Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education
The Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education address themes of major interest to academics, practitioners, and policy-makers working in the field of education globally.
These seminars aim to illuminate the role of education in societal development, with a focus on understanding changes in education policy, discourse, and practice, and how these changes influence individual opportunities and shape the development of educational institutions around the world. Seminars will zoom into the local and zoom out into the national and supranational spaces, flows, and influences on education.
The series was established in Trinity term 2021 as a joint initiative by the University of Oxford’s Department of Education and St Edmund Hall, and are chaired by Professor Maia Chankseliani, Fellow by Special Election in Comparative and International Education.
Seminar Programme & Registration
Wed 19 October 2022 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)
Speakers: Professors Robin Shields & Julia Paulson, University of Bristol, UK
Talk title (with the registration link): Toppling Statues? Complicity, Whiteness and Reckoning in Comparative and International Education
Wed 16 November 2022 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)
Speaker: Professor Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Department of International Education, the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), Hong Kong
Talk title (with the registration link): Re-imagining Intellectual Leadership in Post-Soviet Higher Education
Wed 7 December 2022 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)
Speaker: Professor Catherine Montgomery, Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Durham University, UK
Talk title (with the registration link): Rurality in Globalised Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives from International Doctoral Research Theses
Wed 18 January 2023 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)
Speaker: Professor Ricardo Sabates Aysa, University of Cambridge, UK
Talk title (with the registration link): Understanding Dynamic Influences of Educational Reform in Ethiopia
Wed 15 February 2023 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)
Speaker: Professor Dina Kiwan, University of Birmingham, UK
Talk title (with the registration link): Disability Under Siege: Decolonising Disability in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine
Wed 8 March 2023 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)
Speaker: Professor Tejendra Pherali, UCL, UK
Talk title: From Perpetrator to Peacebuilder: Rethinking Education in Conflict-Affected Societies
Past Seminars
The recordings of past Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education can be accessed by following these links:
- Why does educational tracking lead to greater inequality in political engagement? Zooming in on France Speaker: Professor Germ Janmaat, UCL Institute of Education, UK
- Education in Emergencies & the Implicated Subject: Imperial Pasts and Presents Speaker: Professor Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education, Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK
- Tiger parenting under globalization: Social class, ethnicity and culture Speaker: Dr Nutsa Kobakhidze, Assistant Professor in Comparative and International Education, Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Overview of Education In Africa: How the Implementation of the CESA And SDG4 Agendas is Progressing? Speaker: Dr Carolina Alban Conto, Research and Development Manager, IIEP – UNESCO Africa Office, Dakar, Senegal
- At The Crossroads: Rethinking the Role of Education in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Speaker: Thomas Koruth Samuel, Consultant, Terrorism Prevention, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Social Distance, Teachers’ Beliefs and Teaching Practices in a Context of Social Disadvantage: Evidence from India and Pakistan Speaker: Dr Rabea Malik, CEO and Fellow, Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives; Assistant Professor, School of Education, LUMS, Pakistan
- ‘Breaking gender, sex and sexuality borders: The case of comprehensive sexuality education in South Africa’ Speaker: Thabo Msibi, Dean and Head of School, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Global Middle-Class families – comparative study of travel trajectories and imagined futures Speaker: Miri Yemini, Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Equal’ Transnational Partnerships in Higher Education: Sino-Foreign Case Studies Speaker: Miguel Antonio Lim, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Manchester, UK
- Why did policymakers in India and Mexico adopt the Germanic model of dual apprenticeships?’ Speaker: Oscar Valiente, Senior Lecturer University of Glasgow, UK
- Governing education by partnership: the GPE in the context of other sectors’ global financing partnerships.’ Speaker: Moira V. Faul, Executive Director, NORRAG, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
- A comparison of the transition of returning scholars to domestic research environments in Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Cambodia. Speaker: Aliya Kuzhabekova, Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
- Methods and Findings from OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) Video Study of Teaching Speaker: V. Darleen Opfer, Vice President, RAND Education and Labor Research Division; Distinguished Chair in Education Policy, USA
- Renegotiating the Public Good: Education Policy Responses to Covid-19 in England, Germany and Italy Speaker: Dr Peter Kelly, Reader in Comparative Education, University of Plymouth, UK