requesting photographs, stories, and words of tribute for a website that will be constructed in honour of Roxana and her work. If you wish to contribute, please email your photos and stories to jamie.ryckman@utoronto.ca or angelasabrina.lytle@utoronto.ca.

Finally, Roxana was honoured in a motion at Toronto City Council. Thank you to Councillors Krystin Wong-Tam and Pam McConnell for this condolence motion.

The passing of CIDEC Founder Joe Farrell

"U of T's Joe Farrell developed alternative models to aid learning in developing world" - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail Obituary by Noreen Shanahan

Pdf of obituary

We are deeply saddened to announce that CIDEC founder and Professor Joe Farrell passed away suddenly on December 8, 2012. Respected and loved by faculty and students alike, Joe’s generosity of both intellect and spirit will be missed by the entire CIDEC community. Memorial donations in Joe’s name can be made online by visiting:

https://donate.utoronto.ca/

Donations should be directed to the CIDE Founder Scholarship: In memory of J. Farrell.

The December 2012 of the CIESC journal, Canadian and International Education is dedicated to Joe Farrell. You can read the dedication (and CIESC members can read the other excellent articles, including one by CIDE Co-Director Sarfaroz Niyozov)

Read Around the World in 40 Years: A Tribute to Joe Farrell

For further information, contact CIDEC Administrator cidec.oise@utoronto.ca

Dr. Karen Mundy remains as CIDE faculty in addition to new responsibities at CIES and OISE

The Dean’s Office at OISE announces the appointment of Professor Karen Mundy as Associate Dean, Research effective September 1, 2012. Read more here.

Karen Mundy has been elected Vice President/President Elect for the Board of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)! She will serve a four-year term on the Board.

Listen to the announcement made by CIES President Ratna Ghosh(Audio)

Read Karen's biographical statement.

Approximately 30 CIDE faculty and students plan to attend or present at the Conference for Canadian Society for the Study of Education May 27 - 30 at Wilfrid Laurier University.

OISE was well represented at the Annual CIES Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico April 22 - 28 with over 50 OISE faculty and students presenting papers.