Internationalization in Education (18th-20th Centuries)
Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 31
stof October 2011
Contemporary historiography shows a renewed interest in phenomena of transfer, circulation, diffusion, flux and exchange among different spheres. Notions such as internationalization, globalization and others are used to describe these phenomena. Placing these concepts in their historical and theoretical frameworks, the aim of this Conference is to examine the processes that they designate in the field of education. What is diffused, exchanged, transferred? Are these movements linear, circular or deferred? Transcending national borders, how do actors, networks and institutions mediate educational knowledge and practice? In what social and historical conditions do these mediations take place? What are the constraints and the forces –economic, political, cultural, geographic– that structure these exchanges? Who are the principal beneficiaries of the processes of internationalization? What dynamics of emancipation, exclusion, resistance are produced during global exchanges?
Under various forms and rhythms, these phenomena concern all levels of education, individual and collective actors, as well as spheres of extracurricular activity. They can be discerned in systems, models, theories, curricula and institutions as well as in educational practice. New dialectical relationships are developing between internationalism and nationalism, homogeneity and hybridization, universalism and particularism, openness and withdrawal, solidarity and exclusion; they involve a redefinition of educational knowledge, practice and discourse. These long-term phenomena take the form of specific configurations depending on historical and geographic contexts. An example is the way in which the Universalist project of the Enlightenment was produced, spread, received, contradicted and retranslated in different parts of the world.
The Conference calls upon scholars to contribute by exploring the international dimensions of
their areas of study. We will encourage comparative, transnational and entangled approaches to
the history of education, the history of childhood and youth and to the history of disabilities. The
Organizing Committee will particularly welcome contributions that theorize areas of study, and
their inter-relationships, using concepts of class, gender, race and ethnicity.
Submissions should be related to one or more of the following subthemes:
1) Individual and Group Actors: Implications and Fields of Intervention
- Visible and invisible actors of internationalization.
- Leading figures: construction, reception, (de)mythification.
- Lobbies: organization and/or disorganization.
- Professional associations and labor unions, political groups, scientific societies, philanthropic associations, etc.
- Role of international movements: workers, youth, women, religious movements, disability rights, Education Nouvelle/New Education/Neue Erziehung/Escuela Nueva, etc.
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2) Modes of Internationalization: Cultural Transfers, Traveling Concepts, Multiple Knowledge Bases
- Transformation and circulation of knowledge; changes in meaning at the time of their transfer from one country/culture to another.
- Mainstream discourse, justifications for and implications of processes of internationalization, globalization, continentalization, world-systems, cosmopolitanism, inter- trans- supra-nationalism, etc.
- Transmission channels for ideas on education to targeted publics –adults, children, youth, people with disability– and to professionals of education.
- Production of different forms of schooling, and their variation from one period to another, from one country to another.
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3) Institutional Structures and Impacts of Internationalization: between Coordination and Coercion
- Nature and functioning of international governmental and non-governmental organizations in the field of education.
- Role of transnational organizations in establishing laws and/or evaluating/comparing the efficiency of educational systems.
- Evolution of international inter-school and beyond-school networks: intensification, rivalry, collaboration.
- Multiplication or disappearance of communication networks, editorial supports, sociability circles.
- Standardization and differentiation of legislation of educational systems.
- Interactions among higher educational systems in different states and territories.
- Media and their role in the internationalization of education.
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4) Space, Time and Levels of Analysis: Interaction among Geographic Areas, Time Periods and Educational Structures
- Long-term historical trends, periods and temporalities of the internationalization of educational knowledge and practice.
- Dialectics among different spheres –local, regional, national, continental, international.
- Local translations/interpretations of international phenomena and their repercussions.
- Power relationships and resistance: multiple perspectives across different geographic areas.
- Influence of comparative education and of different levels of analyses.
- Effects of migration, old and new mobility, citizenship on modes of internationalization of local pedagogical knowledge and practice.
- What is taken for granted in physical and intellectual architectures related to education.
- Children geographies in comparative perspective.
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5) Economic and Political Stakes: Education as an Agent and an Instrument of Power Relationships
- Contributions and contradictions of educational projects during the Enlightenment, revolutions, colonialism, post-colonialism, world wars, the Cold War, etc.
- Impact of processes of internationalization on the schooling of different social groups and populations.
- Construction and (re)definition of the role of the State in education; redistribution of power among local, national and international political authorities.
- Commercial logics of education versus public/alternative educational structures.
- Impact of domination and power relationships among countries and social actors on the internationalization of education.
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6) Movement towards a Different Form of Internationalization: Utopias and Rebellions
- Valorization of pedagogical innovations and persistence of traditional models.
- Professionals’ agency in the field of education.
- Ways in which non-conventional and dominated groups –Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans-Queer-Intersex, religious and linguistic groups, populations defined as “special needs”– re-appropriate, reject or question dominant education models.
- Place of education in protest movements: class and anti-racist struggles, decolonization, anti- and alter- globalization movements, disability rights, feminism, etc.
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7) New Sources and Historiographic Approaches: the History of Internationalization as a tool for Understanding the History of Education
- Reconsidering conceptual frameworks. Subjects and methods in the history of internationalization:
specificities, influences, differences and commonalities.
- Archives for a critical analysis of internationalization phenomena: materiality and virtuality, new sources and modes for their preservation and circulation.
- Opportunities and pitfalls in studying internationalization processes for understanding national education systems.
- The history of internationalization of education in understanding global societal changes and contemporary historiography: possibilities of reciprocal exchanges.
- Historiographic debates on concepts related to internationalization.
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Application and Registration 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.
All persons who submit a contribution, either individual, part of panel, or panel, have to register on the following link:
https://cms2.unige.ch/outils/limesurvey190/index.php?sid=41195&lang=en no later than 31
stof October 2011.
Propositions of individual paper should include the following information:
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Title of the paper.
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Name(s) and surname(s) of the presenter.
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Institutional affiliation.
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Related subthemes.
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Abstract of max. 500 words – text-only.
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Bibliography of max. 8 titles.
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5 keywords.
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Language of presentation (if Sign language, please specify which).
Propositions of panel should include between 3 and 6 papers coming from diverse research teams and different countries. Furthermore, it should contain the following information:
For each contribution as part of panel, each member of the panel have to submit:
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Title of the paper in English.
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Name(s) and surname(s) of the participant.
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Institutional affiliation.
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Abstracts of max. 500 words – text-only.
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Bibliography of max. 8 titles
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Languages of the presentation (if Sign language, please specify which).
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Title of the panel.
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Name(s) and surname(s) of the coordinator(s).
For each panel, each coordinator(s) have to submit:
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Title of the panel.
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Name(s) and surname(s) of the coordinator(s).
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Institutional attachment of the coordinator(s).
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Name(s), surname(s) and institutional attachment of one panel discussant.
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Related subthemes – see the list above and for more details click here xxx.
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General abstract of the panel of max. 500 words – text-only.
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5 keywords.
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List of the name(s) and surname(s) of each participant, their institutional affiliation and the titles of their papers.
The Academic Board of the Conference will review the proposals anonymously (for its composition, see http://cms2.unige.ch/ische34-shcy-dha/crbst_20.html). The authors as well as coordinators of panels will be informed about the acceptance of their papers by the 1st March 2012.
In order to ensure that the conference is accessible to the broadest range of scholars, we will be asking all participants 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. For guidelines on making your presentation accessible, please visit the Website recommended by DHA
http://www.w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted/Overview.html.
Once their proposal is accepted, all presenters must pay the Conference fee in order to guarantee their registration.
The registration fee is:
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450 CHF / 300 Euros until the 30
thof April 2012
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500 CHF / 350 Euros after the 30
thof April 2012 The student registration fee is:
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75 CHF / 50 Euros until the 30
thof April 2012
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130 CHF / 100 Euros after the 30
thof April 2012.
Beside the access to the Conference, this fee includes:
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Conference Pack and a Program booklet;
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Welcome Dining Cocktail;
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Lunch during the Conference
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Tea, coffee, and snacks during coffee breaks
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