International Association of Educators

The International Association of Educators is a non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental international organization. It aims to develop new pedagogies and alternative languages for multi-cultural communication and understanding. The association provides the global communications spheres for its members from 45 different countries and 250 different universities in order to contribute to world peace through education.

Objectives

The association promotes educational theory and practice worldwide through conferences, academic publications, cross-cultural dialogues, international projects, research studies, online networking, and professional development. It also encourages its members to pursue, publish, present and disseminate empirical research, theoretical statements, and philosophical arguments on current issues and future conceptions of educational theory and practice in order to strengthen the understanding of world peace in the academic and professional fields.

Publications

The association sponsors the following journals:

International Journal of Progressive Education, a peer reviewed interactive electronic journal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to its general aim of promoting an open and continuing dialogue about current educational issues and future conceptions of educational theory and practice in an international context. The journal provides an online discussion-forum for its readers to write instant comments on articles. It is co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is published three times a year in four different languages; Chinese, Turkish, Spanish and English. The current editor in chief is Chen Xinren (Nanjing University, China).
Turkish Journal of Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research (Turkish: Eğitimde Politika Analizleri ve Stratejik Araştırmalar Dergisi), a peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal is published both in English and Turkish. The journal covers Education policy and evaluation, strategic research and planning, postmodernism, globalization, and education and was established in 2006. The editors in chief are Haluk Soran (Hacettepe University) and Leyla Kucukahmet (Gazi University).

Administration

The International Association of Educators is run by an executive committee elected every 2 years. The current President is Mustafa Yunus Eryaman.

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