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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. 

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

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