World Council for Comparative Education Societies

The World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) is an international organization of comparative education societies created in 1970. It is organized as an NGO in operational relations with UNESCO. WCCESS issues a Bulletin in Innovation, the publication of the International Bureau of Education in Geneva, Switzerland, and the CERCular, published by the Comparative Education Research Centre (University of Hong Kong). The current president is Crain Soudien.

Conferences

WCCES organizes a conference every three years.

Historic list of conferences
Number Location Year
I Ottawa (Canada) 1970
II Geneva (Switzerland) 1974
III London (UK) 1977
IV Tokyo (Japan) 1980
V Paris (France) 1984
VI Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 1987
VII Montreal (Canada) 1989
VIII Prague (Czech Republic) 1992
IX Sydney (Australia) 1996
X Cape Town (South Africa) 1998
XI Chungbuk (Korea) 2001
XII Havana (Cuba) 2004
XIII Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2007

The next conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 14–18 June 2010, with the topic "Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society.

Member societies

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