Papers Presented at the 2009 International Education Conference, “Developing Peace: Education for Mutual Understanding,“ which was organized by the International Education doctoral students...
Panel 1: Chinese Students & Higher Education: History, Experience, and Contemporary Implications
· Jian Liu - The Evolution of Educational Equality in Chinese Higher Education Since 1949
· Kyung-hyun Kwon - Contributing Factors to Acculturative Stress among International Students in the U.S. Higher Education
· Yuan Zhang - "Chineseness" through an Intersectional Lens
Panel 2: Student-Teacher Relationships: Implications for Issues of Equality
· David Timony - Student perception of individual teacher expertise
· Elizabeth Voltman - Three English Teachers' Perceptions of Their Professional Agency Within a Ninth-Grade Detracked Program
· Fatima Hafiz - Affect and Commitment: An Exploratory Study of White Female Teachers Emotional Resilience in Urban Schools
Panel 3: Investigating Equality in the Context of Study Abroad
· Faith McKinney - Short Term Middle School Study Abroad Cultural Exchange: Is it Worth the Effort?
· Karleigh Koster - The Politics and Culture of Study Abroad: A Historical Narrative
· Mya N. Fisher - The Two A's – Attainment and Awareness: Social Psychological Obstacles to Study Abroad
· Rachel Marcus - Current trends in international exchange and diversity
Panel 4: Education Reform and Development: Improving Outcomes and Enrollment
· Athena Maikish - Universal Primary Education and Education Decentralization in Ghana: Investigating Local Level Outcomes
· Seongdok Kim - Factors affecting lower secondary school completion in Vietnam
· Rhiannon Williams - The process of listening to multiple perspectives on quality in ECCD within the Philippines
Panel 5: School to Work Connections: Expanding Educational Opportunities
· Dan Wang - Workplace Depoliticized: A Rural School in China
· Ebony Schoon - The Role of Vocational Education in Creating Educational Opportunities for Students in South Africa: An Administrators' and Students' Perspective
· Hui-Yi Ho - School to work: Preparing for the workforce
Panel 6: Identity, Language, and History: Critical Factors in Educational Equity
· Elizabeth Hanauer - The teaching, learning and discourse of immigration history in French schools
· Naomi Moland - Sesame Street
· Heidi Eschenbacher - Educational aims and practice in conflict affected areas
Panel 7: Border Crossing: Migration and Education in International Perspectives
· Christal G. Burnett - Apoyando y Ayudando: Exploring How Latino Families Educate Their Children
· Lindsey Sasaki - The Transnational Dekasegi Movement and Education: The Case of Brazilian and Peruvian Nikkei College-Age Youth
· Tasha Darbes - "Only a Dream (Act)? Undocumented Immigrants Crossing the Border into Higher Education."
Panel 8: The Internationalization of Schooling: Implications for Students, Teachers, and Societies
· Elizabeth M. Stallman - Pathways between intercultural competence and racial identity
· Ji-Yeung Jang - Relationship between Internationalization and Quality of Higher Education
· Mira Gambhir - Preparing Global Teachers - The Internationalization of Initial Teacher Education
· Yiyun Jie - Investigating partner goal consensus and disparity in cross-border higher educational programs
Panel 9: The Role of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Educational Quality and Equity
· Candi Walz and Katie Crumley - Technology: Bridging a gap to provide educational opportunities in rural Minnesota
· Carrie Cox - "Eat When You're Hungry and Stop When You're Full:" Recommendations for Educators on How to Navigate Through a Diet and Body Image Obsessed Culture to Create Healthy Change
· Husna Ali-Khan - Cultural Considerations in Curriculum Design: The Case of Rural India
Panel 10: Education Reform and Development: Strategies to Increase School Quality & Equity
· Cynthia Smith - Implications of Legally Mandated Inclusive Education: Lessons from Italy
· Fernando Yitzack Pavon - Improving Educational Quality in Honduras: Building a Demand-Driven Education Market
· Omolola Taiwo - Education: The Key to Social and Economic Development in Developing Nations
· Rafael Parente - Tonomundo: a public-private partnership in education in Brazil and social inclusion
Panel 11: Globalization, Colonization, and Western Influences on Schooling Worldwide
· Imed Labidi - The Pedagogy of Islamism: An Interpretation of Western Representation in Middle Eastern Curricula
· Jennifer Wemigwans - Representing Indigenous Knowledge Through 21st Century Media
· Saule K. Abdygapparova - External Education: Combining Western and Kazakhstani Values
· Shalini Mascarenhas - The Malaysian Education System's Response to Colonization and Globalization: A Historical Approach
Panel 12: Equity in the Age of High Stakes Testing
· Iwan Syahril - Standardized testing in Indonesian secondary education: An analysis on the impacts of national exit exam (2005-2007)
· May Wang - The Institutional Setting of Education Implementing NCLB policy for ELL