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Volume 46, No. 4 December 2011
Title: On becoming a teacher: a lifelong process
Guest editors: Janet Looney and Jean Gordon
Volume 46, No. 3 September 2011
Title: Key Competences in Europe
Guest editors: Alain Michel and Alejandro Tiana
Title: Education, poverty and inclusion
Guest editor: Marta Soler
Volume 46, No. 1, March 2011
Title: Education Policies in Europe: how effective are international initiatives?
Guest Editor: Jean-Pierre Jallade
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Michele Sellier, Vice Chair of the Board Michelle Sellier started her career as a professor at the Law University from 1969 to1983. Her thesis in political science on "local pressure groups" and her research mainly focused on local administration. During that period, she has held various positions of public responsibility including the Dean of the Law Faculty in Amiens from 1976 to 1979 and President of the Arts Centre in Amiens from 1978 to1983. She was appointed Recteur (Chief Education Officer) and Chancellor of the University for the Education Region of Reims from 1983 to 1987 and sat on the National Advisory Committee for Ethics in Life Sciences and Health from 1986 to 1990. Michele Sellier then pursued her career as anInspectrice Générale in Ministry of Education 1989 to 2007. From 1990 to 1994, she ran the International Centre for Pedagogical Studies (CIEP) in Sèvres, near Paris and then spent over 3 years, from 1995 to 1999, at the European Commission in Brussels working as a seconded expert. From 1999 to 2002 she was responsible for promoting the French language world-wide at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has been a member of the French National Commission at UNESCO since 2003. Michèle is also the President of Inspecteurs d’éducation sans frontières. |
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Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan, Chair of the Board Claude Ruano-Borbalan received his PhD in Social History from the University of Paris I Sorbonne. He is an academic and researcher with over 20 years experience and he also has extensive experience as an editor and teacher/trainer. He is a researcher and honorary professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers – CNAM (Paris) and also teaches at the University of Paris V Descartes Sorbonne, where he is the Scientific Director of a professional doctoral diploma, at the University of Mons Hainaut in Belgium and at the Adult Open University of the Université Catholique de Louvain. His research experience covers the domains of anthropology, sociology and the theory of organisations; philosophy and political sociology; as well as the knowledge economy. Jean-Claude specialises in accompanying institutions and systems through a process of organizational and institutional restructuring and transformation, bringing into the process a theoretical and experience-based contribution in the analysis of social change, different models of production and the implications and consequences in terms of management and human resources. In this way he allows clients to position themselves among the different solutions possible, working from their needs and their specific context. He has substantial experience as a consultant to international organizations such as the EU and OECD. Jean-Claude has a broad and extensive experience in communication, through his work in media and in organising large events, and in dissemination of the outcomes of, and issues posed by, research programmes. He designs, organises and facilitates high-level seminars and major events. He is the Président of the Cité des Connaissances in Liège and Vice-président of the Biennale de l’éducation, de la formation et des pratiques professionnelles in Paris. |
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Jacques Bessières, Treasurer For nearly 25 years, Jacques Bessières has been a faculty member of Cornell University (USA), the University of Paris X Nanterre and the ESSEC Business School in Paris. Jacques Bessières also has 25 years of experience in management control of the Sofitel Hotel chain, a subsidiary of the Accor Group, where he developed and implemented quantitative measurements for use in the service sector. He is the founding partner of Connectica (www.connectica.fr), a consultancy firm specialized in Education for Study Abroad Programs. He is also an expert in the management of Information Technology. Jacques Bessières graduated from the ESSEC Business School and is a Doctor in Economics (DESS) from the University of Paris II Sorbonne. |
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Daniel Kropf, Board Member As a healthcare entrepreneur, Daniel has always pursued a deeper understanding of human functioning through diverse approaches encompassing tools and methodologies from the Western and Eastern cultures. He has established, chaired or directed several healthcare businesses ranging from bio feedback and cognitive behavioral therapy to tools for genetic diagnostics, cell therapy, glycol-protein mapping, finger printing and sequencing to medical devices. Daniel is also a Board member of the Evens Foundation (www.evensfoundation.be) and serves as the Secretary-General of CEJI (www.ceji.org), which promotes diversity education within formal and informal settings as well as organizing dialogues among cultures and religions throughout Europe. Daniel is also on the board of EPTO (European Peer Trainers Organization - www.epto.org). |
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Janet Looney, Board Member Janet Looney is an independent consultant specialising in programme design, evaluation, and learning. Between Autumn 2002 and Winter 2008, she was the project lead for the What Works in Innovation in the Education programme at the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (OECD/CERI). While there, she led the development of two major international synthesis reports, Formative Assessment: Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms (2005), and Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults: Improving Foundation Skills (2008). Prior to her work with the OECD, Janet Looney was Assistant Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Management at the University of Washington (1996 – 2002), where she was involved in evaluation of community development programmes, urban education reforms, and state-level implementation of federal welfare reform. While at the Institute, she also served as the project director for The Progress Project (1999- 2000), developed to consider and contribute to the growing body of thought on how “progress” is defined, sought, and measured. Between 1994 and 1996 Janet Looney was a Programme Examiner in the Education Branch of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President (1994-1996). She received her Master of Public Administration and Master of Arts in International Studies degrees from the University of Washington in 1993. |
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Alain Michel, Board Member and Scientific Advisor Alain Michel was Chair of the Administrative Board of the EIESP from 2004 till February 2011. He recently retired as an Inspector Général in the French Ministry of Education and has extensive experience in the areas of education policy, evaluation and assessment, forecasting and prospective, economics and sociology of education and teacher training in France and internationally. He was a member of the Governing Board of CERI /OECD from 1994 to 2004 and is a member of the INES Strategic Management Group for whom he acted as the general rapporteur at the General Assembly of INES in Lahti (Finland) in 1995. His international activities also involve reflection on the future of education as he has been a member of the steering group of "The school of tomorrow" activity since 1998 and works as an expert/ consultant for Unesco, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. He is a former president of the French National Association of Education Administrators and director of the review Administration et Education. Alain Michel is a Scientific Advisor to the association Futuribles International. From 1978 - 1984 he was the Deputy Dean of the French Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) and was an Advisor to the Secretary of State for Education in France from 1989 to 1991. ajlmichel@orange.fr |
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Luce Pépin, Vice Chair of the Board Member Luce Pépin is a consultant working primarily on European education cooperation issues. She was Director of the European Unit of Eurydice, the EU Information Network on Education in Europe, between 1991 and 2001. Eurydice’s main function is to produce information, comparative analyses and indicators on European education systems. Between 2003 and 2006, she worked in the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture for the coordination of the “Education and Training 2010” process within the broader framework of the EU Lisbon Strategy. In the first years of her professional career (1984-1991), she worked as Assistant and then Coordinator of the European Region at the World Confederation of the Organisations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP, Switzerland). In 1990/91, she held the position of General Secretary of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), a branch Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation. She is the author of the History of European Cooperation in Education and Training, published by the European Commission in 2006 and of Teaching about religions in European school systems – policy issues and trends, prepared for the Network of European Foundations (NEF) and published in September 2009. She is a graduate from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and from the Faculté de Langues et Lettres (Grenoble, France) |
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