STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The “Global Partners” page has been established to:

• Provide a platform that encourages global dialogue among researchers, academics, authors, educators, and organizations
• Nurture international collaborative partnerships that advocate for global educational equity and social justice
• Give higher education students access to experts in the field of educational equity from diverse perspectives

Patrick Price: Founder and CEO of CLCR Australia and HCA Nepal: Patrick has taught in primary and secondary schools in Australia, and coordinates youth leadership & mentoring programs. He represents Australian interests at International Democratic Education conferences in India, Puerto Rico, Australia, the UK and Nepal, and is involved in implementing aid and educational development programs to help provide opportunity for underprivileged communities in these regions. In 2006 he established The Centre for Learning and Children’s Rights, Inc. (CLCR) in Australia, and in 2007 The Heartland Children’s Academy (HCA) in Nepal. Patrick can be contacted at ceo@forchildrights.com

Pamela C. Gibbons is the Associate Dean International for the Faculties of Arts, Business, and Education at Charles Stuart University, Australia. She previously worked for over 20 years as a member of the academic staff of Australian Catholic University (ACU) where she had a leadership role in policy development relating to teaching and learning, online teaching and learning, and international education. Since 2003 led an ACU community engagement project delivering online education to refugees and displaced persons on the Thai/Burma border, was Executive Director of International Programs at Macquarie University, and Dean of Internationalisation at ACU. Research interests focus on promoting education as a medium for financial and development aid. Email: pgibbons@csu.edu.au

Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite holds a Doctorate in International Education and Development from the University of Oslo, Norway. Her current research interests include Language and Human Rights in Education, Development Aid, African Higher Education and Science Literacy. With more than 20 years of teaching experience in a number of countries including USA, Norway, Japan, India, and France, her strength lies in international learning, development, and human rights. She has authored many book chapters and published articles in tier one academic journals, presented papers at prestigious international conferences, and been an invited guest lecturer at universities worldwide. She was a member of the Language of Instruction team of researchers in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA). Currently, she is a visiting Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California-Berkeley. She is fluent in numerous languages. z.b.wilhite@berkeley.edu and z.b.wilhite@ped.uio.no

Evelin Lindner is a Medical Doctor and a Psychologist, with two Ph.D’s. She obtained her MD in 1994 in Hamburg, Germany, and her Ph.D in Psychology at the University of Oslo in Norway in 2001. She has been a research fellow at the University of Oslo since 1997, affiliated with Columbia University in New York City since 2001, and with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris since 2003. Her work focuses on human dignity and humiliation. She is the Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, and a Co-founder of the World Dignity University initiative. She lives, teaches, and writes globally. View her book titles on the International Books page.

Irina Boldonova is head of the Department of Foreign Literature and Philosophy at Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude, Russia. Earned her Doctor of Sciences in 2010. She is the winner of several fellowships. She was a visiting research professor at  George Washington University, Washington DC, US, The Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich,DE and The Bradford University, Bradford,UK. Her areas of interest include: Hermeneutics of interpersonal communication, human communication philosophy, literary hermeneutics, theory of values, world literature.

Lyubov Chetyrova is a Professor at Samara State University (Department of Philosophy Humanities Faculty). She graduated in 1986 from Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University with master’s degree in philosophy and in 1986  received a PhD in Philosophy from Novosibirsk State University and in 2005 received a Doctor in Sciences from Samara State University. She is a (2005-2006) Fulbright Scholar, a member of the Dissertation Council for Educational Sciences, and a member of the Dissertation Council for Philological Sciences. Dr. Chetvrova has published three monographs, three book chapters, and 55 articles. She has collected numerous archival documents and materials and published in the collection of archival materials on the Stavropol baptized Kalmyks. Her areas of interest include: the education and culture of the Mongolian people (focus on Kalmykia), Buddhism, and ethnic identity. She conducts field and applied empirical research in the Republics of Kalmykia, Altai, Buryatia, and Mongolia.

Steve Sider, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. His research and writing interests are in global perspective building and creative school leadership. For the past ten years he has been working with officials from the Haitian Ministry of Education, as well as universities and NGOs, in supporting educational leadership capacity-building in Haiti.  He is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada.  Website: www.haitieducationalleadership.com

Stephen Bahry, visiting scholar at Comparative, International and Development Education Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, received the CIES Language Issues Dissertation Competition Award for his thesis, Perspectives on quality in minority education in China: The case of Sunan Yughur Autonomous County, Gansu, China. Recent work focuses on educational reform and equity, language-in-education policy and practice, quality perspectives, and cultural and linguistic diversity in education in North America and Eurasia, with publications on Afghanistan, Central Asia and China. His current work is on ecology of languages and literacies in Central Asia and urban North America.

Mark Beattie is the Director of Distributive Learning in the School of Professional Studies at Gonzaga University. He has an undergraduate business degree from Washington State University and a Masters in Business Administration and Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University. Mark is a lecturer at Washington State University’s College of Business, Gonzaga University’s School of Business Administration, and the School of Professional Studies. He has lectured at The University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

George F. McLean is the Founder and Director of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Professor Emeritus, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He is also the founder of the Inter-University Committee on Research and Policy Studies (ICR) and the Joint-Committee of Catholic Learned Societies and Scholars (CLS). Fr. McLean organizes three major international conferences per year in numerous countries on all continents (excluding Antarctica), is responsible for the development of over 75 international research teams, and has edited and published over 180 books.

Camille Nakhid is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She received a BSc Chemistry from Brooklyn College, New York and MEd (Honours) and EdD degrees from Auckland University. She is from Trinidad and Tobago and has taught in New York, Samoa, Hawaii and Trinidad and Tobago. Her areas of teaching and research include research methodologies, ethnic communities, student achievement, and Pasifika youth.