Conference Programme

Chair: Tejendra Pherali

How can we quantitatively assess learning at scale among refugee communities? Insights from a recent pilot in Uganda.
Benjamin Matthew Alcott, Mary Goretti Nakabugo, Uwezo Uganda, James Wokadala

Voices of the Unheard: the Education of Syrian Refugee Students in Jordan Beyond Numbers
Hiba Salem

Migration and educational outcomes. Assessing the impacts of refugee status on learning in Uganda.
Julius Atuhurra, Violet Alinda, Marie Nanyanzi

Chair: Faith Mkwananzi

Classrooms as Cultural Sites of Mobility Constraint: A critical ethnography of teacher quality in Pakistan and Tanzania
Maria Abid Khwaja

Vietnam’s approach to educational improvement: lessons in system success
Rachael Fitzpatrick and Tony McAleavy

Unlocking the black box: what’s happening in ‘more effective’ classrooms in India?
Rhiannon Moore, Caine Rolleston and Ana Grijalva

The challenge of global citizenship education: conceptualisations, practices and innovation in different country contexts.
Chair: Clare Bentall

Phil Bamber and Massimiliano Tarozzi

Competing or complementary priorities? Global Citizenship Education in UK Higher Education.

Teacher education for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED): an international comparative review.

NGOs as political actors in promoting Global Citizenship Education: A comparative European study

An exploration of the socio-economic well-being of informal apprentices in Ghana: a capability approach
Joyceline Alla-Mensah

Learning to work: South African youth and emerging alternatives
Simon McGrath and Lesley Powell

Exploring students’ aspirations and conceptions of well-being and resilience in two Tanzanian secondary schools
Laela Adamson

Educating girls to reduce early marriages? A question of quality not quantity in Northern Nigeria
Louise Wetheridge

Chair: Simone Datzberger

Perspectives of Decolonisation of Education in South Africa: The Missing Voices
Taskeen Adam

Transforming higher education pedagogy for critical thinking: perspectives from Ghana, Kenya and Botswana
Rebecca Schendel and Tristan McCowan

The place of post-colonialism in the advent of policy borrowing and BMP in Cameroonian Universities
Vuban Joyce Afuh

Chair: Angeline Mbogo Barrett

Is education attainment related to a culture of peace? Evidence from comparative social surveys
Daniel Capistrano and Julia Paulson

Including children’s opinions of their teaching and learning can help progressing towards the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of inclusive education for children with disabilities
Seema Nath

Adult education about a participatory dialogue [Quick-fire] Sona Karikova and Miroslav Kryston

Chair: Emma Jackson

Radicalisation through education: The impact of IS activities on education in Afghanistan
Tejendra Pherali and Arif Sahar

INGOs building education state capacity in Afghanistan, problems and prospects.
Farzana Bardai

Capacity Development and Organisational Change in Support of Conflict Sensitive Education
Kelsey Shanks

Educational marginalisation of conflict-affected children in Syria: Politicisation of evidence
Tomoya Sonoda

Chair: Juan de Dios Oyarzun

The articulation of the relationship between education and development in the global policies
Asma Jahan Mukta, Tom Griffiths and Heather Sharp

Challenging International Development Cooperation in Higher Education in Cape Verde
Sílvia Azevedo, Maria Brandão and António Magalhães

Global policy agendas and the Education Sustainable Development Goal:
Perspectives from sub-Saharan African research and researchers
Samuel Asare, Rafael Mitchell and Pauline Rose

Beyond equal access: China Scholarship Council and the position of non-ODA countries in higher education provision towards SDG 4
Tingting Yuan

Chair: Adesuwa Vanessa Agbedahin

Schools as Change Agents? Education and Individual Political Agency in Uganda.
Simone Datzberger and Marielle Le Mat

Activism, public education and sustainable development: Countering de-politicisation of education among the ‘marginalised’
Peter Sutoris

Teachers as agents of Change: A case study of Continuing Professional Development programmes for Social Cohesion in post-apartheid South Africa.
Joyce Raanhuis and Yusuf Sayed

Chair: Venny Karolina

Exploring stigma and discrimination in school communities in Malawi: the intersectionality of poverty and HIV/AIDS
Catherine M. Jere

Challenges of teaching science in disadvantaged Mexican schools. An exploration of school conditions through teachers perspectives.
Maria Guadalupe Perez-Martinez, Guadalupe Ruiz-Cuellar, and Felipe Martinez-Rizo

Equality and Equity in Indonesian Education: The Consequences Of Decentralisation
Venny Karolina

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs): improving lives through education in Jamaica?
Lauren Marston

Chair: Alba Castellsagué

The importance and challenge of onto-epistemic pedagogy in struggles towards global justice
Sarah Amsler

Adversarial pedagogies in divided times: learning through conflict?
Helen Underhill

Social Movement Learning & Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Peace with Social Justice
Mario Novelli

You Don’t See Me, I Won’t See You! Teaching History in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Yasamin Alkhansa

Querying the Mobility Imperative: Critical Approaches to Academic Mobilities Research
Chair: Emily F. Henderson

A PhD in motion: a critical academic mobilities approach to researching short-term mobility schemes for doctoral students
Emily F. Henderson

Enhancing the employability of international students: towards a more complex understanding of Chinese students in UK universities
Xuemeng Cao

Ticking the ‘Other’ Box: Positional identities of East Asian academics in UK universities, internationalisation and diversification
Terri Kim

The working lives of foreign-born scholars in British academia: a note on inclusion
Toma Pustelnikovaite

Chair: Alan Smith

‘In Rights We Trust’ teaching and learning about children’s rights in Primary and Higher Education as transformative experience and opportunity for civic agency.
Francesca Zanatta

Learning from our children: Zimbabwean young migrants navigating education and employment in the UK
Juliet Thondhlana

Engaging Teachers in Peacebuilding and Social Cohesion in Rwanda and South Africa
Yusuf Sayed and Mario Novelli

Chair: Tristan McCowan

The re-articulation of justifications within the public debate about the free-of-charge policy in Chilean Higher Education
Francisco Zamorano Figueroa

What does equitable and quality higher education look like in practice? Insights from three Indonesian institutions
Elisa Brewis

A conceptual approach to quality higher education teaching and learning
Patience Mukwambo

Reconceptualising Internationalisation of Higher Education: Voices from three Russell Group Universities in the UK
Juliet Thondhlana, Qing Gu, Nicola Savvides and Sheila Trahar

Youth Activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces
Chair: Ian Davies

Youth activism: A comparative perspective across six countries
Márta Fülöp and Dina Kiwan

Education about and for youth activism: A comparative perspective across six nations
Jasmine Sim and Ian Davies

Patterns and variations of pedagogical practice for youth civic engagement and activism
Andrew Peterson and Mark Evans

Chair: Catherine Jere

Is Inclusive Education a chimera? Exploring teachers’ responses to top-down inclusive policy in two community schools in Kathmandu
Alice Aldinucci

Addressing Social Exclusion in School Education in Indian Context
Madhumita Bandyopadhyay

Disability, Education and International Development: Meeting the Challenge of Agenda 2030
Guy Le Fanu

‘E for Equity’: The contribution of Ethiopia’s General Education Quality Improvement Programme in ensuring inclusive, equitable quality education for marginalised groups.
Louise Yorke and Tirussew Tafere

Chair: Michelle Schweisfurth

Taman Siswa’s Concept of Education and Its Relevance Today
Dorothy Ferary

Transversing learner-centred pedagogy in Tanzania: How does history play out in current pedagogical changes?
Nozomi Sakata

The iBali (story) Network: Democratising knowledge through creative storytelling with youth who are excluded from learning in African Schools
Alison Buckler, Oga Steve Abah, Chris High, Fred Keraro and Joanna Wheeler

Educational Aspirations in Lao PDR: The findings and implications of an ethnographic study for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
Jodie Fonseca, Roy Huijsmans and Syvongsay Changpitikoun

Adult Literacy and Development: Structural Problems and Innovative Responses (Symposium presented by BALID)
Chair: Marta Paluch

‘I Read and Write in My Own Language’: A Case Study of a Non-Formal Indigenous Language Literacy Programme in Mexico

Literacy Resources for Refugee and Immigrant Adults: Addressing a Critical Need

An analysis of mid-term withdrawals by facilitators in some adult literacy learning programmes

Adult Literacy Facilitators’ Collaborative Learning on a Pilot Literacy Project in Guatemala.

Chair: Mario Novelli

Teacher Professional Development in Refugee Contexts – A Case Study of Palestine Refugees in Amman, Jordan
Lucy Atkinson

Prospects and Perils: Differences in Perceptions of Global Citizenship Education Among Teachers from Different Education Sectors in Israel
Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell and Heela Goren

Who teaches refugees? A review of policy and research
Lina Aghajanian, Emily Richardson and Leonora MacEwen

Chair: Coleen Howell

International student mobility experiences and life trajectories. Life depictions of former Mexican doctoral students (Quick Fire)
Karla Lopez

Internationalisation of Higher Education through Academic Mobility and Knowledge Diplomacy: 50 Years of Study Abroad between Japan and the US
Sarah R. Asada

An exploration of migration experience and civic identity among North Korean migrant youths both South Korea and Great Britain
Stella Micheong Cheong

Flexible education as a solution to ‘including’ mobile learners: a comparative analysis using a policy archaeology methodology.
Caroline Dyer

Understanding the effects of intersectional inequalities on teaching and learning in India and Pakistan
Chair: Lydia Whitaker

Learning from assessments in India and Pakistan to ensure no one is left behind
Pauline Rose (presenter), Anuradha De, Faisal Bari, Rabea Malik, Lydia Whitaker

Supporting educational access and participation of children with disabilities: evidence from a household survey in rural India
Nidhi Singal (presenter), Pauline Rose and Anuradha De

Examination of Inequitable Access to Teaching and Learning for Marginalized Groups: Evidence from Pakistan
Monazza Aslam (presenter);Shenila Rawal, Anna Vignoles, Rabea Malik, Faisal Bari & Pauline Rose

Chair: Keith Holmes

“African Renaissance”: Reconsidering the values of traditional approaches to education in post-colonial Rwanda
Pui Ki Patricia Kwok and Sam Mchombo

Indigenous Knowledge in Mexican higher education: an ethnography of the Intercultural University of Veracruz
Gunther Dietz and Laura Selene Mateos Cortés

Lessons from Gandhian principles for rethinking educational policies in pluralist India
Shalini Bhorkar

Socio-ecological knowledge in the oral tradition of fisher-women in Veracruz, Mexico: Educational resources for the achievement of the SDG’s [Quick fire] Juan Carlos A. Sandoval Rivera

Transnational networks in Indian education and development: historical perspectives
Chair: Arathi Sriprakash

Women’s activism, trans-regional knowledge circulation, and the nationalisation of ‘child education’ in India (1917-1950s)
Jana Tschurenev

‘Our Common Problem’?: The role of transnational networks in gender and education policy in India in the second half of the twentieth century.
Rosie Peppin-Vaughn

The science of childhood and the development of new nations: Lois Murphy, India and the shadow of Bandung, c.1955
Kevin Myers, Arathi Sriprakash and Peter Sutoris

Education for rural regeneration and transnational flows: Santiniketan (India) to Dartington Hall (England) from c. 1920s
Laura Day Ashley

‘I am here to get education not inclusion’: Social media’s impact on youth with disabilities’ participation in higher education in Kenya.
Alice N. Gathoni

GO! GLOBAL Crossing borders between schools in Mexico, India, South Africa and Germany through technology
Wendy Morel

Technology based academic grit interventions in learning concepts of botany by prospective teachers of deprived societal settings – an analysis by six sigma
Ram Darshan, Ramar Hariharan and Anita Verma

Chair: Nozomi Sakata

China in a global education policy field: the case of the national framework of core skills
Jingyi Li, Jian Liu and Rui Wei

Comparing professional knowledge traditions and their implications for subject teaching in England and Germany
Peter Kelly and Imke Von Bargen

Analyzing the Impact of USAID Led Teacher Education Reforms on the Epistemology and Tolerance level on prospective teachers in Pakistan
Irfan Ahmed Rind

Chair: Zaiboenisha Ahmed

Many ‘peaces’: how recontextualization produces contestable peacebuilding logics and practices in secondary schools
Sara Clarke-Habibi

History education for sustainable peace? Curricular strategies and their civic implications in contemporary Africa
Denise Bentrovato

Global Citizenship, Global Leadership Discourse and Global Cultural Violence: Minerva Schools at KGI and Imagining Otherwise.
Abdulla Omaigan

Chair: Rebecca Gordon

Let’s Talk About Racism in Education and International Development
Leon Paul Tikly, Arathi Sriprakash and Sharon Walker

Inclusion of new migrant children in primary schools in South Africa: Learners’ voices through photography and picturebooks
Helen Hanna

Western Education: Suitable for everyone? Education for travelling and marginalized minorities in the West
Juliet Mccaffery

Inclusion Instead Of Interculturality: Implications for the Education Of Indigenous Childhood In Mexico
Rosa Guadalupe Mendoza Zuany

Chair: Gunter Dietz

From the developmental to the post-development university
Tristan McCowan

(De)Constructing a ‘backward’ identity in an area of civil unrest in India
Gunjan Wadhwa

Reclaiming pedagogy in India and Ghana: A post-colonial reading of teachers’ experiences in the current context of education reform
Amy Smail

DFID’s Girls’ Education Challenge: Sharing results and shaping the way ahead
Chairs: Sally Rosscornes and Rachel Booth

Presentations:

GEC: Steps to Success/ overview & where are we now
Reimagining approaches to:

a: Disability Inclusion

• GEC Marginalisation framework & disability mainstreaming
• Responding to disability data- World Vision

b: Teaching & Learning in challenging contexts

• GEC portfolio perspective of FCAS contexts
• Flexible approaches to delivering T&L in challenging contexts- Save the Children

Panel discussion with: DFID, World Vision, Camfed, Save the Children and Childhope

Chair: Maria Guadalupe Perez Martinez

Effective Teaching to improve learning: a lens on innovative and emerging research across diverse contexts
Monazza Aslam David Johnson and Bronwen Magrath

The Use of Tangible Rewards for Motivating Students;Comparative Study of Japanese and Ghanaian Education Systems
Maiko Okuda and Bright K. Dey

Increasing equity in higher education: The case of National Talent Hunt Program
Zeenat Ismail

Quality Assurance in Higher Education with focus on Students Engagement in Quality Learning: A Comparative Study involving Students in Angola and in other International Contexts (Portugal, Cuba and United Kingdom)
Carla Queiroz

Chair: Juliet Thondhlana

Reimagining the current policy of decentralisation in Benin: the perspectives of teachers, parents and education officials
Eva Bulgrin

Challenging rational choice frameworks in education: the case of the new school admission system in Chile
Juan De Dios Oyarzun and Alejandro Carrasco

Difference between the Best in West and East: Comparative Analysis of School-Education systems in Scandinavian & East Asian Countries
Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara, Andres Sandoval Hernandez and Robin Shields

Determinants of achievement in rural primary schools in Senegal
Ousmane Ndiaye and Yukiko Hirakawa

Chair: Caroline Dyer

Service-learning as an educational strategy for advancing citizenship, conscientization and civic agency: A capability approach lens
Ntimi Mtawa

Understanding the relationship between higher education and the public good: context matters!
Colleen Howell, Elaine Unterhalter, Stephanie Allais and Jibrin Ibrahim

Re-framing teacher capacity development in Cambodia. Sen’s Capability Approach: a tantalising
possibility or a far-off dream?
Elizabeth King

Sustainability and social justice: Revisiting an education quality framework
Angeline M. Barrett and Leon Tikly

Chair: Vanita Sundaram

Towards a more socially just university education in Zimbabwe: Looking at issues through an eclectic theoretical lens
Ishmael Jeko

Beyond Passive Participation: The Quest for the Determinants of Ethiopian Women Engagement in Relevant and Gender Responsive IFAE
Genet Gelana Kabeta

Understanding the linkages between mothers’ empowerment and daughters’ education – an analysis of the impact of Rojiroti Microfinance in Bihar
Rebecca Gordon

Intergenerational Literacy For Social Inclusion And Rural Transform In Africa: Experiences From A Local NGO In Uganda
Juliet McCafferty and Willy Ngaka

Addressing structural inequality: the views of teachers in South Africa
Melanie Sadeck

The agency of newly qualified teachers in South Africa: possibilities and challenges
Rada Jancic Mogliacci and Melanie Sadeck

Learning to teach language in South Africa: A decolonial perspective
Zahraa McDonald and Marcina Singh

Different rules for different teachers: teachers’ views of professionalism and accountability in a bifurcated educated system
Nimi Hoffmann and Yusuf Sayed

Chair: Alison Buckler

Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Learning: Perspectives from the Arab World
Hanadi Traifeh, Raad Bin Tareaf and Christoph Meinel

Unravel a tangle: Teacher education and ICT practices in Ethiopian secondary schools
In Cheol Jang

Cyberbullying in schools in Brazil and England, and the role played by bystanders.
Chris Kyriacou and Antonio Zuin

Hot Topics and Development Trends Involving Researches on Teacher Teaching on an International Scale since 21st Century
Li Pan, Jiarong Zhang and Shouxuan Yan

Chair: Colleen Howell

Exploring student participation in primary school mathematics textbooks and classrooms in Delhi, India
Meghna Nag Chowdhuri

Determinants of elementary school students French and mathematics achievements in rural Burkina Faso
Issoufou Ouedraogo and Yukiko Hirakawa

AFLA – Assessment for Learning in Africa: Improving Pedagogy and Assessment for Numeracy/ Mathematics in Foundation Years.
Osman Sadeck, Yusuf Sayed, Toyer Nakidien and Anil Kanjee

Chair: Lynda Dunlop

Conceptualising Science Process Skills and Environmental Education in Primary Science Education in the Maldives (Quick Fire)
Aminath Shiyama

Engineering education for social change: experiences of women students in technical and vocational education and training
Sophie Matenda

Science teachers’ awareness of and attitudes towards environmental inequalities experienced by their students.
Zaiboenisha Ahmed

Validation of Approaches to Learning Questionnaire in a Belgian context
Madeleine Kapinga-Mutatayi, Pierre Mukendi and Jan Elen

Associations between student learning, aspirations and secondary school transition: Evidence from multiple research and a program intervention in India
Chair: Ben Alcott

Purnima Ramanujan, Manjistha Banerji, Renu Seth, Anuradha Agrawala, Ashwini Deshpande

Methodological overview of three research studies exploring elementary to secondary school transition in India
Purnima Ramanujan

Elementary to secondary school transition trends and associations with educational aspirations
Purnima Ramanujan

Giving girls a second chance to secondary schooling: Experiences from the field
Renu Seth

Beyond Dependence: Reshaping Aid to Education for Sustainable Futures
Keith Lewin

Over the last three decades well over half a trillion dollars has been disbursed as aid to education through bilateral and multilateral agencies. New global campaigns seek to massively elevate levels of aid to education and quadruple its volume and transform education systems that have so far proved resistant to change. National investment has combined with external assistance to help some low income countries transform their education systems. In other countries progress has been disappointing raising the question as to whether more aid of the same kind will make a difference in future. Comparative educationists have an opportunity to give voice to their different experiences with development aid to identify those approaches that are more effective at accelerating sustainable educational development and which are likely to reduce long term aid dependence in the future.

Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education: Considering the issue from a human rights perspective
Keith Holmes, Mari Yasunaga, and Paz Portales

This round table discussion uses a human rights perspective to explore collectively how higher education could be reimagined to address the rights, needs and interests of Indigenous Peoples, in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

From a human rights perspective, education and indigenous peoples have been considered in two different and complementary aspects. On one hand, indigenous peoples are holders of the right to education as individuals and as a collective. As such, their cultural, spiritual, linguistic and traditional knowledge can be sustained through the means of an inclusive and participatory education. On the other hand, indigenous knowledge, skills and competences represent substantial pieces of human wisdom and heritage, which implies that Indigenous People should be key actors in the development of inclusive higher education policies, systems, institutions, programmes and practices.

Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to a new UNESCO initiative which aims to contribute to improving the access of Indigenous Peoples to inclusive and equitable quality and relevant higher education, recognizing that ‘Indigenous Peoples’ and ‘Higher Education’ are new elements featuring in global education agenda, SDG4-Education 2030. This initiative will compile and produce up-to-date information and knowledge from a comparative and international perspective and establish a network on Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education to act as a sounding board and a laboratory of ideas.

Chair: Lizzi O. Milligan

Esther McMahon and Lizzi O. Milligan (University of Bath) will first present the findings from a survey with BAICE members about ethics in international and comparative education and put forward the key ethical principles that have emerged from this study. Lucy Atkinson (University of York) Qing Gu (University of Nottingham/BAICE) and Arathi Sriprakash (University of Cambridge) will reflect on these principles related to their own research. The roundtable will then open up to a wider discussion of the ethical principles and the implications for BAICE. The roundtable will be chaired by Lizzi O. Milligan.

Chair: Vanita Sundaram

Learning Motivations, Learning Outcomes and Gender in Vietnam
Bridget Azubuike and Angela W. Little

Beyond barriers: considering a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship between adult education, gender and violence
Charlotte Nussey

An Introduction to Project CURSV: Comparing University Responses to Sexual Violence
Erin R. Shannon

Researcher reflexivity in an international collaborative study on men’s trajectories in and out of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
Yuwei Xu, Jo Warin, David Brody and Tim Rohrmann

Chair: Tingting Yuan

Exploring Global Discourses and Local Women’s Narratives on Education and Development in Nepal
Alba Castellsagué and Silvia Carrasco

Agency, education and social justice in contexts of migration: What this may mean for Sustainable Development Goals
Faith Mkwananzi

Accountability for gender equality in education: developing an innovative indicator framework for the SDGs
Elaine Unterhalter, Rosie Peppin Vaughan and Helen Longlands

The role of education in equality of opportunity and individual experience of social mobility in the Chinese context
Yiran Zhao

Chair: Sara Clarke-Habibi
Ubuntu: constructing spaces of dialogue in the theory and practice of global citizenship
Malgorzata Anielka Pieniazek

CUiB – a ludic learning tool for environmental conscientization and global citizenship building Luana Martin and Anne Julia Köster

Sustainable development, ESD and the SDGs: Methodological tools and approaches in practice
Adesuwa Vanessa Agbedahin and Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Promoting responsibility rather than accountability in a Metricised environment
Catherine O’Connell and Namrata Rao

Towards a ‘Sociological Imagination’ of Families in Education: the case of Intergenerational educational and social mobility in China, Pakistan and Singapore
Chair: Arif Naveed

Charleen Chiong, Aliya Khalid and Juan Chen

Aspirations for taraqqi: Situating schooling in the intergenerational narratives of social mobility in rural Pakistan

Meritocracy and Inequality in the lives of disadvantaged families in Singapore

Mothers’ strategies for their daughters’ schooling in rural Pakistan

Making history speak: An intergenerational investigation of contemporary Chinese middle-class families pursuing overseas educational choice strategies