Special Interests Groups

The Globalization and Education SIG seeks to provide a forum where researchers and practitioners involved in global study of comparative and international education have meaningful conversations and exchanges of ideas related to globalization and education.

Co-Chairperson: Stephen Carney Co-Chairperson: Tavis Jules

The Higher Education SIG serves as a networking hub for promoting scholarship opportunities, critical dialogue, and linking professionals and academics to the international aspects of higher education.

Co-Chairperson: James Jacob Williams Co-Chairperson: Qiang Zha Secretary: Jorge Enrique Delgado Program Chair: Esther Gottlieb

ICT4D (ICT for Development) is an outlet for members of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) to collaborate with, learn from, and create bonds that will heighten interest and research in this ever growing area.

Co-chairperson: Jayson Richardson Co-chairperson: Jeffrey Lee

The Inclusive Education SIG seeks to elicit the participation of scholars interested in educational issues specific to the multiple meanings of IE and, accordingly, to learners who are marginalized due to special educational needs. These might include: disabilities, second language acquisition, poverty, racial and ethnic discrimination, social exclusion, etc.

Chairperson: Florian Kiuppis

The Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy SIG consists of CIES members, members of indigenous communities, and practitioners who want to dialogue about ways to develop alternative knowledge and how this can be used to interact with, and transform the academy.

Co-Chairperson: Tutaleni I. Asino Co-Chairperson: Trey Menefee

The Language Issues SIG is a network of researchers and practitioners working to understand the role of language(s) in education, as well as the role of the languages of instruction in differing, and often contentious, political and cultural contexts.

Co-Chairperson: Desmond Odugu Co-Chairperson: Zehlia Babaci-wilhite Communications Co-coordinator: Anna Farrell Communications Co-coordinator: Michelle Gaston

The Large-Scale Cross-National Studies in Education SIG is the newly established SIG with the mission to promote research related to large-scale cross-national studies in education. The SIG will provide a space within CIES for interaction between scholars who are contributing to the three aforementioned lines of research. Also, the SIG will bring together scholars and practitioners who are designing and implementing international assessments of educational achievement.

Co-Chairperson: David Rutkowski Co-chairperson: Oren Pizmony-Levy