Teachers College, Columbia University, New York has hosted CIES 2008 Conference and a meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society. The first session of panels began promptly at 8:30AM on Monday, March 17, 2008 and the final session of panels will be on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 10:30AM.
The conference emphasised on the theme of educational equity within and among regions and countries, focusing on the impact of factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, economics, disability, and urbanization.
The venue in New York City and at Teachers College provided a special occasion to return to the roots of CIES. TC faculty John Dewey, James Russell, Paul Monroe, Isaac Kandel, and George Bereday were pioneers in establishing a focus on international and comparative education. R. Freeman Butts, Harold Noah, and Max Eckstein were among many of the early officers and founding board members of CIES who came from the TC faculty, and the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at TC sponsors one of the largest graduate training programs in the world in Comparative and International Education.
In addition, New York City constitutes one of the most internationalized cities in the world with its large multilingual and multicultural populations and its substantial international institutions including the United Nations.
I have made a pannel presentation on on 18th March, 2008 during 1.30 p.m to 3. p.m on "Ganing Equity and Quality in Education: Indian Experiences" and was received well by the international community. This paper was jointly developed by me and my colleague Dr. Anjali Khirwadkar from Baroda University, India.On 19th March, 2008, I have made another presentation with my colleague Prof. Holger Daun, Stockholm University on " Globalization and Education".
Pushpanadham
