ECE 2015 - The European Conference on Education

ECE 2015 - The European Conference on Education 1st to 5th July 2015 Brighton. United Kingdom Join IAFOR in the seaside city of Brighton, UK from July 1-5, for ECE 2015. Explore the conference theme, "Education, Power and Empowerment: Changing and Challenging Communities" in an international, inter-cultural and interdisciplinary setting. Enquiries: ece@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/ece2015/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum ECE 2015 Conference Chair Professor Sue Jackson Birkbeck, University of London, UK Sue Jackson is Pro-Vice-Master (Vice-President) for Learning and Teaching, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender and Director of Birkbeck Institute for Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck University of London. She publishes widely in the field of gender and lifelong learning, with a particular focus on identities. Sue's recent publications include Innovations in Lifelong Learning: Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning (Routledge, 2011); Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning (Springer, 2011, with Irene Malcolm and Kate Thomas); and Lifelong Learning and Social Justice (NIACE, 2011). Sue is also the Director of the IAFOR Education Research Institute. About IIAFOR's Education Conferences IAFOR promotes and facilitates new multifaceted approaches to one of the core issues of our time, namely globalization and its many forms of growth and expansion. Awareness of how it cuts across the world of education, and its subsequent impact on societies, institutions and individuals, is a driving force in educational policies and practices across the globe. IAFOR's Conferences on Education have these issues at their core. The conferences present those taking part with three unique dimensions of experience, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating heightened inter-cultural awareness and they promoting international exchange. In short, IAFOR's Conferences on Education are about change and transformation. As IAFOR's previous education conferences have shown, education has the power to transform and change whilst it is also continuously transformed and changed. The theme of transforming and changing education continues into 2014 in the European, North American and Asian Conferences on Education. Globalized education systems are becoming increasing socially, ethnically and culturally diverse. However, education is often defined through discourses embedded in Western paradigms as globalised education systems become increasingly determined by dominant knowledge economies. Policies, practices and ideologies of education help define and determine ways in which social justice is perceived and acted out. What counts as 'education' and as 'knowledge' can appear uncontestable but is in fact both contestable and partial. Discourses of learning and teaching regulate and normalise gendered and classed, racialised and ethnicised understandings of what learning is and who counts as a learner. In many educational settings and contexts throughout the world, there remains an assumption that teachers are the possessors of knowledge which is to be imparted to students, and that this happens in neutral, impartial and objective ways. However, learning is about making meaning, and learners can experience the same teaching in very different ways. Students (as well as teachers) are part of complex social, cultural, political, ideological and personal circumstances, and current experiences of learning will depend in part on previous ones, as well as on age, gender, social class, culture, ethnicity, varying abilities and more. IAFOR has five annual education conferences, exploring common themes in different ways to develop a shared research agenda which develops interdisciplinary discussion, heightens inter-cultural awareness and promotes international exchange. Submit your abstract To submit an abstract, please create a account with our online system. Once you have created your account, you will be able to login and submit your abstract. http://iafor.org/cfp Conference Theme and Streams Conference Theme: "Education, Power and Empowerment: Changing and Challenging Communities" In this conference - one of a series of five held in 2015 on education, power and empowerment - participants are invited to explore and question ways in which education can change, empower and challenge communities and the ways in which communities can challenge structures and constructions of 'education'. 'Communities' should be explored in their fullest meanings. Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a relevant sub-theme: Sub-Themes: Education, power and community development? Education: local and global communities of practice? Communities of difference? Virtual spaces of educational communities? Power and empowerment in learning communities? Streams LEARNING AND TEACHING IN COMMUNITY SPACES Education: social justice and social change ? Education: social and political movements ? Education and post-colonialism ? Education for sustainable development ? Conflicting perspectives in learning and teaching ? Digital technologies and communications ? Educational change through technologies? CHALLENGING AND PRESERVING TRADITIONAL CULTURES 'Englishes' in global communication Bi-cultural, bi-lingual and bi-national education Languages education and applied linguistics (ESL/TESL/TEFL) Linguistics and Pedagogy Multilingual societies Education for interdisciplinary thinking Education for inter-cultural communication Education for international exchange Challenges of new technologies LEARNING, TEACHING AND EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURES Primary and secondary education Higher education Adult and lifelong learning Technology enhanced and distance learning International Schools and Educational goals Educational Policy, Leadership, Management and Administration Curriculum Research and Development Economic Management of Education Institutional Accreditation and Ranking Organizational Learning and Change Professional Concerns, Training and Development Special Education, Learning Difficulties, Disability Student Learning, Learner Experiences and Learner Diversity