ASU scholars share expertise at 2025 CIES

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March 20, 2025

The Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) is the largest and oldest of 47 comparative and international education societies around the world. Its more than 4,000 individual members — researchers, analysts, practitioners, and students — represent over 1,000 universities, research institutes, government departments, non-governmental organizations, and multilateral agencies across the globe.

The 2025 Annual Meeting takes place March 22-26 in Chicago, and the event features representation from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, including students with the Educational Policy and Evaluation, PhD program. Participants and projects connected with the college are listed here: 

The Bloomsbury handbook of method in comparative and international education 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor

 

Comparative Insights on effective teaching, teacher education, and digital literacy 

Maria Teresa Tatto, professor 

 

Digital learning in eigher Education: Examining environments, engagement, and empowerment 

Hang Duong, visiting scholar 

 

Education Improvements: Interventions and impacts 

Wyatt James Brooks, associate professor 

 

Educator and leadership perspectives in South Asia 

Neelakshi Rajeev Tewari, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation 

 

Emerging pedagogies for powerful mathematics teaching 

Maria Teresa Tatto, professor  

 

Essentials publishing workshop: Beyond research: The art of wellbeing in academia

Neelakshi Rajeev Tewari, PhD student, Educatioaln Policy and Evaluation 

 

Essentials series workshop: Essentials jobs in academia or non-academic 

Neelakshi Rajeev Tewari, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation 

 

Essential series workshop: Essentials publishing workshops

Neelakshi Rajeev Tewari, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation 

 

Geo-political shifts, freedom and disaster: The university in a new spatio-temporal era 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor

 

Global and comparative perspectives on STEM education and research 

Minji Kim, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation 

 

Highlighted session: Awakening CIE knowledge production: A conversation to revitalize the field 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor; Dilraba Anayatova, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation

 

Highlighted session: Comparative analysis of pre-service teacher training models across six domains 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor; Ketevan Chachkhiani, program director; Irine Samsonia, visiting researcher 

 

Highlighted session: Selves as methods: Reflexive dialogue and praxis in global knowledge production 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor 

 

Highlighted session: Youth development and resilience in rural and urban contexts: Insights from North America, Rwanda, and Vietnam 

Tara Lynn Bartlett, assistant professor 

 

Provocations revisited (Onside Projection of the V.P.): “The digital turn: Considering the implications for teaching and learning in the field of comparative and international education (CIE)” 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor

 

Refugee education and the experiences of migrant parents and teachers 

Adnan Turan, Ph.D. student, Educational Policy and Evaluation 

 

The role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education: Inclusion, innovation, and impact 

Janice Mak, assistant professor 

 

Teaching in a digital society: Challenges and innovations 

Gustavo Fischman, professor; Margarita Pivovarova, associate professor 

 

Education for planetary futures (Part 1): Decolonial portals, marginalized scholarship, and more-than-human-methodologies 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor; Bea Rodriguez-Fransen, director - ASU Next Lab; Dilraba Anayatova, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation; Victoria Desimoni, PhD student, Educational Policy and Evaluation  

 

Education for planetary futures (Part 2): Disrupting, reimagining, and co-designing pedagogies on the edge 

Iveta Silova, associate dean and professor, and others 

 

Empowering teachers for equitable and sustainable education: Action research, teacher agency and online community 

Maria Teresa Tatto, professor

 

World Yearbook of Education 2025. The teaching profession in a globalizing world: Governance, career, learning 

Maria Teresa Tatto, professor