Tag BAICE 2022

First, grab a cup of tea, coffee, water or whatever you enjoy drinking. This is going to be interesting… Attending academic conferences I believe is a tradition for researchers. So when the opportunity to participate in BAICE 2022 came up,…

The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) 2022 Conference was held at the University of Edinburgh from September 13th to 15th. After two years of mostly virtual conferences, BAICE provided many scholars and practitioners the opportunity to meet and share their perspectives around the theme of ‘partnership.’

In this interactive Café, we use theatre, stories, and games to examine the mechanisms of colonial reproduction in the international and comparative education sector and identify ways to collectively transform them.

In the Open Theme strand at the BAICE 2022 conference, this multi-media creative session will offer a space to reflect on some of the below questions, to find out more about a UNESCO Chair and share your own experiences of…

In this creative session in the Experiencing Educational Partnerships strand, participants will learn how to achieve systems thinking competence by following ten subsequent steps. The session will allow the group to identify suitable topics and gather different ideas to design…

In this creative and interactive session in the Open Theme strand at the BAICE conference 2022, participants are invited to engage in the process of collaborative collaging to explore the complexities of becoming/being a researcher adult. We will explore ‘partnerships’…

Making time for writing in academia remains to be challenging. As initial studies have shown, it is especially difficult for young female researchers in the ongoing context of the pandemic, with sharp inequalities in knowledge production often at the expense…

"Public-private partnerships", "low fee private schools", "North-South" and "South-South" collaborations, "family and community engagement", "best practices", and "policy transfer" have now become buzzwords in education and development. As a community, we hope that these approaches will help us establish equitable and inclusive education systems for all students (thus meeting the goals and targets of Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the Education for All agenda). For some, the hope is that they will help increase “national competitiveness” and “human capital”, two other buzz words in use.

Education institutions around the world continue to undertake changes following the impact and lessons from the COVID-19 global pandemic. Meanwhile, the global nature of the changes calls for strengthened partnership, cooperation and collaboration among different stakeholders. In this blog, I focus on the global increase in the use of digital technology as an example of educational changes in question.

Partnerships? Stop! Think! What first pops up in your mind at the idea of partnerships in education? What experiences prompted your first thoughts? Where did they come from and what do they mean? Prominent in the descriptions of partnerships in…

We’ve had a long wait for the BAICE Conference at Edinburgh after BAICE 2020 was cancelled due to the pandemic. But BAICE 2022 is coming back with style and lots of innovative ideas to make the conference more diverse, inclusive…