- September 4, 2015
- 2:49 am
- Noah W. Sobe
CEPS Program Newsletter #058 – September 2, 2015
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Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University Chicago
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CEPS Students and Alumni-
I hope the semester is off to a good start for all. We’ve got a great new cohort of students and some fantastic courses being taught this Fall and next Spring. Please note below [A.1.] some important announcements and updates on faculty in the program. We are also pleased to announce the release of our new CEPS Graduate Programs Handbook [A.2.]. Below you’ll also find a request from me for an hourly Graduate Assistant to help out with the University Senate [D.1.]. As the semester progresses we’ll be listing many more events coming up both on-campus. If you have announcements to include in a future issue of this newsletter please send them to Ashley Allen at aallen13@luc.edu.
-Noah W Sobe
~CEPS Program Chair
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CEPS Program Newsletter #058 – September 2, 2015
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Table of Contents:
A. CEPS AND SOE NEWS
1. CEPS Faculty Updates
2. New CEPS Program Handbook released!
3. Save the date: ISCHE International History of Education conference taking place at Loyola August 2016
4. Upcoming University, SOE & Graduate School Deadlines
B. EVENTS ON CAMPUS, UPCOMING LOCAL CONFERENCES
1. Share the Dream Safe Zone Trainings
C. CALLS FOR PAPERS
1. Call for Proposals: Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) March 6-10, 2016 (Vancouver, Canada). Deadlines: September 15, 2015 and October 15, 2015.
2. Call for Proposals: Philosophy of Education Society (PES) March 17-21, 2016 (Toronto, Canada). Deadline: November 1, 2015
D. JOBS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
1. Part-time Graduate Assistant (10hrs / week) sought to assist University Senate
2. Unpaid Fall Internship, Refugee & Immigrant Community Services at Heartland Alliance
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A. CEPS AND LOYOLA NEWS
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A.1. We have some important faculty-related announcements, the first of which is to congratulate Prof. Amy Shuffelton on her successful mid-tenure review last Spring. Professor Shuffelton will be on sabbatical in Spring 2016. We also need to congratulate and thank Prof. Kate Phillippo will become the CEPS Program Chair and Graduate Program Director at the start of the Spring semester.
A.2. CEPS Faculty had finalized a Graduate Programs Handbook which contains resources that should be of considerable use to students on all of our graduate programs (M.Ed., M.A., and PhD). It is available on the CEPS Sakai page under “CEPS Resources”.
A.3. Please mark your calendars and save the date for an international history of education conference taking place at Loyola (Water Tower Campus) August 17-20, 2016. The theme of the 38th annual meeting of the International Standing Conference on the History of Education (ISCHE) is “Education and the Body”. A full call for papers is available at ische.org/2016/call-for-papers, however even if not presenting a paper CEPS students are strongly encouraged to attend and will received waived registration fees in return for some light volunteering at the conference registration table.
A.4. Upcoming University, SOE & Graduate School Deadlines
* September 6 Last day to withdraw from classes with a 100% bursar refund
* October 1: Last day to submit thesis or dissertation for the required format check for December degree conferral.
* October 5-6: Mid Semester Break, No Classes
* November 1: Last day to submit final approved electronic copies of dissertations or theses for December degree conferral
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B. EVENTS ON CAMPUS
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B.1. Share the Dream Safe Zone trainings that are offered to Loyola students, staff, and faculty through the Department of Student Diversity & Multicultural Affairs. These are 3-hour trainings designed to empower participants with language and content that effectively supports undocumented students. By the end of the training, each participant is invited to sign an Ally agreement and can be counted on as a resource to colleagues as well as our undocumented student population. Trainings will be held * Wednesday, September 23, 1-4pm in Bremner Lounge (Staff & Faculty) * Wednesday, October 14, Location is TBD (Students only) * Wednesday, November 11, 1-4pm in McCormick Lounge (Faculty, staff, students). To register please contact Joe Saucedeo at jsaucedo4@luc.edu.
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C. CALLS FOR PAPERS
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C.1. The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is pleased to announce its 60th Annual Conference, which will be held at the Sheraton Wall Centre Vancouver Hotel, in Vancouver, Canada from March 6-10, 2016. The CIES was founded in 1956, and is the world’s oldest society in the field of comparative and international education. The 1950s were an era of post-war economic growth, decolonization, and Cold War geopolitics – an age of typewriters rather than computers, in which international travel was possible only for the privileged few. The 60th annual conference will consider how the Society and the field have evolved during the decades, and where they are (and/or should be) going. * The field of comparative and international education is wide, and has different emphases in different parts of the world and in different periods of history. Conference participants are invited to address the theme from perspectives of their particular specializations, theoretical and practical standpoints, geographic locations, and academic and professional identities. Much has changed since 1956 and intervening points. What does it mean for the goals, spirit and tools of our work? What would we like to see in the future, and how will we achieve it? * With the above in mind, the CIES 2016 Planning Committee invites you to submit proposals in the following categories: Individual papers, Individual posters, Group poster sessions, Group panel sessions, Workshops. All proposals should contribute to the advancement of theory, practice, methodology and/or fieldwork in comparative and international education. * The early bird deadline is September 15th, 2015. The final deadline for all submitted proposals is October 15, 2015. Proposals should be electronically submitted through the CIES online submission system, and comply with the requirements detailed in the guidelines below. Proposals that do not comply with these requirements will not be considered for inclusion in the program. CIES membership is required to present at the Conference, however membership is not required to submit a proposal. Additional information available at http://cies2016.org/proposals/
C.2. The 72nd Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) will take place from March 17-21 in Toronto, Canada, at the Sheraton Toronto Center Hotel. The Program Committee invites papers to be submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting and for subsequent publication in the PES yearbook, Philosophy of Education 2016. The Committee also invites two other types of proposals: (1) Proposals for alternative sessions; (2) Proposals for work-in-progress that bring participants together to collaborate on developing ideas that are not yet ready for the regular paper submission process. Papers and proposals that address the conference theme are encouraged, but all submissions will be considered. This year’s conference invites submissions on the theme of “philosophy of education in ‘the gap between past and future’.” The phrase comes from Hannah Arendt’s preface to Between Past and Future. It refers to the challenges of understanding our current predicament without the kind of guidance that might once have been given by what Arendt calls “the great tradition” of political thought, and it urges us to think carefully about the challenges of preparing young people for an unforeseen future in light of these fissures in time. For Arendt, the gap between past and future is most forcefully opened up by unexpected and seemingly unprecedented world historical events, but it is also opened up and sustained by the act of thinking itself, and more specific to our purposes, by making this thinking public in the hopes of redirecting educational thinking, policy and practice. * Papers that address the question of philosophy of education in the gap between past and future are encouraged and will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of Educational Theory. There are many possibilities for orienting submissions to the conference theme: a) In keeping with Arendt’s approach to engaging traditions of thought, submissions might engage in sifting through the intellectual inheritances of our field in order to dig up the “lost treasures” and examine the “sea-changes” in thinking that render them particularly useful for understanding education in the present moment. b) Submissions might seek to think philosophically about how to name and navigate our educational present, without the sorts of certainties that come from a consensus view about what the past has to offer these understandings, or what the future may hold. c) Submissions might engage the task of thinking about the field of philosophy of education in relation to education’s future. Work that opens up new possibilities and sites for doing philosophy of education would be particularly germane here, as would work that seeks to redirect and reorient prior work in the field. d) Finally, we encourage submissions that attend to gaps within the field, i.e. to that which is missing or has been absent(ed) from the purview of philosophy of education. How might attending to these gaps reorient our understanding of the field’s past, rethink its present, and redirect its future? Of course, part of thinking about philosophy of education in the gap between past and future involves recognizing and grappling with the work that is being done in the present moment. For this reason, submissions to this conference do not have address the theme explicitly. All papers will go through the normal review process. Papers not found acceptable on grounds of quality will not be accepted simply because they address the theme. Papers not addressing the theme will not be penalized for that reason. * Additional information available at: http://www.philosophyofeducation.org/conference/pes-annual-meeting-2016
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D. JOBS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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D.1. As Chair of Loyola’s University Senate (2015-2016), Professor Sobe is looking to hire a graduate assistant to work hourly (10 hrs/week) to assist with various administrative tasks connected with the Senate, including, principally, maintenance of the Senate’s website. Website. Experience with websites is desirable though not necessary as training will be provided. Applicants must be able to attend all the scheduled (Friday afternoon) meetings of the University Senate as shown here: http://www.luc.edu/universitysenate/ If interested, please send an email inquiry to Prof. Sobe at nsobe@luc.edu by September 8th.
D.2. Fall Intern sought. Heartland Human Care Services (HHCS) is the human services partner of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, a service-based human rights organization that provides material assistance to meet basic human needs and other services and advocacy that foster empowerment, societal participation, and self-sufficiency. HHCS delivers a variety of services to newly-arrived refugees, asylees and immigrants through its Refugee & Immigrant Community Services (RICS). RICS is comprised of a dedicated, multi-lingual and multi-cultural staff with diverse backgrounds and expertise in the refugee and immigrant fields. Refugee and Immigrant Community Services (RICS) promotes the educational achievement, economic security and career advancement of our students by providing: * employer based English language instruction, * life-skills English language training, * vocational training for Hospitality, Food-Service careers and more, * citizenship preparation. They are seeking Fall 2015 Interns (unpaid) who can commit to 15-40 hour a week to assist our English Language Training and Vocational English programs.
Responsibilities include: * Assisting teachers in English Language Training (ELT) and Vocational English classes, including tutoring and/or teaching preliterate students. * Creating and implementing programs and activities for ELT and Vocational English students. * Mentoring ELT and/or Vocational English students. * Assisting with job-readiness training and employer outreach for ELT and Vocational English students. * Working with individuals and groups on job-readiness skills including interviewing techniques, filling out job applications, and workplace culture orientations. * Database entry. * Assessment and reporting of program participant needs. * Creation and maintenance of job upgrade and career plan forms. * Assisting with the delivery of supplemental instruction courses to program participants. * Helping with other projects, reports, and administrative tasks as necessary. * 15-40 hours per week availability.
Qualifications: * Excellent communication and organizational skills. * Interest in working with refugees in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic environment. * Patience and flexibility. * Computer proficiency. Strong skills for Excel is a plus, but not required. * Some knowledge of ESL and teaching or tutoring experience is helpful. * Language proficiency in Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Malay, French, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, and Uzbek is preferred, but not required. Please email your cover letter and resume to: Stephen Rodgers srodgers@heartlandalliance.org.
