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Call for Papers
"The Idea of Education"
5th Global Conference
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Budapest (Hungary)
8-10 May 2008
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This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to
provide a vigorous forum for the examination and evaluation of higher
education and the contexts where higher education is delivered. The
project is committed to the tradition of liberal education, the inherent
value of the pursuit of learning and the principle that knowledge must
be an end in itself. In particular, the project will explore the nature
and aims of higher education, its guiding principles, its practical
functions, and its role in society.
This fifth instalment of the Global Conference on the Idea of Education
continues within the tradition of critical debate of and engaged
reflection on Higher Education that started in 2002 with the first two
conferences, held at Mansfield College (Oxford), and the follow-up
conferences held in Prague. Over the years, the conferences have proven
to be a creative hub for those who are committed to Higher Education
(HE) and who are willing to critically think through the key issues in
and fundamental challenges of Higher Education in the 21st century. The
project is committed to the tradition of liberal education and the value
of the pursuit of learning.
Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or
broadly related to any of the following conference streams:
1. The Nature, Purpose and Changing Landscapes of Higher Education
1. What are the nature and aims of the historical traditions which
shape HE?
2. Which possible roles of liberal arts education remain viable in
an era in which instruction, training and vocational training
seems to redefine the nature of HE?
3. From students to customers and professors to
knowledge-managers: How may the changing relationships and partners in
education transform the agents within HE?
4. What are the costs and benefits of commodification and the rise
of managerialism in HE?
5. From basic research to Mode Two, from basic funding to
fourth stream funding: What is the impact of the changing landscapes
of research, research types and research funding on HE?
6. Mind your own business: but what, precisely, is the business
of the university?
2. Society, Culture and the of Places of Higher Education
1. What is the role of places of HE in the 21st Century?
2. What are the social and institutional contexts of the university
and the college?
3. What are the needs of society in relation to HE?
4. What visions are there for reconceiving the place and work of HE
institutions?
5. What visions exist for the future of multicultural and
intercultural HE?
6. How to cope with linguistic and cultural diversity in HE?
7. Which anthropologies, sociologies and philosophies of HE for the
21st century?
8. How do knowledge economies and lifelong learning transform HE?
3. The Internet, Virtual Learning and Higher Education
1. Emerging technologies within HE;
2. International technology challenges and experiences;
3. Organizational issues/strategies in Virtual HE;
4. Best virtual teaching practice;
5. Case studies of experimental projects;
6. Blended Learning approaches;
7. Professional development and support structures
8. Intellectual Property issues
4. Globalisation, Democracy and Higher Education
1. Can there be a Global University? What does/should it look like?
2. Wheres the place of the university in a globalised world?
(Coalitions, branches, networks, ICT & virtuality, Bricks vs Clicks)
3. Who does the global university relate to? (Local communities,
Nation states, Governments, International organizations?)
4. What can HE service to society mean in a globalised world?
5. Which relations (should) exist between HE and international
development & capital?
6. Global HE and knowledge production matters and intellectual
property issues
7. HE in the context of political and economical ideologies.
8. Issues of Citizenship, social justice and HE.
9. Power, participation, access and inequality in globalised HE.
Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 18th January 2008. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by
Friday 18th April 2008.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of
abstract. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace!
We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Tom Claes
CEVI-Global Ethics
Department of Philosophy
Ghent University
Belgium
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-Mail: [email protected]
David Seth Preston
School of Computing and Technology
University of East London
London, United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research
projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting.
Multiple eBooks and volumes of themed papers have been published or are
in press from the previous conference meetings of this project. All
papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible
for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and
presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy volume.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/education/ioe/ioe.htm
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/education/ioe/ioe5/cfp.html
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