Crafting a Global Field: Six Decades of the Comparative and International Education Society (CERC Studies in Comparative Education Book 33)

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is the oldest and largest body of its kind, and is a leader among the 44 members of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). This book celebrates the CIES' 60th anniversary. The Society grew out of a series of conferences in the mid-1950s. Those conferences were attended by a small group of scholars in the USA who were keen to elucidate and expand their field. Now the Society has over 2,500 individual and about 900 institutional members (mainly libraries) around the world. The book explains how the Society was constructed and internationalized. It analyzes its development trajectory, its major structural components, and the programs and curricula that it has inspired and nourished. The significance of the book is not restricted to the CIES. It will certainly interest counterparts in other WCCES constituent societies and scholars from all fields who are concerned with institutional structures and their evolution. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Setting the Foundation....Pages 10-35 Professionalizing the Field....Pages 36-70 Program Development....Pages 71-81 Supporting New Scholars....Pages 82-89 Front Matter....Pages 90-90 Inserting International Education into the Comparative Education Society....Pages 91-109 The Society in the World Council of Comparative Education Societies....Pages 110-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Shaping the Intellectual Landscape....Pages 126-139 The Comparative Education Review....Pages 140-154 The Mobilization of Knowledge....Pages 155-167 The Social Organization of CIES Special Interest Groups....Pages 168-178 Focusing on Gender and Education....Pages 179-186 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Shaping Leadership....Pages 188-196 Early Leaders: Isaac L. Kandel, William W. Brickman, and C. Arnold Anderson....Pages 197-208 Early Leaders: Gerald H. Read and George Z.F. Bereday....Pages 209-217 The Oral History Project: Comparatively Speaking I and II....Pages 218-228 CIEclopedia: Profiling Distinguished Society Leaders....Pages 229-240 Honoring Merit....Pages 241-252 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 Developing the Archive....Pages 254-259 Developing the CIES Newsletter....Pages 260-268 The Comparative and International Education Course Archive Project (CIECAP)....Pages 269-279 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 The Comparative Education Instructional Materials Archive (CEIMA)....Pages 280-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-326