George Bereday Award for 2022

Previous articleNext article FreeAwardGeorge Bereday Award for 2022PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreEach year the George Bereday Award Committee selects the most outstanding Comparative Education Review (CER) article for the George Bereday Award. The selection committee includes scholars who are chosen for their breadth of methodological skills and intellectual rigor. This year’s committee was chaired by Keita Takayama (Kyoto University) and included Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University, Finland), Amrit Thapa (University of Pennsylvania), Nisha Thapliyal (University of Newcastle, Australia), and Fang Yanping (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). From 29 research articles published in volume 66 (2022) of CER (themselves selected from over 200 annual submissions), the George Bereday Committee awarded the honor to Meixi, Sukanda Kongkaew, Panthiwa Theechumpa, Amornrat Pinwanna, and Alison Ling for their article “Making Relatives: The Poetics and Politics of a Trans-Indigenous Teacher Collective,” published in August (66 [3]: 442–64). The committee reported the following: “‘Making Relatives’ was written by educators and researchers who have been deeply involved in the establishment and management of an Indigenous school in Northern Thailand, which adopted an Indigenous educational model from Mexico called Tutoría. The piece is not only beautifully written and wonderfully rich in its contextualization and empirical details but also admirably creative in its operationalization of conceptual tools drawn from interdisciplinary literature around storywork and social poetics.” The CER editors congratulate the authors on this honor.The committee also noted the high quality of other articles and in particular offered an honorable mention to Susanne Ress, Nancy Kendall, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, and Yaa Oparebea Ampofo for their article “Representations of Humans, Climate Change, and Environmental Degradation in School Textbooks in Ghana and Malawi,” published in November ( 66 [4]: 599–619).George Zygmunt Fijalkowski Bereday, born in Warsaw in 1920, was both the founding editor of the CER and a cofounder of the Comparative Education Society, along with his close colleague William Brickman. A graduate of London and Oxford (while also serving in the British army during World War II), Professor Bereday subsequently arrived in the United States for PhD studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Later he received a JD from Columbia Law School, where he studied while teaching comparative education, sociology, and juvenile law at Columbia Teachers College from 1955 until his untimely death in 1983. William Brickman (writing in the fall of that year in Western European Education) called Bereday an extraordinarily talented and gifted personality: “A polyglot, he read, spoke, comprehended, and lectured in several Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages … and he attained a practical ability in the use of Japanese.” Brickman also enthused that “Professor Bereday represented a rare blend of the classical and the modern, of Eastern and Western European education and scholarship, and of the Occidental and Oriental cultures” and that he “exhibited endless evidence of humanism toward other cultures and humanitarianism toward persons of all ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds.” Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 67, Number 2May 2023 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/724822 © 2023 Comparative and International Education Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.