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ECER 2011 - Urban education


Date :  du 13-09-2011 au 16-09-2011

Lieu :  Berlin

Organisation :  European Educational Research Association (EERA)


Programme : 
Cities are greenhouses for educational change and educational reform all over the world and also in Europe. Cities have always been regarded as leading elements in Europe; they are modern, progressive and networked. They are producers and traders; they are medium for political and cultural development.


      In history cities bundled the hopes as well as the doubts concerning educational matters. On the one hand cities had been appreciated as places of modern and urban lifestyles; on the other hand they had been suspected to bring forward uniformed ways of living.

      In recent times social change triggering educational reactions is concentrated in city regions. National and international migration movement aims at cities. Demographic changes lead to aggregation as well as disaggregation in the population’s structure. In cities social, economic, and cultural diversity are challenges for politics, civil society, and everyday life.

      Not only are cities burning glasses of societal change and its educational consequences; they also provide remarkable resources to bring societal and educational change on a political agenda in order to shape them proactively. The possibilities to mobilise public interest, the density of institutional structures and the presence of representatives of different societal interest groups make cities a most lively political arena – also in respect of education.

      Cities’ educational systems contain institutions and organisations on all levels of formalised education from early childhood care to university. They also contain variations of educational organisations which emerge under the conditions of cooperation, competition, and innovative dynamics. Not least cities are in most case a cultural medium for new initiatives of informal education. All in all cities draw attention away from the formalized political agenda and bring civil society in the foreground.


      Keynote speakers:

      - Jaap Dronkers, Chair International comparative research on educational performance and social inequality, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
      - Elisabet Öhrn, Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
      - Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought Columbia, University, USA


      Submission Deadline: 17 January 2011

      URL :  http://www.eera-ecer.eu/.../

      Ressources mises à disposition à l'issue de la manifestation : 

      • articles, résumés :  http://www.eera-ecer.de/.../

      • enregistrement vidéo :  http://www.eera-ecer.de/.../

        Les résumés des communications et la plupart des textes correspondants sont mis à disposition dans la bibliothèque numérique de l'EERA.

      Les vidéos des conférences plénières sont disponibles sur le site du colloque.



      mot(s) clé(s) :  approches territoriales, réforme et cadre juridique