Welcome to Vol. 2 No. 1 Feb. 2018!

Dear Readers,

Warm Greetings from Sunny California!

With great pleasure, I present to you Vol. 2 No. 1 of World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle!

Education is a powerful tool to change the lives of people. When we add the comparative dimension to education, it becomes transformational in phenomenal ways. The best practices in education worldwide have the potential of spreading out everywhere quickly through comparative approaches in theory and practice.

In this issue, we included articles from Afghanistan, Canada, Egypt, India, Japan, Tanzania, and a beautiful poem from from France. We continue to be mesmerized with the natural beauty, marvelous human-made structures, and vivacious animals from different parts of the world, while picking suitable pictures to accompany the headers of these wonderful contributions coming from the diverse groups of seasoned, early-career, and young scholars.

At World Voices Nexus (WVN), we promote and celebrate diversity of all sorts - in terms of writing styles, formatting, international referencing conventions, and most importantly, languages. Apart from accepting articles in six official languages of the United Nations viz. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, we encourage our readers to use Google Chrome browser, which allows automatic webpage translation in hundreds of global languages. I often use this free service of Google to read the WVN articles in my mother tongue - Hindi. A one-time setting in Chrome is required by choosing Settings (top right corner of Chrome screen with three dots making a vertical line) > Advanced > Languages. In Languages, you can choose your mother tongue/ preferred language and then slide the button in "on" position for "Offer to translate pages that aren't in a language you read". After this one-time setting, whenever you will come across any webpage that is not in a language you read, Chrome will automatically mount a bar on top asking you to click a button to translate the whole page. Admittedly, this language translation tool is yet not perfect and therefore, your academic discretion is required to decipher the meaning conveyed by the author(s). WVN takes no responsibility whatsoever in any translation errors made by Google Chrome.

On behalf of Co-Editors Professor Amasa Philip Ndofirepi and Professor Gauri P. Hardikar and the entire editorial team and advisory board, I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle. We welcome feedback/ comments (using the comments button below every article) in this issue and submissions from you for the next issue of WVN scheduled to be published in June 2018.

We find ourselves short of words to thank WCCES President Professor N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba enough for her relentless support, guidance and motivation.

Dr. Kanishka Bedi
Editor
Saturday, 10 Feb. 2018

Table of Contents

Article 1: Learning to Understand and Live Together through Academic Mobility and
​Knowledge Diplomacy: Sarah R. Asada

Article 2: Social Class in Education: Teacher Recruitment Practices in International
Schools in Egypt: Alaa Adel El Sayed

Article 3: The Ideas of Ma Xiangbo and their Relevance for China & for Global
​Understanding Today: Ruth Hayhoe

Article 4: Establishing Comparative Education Society in Tanzania: Opportunities and
​Prospects: Joel Jonathan Kayombo & Patrick Severine Kavenuke

Article 5: Tagore's Legacy for Inclusive Education, Ecological Awareness & Intercultural
Understanding: Mousumi Mukherjee

Article 6: Poor Quality: A Concern for Afghan Education: Atif Noorajan

Poem: Résilience d’un palmier en exil: Aïcha Maherzi