International Education Conference 2011
The Politics of Knowledge and Schooling in the Global Era
Sixth Annual Conference of the International Education Program
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development
New York University
Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2011
Program Begins at 8:30AM @ Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street
NYU Washington Square Campus
New York, New York
**Free and Open to the Public**
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Slot A – 11-12:15AM
1.
Negotiating Identity: Schools and Social Movements a.
Christian Bracho, New York University: Performing Resistance: Teachers,
Social Movement, and Memory in Oaxaca, Mexico b.
Jennifer Auerbach, New York University: Public Religiosity and Turkish
Collective Identity: A Case Study of Culture in Higher Education c.
Alexandra L. Wood, New York University: After Apology: Public Education as
Redress for Japanese American and Canadian Internment
2.
Marketing Higher Education a.
Kimberly Daly, George Mason University: University Recognition of the
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme b.
Bill Colvin, Columbia University: Regaining international student market share in the United States: Australian lessons for international education policy c.
Naveed Ullah, Michigan State University: The influence of recruiting agencies on Asian, Middle Eastern and African international students’ decisions about graduate study in the US, in relation to the influence of the students’ social capital in their home country
3.
Analyzing Educational Policy in Indonesia a.
Agung Putra & Ida Zubaidah, Florida State University: Teacher Qualification and Certification Policy in Indonesia b.
Marzul Hidayat & Amirul Mukminin, Florida State University: Social Justice in
Education: Promoting Access and Success for Disadvantaged Students in the
Indonesian Basic Education

c.
Amirul Mukminin & Ida Zubaidah, Florida State University: Who has the power? And Who makes the Policy? The top-down National Standardized
Exam Policy in Indonesia and its impacts: an ethical analysis
Slot B – 12:30-1:45PM
4.
Socio-cultural Experiences of International Students in the United States a.
Peter Gerlach, Syracuse University, The Problem of Transnational
Intercultural Space in the United States b.
Eun Jin Hwang, Southern Illinois University, Variations of Cultural/Ethnic
Perceptions and Educational Beliefs and Their Impact on Children’s
Schooling: Korean Immigrant Parents and Children c.
Stina Peterson, New York University, "Implications for Campus Counseling
Services: The Increasing Prevalence of International Students on American
Campuses"
5.
Whose Investment, Whose Benefit? Global interests in Education in Africa a.
Vince Blaser, Chun-Chan Hsu, Anyi Wang, & Bradley White, Columbia
University: Sino-African Educational Exchange: A Review of Chinese
Objectives and Motivations b.
Jonathan Friedman, New York University, Teaching Africa, Schooling Africa:
Exploring the international role in the pan-African project c.
Grace Karram Stephenson, University of Toronto: The International
Connections of Higher Education in Africa: Implications and Rationales
6.
Political Debates on the Purpose of Education a.
Debbie H. Kim, Northwestern University: Linking political ideology and educational change: A textual analysis of American party platforms b.
Jasmina Josic, University of Minnesota: Citizenship and Individual Success:
The Impact of Politics of Institutional Social Relations and Social Process on
Youths’ Citizenship c.
Jessica Mason, University of Pittsburgh: Education for Social Advancement or
Global Competition?: Representations of education in the Indian media

Slot C – 2:45-4:00PM
7.
Epistemological Debates in Development Policy a.
Cassie Xu, Columbia University, Impacts on Development Goals: Research,
Knowledge, and Power b.
Efrain Rivera, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: International
Educational Developments and Trends c.
Allyson Larkin, University of Western Ontario: Acts of Education as
Liberation: Pedagogy and the Personal in the Context of International
Development and Education
8.
Literacy and Discourse: Rethinking Practice a.
Anne Watson, The University of Western Ontario, More than a Boy Problem –
Investigating the Authorization of Literacy Practices b.
Wendy A. Crocker, The University of Western Ontario, What does it mean to be literate in Ontario? A principal’s reflections on large scale testing,“best practice” and minoritized students c.
Breana Abbott Bayraktar, George Mason University: “Is this in your own words?: Learning the expectations of a discourse community
9.
Socialization and Multicultural Interventions a.
Carleen Carey, Michigan State University: Socialization through Literature:
The Case of a Multicultural Bookclub b.
Naomi Moland, New York University, Localizing Multiculturalism and
Muppets: Nigeria's Sesame Square c.
Lin-Miao Lu, University of Georgia: Power Relations in Creating and
Distributing Official Knowledge in Children’s Literature: A Study of the Series
Historical Picture of Taiwan
Slot D – 4:15-5:45PM
10.
Choosing Education: School Choice, Migration and the State a.
Haiying Dong, Arizona State University, Stay or Choose Again? The Move
Pattern of Elementary Students in Arizona’s Public School Market b.
Rachel Cole, New York University, How do school quality impact families' decisions about after-school tuoring in Sri Lanka?"

c.
Jehanzaib Kahn, New York University, School or Madrassa: Parents' Choice and the Failure of State-Run Education in Pakistan d.
Alexis Pang-Ben Bella, New York University, Migrating away from education
11.
Debates in Teacher Recruitment and Education a.
Samina Naseem, Michigan State University, Effectiveness of teacher mentoring: A reality or a myth? b.
Hilde Wågsås Afdal, University of Oslo, Connecting knowledge forms with curricular and qualification forms: Comparing Norwegian and Finnish
Teacher Education Curricula c.
Hui Zou & Jennifer D. Shea, Arizona State University: Building the Teaching
Force: An Analysis of Chinese and American Efforts to Recruit New Teaching
Talent
12.
Access Challenges in Educational Policy a.
Nadine Hylton, Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human
Development: Educational Access and Urban-Suburban Programs b.
Polly Cancro, University of Pennsylvania, Education, Equality, and
Empowerment: Rethinking the Third Millennium Development Goal c.
Miku Watanabe, Arizona State University, Enhancing Education Equity through Empowerment for Educationally Disadvantaged Girls in Rural India d.
Sheba Onchiri, Michigan State University: The Implications of the 2003 Free
Primary Education policy on girls’ educational opportunities in Kenya: A case study of girls attending public primary schools in Kisii District, Western
Kenya.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26
Slot E – 10-11:15AM
13.
Counter-Narratives to Structural Inequalities in Education a.
Erica Nicole Griffin, Arizona State University: We ain’t meant to survive,
‘cause it’s a set up: Black Women who dropped out of school and into the ghetto. b.
Katie A. Hendrickson, Ohio University: Student Resistance to Schooling:
Power, Education, and Student Perspectives in Rural Appalachia

c.
Bobbi McDaniel, Pepperdine University: The examination of an Intervention
Program for African American Females Attending Urban High Schools- "The
Sister Circle"
14.
Education and Human Rights a.
Amy Kapit-Spitalny, New York University: The institutionalization of global norms: A case study of protecting education from attack b.
Liz Knauer, New York University: Geo-politics, academic freedom, and the role of intellectuals in national and international society c.
Rachel Wahl, New York University, Endorsed by the state? Human rights norm diffusion among state agents in India
15.
Education and Social Cohesion a.
Ozen Guven, New York University, The Effects of Ethnic Conflict on Teachers’ experiences in Turkey b.
Kelly Hill, Vanderbilt University: Possibilities for Social Cohesion Through
Education in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda c.
Michael Chen, Boston University, Integrative System Model as a Theory to
Understand Resiliency of War-affected Widows in Nepal
Slot F – 11:30-12:45PM
16.
Case studies from Study Abroad programs a.
Isabel Kentengian, New York University Junior Year in Madrid: The 1958
Beginnings of NYU as a Global University b.
Li Yang, University of Minnesota: The Impact of a Study Abroad to China over
Its Participants Knowledge of and Attitudes towards China c.
Jiaying Song, University of Minnesota: An Evaluative Case Study of a Study
Abroad Program –Education for a Global Citizen
17.
Graduate Students Dialogue about Knowledge (as Commodity) a.
Andrew Bingham, Amy Cadman, Alicia Hussain-Kelly, Queen’s University
Ontario: Classroom Hermeneutics and Culture
18.
Resistant Pedagogies in Education

a.
Anna MacBriar, University of Colorado at Boulder: From Burma to
Birmingham: The Rhetoric and Resistance of Secret Schooling b.
Anthony Garces-Foley, George Mason University: Promoting GLBTQ Teacher
Awareness and Education in UK Schools c.
Graham Slater, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Examining Competing
Conceptualizations of Globalization in 21st Century Educational Contexts”
Slot G – 1:45-3:00PM
19.
Political Debate to Education: A Global Challenge, an African Solution a.
Angela Darko et al., Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in
Ghana, “Political Debate to education – A Global challenge An African solution”
20.
Language Policy in International Perspectives a.
Xiaoxiang Xu, Michigan State University, “The Creole paradox: historical foundations for linguistic discrimination in Haiti and implications for literacy education” b.
Eching Ho, The University of Texas at Austin, The Debate Over Medium of
Instruction Policy in Hong Kong: A Post-Colonial Comparative Analysis c.
Haiying Dong, Arizona State University, Improved but not Enough: The
Achievement of English Language Learners in Arizona after Proposition 203
21.
Global Convergence and Paradigm Proliferation in Education a.
Haddy Njie, Florida State University: The effects of global transfer of knowledge in the market economy on education in developing countries b.
Paul L Landry, University of Alabama: Emancipation or Oppression – Risks and Rewards of Paradigm Proliferation c.
Michelle J. Yee, University of San Francisco: International Perspectives on
Education for Speech-Language-Pathology
Slot H – 3:15-4:30PM
22.
International Education and Technology a.
Melda N. Yildiz, Kean University, Developing Global Competency among Pre-
Service Teachers and Preparing them for 21st Century Education b.
David T. Marshall, La Salle University, Creating a Framework for Digital
Game-Based Learning, Knowledge Construction, and Classroom Inclusion

c.
Kari Richards & Min Lun Wu, Michigan State University, Examining
Computational Thinking through Game-Based Learning
23.
The Challenges of Education Implementation in South Asia a.
Afshan Huma, Michigan State University: Diversities in International
Education - Issues of Implementation of Foreign Educational Programs in
Public Primary Schools of Pakistan b.
Salma Nazar Khan, University of Massachusetts: Why EFA is still a challenge to achieve in South Asia; a case study of Pakistan c.
Sarbani Chakraborty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Traveling policies:
"Best practice" narratives and school-quality debates in India d.
Kathryn Zyskowski, University of Pennsylvania, Hindu Nationalism and
Education