World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle
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      • Article 1 by Asada
      • Article 2 by El Sayed
      • Article 3 by Hayhoe
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      • Article 6 by Noorajan
      • Poem by Maherzi
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      • Article 1 by Alaraimi
      • Article 2 by Alegado
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      • Article 6 by Waghid
      • Article 7 by Walterova
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      • Article 1 by Alam
      • Article 2 by Alhouti
      • Article 3 by Aung
      • Article 4 by Gakunga
      • Article 5 by Kambona & Intsiful
      • Article 6 by Sindhi
      • Article 7 by Soe
      • Tribute by Maherzi
    • Vol. 3 No. 1 (Feb. 2019) >
      • Article 1 by Latt
      • Article 2 by Kambona
      • Article 3 by Maciel
      • Article 4 by Mwanza
      • Article 5 by Sultana & Haque
      • New Year 2019 Poem by Maherzi
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      • Article 1 by Batra
      • Article 2 by Fermine
      • Article 3 by Ginsburg & Batista
      • Article 4 by Klein
      • Article 5 by Thakur & Deshmukh
    • Vol. 3 No. 3 (Oct. 2019) >
      • Article 1 by Inaba
      • Article 2 by Maherzi
      • Article 3 by Mwanza
      • Article 4 by Neema-Abooki & Kamanzi
      • Article 5 by Soe & Imran
    • Vol. 4 No. 1 (Feb. 2020) >
      • Article 1 by Kambona
      • Article 2 by Maherzi
      • Article 3 by Soe
      • Article 4 by Vakhovskyi
      • New Year 2020 Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 4 No. 2 (Jun. 2020) >
      • Obituary by AFEC
      • Article 1 by Assié-Lumumba
      • Article 2 by Latt
      • Article 3 by Sanga & Reynolds
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 4 No. 3 (Oct. 2020) >
      • Article 1 by Antonell and Rius
      • Article 2 by Aung & Chun
      • Article 3 by Soe
      • Article 4 by Win & Aung
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 5 No. 1 (Feb. 2021) >
      • Article 1 by Batista and Ribeiro-Silva
      • Article 2 by Bedi, Deshmukh, Ekanayake and Vitharana
      • Article 3 by Enkhtur, Li and Zhang
      • Article 4 by Karunathilaka
      • Article 5 by Romao
    • Vol. 5 No. 2 (Jun. 2021) >
      • Article 1 by Coulon
      • Article 2 by Gakunga and Owuor
      • Article 3 by Guallpa and Guallpa
      • Article 4 by Hou
      • Article 5 by Kumari and Vitharana
      • Article 6 by Ribeiro-Silva and Amorim
    • Vol. 5 No. 3 (Oct. 2021) >
      • Obituary by Assie-Lumumba
      • Article 1 by Bedi
      • Article 2 by Inaba
      • Article 3 by Senevirathne & Ekanayake
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 6 No. 1 (Feb. 2022) >
      • Article 1 by Apata and Paintsil
      • Article 2 by Nikita N. Deshmukh
      • Article 3 by Radhika G. Deshmukh and Narendra D. Deshmukh
      • New Year 2022 Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 6 No. 2 (Jun. 2022) >
      • Article 1 by Changamire and Kebede
      • Article 2 by Coulon
      • Article 3 by Geiger and Killen
      • Article 4 by Mackatiani and Likoko
      • Article 5 by Munoz
      • Article 6 by Navarro-Leal
    • Vol. 6 No. 3 (Oct. 2022) >
      • Article 1 by Amarasinghe
      • Article 2 by Chamanthi
      • Article 3 by Dutta, Hardikar, et al
      • Article 4 by Karasev et al
      • Obituary by Wolhuter and Herman
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    • ICES 4th National Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 20 June 2021
    • 2022 Virtual Conference of CESHK, 18-19 March 2022
    • ISCEST Nigeria 7th Annual International Conference, 30 Nov.-3 Dec. 2020
    • 3rd WCCES Symposium (Virtually through Zoom) 25-27 Nov. 2020
    • CESA 12th Biennial Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26-28 Sept. 2020
    • CESI 10th International Conference, New Delhi, India, 9-11 Dec. 2019
    • SOMEC Forum, Mexico City, 13 Nov. 2018
    • WCCES Symposium, Geneva, 14-15 Jan. 2019
    • 54th EC Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 14 Jan. 2019
    • XVII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Cancún, Mexico, 20-24 May 2019
    • ISCEST Nigeria 5th Annual Conference, 3-6 Dec. 2018
    • CESI 9th International Conference, Vadodara, India, 14-16 Dec. 2018
    • ICES 3rd National Conference, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 17 Jan. 2019
    • WCCES Retreat & EC Meeting, Johannesburg, 20-21 June 2018
    • WCCES Symposium, Johannesburg, 21-22 June 2018
    • 5th IOCES International Conference, 21-22 June 2018
    • International Research Symposium, Sonepat, India, 11-12 Dec. 2017
    • WCCES Info Session & Launch of Online Course on Practicing Nonviolence at CIES, 29 March 2018
    • WCCES Leadership Meeting at CIES, 28 March 2018
    • 52nd EC Meeting of WCCES, France, 10-11 Oct. 2017
    • UIA Round Table Asia Pacific, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 21-22 Sept. 2017
  • Online Courses
    • Practicing Nonviolence >
      • Module 1: Nature's Lessons
      • Module 2: Virtues of Nonviolence
      • Module 3: Fighting against Violence
      • Conclusion & the Pledge



3rd WCCES Symposium
(
Virtually through Zoom)

25-27 November 2020

CALL FOR PUBLICATIONS
Participants who presented their papers during the 3rd WCCES Symposium (Virtually through Zoom) held on 25-27 November 2020 are encouraged to submit their short (3000 words) or full (6000 words) papers for possible publication in the three WCCES outlets after the peer-review process. Please see the details on this page below.

Call for Publications

Participants who presented their papers during the 3rd WCCES Symposium are encouraged to revise and submit their papers to one of the three WCCES publication outlets (each with its rigorous peer-reviewed process):
1) Papers of 6000 words in Global Comparative Education: Journal of the WCCES in one of the six official languages of the United Nations
2) Short papers of 3000 words in World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle in one of the six official languages of the United Nations
3) Papers of at least 6000 words in English as chapters in one or more edited volumes in the WCCES Brill-Sense book series.

​Short/ full papers must be sent for review latest by 31 March 2021 to publications@wcces-online.org
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3rd WCCES Symposium
(Virtually through Zoom)

Teachers, Teaching Profession, and Comparative Education: Fostering Values Education and Engaging Academic Freedom amidst Emerging Issues related to COVID-19

Co-convened with 
1st International Conference of Mondial Association for Peace by Comparative Education
6th International Conference of Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society
3rd Conference of Portuguese Society of Education Sciences - Section of Comparative Education


25-27 November 2020

The advent of Wikipedia, Google, and several online learning institutions is challenging the conventional role of a teacher, who hitherto acted as a “sage on the stage”. Information is literally at the fingertips of learners, nevertheless the challenge of converting it into actionable knowledge still remains. Even artificial intelligence systems today are not advanced enough to replace the human teacher. It is highly likely that several components of teaching delivery may be taken over by technology in the times to come. However the role of a human teacher as a mentor, guide, and researcher is hard to be replaced. 

In the current global crisis of Covid-19 pandemic, teachers at all levels of the education systems across the globe face formidable challenges, such as whether to continue in this profession or not, the need to help future generations of citizens develop humanist values, dealing with rapid technological changes that affect their roles, identities and work, freeing themselves and their students from the grip of consumerism fuelled by world markets. In the framework of comparative education, this symposium aims to attract views, experiences and insights from research on the teaching profession from different parts of the world, with an eye on these challenges. It would indeed help in understanding the multi-faceted role of a teacher today and tomorrow (during and after the Covid-19 pandemic) from varied cultural, linguistic, political and geographical perspectives.


Questions for Consideration
A number of questions, including (but not limited to) the following are raised as the guiding threads for this symposium:
• How can the teaching profession rise to the call in the SDGs towards the promotion of the idea and requirements to nurture shared values caring for our local and global, social and physical environment in recognition of our common humanity?  
• How can the teaching profession and teachers in the framework of comparative education promote and uphold common values recognising our mutual dependence? 
• What processes are taking place and/or can be envisioned to leverage the constructive impact of the education systems in different parts of the world during and post the Covid-19 pandemic?
• How can the technology be conceived as an effective tool that can help achieve the humanistic values and goals? 
• What role can comparative education/educators/researchers play in protecting and fostering teachers’ freedoms when these are threatened?
• How can autonomous and critical thinking be applied in teaching and research to promote and sustain academic freedom?
• What cross-national comparisons of values education be conducted from the lower to higher levels of education systems?
• What are the implications for gender equity and values education as in many national contexts there is a gendered structure of the teaching profession characterised by a feminisation of the lower levels while the upper levels, especially in the universities, are dominated by the male teachers and researchers?


Extended Deadline for 300 words (in Microsoft Word) abstract submission in any of the following languages: English, French, Portuguese or Spanish: 10 November 2020

Submit through this link (you will need to open a new free Easy Chair account as an author even if you used Easy Chair for other conferences earlier). Presenters will be invited to revise and submit their papers to one of the three WCCES publication outlets (each with its rigorous peer-reviewed process): 1) Papers of 6000 words in Global Comparative Education: Journal of the WCCES 2) Short papers of 3000 words in World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle 3) Papers of at least 6000 words as chapters in one or more edited volumes in the WCCES Brill-Sense book series. Full papers must be sent for review latest by 31 March 2021 to publications@wcces-online.org

More information will be communicated during and after the symposium. For more details, please visit the WCCES main website: www.wcces-online.org
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Registration Fee

Thanks to our sponsors, the registration fee has been waived off for participants hailing from low and lower-middle income countries (World Bank List of Economies, June 2020) and students from anywhere in the world. For other participants, the registration fee is Euro 40. Donations to support the symposium will be much appreciated and acknowledged. 

Mandatory Registration Form

Please note that it is mandatory to complete the registration form through this link latest by 20 November 2020 for the participants to partake in the symposium.

The following points are helpful in completing the registration form:
  • In the place where the Tax Identification Number is requested, you should put 999 999 990 (without the spaces)
  • You do not need to enter information about your passport.
  • On the "Free Training" issue, the option is already pre-filled and should not be changed.

Program

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Message from WCCES President about the film session on Friday, 27 Nov. 2020 at 17:30 GMT

Dear Symposium Participant,
 
Please join us after the closing session of the WCECS 3rd Symposium at GMT17:30 on Friday 27 November for a special viewing of a section of John Feldman’s film: Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution.  https://hummingbirdfilms.com/symbioticearth/
 
We are delighted that the film director John Feldman will be able to join us for the session. After a short introduction to the film and viewing a 20-minute section, Hugh McLean, from the Open Society Foundations, will talk to John Feldman about his film and the educator, independent thinker and evolutionary biologist, Lynn Margulis (1938-2011).  Lynn Margulis stood up to what she called the Neo-Darwinian capitalist zeitgeist, the male-dominated scientific orthodoxy, the denkkollektive (thought collective) that dominated evolutionary theory for the second half of the 20th century, to usher in a revolution in scientific thinking, which has great relevance for the subject of our symposium: Teaching and Academic Freedom in an Age of COVID-19. 
 
We also invite you to watch the entire film until 5 December 2020 at the address and using the password below:
SYMBIOTIC EARTH
https://vimeopro.com/bullfrogfilms/osf-symbiotic-earth
Password: 0SF5!m (please note the first letter is a zero, not an “O”)
 
You are also welcome to a free download of the Symbiotic Earth Study Guide, which is written by the director and Lynn Margulis’s son Julian Sagan: https://hummingbirdfilms.com/symbioticearth/studyguide/
 
We shall look forward to your joining us,

Professor N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba
WCCES President

Zoom Link to Access the Symposium

3rd WCCES Symposium Zoom Link (Please click here)
Password: 245241

It is essential that all participants have a basic account on the Zoom platform (free of charge) for better access to all parallel sessions.

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  • Home
  • About WVN
    • President's Message
    • Advisory Board
    • Editorial Team
    • Call for Submissions
    • Reviewing Guidelines
  • WVN Issues
    • Vol. 1 No. 1 (Oct. 2017) >
      • Article 1 by Assie-Lumumba
      • Article 2 by Enrique Aguilar
      • Article 3 by Alasfour
      • Article 4 by Choi
      • Article 5 by Coxon & McLaughlin
      • Article 6 by Navarro Leal
      • Article 7 by Sindhi
    • Vol. 2 No. 1 (Feb. 2018) >
      • Article 1 by Asada
      • Article 2 by El Sayed
      • Article 3 by Hayhoe
      • Article 4 by Kayombo & Kavenuke
      • Article 5 by Mukherjee
      • Article 6 by Noorajan
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 2 No. 2 (Jun. 2018) >
      • Article 1 by Alaraimi
      • Article 2 by Alegado
      • Article 3 by Eriyagama
      • Article 4 by Pan
      • Article 5 by Sriprakash & Takayama
      • Article 6 by Waghid
      • Article 7 by Walterova
    • Vol. 2 No. 3 (Oct. 2018) >
      • Article 1 by Alam
      • Article 2 by Alhouti
      • Article 3 by Aung
      • Article 4 by Gakunga
      • Article 5 by Kambona & Intsiful
      • Article 6 by Sindhi
      • Article 7 by Soe
      • Tribute by Maherzi
    • Vol. 3 No. 1 (Feb. 2019) >
      • Article 1 by Latt
      • Article 2 by Kambona
      • Article 3 by Maciel
      • Article 4 by Mwanza
      • Article 5 by Sultana & Haque
      • New Year 2019 Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 3 No. 2 (Jun. 2019) >
      • Article 1 by Batra
      • Article 2 by Fermine
      • Article 3 by Ginsburg & Batista
      • Article 4 by Klein
      • Article 5 by Thakur & Deshmukh
    • Vol. 3 No. 3 (Oct. 2019) >
      • Article 1 by Inaba
      • Article 2 by Maherzi
      • Article 3 by Mwanza
      • Article 4 by Neema-Abooki & Kamanzi
      • Article 5 by Soe & Imran
    • Vol. 4 No. 1 (Feb. 2020) >
      • Article 1 by Kambona
      • Article 2 by Maherzi
      • Article 3 by Soe
      • Article 4 by Vakhovskyi
      • New Year 2020 Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 4 No. 2 (Jun. 2020) >
      • Obituary by AFEC
      • Article 1 by Assié-Lumumba
      • Article 2 by Latt
      • Article 3 by Sanga & Reynolds
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 4 No. 3 (Oct. 2020) >
      • Article 1 by Antonell and Rius
      • Article 2 by Aung & Chun
      • Article 3 by Soe
      • Article 4 by Win & Aung
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 5 No. 1 (Feb. 2021) >
      • Article 1 by Batista and Ribeiro-Silva
      • Article 2 by Bedi, Deshmukh, Ekanayake and Vitharana
      • Article 3 by Enkhtur, Li and Zhang
      • Article 4 by Karunathilaka
      • Article 5 by Romao
    • Vol. 5 No. 2 (Jun. 2021) >
      • Article 1 by Coulon
      • Article 2 by Gakunga and Owuor
      • Article 3 by Guallpa and Guallpa
      • Article 4 by Hou
      • Article 5 by Kumari and Vitharana
      • Article 6 by Ribeiro-Silva and Amorim
    • Vol. 5 No. 3 (Oct. 2021) >
      • Obituary by Assie-Lumumba
      • Article 1 by Bedi
      • Article 2 by Inaba
      • Article 3 by Senevirathne & Ekanayake
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 6 No. 1 (Feb. 2022) >
      • Article 1 by Apata and Paintsil
      • Article 2 by Nikita N. Deshmukh
      • Article 3 by Radhika G. Deshmukh and Narendra D. Deshmukh
      • New Year 2022 Poem by Maherzi
    • Vol. 6 No. 2 (Jun. 2022) >
      • Article 1 by Changamire and Kebede
      • Article 2 by Coulon
      • Article 3 by Geiger and Killen
      • Article 4 by Mackatiani and Likoko
      • Article 5 by Munoz
      • Article 6 by Navarro-Leal
    • Vol. 6 No. 3 (Oct. 2022) >
      • Article 1 by Amarasinghe
      • Article 2 by Chamanthi
      • Article 3 by Dutta, Hardikar, et al
      • Article 4 by Karasev et al
      • Obituary by Wolhuter and Herman
  • Events
    • CIES 2023, Feb. 14-22, Washington D.C., USA
    • ICES 4th National Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 20 June 2021
    • 2022 Virtual Conference of CESHK, 18-19 March 2022
    • ISCEST Nigeria 7th Annual International Conference, 30 Nov.-3 Dec. 2020
    • 3rd WCCES Symposium (Virtually through Zoom) 25-27 Nov. 2020
    • CESA 12th Biennial Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26-28 Sept. 2020
    • CESI 10th International Conference, New Delhi, India, 9-11 Dec. 2019
    • SOMEC Forum, Mexico City, 13 Nov. 2018
    • WCCES Symposium, Geneva, 14-15 Jan. 2019
    • 54th EC Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 14 Jan. 2019
    • XVII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Cancún, Mexico, 20-24 May 2019
    • ISCEST Nigeria 5th Annual Conference, 3-6 Dec. 2018
    • CESI 9th International Conference, Vadodara, India, 14-16 Dec. 2018
    • ICES 3rd National Conference, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 17 Jan. 2019
    • WCCES Retreat & EC Meeting, Johannesburg, 20-21 June 2018
    • WCCES Symposium, Johannesburg, 21-22 June 2018
    • 5th IOCES International Conference, 21-22 June 2018
    • International Research Symposium, Sonepat, India, 11-12 Dec. 2017
    • WCCES Info Session & Launch of Online Course on Practicing Nonviolence at CIES, 29 March 2018
    • WCCES Leadership Meeting at CIES, 28 March 2018
    • 52nd EC Meeting of WCCES, France, 10-11 Oct. 2017
    • UIA Round Table Asia Pacific, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 21-22 Sept. 2017
  • Online Courses
    • Practicing Nonviolence >
      • Module 1: Nature's Lessons
      • Module 2: Virtues of Nonviolence
      • Module 3: Fighting against Violence
      • Conclusion & the Pledge