Special Interest Group, Comparative and International Education Society
Student Awards
2025 Student Paper Award Recipient
Camille Fabo
"Nation-States and International Organizations:
Shaping or Reforming Citizenship Education?
A Cross-National Study (1933-1969)"
Abstract
This study examines how education has been used as a tool for social cohesion during periods of national identity transformation and the conceptualization of international identity. It investigates the evolution of educational discourses and policies aimed at nation-building, patriotism, and peace education for international understanding, focusing on their translation into reforms over time. Drawing on government reports on educational reforms published in the International Yearbook of Education by the International Bureau of Education (1933–1969), the study reveals a post-World War II rise in peace education policies accompanied by a decline in nation-building policies. However, while peace education policies were often normative and lacked concrete structural reforms, nation-building policies frequently translated into substantial educational reforms.
More about Camille
Camille is a doctoral fellow in International Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research examines how civic education reforms spread and influence social cohesion, particularly in relation to nation-building and intergroup peace. She utilizes a large-scale database from past collaborations with UNESCO IBE and Stanford WERD to analyze cross-national trends, with Cameroon as a case study. Camille holds an MA in International Comparative Education from Stanford University and an MSc in Management from Emlyon Business School (France).
2025 Travel Award Recipient
Pascal Pax Andebo
About Pascal
Pascal Pax Andebo, from Uganda is a PhD student and
Dean’s Fellow in International Education Policy (IEP),
University of Maryland, College Park – the USA (2022-2027). He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Education degree from Makerere University, a Master of Arts degree in Ethics and Development Studies from Uganda Martyrs University, both in Kampala-Uganda. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European Peace University - EPU (now Austrian Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)), in Stadtschlaining-Austria. He is a teacher, educationist and development and humanitarian researcher and practitioner with experience in Uganda, Somalia, South Sudan, and Kenya.
Pascal's research has focused on education, especially education in conflict and emergencies, peace education, social justice, environmental education, and governance in Eastern Africa, and the whole continental Africa. His involvement in education in conflicts and emergencies is rooted in personal experiences of refugeehood in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a child that had impact on his own education, and later teaching refugee students and training refugee teachers. His story combines the personal and the professional, as well as the academic.
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