Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) and Disability History Association (DHA) are inviting papers for presentation in International Standing Conference for the History of Education 34 (ISCHE-34). The conference will be organized at Geneva, Switzerlamd from 27-30 June, 2012.
The theme of this conference is Internationalization in Education (18th-20th Centuries). This conference is part of the events organised for the Centenary of the Institute J.J. Rousseau & Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva.
The Conference invites scholars to contribute by exploring the international dimensions of their areas of study. Comparative, transnational and entangled approaches to the history of education are welcome. The Organizing Committee will particularly welcome contributions that theorize the areas of study, and their inter-relationships, using concepts of class, gender, race and ethnicity.
Subthemes for Papers
The papers must focus on one or more of the following subthemes:
- Individual and Group Actors: Implications and Fields of Intervention
- Modes of Internationalization: Cultural Transfers, Travelling Concepts, Multiple Knowledge Bases
- Institutional Structures and Impacts of Internationalization: between Coordination and Coercion
- Space, Time and Levels of Analysis: Interaction among Geographic Areas, Time Periods and Educational Structures
- Economic and Political Stakes: Education as an Agent and an Instrument of Power Relationships
- Movement towards a Different Form of Internationalization: Utopias and Rebellions
- New Sources and Historiographic Approaches: the History of Internationalization as a tool for Understanding the History of Education
General Instructions
- The Organizing Committee invites the participants to submit abstracts either for an individual paper or a panel presentation. These abstracts have to be written in English or French, but presentations can be done in one of the official languages of ISCHE – English, French, German, Spanish – or sign language.
- The Organizing Committee deeply encourages the propositions of panels that bring together contributions from the three organizing associations.
- Proposals submitted by new scholars, postgraduate and graduate students are especially welcome.
- The Academic Board of the Conference will review the proposals anonymously.
- The authors as well as coordinators of panels will be informed about the acceptance of their papers by the March 1, 2012
- In order to ensure that the conference is accessible to the broadest range of scholars, all participants will be asked to prepare informatics and/or paper supports for their presentation in English.
- The Organizing Committee invites all the participants to make their presentation accessible to people without perfect hearing or sight.
Last date for submitting the applications is October 31, 2011.
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