51st Annual Conference
Oceania Comparative & International Education Society (OCIES)
Dates: 14 – 17 November 2023
Location: National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
Theme: Quality Education for Sustainable Futures
Quality education for a sustainable future is an important global goal due to rapid global educational, economic, social and cultural changes affecting all nations today. Education in developing and Third World countries is vulnerable due to limited human and physical resources.
As present and future educators, we acknowledge that education is a powerful avenue to overcome economic, political, social, cultural and educational hardship. To be educated is to be empowered with the skills, knowledge and wisdom to make choices so that individuals, families, nations and the world can sustainably experience happiness and enrichment and develop solutions to today’s societal issues.
Collaboration and sharing knowledge for sustainable solutions helps educators learn from each other, and work towards solutions to common problems. The 51st Annual Conference of the Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES), to be hosted by the National University of Samoa (NUS) in November 2023, will bring together keynote speakers, participants, and collaborators from all over the world to dialogue on current and future educational research and perspectives to guide quality and sustainable education for the future.
The dream for many individuals is for children to acquire global knowledge as security for their future. The question that many of us ask, is why is education an important factor in our lives? If we tend to respond from a Samoan perspective based on missionary educational influence, then we will have to say that we have seen education as a productive and effective invention towards creating a world for sustainable lives. When missionaries arrived in Samoa in 1830, they introduced Samoans to basic formal types of education, such as basic English speaking and writing, and simple mathematical applications (Tuia, 2013; Tuia, 2019; Esera, Fa’avae & Tuia, 2021).
Education today in Oceania is vulnerable and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that we provide quality education for all. Ongoing challenges with the quality of education represents issues with which many countries grapple regardless of their level of national income or development status. One of the biggest questions that academics are asking today is how to plan for and implement quality education for future generations. Comparative dialogue between nations advances the dialogue on this question.
The 51st Annual Conference of OCIES, in collaboration with the National University of Samoa, is our platform for bringing together researchers and educators from all over the globe to share, collaborate and propose solutions to drive quality education for a sustainable future.
Call for ABSTRACTS / SESSION PROPOSALS
OCIES 2023 invites abstracts/session proposals that connect to the overall theme in either general or specific terms and align their abstracts/ session proposals within one of the following sub-themes.
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education
- Values and Relationality in Education
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- TVET and Youth Education
- Teachers’ Voices, Perspectives and Motivation
Proposals can be submitted in the form of the following:
- Individual Paper Presentations
- Panel Presentations
- Tok Stori / Talanoa / Roundtable
- Workshop
- Exhibition
Deadline: 31 July 2023
Complete an abstract / session proposal following the guidelines above and the cover sheet and send both as Word documents to: 2023ociesconferencesamoa@nus.edu.ws before the deadline listed above.
National University of Samoa
Webpage: https://nus.edu.ws/
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Early Bird Deadline: 16 August 2023
Regular Deadline: 07 October 2023
Registration Fees for International Delegates
[*costs are in Australian Dollars – AUD]
INTERNATIONAL EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
Please pay by 16 August 2023
Member $350.00
Unwaged member $200.00
Student member $150.00
Non-Member $450.00
Student non-members $200.00
Unwaged non-member $250.00
LIC* member $200.00
LIC non-member $250.00
LIC student member $100.00
LIC student non-member $120.00
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD REGISTRATION
Please pay by 7 October 2023
Member standard $450.00
Unwaged member $300.00
Student member $200.00
Non-Member $500.00
Student non-member $250.00
Unwaged non-member $350.00
LIC member $250.00
LIC non-member $300.00
LIC student member $150.00
LIC student non-member $170.00
*LIC: Low income country
Conference fees cover:
- Welcoming Ava ceremony/Closing ceremony
- Welcome cocktails
- Conference Dinner
- Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea for three days
- Conference bag, stationeries & programme
- Access to all conference sessions
- Cultural entertainment by FoE NUS students
KEY DATES
May 15, 2023
- International early-bird registration opens
- Local registration opens
- Call opens for abstracts/session proposals
July 31, 2023
- Deadline for abstracts/ session proposals
- Abstracts/session proposals will be reviewed as they come in, with notification of acceptance or otherwise within two weeks
August 11, 2023
Preliminary conference programme available
August 16, 2023
International early-bird registration closes
August 17, 2023
International standard registration begins
October 7, 2023
International standard registration ends
October 15, 2023
Final conference programme available
November 14-17, 2023
51st Conference of OCIES
National University of Samoa, SAMOA
Conference enquiries can be sent to 2023ociesconferencesamoa@nus.
Previous Conferences
2022: Suva, Fiji –
2021: Hybrid – “Strengthening, Expanding and Reimagining Connections for, and through, Education”
2020: Virtual
2019:
2018: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand – “Exploring, Celebrating and Deepening Oceanic Relationalities”
2017: Noumea, New Caledonia – “Education and Sustainable Development in Oceania and Beyond”
2016: Sydney, Australia – “Exploring Equity Gaps in Education: Towards Unity, Not Uniformity”
2015: Port Vila, Vanuatu