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Call for Papers "Rights and Education" 39th NERA Congress Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Faculty of Education, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä (Finland) 10-12 March 2011 __________________________________________________ The focus of the NERA 2011 Congress will be the topic of human rights in the context of education and the educational sciences. The congress aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for approaching an enhanced understanding of rights in the fields of education, education policy, and education research. NERA 2011 seeks to combine academic expertise and pedagogical perspectives, including those of human rights education. Recent decades have seen the global spread of a human rights ethos. Its impact can be observed in the extensive development of, for example, international human rights instruments and the worldwide public adoption of human rights discourses. Indeed, people seeking access to social and political resources increasingly frame their claims in the language of human rights. Rights discourses play an important role in emancipatory struggles and in the practices and methods of governance. The language of the rights discourses is adopted by a variety of actors, despite the fact that they articulate competing conceptions and interpretations of human rights. Consequently, the ambivalences and tensions inherent to rights talk have long been the subjects of scholarly attention. Submissions Scientists, researchers and teachers are kindly invited to send in proposals for presentations in an abstract form to be evaluated and accepted to be presented in the congress program. The preliminary instructions are given on the conference webpages. Abstract submission takes place electronically. The abstract web link will be opened in the beginning of September. Important Dates Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15.10.2010 Notification of Acceptance: 8.12.2010 Deadline for early bird registration: 18.1.2011 Deadline for registration: 20.2.2011 Contact: Organising committee of NERA 2011 University of Jyväskylä Faculty of Education P.O. Box 35 (Educa/D) FI-40014 Jyväskylä Finland Fax: +358 14 260 1601 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.hotelzon.com/fi/confedent/nera2011/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
