News Article
Paper presented in Turkey at World Congress of Comparative Education Societies
(June 2010) SIL multilingual education consultant Kimmo Kosonen, Ph.D., is presenting a paper entitled “Finding the balance between dominant and non-dominant languages in southeast Asian education” at the XIV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies. The theme of the congress, meeting 14–18 June, is “Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society.” Hosts of the conference are the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, the Turkish Comparative Education Society and Boğaziçi University, Turkey, where the meetings are being held.
The concept of border is key to analyzing the relationship between education and society at all levels. Borders can be national, regional, social or psychic; they can be fixed or shifting. Borders and lines can be material (walls), psychological (in peoples’ minds) or metaphorical (the “glass ceiling” for women’s careers). Discussions of borders are part of discussions of space and of space-time.
The conference has 14 thematic groups to address the issues of bordering in an international perspective from specific vantage points.
Thematic groups
- Educational governance, policy within and across borders
- Comparative education: Rethinking theory and method
- Education, conflict and transitions within and between societies
- Demystifying quality in education
- Re-imagining curriculum
- Critical perspectives in teacher education and development
- Identity, space and diversity in education
- Education, human and social development, and capabilities
- New technologies and accessibility to learning
- Education and children's rights in a "globalized" world
- Education, politics of dominance, the suppressed and disappearing languages
- Privatization and marketization in education
- Education, migration, citizenship and the State
- Cross-thematic groups (special interest groups / special workshops / symposia / round table)
Related links of interest
- Official conference website
- Multilingual education
- Language and the Millennium Development Goals
- Literacy and education in SIL
- SIL mother-tongue literacy programs
- Mother Tongue-Based MLE Conference in the Philippines (February 2008 News Article)
- Early Grade Reading Assessment (April 2010News Article)
- Language, nationhood and education policies in East Africa (June 2008 News Article)
- Bamako International Forum on Multilingualism (January 2009 News Article)
- International language and development conference (June 2009 News Article)