Previous articleNext article FreeAwardGeorge F. Bereday Award for 2018PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEach year the Bereday Award Committee selects the most outstanding Comparative Education Review (CER) article for the George F. 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 Lesley Bartlett (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and included Amita Chudgar (Michigan State University), Kara Brown (University of South Carolina), and Thomas Luschei (Claremont Graduate University). From the 21 articles published in volume 62 (2018) of the CER (themselves selected from almost 200 annual submissions), the Bereday Committee awarded the honor to Nicholas Limerick for his article published in February 2018, “Kichwa or Quichua? Competing Alphabets, Political Histories, and Complicated Reading in Indigenous Languages.” The committee reported the following: “The article examines the politics surrounding the standardization of various alphabets for Kichwa/Quechua. Drawing on historical analysis and ethnographic research in Ecuador, Dr. Limerick considers how different alphabets include or exclude specific groups and considers how orthographies are influenced by histories of language contact and by contemporary politics. The committee noted the rigorous conceptual framework, the skilled integration of multiple sources of data, and the beautiful, sensitive, and engaging narration in the piece.” The CER editors congratulate Nicholas Limerick on this honor!The committee also noted the quality of other articles, and in particular offered an honorable mention to Francisco Ramirez, Evan Schofer, and John Meyer for their article published in August 2018: “International Tests, National Assessments, and Educational Development (1970–2012).” The committee noted: “This article addresses the growth of national participation in international and national testing efforts” and lauded the authors’ “strong theoretical framework, methodological sophistication, and clarity of argument.”George Zygmunt Fijalkowski Bereday, born in Warsaw in 1920, was both the founding editor of 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 63, Number 2May 2019 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/703458 © 2019 by the Comparative and International Education Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.