Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Che-Wei Lee is a descendant of the Paiwan tribe, one of the 16 officially recognized Austronesian-speaking indigenous peoples of Taiwan. His tribal name is Paljaljim Rusagasag. His research focuses on comparative education, indigenous language revitalization, the issues of indigenous higher education, indigenous research paradigms, indigenous knowledge systems, and faculty diversity and development. His recent publication is a book chapter entitled, "Policy Debates and Indigenous Education: The Trialectic of Language, Culture, and Identity” (2015, pp. 39-61), which is included in Indigenous Education: Language, Culture, and Identity, edited by W. James Jacob, Sheng Yao Cheng, and Maureen K. Porter.
The Indigenous Education Initiative includes a series of past, present, and future research projects sponsored or co-sponsored by IISE. Among the most prominent publication efforts include a forthcoming edited volume entitled Indigenous Education: Language, Culture, and Identity. The volume is edited by W. James Jacob, Sheng Yao Cheng, and Maureen K. Porter, and is scheduled for publication by Springer in 2015. IISE's American Indian research initiative examines various diversity issues in US schools as they relate to indigenous education. Several case study examples are included from schools in Arizona, California, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Wyoming. Focusing on Native American perspectives regarding the transition years between high school and post-secondary education, the study examines trialectic topics of increasing importance in the indigenous education literature: identity, culture, and language. Each of these topics is at the center of state, national, and international policy debates and educational reform efforts. As globalization increasingly marginalizes indigenous languages, cultures, and identities, this study offers local perspectives and highlights areas of social justice where education can intervene in a predominantly negative globalization trend that too often leads to linguistic and cultural genocide. IISE Program Coordinator Che-Wei Lee (a Taiwan Aborigine from the Paiwan Tribe) is a current doctoral student pursuing a dissertation that examines issues of access and attainment of indigenous students in US and Taiwan universities. His field work will include case study higher education institutions from Taiwan and the United States.
• Assisting IISE's American Indian research initiative • Assisting Project Management • Coordinatining IISE Symposium Series • Training New Personnel and Staff at the Institute • Technical Assistance and Training Programs with Professionals and Higher Education Administrators Worldwide
Course Name: ADMPS 3343 Comparative Education Time: Spring 2012-2013 (2134) Co-Instructor: Dr. W. James Jacob, PhD Credits: 3.0 Enrollment: 24 Graduate Students The purpose of this course is to introduce the broad field of comparative, international, and development education (CIDE). Seminar meetings are designed to examine the historical roots and evolution of the field. An overview of the theoretical underpinnings and common methods of research will be discussed, including the rationale for examining education from various geographic, historical, political, cultural, and economic perspectives. After a general exploration of major theoretical and methodological issues, several other CIDE conceptual issues will be addressed. These conceptual issues include a discussion on the dominant educational paradigm, indigenous education, multiple national case study education systems, higher education organizational analysis, education changes associated with demographic trends, and several current education policy issues.
Sponsor: Language Issues SIG, 58th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in 2014 Panel Title: Rethinking Education for All in Asia: Education for Rural/Indigenous Language Groups
• Sponsor: Higher Education SIG • Time: Monday, 11 March 2013, 3:30 to 5:00pm. • Location: Building/Room: Hilton Riverside Hotel, First - Grand Salon-Section4 • Title of the Paper Session: Case Studies in Chinese Higher Education, Session 2 • Session Participants: The Changes in the Wage Premium of the Educated Groups and the Underlying Reasons in Urban China Suhong Yang, Graduate School of Education, Peking University The Effects of Financial Aids on China’s Graduate Student Academic Development in Science and Engineering Majors Xi Yang, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Empirical Research on the Employment Situation of China’s Rural Graduates and Its Influencing Factors Zhongchao YANG, Peking University,China YUE Changjun, Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China 100871 The Fracture of the Identity: From Elite to ‘Ant Tribe’—Institutional Sociology on Graduates Employment in China Qian Meng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Sponsor: Higher Education SIG, 56th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in 2012 Session: Theorizing the Study of Higher Education Session: Linking Higher Education and the Economy Session: Religion and Postcolonial Higher Education Session: Impacts of Study Abroad Experiences (Part 2) Session: Community Colleges in International Contexts Session: Higher Education in Indigenous and Conflict Contexts Session: Making the Case for World-class Universities (Part 1) Session: Making the Case for World-class Universities (Part 2) Session: International Partnerships and Higher Education Consortia Session: The Transformation of Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning Session: The Influence of Internationalization on Transnational Exchanges Session: Higher Education Retention, Employment, and Its Role in Society Session: University Faculty: Mobility, Job Satisfaction, and Professional Development (Part 1)