WCCES 2010 World Congress
WCCES 2010
XIV WORLD CONGRESS
WORLD COUNCIL OF COMPARATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETIES (WCCES)
www.wcces2010.org
“BORDERING, RE-BORDERING AND NEW POSSIBILITIES IN EDUCATION AND
SOCIETY”
İSTANBUL 2010 14-18 JUNE
‘Border’ is a key concept for analyzing the relationship between
education and society at all levels. Borders can be national,
regional, social or psychic; they can be fixed or shifting. Borders
and ‘lines’ can be material (walls), psychological (in peoples’ minds)
or metaphorical (the ‘glass ceiling’ for women’s careers). Discussions
of borders are part of discussions of space, and of space-time.
‘Space’ can be absolute/concrete/fixed/measurable (rooms, properties,
cities, territories) but also relative (flows and exchanges of energy,
peoples, money and information in space and time); and relational
(linked to how people operate together in or across these spaces).
Space is something produced by human activity and in turn conditions
it.
Educational space is where ‘difference’ is conceived, reproduced or
contested. Our interests would be the linkages between material space
(institutional buildings, camps), representations of space (maps and
organizational charts as well as metaphors) and spaces of
representation, (the lived or experienced space, our feelings and
emotions, our senses of security or insecurity). Spaces are made in
the living of our lives, and since they are always being made, the
possibility remains for them to be made differently. ‘Border-
crossers’, physically and psychologically, can defy or challenge
structures, and can reclaim power or identity.
The production and control of space and borders is always tied up with
questions of power and politics; and also with the production of
inequality. Spaces and their uses can be classed, gendered,
racialised, and sexualized. The production of space is also therefore
linked to the production of identities, to spaces for assembly, or to
keeping ‘others’ in their place, materially or symbolically – whether
‘members of the nation-state’, ‘believers’ or ‘the disabled’. Our
educational concerns therefore link to inclusion and exclusion.
Rebordering is an aspect of globalization, and it is thought that all
themes would have globalization as a backdrop if not a direct concern,
and as an opportunity as well as a threat. There would be concerns
about responsibility across and within borders (for climate change,
arms trade, movements of peoples). But also the concerns are about
borders in terms of social divisions, the invisible and visible lines
between groups, and how education can challenge those borders which
deny freedoms, rights and capabilities. Then, what are the educational
spaces for contestation of inequality, for interruption?
THEMATIC GROUPS
The conference includes the following 14 groups which will address the
issues of bordering in an international perspective from their
specific thematic vantage point.
The Thematic Groups of the Conference are:
Educational Governance, Policy Within and Across Borders
Comparative Education: Rethinking Theory and Method
Education, Conflict and Transitions Within and Between Societies
Demystifying Quality in Education
Re-imagining Curriculum
Critical Perspectives in Teacher Education and Development
Identity, Space and Diversity in Education
Education, Human and Social Development, and Capabilities
New Technologies and Accessibility to Learning
Education and Children's Rights in a "Globalized" World
Education, Politics of Dominance, the Suppressed and Disappearing
Languages
Privatization and Marketization in Education
Education, Migration, Citizenship and the State
Cross-Thematic Groups (Special Interest Groups / Special Workshops /
Symposia / Round table)
We welcome theoretical and/or empirical papers that address the issues
from different thematic group perspectives. We encourage papers based
on national and/or comparative research and which draw on a range of
viewpoints. In particular we look forward to papers from different
groups and individuals, NGOs, regional or national institutions,
bilateral or multilateral organizations, and financing agencies.
Please click here to see the detailed outline of the thematic groups.
Abstracts of proposed papers, roundtables and symposia should be sent
preferably latest by February 28, 2010. Authors will be notified about
acceptance latest by March 20, 2010.
ORGANIZERS
Turkish Comparative Education Society - TUKED
World Council of Comparative Education Societies - WCCES
Boğaziçi University, Department of Educational Sciences - B.U.