INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CURRICULUM STUDIES

December 20, 2002


President:
William F. Pinar (USA)

Vice President:
David G. Smith (Canada)

Treasurer:
Sid Pandey (Botswana)

Secretary:
Urve Laanemets (Estonia)


Dear IAACS members:

I write to report to you regarding Association activities during the past six months.

First, allow me to report "old business." In August you approved the proposed amendment to the IAACS constitution limiting voting for General Assembly representatives to the nation (or region) s/he represents.

The first piece of "new business" concerns the IAACS first triennial meeting, now scheduled for October 26-29, 2003. We will be hosted by the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction at East China Normal University in Shanghai. I hope you will join me in thanking Professor Zhong and the members of the Preparatory Committee for their important contribution to the internationalization of curriculum studies. (I will list the names of the Committee members as well as other information regarding the Conference at the conclusion of this note. You may also find the information posted on the IAACS website: www.iaacs.org)

I hope all IAACS members will be able to participate in the Shanghai meeting. I look forward to seeing you there.

I ask all elected officers of the Association - including all Committee members ? to attend the conference and (during that week) to attend the meetings of their Committees, to be arranged by the Committee Chairs. I will ask the Committee Chairs to report on their activities at the concluding General Session of the Conference.

The second piece of "new business" concerns the IAACS journal. I am delighted to announce the establishment of the IAACS journal, Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, to be edited by IAACS Publications Committee Chair Noel Gough. I hope you will join me in thanking Professor Gough for this achievement. Please find important information regarding the Journal posted below. Those of you who wish to become involved in the publication may contact Professor Gough directly. His email address is listed below.

Third, I am very pleased to announce that three additional organizations have affiliated with IAACS: 1)the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 2) the Japanese Society for Curriculum Studies, and 3) the Korean Association of Educational Anthropology. Organizations already affiliated with IAACS include the Korean Society for Curriculum Studies and the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. I wish to thank Professor Alberto Rodriguez, Chair of the IAACS Affiliated Societies and Associations Committee, as well as members of that Committee, for facilitating these affiliations.

When I write to you again (in July 2003), I hope to report on two initiatives currently underway: 1) IAACS Treasurer Sid Pandey has kindly consented to chair a committee to make recommendations regarding the incorporation of IAACS. Those of you who wish to serve (or express your views on this issue), please contact me (wpinar@lsu.edu) and I will forward your name and/or view to Professor Pandey. 2) I will soon take to the General Assembly for their discussion and, I hope, approval, a policy that requires the hosts of future IAACS conferences (2006 in Europe, 2009 in Africa, 20012 in South America, 20015 in North America, 20018 in Asia) to minimize expenses for conference participants. We ask that no (or very
litte) registration fee be charged and that housing and food be subsidized by the host institution. These requests are consistent with IAACS' sensitivity to currency exchange rates, to the economic pressures on faculty and graduate students, and to the high cost of international travel.

Finally, for those you planning to attend the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) April 21-25 in Chicago, please consider presenting a paper at the American affiliate of IAACS (AAACS), which meets the three days before AERA in a location 3 blocs away from the AERA conference hotels. Professor Zhang Hua of East China Normal University (and this academic year a Visiting Scholar at Harvard
University) will present the keynote address. Please find paper proposal submission details attached below. As you note, I chair the AAACS's Conferences Committee; I do hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Bill Pinar



1. The IAACS Conference.

The First World Curriculum Studies Conference

(The First Triennial Meeting of the
International Association
for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies)


Date: October 26 to October 29, 2003

Place: Shanghai, P. R. China

Host: Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Theme: Curriculum Studies Worldwide


Paper Proposals:

1. Proposed paper abstract due no later than March 30th, 2003.

2. Completed paper due no later than August 15th , 2003 (in order to guarantee the compiling of the papers before the conference).

3.It can be written in English or both in English and Chinese and sent to us by mail, or by email.

4. Mailing address:

The Conference Committee
The Institute of Curriculum and Instruction
East China Normal University
Shanghai, 200062
P.R. China.

5. Email address: curriculum2003@sohu.com

6. Telephone numbers: (0086-21)62607674 or (0086-21)62232014


The Preparatory Committee:
Chairman: Prof. Zhong Qiquan
Vice Chairman: Prof. Wang Binhua
Members: Prof. Xu Binyan, Dr. Zheng Tainian,
Dr.Wang Xiaoming, Dr. Han Yanmei, Mr. Xu Lixin





2. The IAACS Journal.


Transnational Curriculum Inquiry:
The Journal of the International Associatio
n for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

Information for IAACS members, December 2002

Noel Gough
Chair, IAACS Publications Committee



Part 1: About the journal

Purpose
Transnational Curriculum Inquiry: the Journal of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (abbreviation: TCI) is a site for scholarly conversations within and across national and regional borders that supports a worldwide ? but not uniform ? field of curriculum studies.

Management
The chair (Editor) and members (Editorial Board) of the IAACS Publications Committee will manage TCI during its first year of operation (2003). An Associate Editor (and consulting editors as needed) from the sponsoring institution, Deakin University, will assist the Editor. The Editors will recruit additional members to the Editorial Board (see Part 2: Invitation to join panel of manuscript referees).

Editor
Noel Gough, Deakin University, Australia

Associate Editor
Evelyn Johnson, Deakin University, Australia

Editorial Board
Lisa Cary, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Nancy Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA Sven-Erik Hansén, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Hua Zhang, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Mode and frequency of publication

- TCI will be published electronically using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an online journal management and publishing system produced by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), University of British Columbia, Canada.
- An issue of TCI normally will consist of one peer reviewed paper or a thematic symposium of papers. The sum of all issues published in a calendar year will comprise one volume of the online journal.
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates will publish and market an annual print version of TCI.

Medium and format of online publication
TCI will publish in any media or formats enabled by web-based publishing including multi-media (audio, video) and pictorial as well as print (pdf and html) formats.

Language(s) of publication
In the first instance, TCI will be published in English. Translations (or original versions) of manuscripts in other languages may be published simultaneously if the editors are satisfied that any translation has been subjected to appropriate quality controls on accuracy and fidelity to the original. The editors of TCI will actively explore the desirability and possibilities of publishing original manuscripts in languages other than English, with a view to instituting manuscript review procedures that guarantee the scholarly quality of articles in other languages.

Manuscript review procedures
These procedures are designed to:
- enact and facilitate transnational conversations in curriculum inquiry
- subject the process of peer review to transparent peer review
- assist the Editors in identifying prospective nominees to an expanded Editorial Board

The procedures are:
- each manuscript will normally be reviewed by at least three referees who, in most circumstances, will be of different nationalities from the
author(s) and from each other
- the Editor will assign a consulting editor for each manuscript who will liaise with the referees and the Editor in reaching a decision about publication
- each referee's (named) review will be circulated to the other referees
- at the Editor's discretion, manuscripts accepted for publication may be published together with the consulting editor's and referees' reports and the author's response
- further commentary and conversations around the issues addressed in the articles will be facilitated through an online discussion space associated with TCI (either on the TCI site or the IAACS homepage)

Submission of articles
A call for manuscripts with full instructions on how to submit articles to TCI will be circulated to IAACS members early in 2003. Manuscripts that do not comply with the instructions to authors specified and publicised by TCI from time to time will not be accepted for review.

Part 2: Invitation to join panel of manuscript referees
The Editors wish to establish a panel of appropriately experienced referees in preparation for the first call for manuscripts that will be broadcast early in 2003. We thus invite interested members of IAACS to register their interest in reviewing manuscripts.

How to apply
Please send the following information to the Editor, Noel Gough <noelg@deakin.edu.au>

- full name, title and academic qualifications
- present institutional affiliation (if any) and contact email address(es)
- research experience and interests
- recent publications (please list full bibliographic details of three representative publications, preferably articles in English that have been published in international refereed journals)
- languages in which you are able to review manuscripts
- editorial experience (including manuscript reviewing)
- number of manuscripts you are prepared to review each year

Expectations of referees
The Editors expect that colleagues who register interest in reviewing manuscripts for TCI will also be prepared to:

- review manuscripts in a timely manner (normally 4-6 weeks)
- provide constructive criticism and feedback to fellow referees on the fairness and quality of their reviews (the transparent peer review of each other's manuscript reviews is crucial to building a self-critical community of scholars in transnational curriculum inquiry)
- allow their manuscript reviews to be published if so requested by the Editors

(See attached file: AAACS (2003 call for papers))