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Book on WCCES History

COMMON INTERESTS, UNCOMMON GOALS

"The major impetus for the founding of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) came from a Canadian, Joseph Katz of the University of British Columbia. The first World Congress was held in Ottawa, Canada, in August 1970 during the UNESCO-designated International Education Year (IEY). Edmund King later described the way in which the idea took form (Letter to Raymond Ryba, 12 March 1998):

I was there at the time, when [Joseph] Lauwerys and Leo Fernig (often in London) and Joe Katz were laying the groundwork for the WCCES. Katz spent a year in London on sabbatical, and during that time he and Lauwerys were often together.... Lauwerys [was] the European founding partner in the nascent WCCES … [and] above all else, Lauwerys insisted that the administration and official centre of the WCCES should be housed in London. Joe Katz was, so to speak, an equal but distant partner ‘in partibus infidelium’.

Other important players included Antanas Paplauskas-Ramunas of the University of Ottawa; William Brickman, founder of the Comparative Education Society (CES) in the United States; Brian Holmes, one of the founders of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE); Gerald Read of Kent State University in the United States; Masunori Hiratsuka, founder of the Japan Comparative Education Society (JCES); and Leo Fernig from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who gave considerable support and assistance to the idea (Masemann & Epstein on Page 13 ​in
Common Interests, Uncommon Goals, edited by Masemann, Bray & Manzon, 2007 - please see details below).
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      • UNESCO Liaison Standing Committee
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      • Peace Education Task Force
      • Task Force to Bring Back Withdrawn Societies
      • Task Force on Congress Periodicity, Bidding Cycles and Number of Host Societies
      • Task Force on Distance Education
      • USA-UNESCO Relations Task Force
    • 4th WCCES Symposium 2021
    • 5th WCCES Symposium 2022
    • XVIII World Congress 2024
    • Past Congresses >
      • XVII World Congress, Cancún, Mexico, 2019
      • XVI World Congress, Beijing, China, 2016
      • XV World Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013
      • XIV World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010
      • XIII World Congress, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2007
      • XII World Congress, Havana, Cuba, 2004
      • XI World Congress, Chungbuk, South Korea, 2001
      • X World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998
      • IX World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 1996
      • VIII World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 1992
      • VII World Congress, Montreal, Canada, 1989
      • VI World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1987
      • V World Congress, Paris, France, 1984
      • IV World Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 1980
      • III World Congress, London, UK, 1977
      • II World Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 1974
      • I World Congress, Ottawa, Canada, 1970
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      • Article 1 by Torres
      • Article 2 by Wang et al
      • Article 3 by Schleicher
      • Article 4 by Hayhoe
      • Article 5 by Jacob
      • Poem by Maherzi
    • GCE Vol. 2 No. 1 (Mar. 2018)
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    • GCE Vol. 3 No. 1&2 (Sep. 2019)
    • GCE Vol. 4 No. 1&2 (Sep. 2020)
    • GCE Vol. 5 No. 1&2 (Sep. 2021)
    • GCE Vol. 6 No. 1 (Sep. 2022) Special Issue
    • GCE Vol. 6 No. 2 (Dec. 2022)
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