Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Ph.D.
Professor of Education

Teachers College, Columbia University

Department of International and Transcultural Studies

Box 55, 525 W 120th Street

New York, N.Y. 10027 

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

 
2004                 Dr. h.c. of Education, Mongolian State University of Education,
                        Ulaanbaatar  (honorary doctoral degree)
1983                 Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Zürich, Switzerland [Dr.phil.I]
1979                 M.A. Social Psychology; Minors: Sociology and Cultural Anthropology,
                        University of Zürich, Switzerland   [lic.phil.I]
1975                 High school degree, branch: humanities (i.e., German, Latin, French, English),
                        Holbeingymnasium Basel, Switzerland [Maturität]
                      
Complementary Education
1980  Diploma Program in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, UKsponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research
[ECPR]
1977    Diploma Program in Educational Counseling, Alfred Adler Institute, Zürich
 
Languages: English, German, French, Farsi/Persian (fluent)

POSITIONS

2004   Full Professor of Education, Teachers College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
1995    Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (tenured since AY 1998/99)
1993-95  Professor of Educational & Social Policy at the School of Professional Studies in Social Work and Education (tenured position), Basel (Switzerland)
  German: Fachhochschule im sozialen Bereich (undergraduate level); Appointment at the University of Basel: Permanent Senior Lecturer  (graduate level)
1988-92  
Visiting Professor/Visiting Scholar (funded research) at
                        (1) The University of London, Institute of Education, U.K. (6 months),
                        (2) Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, U of Toronto (6 months),         
                        (3) University of California at Berkeley (2 years),
                        (4) State University Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil (1 year)
1979-88  Founder and Director of the Section Multicultural Education (7 staff members), Board of Education, Department of Educational Policy Research  and School Reform, Canton of Zürich (chaired by Uri P. Trier)
 [1979-82 half-time, 1982-88 full-time employment]
Appointment at the University
of Zürich: Lecturer (graduate level) – 1984 - 88
1979-82   Researcher at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical University, Zürich (ETH), Institute of Behavioral Sciences  - specialization: social science methodology and statistics
1978-79 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Computer Science for Social Scientists at the Institute of Social Research, University of Zürich


PROJECTS, GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Research Grants and Fellowships 

2005

Dealing with the Postsocialist Reform Package: From Baku to Ulaanbaatar, Principal Investigator: Iveta Silova, Co-Investigator: Gita Steiner-Khamsi
2-year comparative research and book project, subsidized by the Education Support Program (RE:FINE),
Open Society Institute (approx. $120,000)
AY 2003/04  Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin
Department of Foundation Studies in Education, Comparative Education Program (research leave of absence from Teachers College, Columbia University for academic year 2003/04)
Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)    
2002  
Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin during sabbatical leave  (summer & winter semesters)
Department of Foundation Studies in Education, Comparative Education Program (during sabbatical)
Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2002 
Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Education during sabbatical  leave (winter quarter),
 International Comparative Education Program (January – March)     
2001   “Best Worker in Education” award of the Ministry of Education of Mongolia
2000  Educational Borrowing Research Grant for Tenured Faculty, Dean of Teachers College, Columbia University; fall semester, release from teaching.
1993-2003
IEA Civic Education Study              
 (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Assessment) Principal Investigators: Judith Torney-Purta, University of Maryland
& Rainer Lehmann, Humboldt University, Berlin/Germany.
Acted as member of the International Steering Committee.
The research project is a cross-national qualitative and quantitative study of civic education including 24 countries.
Funding: The Pew Charitable Trust of Philadelphia with matching funds from IEA participating countries, the University of Maryland, the Johann Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland, and the German Research Council.
1997  Postcolonial Studies of Education  Research Development and Summer Research Award for Untenured Faculty, Dean of Teachers College, Columbia University; support for research assistance during summer 1997.
1996-97  Decentralization, Community Development and Multicultural Education 
Principal Investigator: Moritz Rosenmund, Pestalozzianum Institute of Educational Research, Zürich; G. Steiner-Khamsi: Principal Co-Investigator.The two-phase project examines the professionalization and institutionalization process of multicultural education in the German and French part of Switzerland. Phase 1: Survey of multicultural education policies in selected communities (national probability sample), Phase 2: Interviews with stakeholders, participant observation in three Boards of Education, document analysis. Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation $152,155.
1988-91
Ethnicity and Multiculturalism: a comparative analysis of educational policies in England & Wales, Canada and in the United States Principal Investigator: Gita Steiner-Khamsi.
The research grant enabled me to conduct my 3-year research project as a visiting professor/fellow at universities in London, Toronto, and Berkeley.  Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation $160,000.
1978-80  Social Science Data Analysis 
Graduate study grant for the program "Social Science Data Analysis" at the University of Essex, United Kingdom (3 summer sessions).  Funding: European Consortium for Political Research ECPR.

TRAINING GRANTS  (listing only since 1995)

  (1) Grants from the Open Society Institute (Education Support Program, Budapest)

Scholarships for professional staff of the Open Society Institute network and university lecturers from Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Slovenia, Kosova,Georgia, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Moldova, Lithuania, and Estonia

(Distance learning courses with mixed-instructional design including on-site evaluations conducted by Teachers College students).

Year 2004  $43,000, Open Society Institute/Education Support Program (Budapest): Grant for Course ITSF 4092  (International Education Program Evaluation, spring 2004 & Course ITSF4094 (International Education Policy Studies, fall 2004)

Year 2003    $30,420, Open Society Institute/Education Support Program (Budapest): Grant for Course ITSF4092 (International Education Program Evaluation, spring (2003) & Course ITSF4094 (International Education Policy Studies, fall 2003)
 
Year 2002    $35,520, Open Society Institute/Education Support Program (Budapest): Grant for Course ITSF4092 (International Education Program Evaluation (spring 2002)
(2)  Grants from the Institute of InternationalEducation (IIE/Fulbright) in NY & the Japan-United States Education Commission (JUSEC) in Tokyo
One-year professional development grant for Japanese university administrators (enrolled  at Teachers College)
AY 2000/01      $60,000 from IIE/JUSEC
AY 1999/00      $50,000 from IIE/JUSEC
AY 1998/99      $35,000 from IIE/JUSEC
AY 1997/98      $60,000 from IIE/JUSEC
AY 1996/97      $49,441 from IIE/JUSEC
3)   Grants from the United States Information Agency (State Department)
U.S. Based Mid-Level Training Program for Overseas Educational Advisers (4-week training program at Teachers College
Spring 1998       $140,000 from U.S.I.A.
Fall 1997           $  79,838 from U.S.I.A.

Publications

 
E=English, G=German, F=French, I=Italian, R=Russian, S=Spanish, M=Mongolian, J=Japanese
 
 Monographs and Edited Volumes
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, ed. (2005). Policy-Relevant Education Research in Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Education Alliance Publisher (forthcoming, in Mongolian).
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, ed. (2004). The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending. New York: Teachers College Press, 235 pages – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Torney-Purta, Judith & Schwille, John, eds (2002). New Paradigms and Recurring Paradoxes in Education for Citizenship: An International Comparison. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 295 pages – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, ed. (1996). Education in Europe, Formation of Europe from a Non European Perspective. Tertium Comparationis  - Journal of International Education Research, Special Issue 2(2). Munster and New York: Waxman Publishers, 89 pages - E & G.                                                                                                
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (1992). Multikulturelle Bildungspolitik in der Postmoderne [Multicultural Educational Policy in Postmodernity]. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 239 pages - G.                                                        
Steiner-Khamsi, ed. (1983) Ausländerkinder in unseren Schulen [Children of Immigrants in Schools]. Zürich: Lehrmittelverlag 1983, 176 pages – G.   
                                                                                         
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (1983). Die Stellung im Familienzyklus: Eine sozialpsychologische Indexbildung [Positionality in the Family Cycle - An Empirical Study of a Social Psychological  Indicator]. Zürich: University of Zürich, Ph.D. thesis in the Faculty of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 203 pages  - G.
 
 
Chapters in Edited Volumes
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2004). “Globalization in Education: Real or Imagined?” In Gita Steiner-Khamsi, ed., The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing & Lending. New York: Teachers College Press, pp. 1 – 11.   – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2004). “Blazing a Trail for Policy Theory and Practice.” In Gita Steiner-Khamsi, ed., The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing & Lending. New York: Teachers College Press, pp. 201 - 220   – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2003).“Vergleich und Subtraktion: Das Residuum zwischen Globalem und Lokalem“ [Comparison and Subtraction: Investigating the Residual in Globalization Processes]. In Hartmut Kaelble & Jürgen Schriewer, eds, Vergleich und Transfer. Komparatistik in den Sozial-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften. Frankfurt/M & New York: Campus, pp. 369 – 397 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2003). “Cultural Recognition or Social Redistribution: Predicaments of Minority Education.” In Yaacov Iram, ed., Education of Minorities and Peace Education in Pluralistic Societies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 15 – 28 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2003). „Innovation durch Bildung nach internationalen Standards?“ [Innovation Modeled after International Standards?]. In Ingrid Gogolin & Rudolf Trippelt, eds, Innovation durch Bildung. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, pp. 141 – 162 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Torney-Purta, Judith & Schwille, John (2002). “Introduction: Issues and Insights in Cross-National Analysis of Qualitative Studies.” In Gita Steiner-Khamsi et al., eds, New Paradigms and Recurring Paradoxes in Education for Citizenship: An International Comparison. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 1 –36 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2002). “Spheres of Citizenship.” In Gita Steiner-Khamsi et al., eds, New Paradigms and Recurring Paradoxes in Education for Citizenship: An International Comparison. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 179 – 206 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2002). “Re-Framing Educational Borrowing as a Policy Strategy.” In Marcelo Caruso & Heinz-Elmar Tenorth, eds, Internationalisierung – Internationalisation. Frankfurt/M & New York: Lang, pp. 57 – 89 – E.
 
Also published in Spanish, with Pomares Publishers (Barcelona), 2004 (forthcoming) – S
            Réenmarcando el prêstano educativo como estrategia política.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2002). “Re-Territorializing Educational Import: Explorations into the Politics of Educational Borrowing.” In Antonio Novoa & Martin Lawn, eds, Fabricating Europe: The Formation of an Education Space. Utrecht: Kluwer, pp. 69 – 86 – E.
 
Also published in French, with Harmattan Publisher, 2004 (forthcoming) – F.
Reterritorialisation de l’Importation Pédagogique. Explorations de la Politique de l’Emprunt Pédagogique.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2002). School Choice – wer profitiert, wer verliert“ [School Choice - Beneficiaries and Losers]. In Ingrid Lohmann & Rainer Rilling, eds, Die verkaufte Bildung. Kritik und Kontroversen zur Kommerzialisierung von Schule, Weiterbildung, Erziehung und Wissenschaft. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, pp. 133 – 151 - G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Lim, Ying Ying Joanne & Dawson, Walter (2001). “Hawai’i: The Intersection of Hawai’ian, American and Asian Values.” In William K. Cummings, Maria Teresa Tatto & John Hawkins, eds, Value Education for Dynamic Societies: Individualism or Collectivism.  Hong Kong: CERC Studies in Comparative Education, pp. 113 – 132 – E.
 
Cummings, William K., Hawkins, John, Tatto, Maria Teresa, Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (2001). “United States: Reason Over Faith.” In William K. Cummings et al., eds, Value Education for Dynamic Societies: Individualism or Collectivism.  Hong Kong: CERC Studies in Comparative Education, pp. 89 – 112 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2000). „Das Politische, das Oeffentliche und das Gesellschaftliche: Folgenreiche Unterscheidungen für politische Bildung“ [The Political, the Public, and the Social Sphere: The Spherical Model in Political Education]. In Roland Reichenbach & Fritz Oser, eds, Zwischen Pathos und Ernücherung - Entre pathos et désillusion. Fribourg: Editions Universitaires Fribourg, pp. 21-32 – G & F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2000). „De-Regulierung und Schulwahl in den USA. Gewinner und Verlierer“ [De-Regulation and Choice in the United States: Winners and Losers]. In Frank-Olaf Radtke & Manfred Weiss, eds., Schulautonomie, Wohlfahrtsstaat und Chancengleichheit.  Opladen: Leske & Budrich, pp. 117 – 135 – G.
 
2nd edition published in 2002 – G. Steiner-Khamsi (2000). "Transferring Education, Displacing Reforms." In Jürgen Schriewer, ed.,  Discourse Formations in Comparative Education. Frankfurt/M & New York: Lang Publishers, pp. 155 – 187 – E.
2nd edition published in 2003.Also published in Spanish: Steiner-Khamsi (2002). “Transferir la educación y desplazar las reformas.” In Jürgen Schriewer (compilador), Formación del discurso en la educación comparada (Colección Educación y Conocimiento). Barcelona: Ediciones Pomares (2002) – pp. 131 – 161.
Also published in Japanese, with Toshindo Publisher (forthcoming, 2004) – J.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Spreen, Carol Anne (1996). "Oppositional and Relational Identity: A Comparative Perspective." in Anna Aluffi-Pentini & Walter Lorenz, eds, Anti-Racist Work with Young People. London: Russell, pp. 26-46 – E.
Also published in German, with Drava Publishers (1999, pp. 71-92) –

G.S
teiner-Khamsi (1997). „Kulturrassismus und Feminismus“ [Cultural Racism and Feminism]. In U. Lauer, M. Rechsteiner & A. Ryter, eds, Auf den Spuren nach dem heimlichen Lehrplan. Chur & Zürich: Rüegger, pp. 55-64 – G.
 
Abbreviated version reprinted (2001) in CFD, ed., Schleiersichten. Perspektivenvielfahl als Sehschule (pp. 28 – 32). Bern: Widerdruck  – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1996). „Transnationalismus und kulturelle Staatsbürgenschaft“    [Transnationalism and Cultural Citizenship]. In Georg Auernheimer & Peter Gstettner, eds, Jahrbuch Pädagogik. Frankfurt/M: Cooperative, pp. 263-284 – G.
     
Steiner-Khamsi (1996). „Ist ein neues Allgemeinbildungskonzept besser als ein altes?“ [Is a New ‘Core Curriculum Concept’ Any Better than an Old One?]. In Marianne Krüger-Potratz, Ingrid Gogolin & Norbert Wenning, eds, Zum Verhältnis  von Interkultureller und Allgemeiner Bildung. Münster: Waxmann, pp. 37-44 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1996). „Universalismus vor Partikularismus? Gleichheit vor Differenz?“ [Universalism over Particularism? Equity over Difference?]. In Hans-Rudolph Wicker, J.-L. Alber, C. Bolzman, R. Fibbi, K. Imhof & A. Wimmer, eds, Das Fremde in der Gesellschaft. Migration, Ethnizität und Staat. Zürich: Seismo, pp. 353-372 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1995). „Eine Demokratiwende in der Interkulturellen Pädagogik?“ [Democracy: A New Focus in Multicultural Education?]. In A. Paula, ed., Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa. Klagenfurt/Celovec: Drava, 1995, pp. 218-235 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1995). “Attraversamento dello frontiere nel lavoro antirazzista con i giovani” [Crossing Borders in Anti-Racist Youth Work]. In Anna Aluffi-Pentini & Walter Lorenz , eds, Per una pedagogia antirazzista. Bergamo: Edizioni Junior, 1995, pp. 123-146 – I.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1995). “L’histoire de la pédagogie interculturelle en Suisse et en Europe” [The Historyof Multicultural Education in Switzerland and Europe] In Edo Poglia, Anne-Nelly Perret Clermont, Armin Gretler & Pierre Dasen, eds, Pluralité culturelle et éducation en Suisse. Étre Migrant II. Bern, Frankfurt/M., New York: Lang, pp. 45-70 – F.

Also published in German: Steiner-Khamsi (1996). “Zur Geschichte und den Perspektiven der interkulturellen Pädagogik in der Schweiz und in Europa. In Edo Poglia et al., eds, Interkulturelle Bildung in der Schweiz. Fremde Heimat. Bern: Lang, pp. 45 - 65.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). „Wie postmodern ist die Interkulturelle Pädagogik? Minderheitendiskurs und Kritische Pädagogik“ [How Postmodern Is Multicultural Education? Minority Discourse and Critical Pedagogy]. in Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, ed., Multikultur und Bildung in Europa - Multiculture et education en Europe. Bern/Frankfurt/New York: Lang, pp. 305-317 - G & F.
 
2nd edition published in 1999 – G & F.  
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). „Schweizer Identität und Interkulturalismus: Exklusion und Inklusion“ [Swiss National Identity and Multiculturalism: Exclusion and Inclusion]. In R. Bernhard, ed., Die Schweiz als Wille und Vorstellung - La Suisse: Acte de volonté et conception. Aarau: Sauerländer, pp. 75-82 - G & F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1991). „Wanderungserfahrung und der Umgang mit Minderheiten: Schweizerische Migrationsgeschichte als Lerngegenstand“ [Migration Biographies as Objects of Study]. In Hans Barkowski & Gerd Hoff, in collaboration with Jagdish S. Gundara, eds, Berlin Interkulturell. Berlin: Colloquium, pp. 23-33 – G.
 
 
Publications in Journals (peer reviewed)
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, D. Tumendemberel, & Steiner, Emanuel (forthcoming, January 2005). Teachers as Parents. A Study on Low Income and High Expenses in Education (in Mongolia). Shine Tol’
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (forthcoming, May 2005). Teacher Education Vouchers in Mongolia: Post-socialist, anti-socialist, and transitional explanations. Comparative Education Review.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & O. Kulyash (2004). Angiin darga: “Darga” setgekhuig bii bolgokh khuchin zuils, tuunees garakh ur dun [The Class Monitor]. Bolovsrol Sudlal. Mongolian Journal of Educational Research, 5, 66-81—M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Stolpe, Ines (2004). De- and Recentralization Reform in Mongolia: Tracing the Swing of the Pendulum. Comparative Education, 40/1, 29 - 53 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Sengedorj, Tumendelger & Stolpe, Ines (2003). Bolovsrolyn tolookh nuudel [School-Related Migration in Mongolia]. Shine Tol’. Mongolian Journal of Social Sciences, 45/4, 82 - 112 – M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2003). The Politics of League Tables. Journal of Social Science Education, 1 (on-line journal) – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (2002). Euro-Patriotism: What’s There to Gain for Minorities? Swiss Journal for Educational Research/Revue Suisse des Sciences de l’Education, 24/3, 417 – 433 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Dawson, Walter P. (2000). Moving from the Centre to the Pacific Rim: Applying a Cross-National Perspective for Understanding Values Education in Hawa’i. Educational Practice and Theory, 22/2, 23-38 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Quist, Hubert (2000). The Politics of Educational Borrowing: Reopening the Case of Achimota in British Ghana. Comparative Education Review, 44/3, 272 – 299 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1998). Von der lokalen Schulentwicklung zur Bildungsindustrie  [Challenges of School-Based Education Reform Imposed by the Education Industry]. Schulheft, 90, 11-28 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1997). Deregulierung im Bildungswesen. Freie Schulwahl und das Ende der interkulturellen Pädagogik in den USA [Deregulation of Educational Systems. The Impact of Choice on Multicultural Education in the United States]. Widerspruch, 33, 5-19 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1996). Minority-Inclusive History Curricula in Secondary Schools: Adopting Methods of Comparison and Multiperspectivity. European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 7/1, 29-44 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). The American Multiculturalism Debate: Mainstreaming the Intercultural Factor. European Journal of Intercultural Studies, 5/2, 1-12 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1993). Multikulturalismus an amerikanischen Universitäten und „politische Korrektheit“: Die Zentrum/Peripherie Debatte [Multiculturalism in American Academe and 'Political Correctness': The Center/Periphery Debate]. Informationsdienst zur Ausländerarbeit, 4, 97-104 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1991). “Von fern und nah, oh Kanada, stehen wir Wache für Dich“: Multikulturalismus an kanadischen Schulen im Dienste nationaler Identität [‘From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for Thee': State-Promoted Multiculturalism in Canadian Schools and Canadian National Identity] Bildungsforschung und Bildungspraxis, 2, 214-241 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1990). Community Languages and Anti-Racist Education: The Open Battlefield. Educational Studies, 16/1,33-47 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1990). Postmoderne Ethnizität und nationale Identität kanadischer Prägung [Postmodern Ethnicity and National Identity in Canada]. Soziale Welt, 3, 283-298 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1989). Migrationsgeschichten: ein didaktischer Ansaz in der interkulturellen Pädagogik [Working with Migration Biographies in the Classroom]. Beiträge zur Lehrerbildung, 7/1, 19-29 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1989). Kein Platz für Minderheitensprachen in einem anti-rassistischen Bildungsprogramm – Zur Situation in Grossbritannien [No Room for Minority Languages in Anti-Racist Educational Programs of Great Britain]. Deutsch lernen, 1,64-76 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1985). Wi(e)der eine neue Ausländerpädagogik [A Reply to the Controversy over Establishing Multicultural Education as a Special Field of Education]. Lehrerbildung 3, 223 – 229 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1984). Ausländerpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis [Multicultural Education in Research and Practice]. Bildungsforschung und Bildungspraxis, 2, 59 - 73 – G.
 
 
Publications in Journals  (not peer reviewed, solicited)
 
Steiner-Khamsi, G., Myagmar, Kh. & Sumyasuren, B. (2004). Khijeel zokhion baigoolalt: Menetshment, sorgan khumuutshuulex shog yaria, zemlel khyleelgekh arga tekhnik [Classroom management: An analysis of pedagogical jokes, management definitions, and punishment techniques (in Mongolia)]. Lavai. Mongolian Journal of Educational Research, 1/1, 8 – 20 – M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Dawson, Walter, Lim & Ying Ying Joanne (2000). Tracing Pacific Values: The Values Education Case Study of Hawai’i. Thresholds,15/4,19 – 27 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1998/1999). Szenario 2010: Wirkungsorientierte Schulreform [Reflecting on a Scenario 2010 of Effective School Reforms]. Magazin für Schule und Kindergarten , Part 1 in 108 (1998): 18-24; Part 2 in 109 (1999): 24-29 - G.
 
Also published in French [Réforme scolaire centrée sur l’efficacité: scénario 2010], 1999 – F.
Also reprinted as “Scènario 2010” in Belgian on-line journal L’Ecole Démocratique
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1998). Too Far from Home? 'Modulitis' and NGOs Role in Transferring Prepackaged Reform. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 1/1 (on-line journal www.tc.columbia.edu/cice) – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1997). Lehren aus Deregulierung und freie Schulwahl in den USA [Lessons from Deregulation and School Choice in the United States]. Magazin für Schule und Kindergarten, 100/101, 28-39 – G.
 
Also published in French and reprinted as “Ecole McDonald” in Belgian on-line journal L’Ecole Démocratique www.ecoledemocratique.org -- F
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). Feministische Perspektiven in der interkulturellen Theorie [Feminist Perspectives in Multiculturalism Theory]. FAMA, 10/3, 6-12 – G.  Abbreviated version published  in Magazin für Schule und Kindergarten, 1995, 19-21.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). Die Kulturalisierung der Einwanderungsfrage [The Culturalization of Immigration Issues]. Uni Nova, 70, 50-53 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). Engagement und Professionalität in der interkulturellen Arbeit [Commitment and Professionalism in Multicultural Work]. Sozialarbeit, 4,19-22 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). Kulturelle Demokratie und Gruppenrechte [Cultural Democracy and Group Rights]. Inter Dialogos, 2,44-45 - G & F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1991). Die kanadische Multikulturalismus-Politik: Multikulturalismus von Staatswegen [The Canadian Multiculturalim Policy: Multiculturalism Promoted by the State]. Lernen in Deutschland, 1,58-66 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1990). Zweisprachige Erziehung in Alaska und Kalifornien: Rettungs- und Wiederbelebungsversuche [Bilingual Education in Alaska and California: experiences with community language maintenance and revival]. Interkulturell - Forum für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Erziehung und Beratung, 1 / 2, 71-77 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1990). Rassismus und Anti-Rassismus in der Schule: Eine Diskussion von Bildungskonzepten der Schweiz, Grossbritanniens und Kanadas [Racism and Anti-Racism in Schools. A Comparison of the Debates in Switzerland, Great Britain and Canada]. Lehrer und Lehrerinnen Magazin, 65, 21-26 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1989). Der Uebergang von Interkultureller Pädagogik zu Anti-Rassismus [The Move from Multiculturalism to Anti-Racism]. InterDialogos, 1, 3-8 - G & F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1989). Kanada – Multikulturalismus von Staatswegen [Canada - State Promoted Multiculturalism Policy]. InterDialogos, 2  - G & F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1987). Sprachpolitik ohne Fremdsprachige? [A Language Policy without Immigrants?] Magazin Primarschule, 4, 27-30 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1985). Die zweite und dritte Fremdarbeitergeneration: eine soziale Zeitbombe? [The Second and Third Generation of Immigrants at Social Risk?] Reformatio, 1, 53-57 – G.
 

Reviews

 
Steiner-Khamsi (2003). Review of Rosarii Griffin’s edited volume “Education in Transition: international perspectives on the politics and processes of change” (2004), Comparative Education Review, 47/3, 334 - 338E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1999). Review of Carole Hahn’s monograph “Becoming Political” (1997), Tertium Comparationis, 5/1, 101 – 104 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1999). Essay Review “Teacher Education” (review of 2 books on international comparative education), Comparative Education Review, 43/3,353-361 – E.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1995). Review of Franz Hamburger’s “Pädagogik der Einwanderungsge-sellschaft” [Education in Immigration Societies] (1994), Sozialmagazin, 20/2,55-56 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1995). Review of Georg Auernheimer’s “Einführung in die Interkulturelle Erziehung” [Introduction to Multicultural Education] (1994), Sozialmagazin, 20/11, 54-55 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1994). Essay Review “Interkulturelle Pädagogik“ [multicultural education], review of 3 books on multicultural education (authors: Wolf-Dietrich Bukow & Roberto Llaroya; Annedore Prengel; Heidrun Czock), Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Beilage Bildung & Erziehung (June 23, 1994) – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1988). Essay Review “Erziehung in Einwanderungsländern” [education in immigration countries], review of 5 books on multicultural education (authors: H. Essinger & A. Uçar; F. Nuber; A. J. Tumat; M. Borrelli; A.J. Tumat), Reformatio, 3, 233-241 – G.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1987). Review of Peter Graf’s “Frühe Zweisprachigkeit und Schule” [Early Bilingualism and School] (1986), CILA (Commision interuniversitaire suisse de linguistique appliquée), 2 , 109-112 – G & F.
Policy Documents, Technical Reports, Evaluation Reports (a selected sample)
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Stolpe, Ines, & Amgabaazar Gerelmaa (2004). Rural School Development Project in Mongolia, funded by the Danish International Development Assistance (DANIDA), and implemented by the Copenhagen International Centre for Educational Development (CICED) and the Mongolian State University of Education (MSUE). Copenhagen & Ulaanbaatar: CICED & MSUE – E & M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita, Perenlei, Erdenejargal & Natsagdorj, Enkhtuya (2001). Reform Strategies of the Mongolian School 2001 Educational Development Program. Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Foundation for Open Society & Budapest: Institute for Educational Policy (Soros Foundation) – E & M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita – annual evaluations of the School 2001 Mongolian Educational Development Program (1998 – 2001), in collaboration with students from Teachers College, Columbia.
Evaluation Project Year 3 (with Anh T. Nguyen) – E & M
Evaluation Project Year 2 (with N. Enkhtuya, Tanya T. Prime & Sarah R. Lucas) – E & M
Evaluation Project Year 1 – E & M
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita & Nguyen, Anh T. (2001). Seasonal and Permanent Migration in Mongolia: A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact on Access and Quality of Education. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
 
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (2001). Global Trends in School Reform. In Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Culture of Mongolia & Mongolian Foundation for Open Society/Soros Foundation, eds, Education and Development. Ulaanbaatar: MOSTEC & MFOS (Excerpt from Conference Proceedings, August 2001, pp. 52 – 55) – M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1998). School-Based Education Reform in Mongolian Secondary School. Budapest: Institute of Educational Policy, Open Society Institute, Budapest – E & M.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1998). History Education in Border Areas. Strasbourg: Council of Europe  - R, E, F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1995). Combatting Intolerance: Education for a Pluralist and Active Citizenship. In Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, Government of Romania, in co-operation with UNESCO, eds, International Seminar on Tolerance. Strasbourg: Council of Europe - E & F.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1993). "Whose Knowledge, Whose History and Whose Language? Negotiating Educational Policies in Multi-Ethnic Societies." In Council of Europe, UNESCO, OSCE, eds, Education, Migration, and Minorities. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1993 - E, F, R.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1993). Eine Standortbestimmung der Interkulturellen Pädagoik in der Schweiz. [An Assessment of Multicultural Education in Switzerland]. In Swiss Federal Convention of Boards of Education, ed., Interkulturelle Pädagogik in der Schweiz. Sonderfall oder Schulalltag? Bern: EDK – G, F, I.
 
Steiner-Khamsi (1989). Ausländische sprachliche Minderheiten in der Schweiz  [Immigrant Language Minorities in Switzerland]. In Swiss Federal Ministry of Interior, ed., Zustand und Zukunft der viersprachigen Schweiz. Bern: EDMZ - G, F, I

Teaching

1995 -
Teachers College, Columbia University, graduate level courses in the programs International Educational Development & Comparative and
International Education –
Courses: Comparative Education, International Education Program Evaluation (distance learning with mixed instructional design including on-site evaluations of Teachers College students), International Education Policy Studies (distance learning with mixed instructional design), Educational Planning (focus: civic literacy), Postcolonial Studies in Education, Major World Developments in Education, Doctoral Seminar
AY 1999/2000 Golden Apple Teaching Award, Student Senate, Teachers College, Columbia University)
1994-95  
University of Basel, graduate level courses in the Institute for Advanced European Studies, program: educational policy studies
1992-95     University of Basel, graduate level courses in the School of Education, program: multicultural education
1992-95   University of Zürich, graduate level courses in the Department of Social Psychology (topics: citizenship and multiculturalism)
1984-88 
University of Zürich, graduate level courses in the School of Education, program: multicultural education
                   

Academic and Professional Service

Editorial Board Member: Journals
 
Research in Comparative and International Education (since 2005; English)
Globalisation, Societies and Education (since 2003; English)
Comparative and International Education Review (since 2003; Greek/English)
Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice (since 2003; Turkish)
European Educational Research Journal (since 2001; English)
Intercultural Education  (since 1993; English),
Current Issues in Comparative Education  (since 1997; English),
European Journal of Social Work  (1997 – 2000; English);
Tertium Comparationis (since 1998; English/German)
Swiss Journal for Educational Research (since 2000; German/French/Italian/English)
 

Editorial Advisory Board: Book Series

 
Studies in Comparative Education (since 2003; English)
(Comparative Education Research Centre, Hong Kong & Kluwer Publisher, NL)
 
Board Member:
 
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Board of Directors (2004 – 2007)
 
Mongolian Education Alliance (MEA), since 2004
 
UNESCO International Bureau of Education (Geneva), Member of the College of Fellows (advisory board of IBE), since 2004
 
Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), Education Sub-Board for General Education (based in Budapest, Hungary; since 2002)
 
Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (based in Braunschweig, Germany;
since 2002)
 
International Rescue Committee, Community Initiatives for Refugee Women and Youth (based in New York, since 2001)
 
International Association of Intercultural Education IAIE (based in Utrecht, Netherlands; 1999 –
2002)
 
Inter Aid  (based in Zurich, Switzerland; 1993 – 1995)
  
Regular Reviewer:
 
For Journals:
Comparative Education Review, Teachers College Record, American Educational Research Journal, European Journal of Intercultural Education
 
For Academic Presentations:
American Educational Research Association AERA: Division G (Social Context of Education) and Committee on International Relations (since 1997).
 
For Research Grants and Scholarship Programs:
Reviewer for the Individual Research Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI/Soros Foundation), IREX, Muskie Scholarship Program, Mongolian Fellowship Program of OSI, Swiss National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, Swedish Research Council, Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Project and Policy Expertise
2004-2005  Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) Mongolia; lead consultant    
2002 - 2005 “Teacher 2005” Teacher Education Reform Program in Mongolia; funded by the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society & State Pedagogical University, Ulaanbaatar – Lead Advisor
1998 - 2001
“School 2001” School-Based Curriculum Reform Program in 72 Secondary
Schools in Mongolia; funded by the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society (Soros Foundation) – Lead Advisor
2001 Education Sector Note on Access and Quality in Mongolia (emphasis on kindergarten, primary and secondary schools); funded by the World Bank
2000 – 2001 
In-Service Teacher Education Reform Strategy for Mozambique, Pilot Project  in the Province Capo Delgado, Mozambique;
funded by the World Bank
2000 
Enhancing the Quality of Education, Pilot Project in Nagchu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region P.R. China, funded by the Trace Foundation

Europe

1992-1999 
Senior advisor of the Council of Europe for school reform in the Russian  Federation:
 
Chairperson of the Expert Group on "History and Citizenship Education
    Standards in the Russian Federation" (1997 – 99)
    Council of Europe expert for human rights education in Russia (1995 – 96)
    Council of Europe expert for language education reform in Russia (1993 – 94)
 
Evaluation of Council of Europe reform projects in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk (1993 – 95)
1993-1999  
Senior advisor for the joint project of the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and OSCE/ODIHR (Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe/ Human Rights Section) on education in multi-ethnic societies
  Keynote speaker at the joint conferences in Strasbourg/France, Bucharest/Romania (2x), Tallinn/Estonia; also keynote speaker at Council of Europe conferences in Klagenfurt/ Austria, Timisoara/Romania, Delphi/Greece, Sofia/Bulgaria, and Belfast/Northern Ireland
1999-00
Expert in the International Expert Commission "Partially Autonomous Schools and School-Based Reform in the Canton of Zurich"
1993-95  Expert for the Swiss Federal Commission on curricula reform for vocational schools (expertise: vocational training for bilingual students)
1994-95 
Co-chair of the Swiss Federal Parliamentary Commission on racism, anti-semitism and neo-fascism
1987-88    
Expert for the Swiss Federal Parliamentary Commission for revision of Article 116 of the Swiss Constitution
(article on national language policy)
1982-88 
Expert for bilateral commissions on immigration and education; policy expert group composed of Swiss, Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
former Yugoslav and Greek experts (representing immigrant rights)

International Education Project Evaluations (listing since 1992

2004 Rural School Development Project in Mongolia (DANIDA), evaluation of the first cohort of 40 schools in remote rural areas (phase 1: 2000-2004) with Ines Stolpe and Amgabaazar Gerelmaa
2002-  Supervision of program evaluations in education as part of the course “International Education Program Evaluation” – conducted by mixed evaluation teams: Teachers College graduate students and local experts in Mongolia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe – co-sponsored by the Open Society Institute’s Education Support Program (Budapest)
 
1997 – 2001  
Supervision of student project evaluations as part of the course “International Education Program Evaluation” (ITSF4092) Teachers College, Columbia University: UNICEF, IIE/Fulbright, Soros Foundation Latvia, Mongolian Foundation for Open Society, International Rescue Committee (Guinea and Pakistan), Building with Books, I*Earn, United Nations Associates – USA, Anti-Defamation League, World Bank, Echoing Green Foundation, Academy of Educational Development 
1996     Japan in Focus funded by the United States - Japan Foundation and City University of NY.
1995-96  Retraining Programs for Foreign-Language Teachers in Russian High Schools funded by the Soros Open Society Institute (in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Education and the Council of Europe); on-site evaluation of 2 training centers in Western Siberia.
1992-95   
Children's Village of Pestalozzi (Switzerland) 
funded by the Children's Village of Pestalozzi Foundation; comprehensive evaluation of educational programs for war-orphans in the period 1946-95; special focus on projects with Lebanon, Cambodia, Tibet, and Ethiopia; on-site evaluations and archival research with doctoral students from the University of Basel (Switzerland).

Academic Presentations (listing since AY 1995/96 only)

January 2005, Mongolian State University of Education, Conferral of honorary doctoral degree
and public lecture, “Policy-Relevant Education Research in Mongolia”
 
October 2004, The Mongolia Society Annual Meeting (Central Eurasian Studies Society),
Bloomington/Indiana, “The Transformation of Boarding Schools in Mongolia” (with Ines Stolpe)
 
March 2004, Conference of the German Educational Research Association, Zürich,
“Social Network Analysis and Diffusion of Innovation Revisited: The Maris O’Rourke Effect in International Education”
 
March 2004, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, Salt Lake City), Panel
Discussant in “From Crisis to Permanence: Education in the Aftershocks of Conflict and
Transition”
 
January 2004, Interdisciplinary Conference on Transfer and Network Analysis, Humboldt
University, Berlin, “Network Analysis in Comparative Education Research”
 
July 2003, German Institute of International Education Research, Frankfurt/M, Invited Lecture
            “Comparison, Scandalization and Educational Policy Borrowing: Policy Responses to
            International Student Achievement Tests”
 
April 2003, American Association of Educational Research (AERA), Chicago, Presentation with
Jack Schwille “Methodological Advances in Cross-National Qualitative Research” on Panel “Methodological Advances in Cross-National Qualitative and Quantitative Research on Educational Achievement”
 
March 2003, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, New Orleans), Panel
Discussant in “The Politics of Policy Borrowing, part 1” and Panel Presenter in “The Politics of Policy Borrowing, part 2” (paper “After PISA”); Discussant in panel “Author Meets Critics” (chair: Francisco Ramirez; author: Colette Chabot)
 
March 2003, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, “Internationalization of Higher Education”
 
December 2002, University of Zurich, Institute of Education, Invited Lecture “Migration,
Education, and Glocalization”
 

July 2002, Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE, London, U.K.), paper on

“Vouchers Import in Mongolia: Analyzing Educational Policy Talk and Beyond”

 
March 2002, Keynote Presentation at the German Educational Research Association, Munich
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaften DGfE, Parallelvortrag), Title: “Innovation durch Bildung nach internationalen Standards?”
 
March 2002, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, Orlando, Florida),
presentation on “Nomadic Education, Social Stratification and Educational Reform in Mongolia”
 
March 2001, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, Washington, D.C.)
chair and presenter on “Mongolization of Imported Educational Reforms,” chair and presenter on “Globalization Theories in the Teaching and Research of Comparative Education,” discussant in panel “Educational Transfer Research”
 
October 2000, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Department of Psychology and Education
            Presentation in the panel “Thinking on the European Educational “Space””
 
September 2000, German Association of Educational Research (DGfE), Göttingen,
Presentation in the Symposium on School Reform and Decentralization
 
June 2000, University of Berne, Switzerland, Discussant in the panel “Education and
Migration” organized by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Forum for Migration Research
 
May 2000, Humboldt University in Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Panel on Comparative
Methodology
 
March 2000, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, San Antonio)
co-chair (with J. Schriewer) and discussant on panel “Diffusion, Reception and Transfer”, presenter on “Using Qualitative Data without Quantification” in panel on the IEA Civic Education Study (with Judith Torney-Purta, John Schwille, Carole Hahn)
 
February 2000, North Eastern Regional Comparative and International Education Society
(CIES, New York)
discussant in the keynote-presentation by Michael Edwards (Ford Foundation)
 
January 2000, International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement ICSEI, Institute
of Education, Hong Kong co-chair (with P. Erdenejargal) and presenter on “Emerging Redefinitions of “Good Teaching”: A Case Study of Secondary School Reform in Mongolia”      
 
March 1999, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, Toronto)
            Presentation of 3 papers and participation on 2 panels
 
February 1999, Institute of Education, Hong Kong, International Conference on
School-Reform
presentation on the IEA Civic Education Study with J. Torney-Purta, R. Lehmann, G. Polydorides
 
September 1998, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
International Conference on Political Education "The Public and the Political: A Key Distinction for Civic Education"
 
July 1998, University of Cape Town, South Africa
            World Congress of the Comparative and International Education Societies
            (1) "Teaching Comparative Education", chaired by Anne-Marie Bergh, UNISA, S.Africa
            (2) "Multicultural and Anti-Racist Education", chaired by Nazim Carrim, University of
            Witwatersrand, South Africa
(3) "Research on Educational Transfer", chaired by Carol Anne Spreen, Teachers College and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
 
May 1998, Bar-Ilan University Israel
"The Struggle for Cultural Recognition and the Struggle for Social Redistribution: Tensions and Challenges for Minority Education", panel with Martin Carnoy, Stanford University, and Leslie Limage, UNESCO, Paris
 
March 1998, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Buffalo
            (1) "Are NGOs Overrated?" chaired by Dana Burde, Teachers College
(2) "IEA Civic Education Study: Phase II", chaired by Jo Anne D'Amato, University of Maryland
 
April 1997, World Affairs Conference of the University of Colorado at Boulder
(1) "Excellence and Equity in Education: Can We Have Both?" panel with David Bye, Larry Cuban, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, chaired by Lorrie Sheppard;
(2) "Revolution by Education of the Masses", panel with Francisco Campbell, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Vivian Stromberg.
 
March 1997, AERA, Chicago
"From Studying Relatively Well Established Democracies to Emerging Democracies," panelist at the symposium (Section 1, Division G) "Education for Democracy in Cross-National Perspective: Designing IEA Research to be Responsive to Changes in Context, Concepts and Practices."
 
March 1997, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Mexico City
(1) "The IEA Civic Education Study: Methodological Issues in Cross-National Research," panel chair and panelist;
            (2) "Comparative Education and Transnational Educational Borrowing," panelist.
 
November 1996, Conference of the European Network "Citizenship, Interethnic Conflict and
Education," Derry, Northern Ireland
            "'Education for Reconciliation' - a Political Signal or an Educational Strategy?" panelist.
 
July 1996, New School for Social Research in New York, German-American Research
Cooperation Program "Immigration, Incorporation and Citizenship in Advanced Industrialized Democracies" (organized by Ari Zollberg/Rainer Münz)
            "Multiculturalism Debate in Western Europe and US: A Comparison," presentation.
 
June 1996, International Conference on School Decentralization and Site-Based Management,
University of Frankfurt, Germany (organized by F.-O.Radtke)
            "School Autonomy and Equity: A Comparative Perspective," keynote speaker.
 
March 1996, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in Williamsburg
(1) "Schools as Sites of Political Reproduction and Change: Learning from School Reforms in Eastern Europe," panel chair, panelists: 6 Teachers College students;
(2)"Ideological Discourse, Educational Practice and the State: Civic Education in the  Context of Central and Eastern Europe," panelist.
 
October 1995, North Eastern Regional Conference of the Comparative and International
Education Society (CIES) in Niagara Falls, New York
            "Learning from a Post Cold-War Study of Civic Education," panelist.



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