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The minutes and app from the annual meeting 2008 (pdf) are now available for download.

In this short article from Educational Researcher you can read about the work on establishing a 'World Education Research Association' (WERA). NERA is represented by Moira von Wrigt and Lejf Moos in this preliminary work: Education Research Representatives Resolve in Principle to Establish a World Education Research Association (pdf)

Annual Meeting 2008

Friday March 7, 16.45-17.45 in D169

1. Election of chairperson for the meeting
2. Election of secretary for the meeting
3. Election of two members to check the minutes
4. Approval of the meeting agenda
5. Annual Reports for 2007:
   1. The Board's report
   2. Auditor's report
   3. Editor's report
6. Closing the books 2007
7. Acceptance of the work of the Board 2007
8. Plans for 2008
   1. The Board's plan
   2. Editor's plan
9. Budget for 2008 and member fees for 2009
10. Election of Board, president and deputy members (Proposal of the election committee)
11. Election of auditors and deputy (Proposal of the election committee)
12. Election of members of the election committee (Proposal of the election committee)
13. Any other Business
14. Closing of the meeting

Second Call for Papers

In knowledge-based societies, competence formation through education is key, and the formative role played by digital communication is widely acknowledged. However, one of the major challenges today is the mismatch between the digital resources nurtured by users in and outside of formal educational contexts. Not least young people's rapid take-up of social software such as weblogs and wikis, online chat clients and virtual world applications serve to challenge existing forms of communication for learning, since these innovations allow and assume users' own creation, sharing and editing of content.

 

Conference goals

This conference will present and discuss the most advanced and exciting research on digital content creation, its socio-cultural contexts and educational consequences. A major aim of the conference is to bring together an international forum of scholars from a range of disciplines including media and ICT studies, education, psychology, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies - and to promote dialogue within and across research traditions. We also aim to develop dialogue between researchers, educators and producers of new learning resources.

 

Conference themes

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Digital content creation: creative processes and textual reappropriations
• Competence formation through digital content creation: personal voice or commercial coercion?
• Institutional ramifications of digital content creation for learning
• Studying digital content creation: the challenge of new methodologies

Papers are encouraged from researchers with interests in any of these specific themes as well as the general issues of the conference.

 

Submissions

If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 400 word abstract with an indication of which of the above themes you will address. Abstracts must include the title of your paper along with author name(s), affiliation, and contact details (postal address, telephone, fax and email address). Abstracts (format: pdf, doc, rtf) should be submitted to mail@dream.dk

After the conference, authors are invited to submit revised versions of their papers from which contributions will be selected for a peerreviewed volume focusing on the main themes of the conference.

 

Important dates

15 April 2008	deadline for submission of abstracts
1 June 2008	notification of authors
1 July 2008	deadline for early registration
1 August 2008	deadline for submission of final papers

 

Keynote speakers

Keynote speakers will include professor David Buckingham (London Knowledge Lab, University of London), professor John Hartley (Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology), professor Angela McFarlane (Graduate School af Education, University of Bristol), professor Roger Säljö (Department of Education, University of Gothenburg), and professor Ellen Seiter (School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California). Pre-Conference: One-day ph.d. course

The research conference is preceded by an intensive ph.d. course 17 September 2008, offering a venue for young scholars within relevant conference areas to meet with some of the main conference speakers and to make project presentations and discussions.

Conference language

The conference language is English.

Stay informed

Please visit the conference website for full scientific and social programme, registration form and keynote abstracts: www.dreamconference.dk

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Apologies for crossposting.

EERA has prolonged the submission period for the European Conference on Educational Research 2008.


Please find the Call for Proposals at the conference website www.ecer2008.eu

Submissions are to be handed in online via www.conftool.com/ecer2008. The new submission deadline is 20 February 2008.

EERA looks forward to receiving your proposals.

NERA members (who are not members of AERA) can register for the AERA Annual Meeting at the same rate than AERA members pay, meaning they have to pay $ 165 (for Advance Registration) and $ 205 (for On-site Registration).

Lejf Moos, President NERA

Dear Collegue

On behalf of the organising committee it is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in the 36th Congress of Nordic Educational Research Association. It will be held on March 6 – 8, 2008, in Copenhagen. The School of Education at the University of Aarhus will host the Congress at its campus, which is located in Copenhagen.

The inspiring academic programme will offer you up-to-date inputs around the conference theme, which I am confident will be relevant to most if not all colleagues. In addition, the social programme will offer you great opportunities to maintain and extend your networks. The programme will consist of keynote sessions, paper and poster sessions as well as symposiums. Furthermore there will be a pre-conference for Ph.D-students.

And last, but not the least, Copenhagen will as always have plenty to offer you in terms of culture, entertainment, fun and good food.

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Copenhagen in March 2008.

John Krejsler
On behalf of the Organising Committee

For more information please go to: www.cmscongress.com/nera2008/start.htm

Dear Collegue

On behalf of the organising committee it is with great pleasure, we invite you to participate in the 36th Congress of Nordic Educational Research Association, March 6 – 8, 2008 in Copenhagen. The Danish University of Education will host the Congress.The inspiring academic programme will offer you up-to-date inputs around the conference theme, which we are confident, will be relevant to most if not all colleagues. In addition, the social programme will offer you great opportunities to maintain and extend your networks. The programme will consist of keynote sessions, paper and poster sessions as well as symposiums. Furthermore there will be a pre-conference for Ph.D-students. And last, but not the least, Copenhagen will as always have plenty to offer you in terms of culture, entertainment, fun and good food. It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Copenhagen in March 2008.

John Krejsler
On behalf of the Organising Committee

Organizing Committee

Chair: John Krejsler, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish University of Education

Members:
From the Danish University of Education:

• Lejf Moos, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology
• Gorm Hansbøl, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Philosophy
• Katrin Hjort, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sociology
• Kirsten Marie Bovbjerg, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology
• Niels Kryger, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology
• Charlotte Paludan, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology
• Kasper Kofod, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology

From the University of Copenhagen:

• Karen Borgnakke, Professor, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication

From the University of Roskilde:

• Henning Salling Olesen, Department of Psychology and Educational Studies

Invited Keynote Speakers

• Agnes van Zanten, Directrice de recherché au Centre National de Recherché Scientifique (CNRS-Sciences-Po), Paris
• Gita Steiner Khamsi, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Teachers College, Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Columbia University, New York
• Ove Kaj Petersen, Professor, International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School
• Susan Wright, Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish University of Education
• Hannu Simola, Professor, Department of Education, University of Helsinki
• Staffan Larsson, Professor, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Linköping University

Congress theme

Is educational research in the Nordic countries being swallowed up by transnational goal-oriented economy discourses?

“Evidence based practice”, “Modus 2 research“, “more quantitative and internationally comparable research”, “more immediate utility of re-search to educational practice and to business”… These are but a few of the demands that signify a new goal-orientation of research strategies, which is gaining strong momentum in Nordic educational research.

Research strategies and grants have become increasingly dependent upon demands from outside the research community, where government strategic priorities and dependence upon external financing play major roles. These demands are often marshalled into standardized quality assurance denominators that build upon a vision of excellence and relevance that is closely connected to market thinking.

How does the new goal-orientation of research strategies express itself in educational research in the Nordic countries? Is it being experienced as fruitful or detrimental to dealing with the challenges of educational research and education? Does there exist a particular Nordic approach to these globalising tendencies? Or, are Nordic countries simply being swallowed up in these broader transnational tendencies?

The inspiration to the new research strategies has largely come from the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, and from trans-national agencies like the OECD, WTO (GATS), World Bank and EU, and often refers to the so-called knowledge economy discourse. It represents an increasing interest in universities, education and research from government and business. Research and education are conceived of in market terms and therefore under pressure to become competitive on the global research and education markets. On the one hand this represents globalisation. On the other hand it means standardization.

General Information

Congress Site
The Congress will be held at The Danish University of Education. The University is situated in the northern part of Copenhagen, next to the S train station Emdrup.

Congress Language
The official languages of the Congress are the Nordic languages and English. The Plenary sessions are in English. Parallel sessions and symposia can also be in the Nordic languages. No interpretation will be provided.

Programme and Registration

The Second Announcement will give further information about the Call for abstracts and the Preliminary Programme. It will also include a Congress Registration Form, which will be available via the Congress web site as well. The mailing shall be in September 2007.If you are interested in receiving further information about the Congress, please send your name and address to the Congress Secretariat:

CMS
Conference and Meeting Services
Kongensvej 21
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark

Telephone: +45 3833 8813
Fax: +45 3833 8713

E-mail:
NFPF2008@CMSCongress.com
or
NERA2008@CMSCongress.com

Congress website: www.cmscongress.com/nera2008/start.htm

Important Dates

• The 2nd Announcement and Registration Form will be mailed September 2007
• Deadline for Pre-registration at low fee: November 15, 2007
• Deadline for submission of abstracts December 1, 2007
• Deadline for Registration January 31, 2008
• Congress Days March 6 – 8, 2008

Download folder

You can download a folder with all this information here:

• First Announcement and Call for Papers (pdf - 612 KB)

NFPF/NERA's Annual Meeting Friday March 15, 15-16.

For more information, please look here: www.ped.gu.se/biorn/nfpf/annual_meetings/turku_07/annual_meeting.html

The EERA / ECER conference in Gent, 2007, has the following address: www.ecer2007.ugent.be/