World’s leading education institutes collaborate at OISE this week
June 13, 2011
mithThe Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)of the University of Toronto will host close to 150 delegates from 10 countries as part of the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes’ (IALEI) annual meeting and conference this week. The event will be attended by member institutions, education scholars and researchers, graduate students, as well as policy-makers and administrators, and senior officials from the World Bank and OECD the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The current IALEI Chair is Julia O’Sullivan, the Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. OISE is the only Canadian institution to be a member of this group of leaders in education. IAELI’s work addresses important educational themes, providing leadership for educational development around the globe, inspiring new research and new practices in education, and making policy recommendations on critical issues. IALEI includes members from 10 leading education institutes in different countries from around the globe.
Each year, the conference features a theme of global interest. This year’s theme is Mobilizing Research and Knowledge in Education. Top researchers from member institutions will discuss the ways that universities, as primary producers of education research, can increase their impact on policy and practice in education. At the conference an international synthesis report, based on perspectives on research in knowledge mobilization from each institution, will be presented along with key recommendations.
Canada Research Chair and former Deputy Minister of Education Professor Ben Levin, a leading expert in knowledge mobilization research from OISE, is the academic coordinator of this event. Professor Sandra Nutley from the University of Edinburgh, an internationally-renowned scholar in the area of mobilizing research and the use of evidence-based policy and practice, is the guest expert.
For more information about the annual meeting and conference, visit: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/IALEI/.