Symposium: (XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014))

RC04 Sociology of Education

Program Coordinators: A. Gary DWORKIN (University of Houston, USA) and Marios VRYONIDES (European University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Monday, July 14, 2014

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

Facing an Unequal World: What Challenges to Education?
Session Organizer: Antonio TEODORO

RC04 Round Table II. National and Regional Patterns of Educational Inequality
Session Organizer: Marios VRYONIDES

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

RC04 Round Table I. the Challenge of Global Educational Inequality
Session Organizer: A. Gary DWORKIN

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

Mass Participation to Higher Education and Social Justice
Session Organizers: Marios VRYONIDES and Iasonas LAMPRIANOU

7:30 PM-8:50 PM

RC04 Business Meeting
Session Organizer: A. Gary DWORKIN

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

Globalization, the State, Social Justice and Education
Session Organizers: Tien-Hui CHIANG and Jason Chien-chen CHANG

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

Educational Reforms for Reducing Social Inequality in Mandarin-speaking (Chinese) Societies
Session Organizers: Feng-Jihu LEE and Jason Chien-chen CHANG

Teachers and Globalization: Accountability and Mobility
Session Organizers: Carol REID and A. Gary DWORKIN
Chair: Carol REID

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

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New Topics in Interaction between University and Society
Session Organizers: Juha TUUNAINEN and Kari KANTASALMI

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

Recovering Knowledge for Sociology: Unequal Knowledges of Unequal Power
Session Organizer: Arturo ESCANDON

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The Future of Teaching and Research in Universities
Session Organizers: Jaime JIMENEZ GUZMAN, A. Gary DWORKIN, Gerardo DEL CERRO SANTAMARIA and Ralph MATTHEWS
Chair: Ralph MATTHEWS

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

World Atlas of Adult Education
Session Organizer: Marios VRYONIDES

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

Higher Education and the Social Forces in the Job Market
Session Organizer: Maria Ligia BARBOSA

Sociologies of Education: After the Fragmentation of Modernity and Its Educational Projects
Session Organizers: Julie MATTHEWS and Terri SEDDON

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

Academic Mobility: Possibilities and Barriers
Session Organizer: David KONSTANTINOVSKIY

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The Comparative Sociology of Examinations Part II
Session Organizers: Fumiya ONAKA and Shinichi AIZAWA
Chair: Morikazu USHIOGI

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

Global Educational Expansion of Secondary Schools
Session Organizer: Shinichi AIZAWA
Chair: Hirofumi TAKI

Thursday, July 17, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

Professional Ethics in University Education: The Contribution of this Field of Research and Teaching to Face Inequality
Session Organizer: Anita Cecilia HIRSCH ADLER

Sociology of Higher Education
Session Organizer: Keiko YOKOYAMA
Chair: Keiko YOKOYAMA

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

Globalization and Neo-Institutionalism in the Sociology of Education: Theoretical and Empirical Advances
Session Organizers: Lawrence J SAHA and Joanna SIKORA

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

Growing Inequalities in Education: A Global Perspective for the 21st Century
Session Organizer: Shaheeda ESSACK

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

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Future of Education: Innovation, Reform, Struggle, and Vision / Futuro De La Educaci�n, Reforma, Lucha, y Visi�n
Session Organizers: Gerardo DEL CERRO SANTAMARIA, Sonsoles SAN ROMAN and Hiro TOYOTA
Chairs: Gerardo DEL CERRO SANTAMARIA, Hiro TOYOTA and Sonsoles SAN ROMAN

Friday, July 18, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

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Leisure and Education in an Unequal World
Session Organizers: A. Gary DWORKIN and Karl SPRACKLEN

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

New and Persisting Forms of Gender Inequality in Education: Theoretical and Empirical Advances
Session Organizers: Joanna SIKORA and Lawrence J SAHA

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

The Challenge of Education during Protracted Conflicts: Israel and Cyprus from a Comparative Perspective
Session Organizer: Gal LEVY

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

Transitions from School to Post-Secondary Education and Work
Session Organizer: Jeanne BALLANTINE
Chair: A. Gary DWORKIN

Saturday, July 19, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

Social Implications of Educational Inequities
Session Organizer: Siddharamesh HIREMATH
Chair: Siddharamesh HIREMATH

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

National Educational Systems: Globalization Challenges
Session Organizer: Svetlana SHARONOVA

12:30 PM-2:20 PM

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The Comparative Sociology of Examinations Part I
Session Organizers: Fumiya ONAKA and Shinichi AIZAWA
Chair: Masako, Ema WATANABE