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Pays : Afrique du Sud  Langue(s) : anglais 

2018 WERA World Congress - Reimagining Worldwide Education Research


Date :  du 03-08-2018 au 05-08-2018

Lieu :  Cape Town

Organisation :  World Education Research Association (WERA)


Programme : 

WERA is an association of major national, regional, and specialty education research associations dedicated to sharing scholarship, developing networks, and mutually supporting capacity building. The WERA 2018 World Congress is the first stand-alone WERA conference and will consist of a program of paper and symposia sessions on topics of world-wide scope.

Around the world, education research across contexts of learning addresses strikingly similar issues and aims to be relevant to policy and practice. Whatever the topic—access and equity, language diversities, STEM learning, teaching effectiveness, policy impacts, or workforce preparation, to name but a few—common questions and concerns drive inquiry. Over the past decade, scholars and students alike have been increasingly drawn to connecting their work to research in other countries, cultures, and contexts. There is also growing interest in building cumulative knowledge and critiquing the strengths of findings and inferences through the lens of multiple perspectives enriched by studies in the global North and South. Yet, despite these transformations, single-site or within-country studies continue to dominate even when research is situated within a broader literature or when comparisons are drawn.
The 2018 WERA World Congress invites papers, symposia, and posters from submitters drawn to the opportunity to advance knowledge and foster a reimaging of education research with a worldwide perspective at its core. This first-ever WERA Congress in particular seeks to attract significant international, transnational, and comparative scholarship and to encourage presentations that critically examine methodologies, measures, and modes of inquiry to support such work. Submissions that explore and explain commonalities and differences across countries and regions are sought. Also, welcomed are submissions that address worldwide opportunities or constraints in advancing education research and fostering innovations in communication, collaboration, and networking. The scope of the Congress is wide in its reach to include studies under this overarching theme across the life span from early learning to workforce and adult education and that take place in formal and informal contexts of education and learning.

Submission ends: 20 February 2018

Keynote speakers

Prof Eckhard Klieme, German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)
Teaching Quality - Theoretical foundations, effectiveness studies, and cross-national comparison

Prof Prudence Carter, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Berkeley
Education’s Limitations and Its Radical Potential in a Global Society

Prof Crain Soudien, Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council South Africa
The Politics of Learning: Working with Old and New Challenges and Opportunities in our Schools

Prof Ee Ling Low, Dean of Teacher Education at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Personalized Teacher Learning and the Role of Education Research: Global Perspectives for the 21st Century



URL :  http://www.wera2018.co.za/


mot(s) clé(s) :  comparaison internationale, recherche en éducation