Project Report for BAICE AGM

INTERNATIONALISING EDUCATION RESEARCH CULTURES AND GRADUATE TRAINING: BAICE East of England Partnership

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BAICE Sponsored Dissertation Writing Workshop
The University of Birmingham, Centre for International Education and Research School of Education

The universities of Bristol and Birmingham both have thriving Masters programmes that draw upon international and comparative education.  In both settings, students also focus on studies relating to educational leadership, management, policy and practice in an international context. 

Students following these courses at both universities come to the UK from a wide range of countries, but rarely have opportunities to interact academically with others studying in the same field and at other universities.  This BAICE one day workshop was designed to bridge this gap and facilitate supportive and helpful contacts between students and staff.

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Call for papers for forthcoming Special Issue to mark the 40th Anniversary of Compare

2010 marks the 40th anniversary of  Compare: a journal of comparative and international education. During the past forty years, the journal has evolved greatly - not just in terms of our ever-widening global audience and contributors and the frequency of publication - but also in developing a distinctive identity. Compare has created a unique space for educational research debate and methodological reflection in comparative and international education. Positioning ourselves at the intersection of comparative education and development studies, Compare has provided the opportunity for researchers in these often separate fields to share insights on methodology and develop conceptual debates from differing perspectives. Recent examples include our Special Issue on ‘Narrative methodological approaches: their contribution to comparative and international education’ (Vol. 38/3) and the sub-issue on ‘Literacies in comparative perspective’ (Vol. 39/4).

To celebrate our 40th. anniversary, we would like to invite contributions for a Special Issue in 2010 that will explore the intersection of comparative education and development studies. This might include analysis of historical changes in the conceptualisation of education (and educational research) within the fields of comparative education and development studies, the emerging role of Compare in relation to other journals in this field, or methodological reflections related to these themes. We would particularly welcome contributions from former and current editorial and advisory board members and writers for Compare.

As with all our Special Issues, papers will be subject to our normal anonymous peer review process. If you are interested in contributing, please send your paper by email to the Compare Editorial Office (compare@uea.ac.uk), indicating that it is intended for the 40th. Anniversary Special Issue. All papers should be received by November 30th 2009 in order to allow sufficient time for peer review and possible revisions.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Karen Evans
Anna Robinson-Pant 

Regional Symposium: University of Brighton, 14th May 2009

Cultural relationships in PhD supervision: a symposium to explore the experiences of international doctoral students and supervisors in UK universities

The Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University held a Symposium on 14th May 2009, designed to encourage discussion and debate among supervisors and international doctoral students about the influence of cultural factors on cross-cultural doctoral supervision.

This event was funded by BAICE, in conjunction with the University of Brighton; and the overall aim was to encourage the “internationalisation of Educational Research, Learning and Teaching (BAICE, 2008).” Eight supervisors and eleven students attended from seven Universities in the Southeast region: Brighton, Chichester, Kent at Canterbury, Portsmouth, Southampton, Surrey and Sussex. Students of a wide range of nationalities took part from the EU and other countries.

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Newly appointed Co-Editors for COMPARE

Dr Yusuf Sayed (University of Sussex) and Professor Paul Morris (Institute of Education, London) have been appointed co-editors of Compare. Both are highly distinguished and experienced academics and Compare can be proud to have them on board. They will replace Professor Karen Evans from September 2009 onwards whose term of office has come to an end, after a long and outstanding stint as co-editor. She will be very much missed.

Internationalisation of Educational Research, Learning and Teaching - BAICE funded projects (£500-£1000).

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BAICE is pleased to support to support the following projects

Exploring cultural relationships in PHD supervision:
The experiences of international doctoral students
and supervisors in UK universities
University of Brighton
Centre for Learning and Teaching
Contact: Jennie Jones

Internationalising educational research cultures and graduate training:
East of England Partnership
University of Cambridge: contact Prof, Madeleine Arnot,
University of East Anglia: contact Dr Anna Robinson-Pant

Developing Intercultural Competence in International Higher Education Communities: Initiating European Conversations
Dr Sheila Trahar, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol

BAICE Student Prize 2008 for paper presented at the GLASGOW BAICE Conference

BAICE is happy to announce that the STUDENT PRIZE for a paper presented at the BAICE conference Glasgow, 2008, was won by Arathi Sriprakash for her paper: "Joyful learning in rural Indian Primary Schools: An analysis of social control in the context of child-centred discourses"

Arathi is a PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge who comes from Australia. She is conducting a sociological study of rural primary school teachers' pedagogic discourse and practice in Karnataka, India. The paper she submitted for the BAICE student prize draws on empirical data to explore what it means to introduce child-centred pedagogic principles in low-income, rural Indian contexts. Her analysis reveals how new modes of pedagogic control implied by a particular child-centred reform are understood and mediated by teachers.

Publication of Doctoral abstracts
If you have recently successfully completed a doctoral thesis (including PhD, DPhil and Professional Doctorate) in the area of international and comparative education, you are invited to submit your thesis abstract for publication in Compare.

In the abstract, please highlight the ways in which your research contributes to the field of international and comparative education in particular. Your abstract should be no longer than 250 words, and include:

• your full name
• title of the degree
• the university where it was awarded
• your current institutional affiliation and contact details (including email address).

This should be sent as electronic copy to the Compare Book Reviews Editor, Frances Hunt

ESCalate
ESCalate is the Subject Centre for Education. It works within all areas of adult education across the four countries of the UK and has an increasing international agenda, currently supporting projects in South Africa and Canada as well as many areas of mainland Europe. With our presence at the BAICE conference this year, we aimed to demonstrate our increasing commitment to working with colleagues across the world. We welcome debate, articles and comment on teaching and learning from practitioners who can add to our international and comparative perspectives. Please email julie.anderson@bris.ac.uk for further details or go to http://escalate.ac.uk/ to see our website with events and news. In addition, on the website you can read our online Newsletters, Bulletins, Academic papers and Discussions Series booklets or have them sent to you if you sign up as an ESCalate member.

Remembering Edmund King
The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) would like to pay tribute to Edmund King, who had been a member and then an honorary member of the society for many years. Edmund had a stimulating intellectual impact on the field of comparative and international education, and was a leading figure worldwide. He gave support to the work of the society through his extensive scholarship and through his distinctive humour and engaging personality. Edmund King will be greatly missed as both a friend and a scholar. As an ongoing tribute, the BAICE Executive Committee have dedicated a biennial 'Edmund King Bursary' for a student to attend the BAICE conference.
Michael Crossley and Lynn Davies