Spring 2021 Photo Courtesy of Iveta Silova Perspectives From the Editors 2 Adaptive-Proactive Community-Engaged 29 Matthew Witenstein, Tavis D. Jules, Richard Arnold Responses To Covid-19: Stories and Reflections From the President 3 From Bhopal and Mahbubnagar, India Iveta Silova Pooja Iyengar, Srinivas Akula, Navatha Kanike, Radhika Iyengar, Matthew A Witenstein CER News 4 Bjorn H. Nordtveit SIGnatures Environmental and Sustainability Education SIG 32 Featured Board Member 5 Contemplative Inquiry and Holistic Education SIG 32 Amber Gove South Asia SIG 33 Cies Fellowship Award Winners Higher Education SIG 34 Joel Samoff 7 Monitoring and Evaluation SIG 34 Mark Ginsburg 10 Latin American SIG 35 Dan Wagner 12 New Books 36 Teaching Corner 13 Jennifer Swift-Morgan Sundry Reflections on the 65th Anniversary of the 38 Comparative and International Education Society Lended/Hybrid Teaching and Learning; 16 Erwin H. Epstein Opportunities and Challenges Araz Khajarian WCCES Update for CIES Perspectives 42 N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba Displaced Students and CARES Act Funding 18 Archive & Records Keeping: 44 Lisa Unangst Building a Calatrava Bridge to Our Future? Utilizing the Power of a Network In Response 20 Esther E. Gottlieb To A Global Education Emergency: How the Inter-Agency In Memoriam Network For Education In Emergencies (INEE) Has Nicholas Stans Shawa 47 Responded To COVID-19 Robert A. Rhoads 49 Sarah Montgomery John Hawkins 50 When Our Own History Erases Us 22 Rich Arnold CIES Seattle 2021 52 Covid-19, Race and Racism: What Does the Field of 26 Comparative International Education have to Say? Sharon Walker www.cies.us COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY perspectives Letter from the Editors TAVIS D. JULES AND MATTHEW A. WITENSTEIN, EDITORS Tavis D. Jules Richard Arnold Matthew A. Witenstein Editor Editorial Assistant Editor Welcome to the Spring Issue of Perspectives. With so much uncertainty in the world, we are hard-pressed to always be forward-looking. But sometimes, reflection on the past is the best step towards mindfulness in a world searching for a better future. There is much for us to reflect on this year. It is 65 years since William Brickman founded what would become the Comparative and International Education Society. It is 20 years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 upended foreign policy in the US and beyond. And, as of the publication of this issue, it is just over 1 year since massive lockdowns swept the world in the wake of COVID-19. Considering the impact of these events we invite you to reflect on what you have learned in light of the changes in the world. With the theme of reflection in mind, we invite you to read Erwin Epstein’s reflection on 65 years of the Comparative and International Education Society. We would also like to present some words from the past several recipients of the CIES fellowship award, including Mark Ginsburg, Joel Samoff, and Dan Wagner. Please take a moment to read about the lives and contributions of those we have lost in our obituaries. Special guest authors have contributed pieces on hybrid education models, historical US citizenship goals, and displaced students, among others. Finally, we have updates and an overview of the first virtual conference for CIES in April. When reflecting on his career, the philosopher Michel de Montaigne reminds us, “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.” Consider the ways our world has changed, and how scholars and academics have changed in the way we look at the world. We at CIES work to provide the tools with which to do that. As you read through, consider: how do I see myself differently, as an academic, a teacher, a student, as a person? Finally, we welcome you to vCIES 2021 under the theme of Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts. Good luck with your presentations and wishing you all an engaging conference. We hope to publish in our next issues some reflections on the conference, so please send us your thoughts. SPRING 2021 2 perspectives Letter from the President IVETA SILOVA, PRESIDENT, CIES (2020-21) Although 2020 is over, its turbulent to the Biden/Harris administration, trajectory continues into 2021 — from along with a similar statement the tragic impact of the COVID‑19 issued by the World Congress of pandemic, to the widening political Comparative Education Societies division and economic inequality, to (WCCES). We have worked closely the intensifying climate crisis, just with our colleagues at the Global to name a few. 2020 has exposed Campaign for Education to serious problems with how the coordinate action in bringing this US politics, private economy, and important issue to the national entire way of living (and being) policy agenda. We believe that our have developed over the last several work is gaining some traction and decades. The COVID-19 epidemic has that the US reengagement with further compounded these problems, UNESCO is now a matter of ‘when’, revealing glaring racial and class not ‘if’. In recent interviews, the US inequalities in access to health care Ambassador to the United Nations and economic safety nets, as well (UN), Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has as job security and wages. As the passionately argued that “we need immense impact of the pandemic Iveta Silova to be at the table” with the United continues to reverberate globally, it Nations, referring to the UN as “an affects us personally, professionally, and academically in indispensable institution for advancing peace, security, and significant ways, and it continues to claim more lives than our collective well-being.” I am excited and proud that CIES we could have ever imagined. My deepest condolences go has played such an active role in supporting efforts for the US out to the friends and colleagues who have lost their loved re-engagement with UNESCO — not only recently, but also ones and to everyone who has suffered — and continues to over the course of the CIES history (for more information, suffer — during this pandemic. please listen to an engaging podcast with our colleague Aaron Benavot, who was recently interviewed by Alexander While the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic is Draxler, a NORRAG Senior Advisor, formerly at UNESCO unlikely to change significantly over the next several and a longtime CIES member). I would like to thank all of months, some major changes are happening on the our colleagues who have been working behind the scenes to political front. With the inauguration of the Biden/Harris mobilize our academic and professional networks to further administration, we are witness to some exciting historical advance this important policy agenda. ‘firsts’ in US politics: Kamala Harris as the first female, Black American, and person of South Asian descent elected As we move forward, CIES has a tremendous opportunity Vice President; Dr. Jill Biden as the first First Lady holding and an important responsibility to continue its efforts an Ed.D. and the first one to keep her job as an English in social and policy engagement both nationally and professor at Northern Virginia Community College during internationally — as well as within its open operations Biden’s Presidency; Avril Haines as the first female national — in the face of complex and continuous challenges intelligence chief; and an all-female communications that range from the role of education in institutionalized team! Meanwhile, President Biden is moving quickly to racism and systemic social injustice to COVID-19 and the dismantle Trump’s damaging legacy by reversing course climate crisis. To address the challenges that loom ahead on immigration, climate, racial equity, and the handling and to undo the damaging legacies of the previous of the coronavirus pandemic. Just on the first day of the US administration — while simultaneously striving to Biden/Harris administration, the United States rejoined the envision radically different futures — will require hard Paris Agreement and World Health Organization, bringing work, creative energy, and collective action. I count the United States back to collective policy action on the on the CIES community to play an active role in this national and international scale! historic moment. On a related front, the CIES Statement Urging the United States to Rejoin UNESCO has been successfully delivered SPRING 2021 3 perspectives CER News BJORN H. NORDTVEIT, EDITOR Comparative Education Review Comparative Education Review’s Ethical Procedures: “CERethics” How can an Editorial Board hold itself accountable for being ethical in its decision-making? How can we ensure transparency in our decisions? These are some of the questions the Comparative Education Review (CER) editors, volunteer Advisory Board Members, and a Senior Publisher from the University of Chicago Press have examined during several meetings in 2020 and 2021. We have very rarely heard Bjorn H. Nordtveit back from authors about perceived discrimination (to my recollection, we have received written negative feedback only three times during our more than seven years of service).1 However, in addition to these three cases, we understand that other authors may have felt it difficult to speak up against an editorial decision. After much reflection and consultation, we have instituted a process for review of cases where the author(s) has/have felt our decisions were erroneous and showed an unjust or prejudicial treatment, especially on the grounds of race, color, religion, or gender. We want our editor desk reviews and subsequent double-blind peer reviews to continue being efficient and just.2 If any of our decisions can be perceived as discriminatory in any way, we want to address that. Accordingly, we have created a statement for the CER webpage: The Comparative Education Review Editors, Peer Reviewers, Managing Editors, Advisory Board Members and associated staff do not and shall not discriminate on the basis of personal characteristics, including race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, employer or job status in any of their activities.