This past summer, a major international meeting on education was held at Cornell: the International Congress of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). The theme was “Fostering Inclusive Ecologies of Knowledge: Education for Equitable and Sustainable Futures.”
 
Hosted by Cornell July 22-26, the hybrid conference was co-convened by the WCCES with its headquarters at the International Bureau of Education in Geneva, Switzerland, and the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France. The congress was co-organized by the Dutch Speaking Society of Comparative Education (NGVO), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society (IOCES) in Mumbai, India.
 
Sub-themes of the congress included comparative and international education; fostering epistemological synergies; culture, the arts, and knowledge; political economy of research, decolonizing curricula, teaching and learning; and governance of knowledge in a changing landscape. The global conference received 1,150 submissions from scholars and practitioners from 112 countries, representing five continents, out of which 400 attended in-person while the rest of the contributors participated virtually through Zoom.
 
“Each sub-theme offered a vast array of detailed topics that led to engaging presentations and discussions on conceptual, theoretical and methodological perspectives, historical and empirical studies offering insights from across the globe with comparative and interdisciplinary frameworks,” said N’Dri Assié-Lumumba, professor of Africana studies and WCCES outgoing president.

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