Upcoming ECER

Throughout the history of education freedom and equality have been considered to be important goals. Time and again politicians, educators, governmental organizations have stressed the necessity of their proposals by referring to the consequences their educational ideas would have for the concrete and everyday lived realities. Many of those involved in educational process mainly educators and pupils were not passive towards the discourses of freedom and (in)equality. Incessantly they reacted, opposed or collaborated around the envisioned ideals of freedom and development. Freedom and equality as well as education and development for all were not always envisaged in the same way as educational values either in educational discourses or in schools’ practices.

For ECER 2012 Network 17’s focus will be:

• histories of free education/education for freedom, and development for all;
• educational discourses and sources about freedom in education and the spread of education.

Since the focus of Network 17 “Histories of Education” (NW17) is:

• the histories of European educational spaces;
• their national and institutional discourses;
• ways that ideas about education travelled and crossed disciplinary and national borders in the past;
• intellectual and professional networks and their associated publications;
• issues that directly or indirectly relate to the history of schooling and the development of associated ideas and practices;
• different ways of dealing with gender, disability, abuse;
• and the history of multiculturalism;

and since the network is especially interested in ‘new’ forms of historical research including underused sources:

• images (photographs, film,…), artifacts (materialities, architecture,…) and archives;
• new media (e.g. web based projects);
• and in under-represented areas (European regional influences, forms of colonial education, adult education and minority ethnic education);

NW 17 (for ECER 2012) is especially welcoming papers, research workshops, round tables, symposia, and posters on the history of free education/education for freedom and education for all as well as proposals related to the following keywords (you will have to mention 3 to 5 keywords on your submission form!):

– adult education – alternative histories – school architecture – archives – artifacts – autonomy – change – challenges – colonial education – discourses – disability – diversity – educational reform – educational research – equality – film – freedom – gender – historiography – images –informal education – institutions – lifestyles – materialities – media –migration – play - networks – schooling – space – technology.

A European perspective, either in the content of your topic or in its relevance to European scholars, is a prerequisite for acceptance! The Network is especially promoting the format of a research workshop (see below: formats of presentation).

The Histories of Education Network issued a special Call for Proposal for ECER 2011, "Urban Education".

Please download the PDF for more information. 

Network 17 - Special Call for Proposals