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RIGHTS AND EDUCATION Congress 10-12 March 2011 Pre-Congress 9-10 March 2011 The Faculty of Education, University of Jyväskylä, invites you to participate in the 39th NFPF/NERA Congress in Jyväskylä 2011
Important dates: 15 Oct 2010 Deadline for abstract submission 8 Dec 2010 Notification of acceptance. Payment at reduced rate (early bird) registration starts 15 Jan 2011 Deadline for registration and payment at reduced rate (early bird) 20 Feb 2011 Deadline for registration and payment All information regarding the conference will be made available at Congress website: www.confedent.fi/nera2011 Congress theme: The focus of the NERA 2011 Congress will be the topic of human rights in the context of education and the educational sciences. The congress aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for approaching an enhanced understanding of rights in the fields of education, education policy, and education research. NERA 2011 seeks to combine academic expertise and pedagogical perspectives, including those of human rights education. Recent decades have seen the global spread of a human rights ethos. Its impact can be observed in the extensive development of, for example, international human rights instruments and the worldwide public adoption of human rights discourses. Indeed, people seeking access to social and political resources increasingly frame their claims in the language of human rights. Rights discourses play an important role in emancipatory struggles and in the practices and methods of governance. The language of the rights discourses is adopted by a variety of actors, despite the fact that they articulate competing conceptions and interpretations of human rights. Consequently, the ambivalences and tensions inherent to rights talk have long been the subjects of scholarly attention. Keynote speakers: Leena Alanen Professor of Education (Early Childhood Education) University of Jyväskylä Finland Marie Dembour Professor of Law and Anthropology University of Sussex England Alan Dyson Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Equity University of Manchester England Martin Scheinin Professor of Public International Law European University Institute, Firenze Italy Contacts: Programme Information: Organising committee of NERA 2011 University of Jyväskylä Faculty of Education E-mail: nera2011@jyu.fi Fax: +358 14 260 1601 Registration and Accommodation: Confedent International Ltd - Jyväskylä Events E-mail: Nera2011@confedent.fi Fax: +358 20 748 1829 Congress venue The congress will be held at the Seminaarinmäki campus of the University of Jyväskylä. A virtual campus tour here: http://moniviestin.jyu.fi/ohjelmat/hallinto/kv-palvelut/presentation-videos/why-jyvaskyla/campus Congress language The congress language is English and all abstracts must be written in English. It is possible to present a paper in one of the Nordic languages. Presentations in the Nordic languages are placed at the end of sessions and the use of a Nordic language is announced in the programme. Types of sessions Paper session Papers are oral presentation lasting 15 -20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Papers focus on an ongoing or completed research. Symposium A symposium session builds on a theme and is proposed and planned by a symposium organizer. The papers here thus focus on a common theme. A symposium has a chair (often the organizer) and one or more discussants, who have read the papers in advance. 90 minutes will be allocated for each session. Some symposia will run over more than one session. The symposium coordinator will decide how the symposium is to be organized and the time allotment for each presentation. It is recommended that at least two different countries/national perspectives must be represented within the papers presented in the symposium. The symposium needs to be handed in as one submission with a description of the symposium (500 words) and a list of all abstracts for all papers linked to it (200 word abstract per paper). A chair and a discussant need also to be named on the proposal. Four weeks prior to the conference the chair also needs to provide the discussant with a full set of abstracts of papers within the symposium. Poster session Posters are graphical presentations which will be displayed during the whole congress and presented in a special poster session. Presenters will be asked to be available at the poster session to answer questions from other congress delegates. The final size of the poster is A0 (95cm x 120 cm). . All presenters of oral presentations are asked to provide a written text, summary of the presentation or handouts of the power point presentation to be given to the chair and the audience of the session. General guidelines of proposals Use Arial font, size 12 points. The margins of your proposal should be 3, 17 cm. More information on the outlook of your proposal will be provided in the electronic submission system. Please, follow the instructions. The proposal you have sent in the electronic submission system cannot be altered later. NERA guidelines for writing Abstracts (an individual paper for a paper session) The abstract contains max. 400 words and is organized in following way: Name of the first choice of network: (NERA networks on NERA's website: http://www.nfpf.net/ ) Name of the second choice of network: 1. Title of the paper 2. Author(s) full name, current position and institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number and email address 3. Research topic/aim/theoretical framework 4. Methodology / research design 5. Expected findings /conclusions 6. Key words: 3 -5 key words NERA guidelines for writing a symposium proposal (max. 500 words ) Name of the first choice of network:(NERA networks on NERA's website: http://www.nfpf.net/ ) Name of the second choice of network: 1. Title of the symposium 2. Chairperson's full name, current position and institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number and email address 3. Full name of all authors in the symposium, current position and institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number and email address 4. Research topic/aim/theoretical framework 5. Methodology / research design 6. Expected findings /conclusions 7. Key words: 3 -5 key words All proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific board of the Congress. Notification of the acceptance by 8 December 2010.